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IN RESPONSE TO THE "RANDOM FACTS" THAT ARE BEING GENERATED ON THE INTERNET
I'm aware of the made up declarations about me that have recently begun to appear on the Internet and in emails as "Chuck Norris facts." I've seen some of them. Some are funny. Some are pretty far out. Being more a student of the Wild West than the wild world of the Internet, I'm not quite sure what to make of it. It's quite surprising. I do know that boys will be boys, and I neither take offense nor take these things too seriously. Who knows, maybe these made up one-liners will prompt young people to seek out the real facts as found in my recent autobiographical book, "Against All Odds?" They may even be interested enough to check out my novels set in the Old West, "The Justice Riders," released this month. I'm very proud of these literary efforts.
~ Chuck Norris
Just the Chuck Norris Facts, Ma'am
By Joal Ryan Fri Jan 13, 8:36 PM ET
Here's a true fact about
Chuck Norris facts: Their bearded namesake doesn't really get them. And here's another one: He's okay with that.
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"Some are funny. Some are pretty far out," Norris said in a recent post on his Website. "Being more of a student of the Wild West than the wide world of the Internet, I'm not quite sure what to make of it."
"[But] I neither take offense nor take these things too seriously."
To the uninitiated, Chuck Norris facts are statements about the iconic, kung-fu fighting action star that are very likely not at all factual--i.e., "Chuck Norris ordered a Big Mac at Burger King, and got one,"--but which sound right because Norris is, after all, an iconic, kung-fu fighting action star who willed Walker, Texas Ranger to live for nine prime-time seasons.
According to the actor's publicist, Jeff Duclos, Norris' favorite Chuck Norris fact is the one about the Boogeyman: "When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris."
According to the Random Chuck Norris Fact Generator (www.4q.cc/chuck/), the people's most popular Chuck Norris fact is the poetically stoic "Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried."
"Ultimately," Duclos said, "it's very flattering."
The Random Chuck Norris Fact Generator, a descendant of the Random
Vin Diesel Fact Generator (www.4q.cc/vin/), and a precursor of the Random Mr. T Fact Generator (www.4q.cc/t/), has been serving up "Paul Bunyanesque exaggerations" of Norris' powers, as the Washington Post put it, since last summer.
Starting in November, the site became "exponentially popular," mushrooming from 10 million hits to 37 million hits today, according to Ian Spector, who oversees the fact generating empire with the help of the coder known as "Toad King," and the two
NASA employees whose earth-bound interests include a certain former A-Team star.
Spector doesn't really know why the Norris facts took off, drawing much attention from bloggers and emailers.
"I told maybe 10 people about the site," Spector said.
Spector can't even really say why Norris, whose signature movie hits (Missing in Action, Invasion U.S.A., A Force of One) predate the 17-year-old Brown University freshman, became the subject of the Random Chuck Norris Fact Generator, except to explain that when his site asked users which star they wanted to see get the Vin Diesel treatment (
Christopher Walken? Samuel L. Jackson? Lindsay Lohan?), Norris outpolled all comers.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Norris, 65, was cowriting a novel. When he hit the road to promote The Justice Riders, as well as his new tough-guy venture, the World Combat League, he found himself faced with the same question: "Everybody wants to know [about the facts]," Duclos said. "It always comes up."
By New Year's, the Post was weighing in on the phenomenon. Then, late last week, Norris weighed in on the subject himself.
"It's quite surprising," Norris wrote on his Website.
Spector, meanwhile, wasn't surprised that Norris opted not to go Delta Force on his computational biology-studying student body. "Had he or the other people on [Norris'] site been upset," he said, "I think I would have heard from them sooner."
Spector almost came face-to-feed with Norris last Monday, when both were booked as guests on CNBC's The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch. Norris was in the main studio; Spector, wired up to appear via live remote. But as bad timing would have it, Spector's segment got cut. The camera never cut to him; the virtual confab never happened.
Said a non-embittered Spector: "It was an interesting experience."
While the Web hits keep coming, Spector is already looking ahead--to a new site, and maybe to a new subject.
Random
Steven Seagal facts, anyone?
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- If you wake up in the morning, it's because Chuck Norris spared your life.
- Every time you &@$%&#$@%e Chuck Norris kills a terrorist. Not because you &@$%&#$@%ed, but because that is how often he kills terrorists.
- Osama bin Laden's recent proposal for truce is a direct result of him finding out that Chuck Norris is, in fact, still alive.
- Chuck Norris once forgot where he put his keys. He then spent the next half-hour torturing himself until he gave up the location of the keys.
- Chuck Norris was never addicted to heroin. Heroin was addicted to Chuck Norris.
- 1.6 billion Chinese are angry with Chuck Norris. Sounds like a fair fight.
- Chuck Norris played Russian Roulette with a fully loaded gun and won.
- Lets get one thing straight, the only reason you are conscious right now is because Chuck Norris does not feel like carrying you.
- When life gave Chuck Norris lemons, he used them to kill terrorists. Chuck Norris !&$%ing hates lemonade.
- When you open a can of whoop-ass, Chuck Norris jumps out.
- Killing Chuck Norris doesn't make him dead. It just makes him angry.
- The quickest way to a man's heart is through Chuck Norris's gun.
- Chuck Norris can get McDonald's breakfast after 10:30.