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• Top Ten Chuck Norris Facts (as voted by users)

Chuck Norris is a washed up has-been. It is harsh, but the truth. In his day he was a 6 time world karate champion, and was a horrible actor on classic failures such as Walker Texas Ranger, where a round house kick could stop a bad guy with a gun. Not many people still know about him in my generation.

Conan did a skit on his Late Show about being attacked by the insanely powerful Chuck Norris a few years back and since then this form of humor (oddly similar to "your momma" jokes) has taken off. You can find at least 50,000 of them on the internet, all of them hysterically funny.

Some of my favorites jokes are:

• Chuck Norris does not wear a condom. Because there is no such thing as protection from Chuck Norris.
• When Chuck Norris goes to donate blood, he declines the syringe, and instead requests a hand gun and a bucket.
• Chuck Norris' first job was as a paperboy. There were no survivors.
• Chuck Norris is the only person to ever win a staring contest against Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder.

Now, Chuck Norris has become more popular with this generation than he ever was in his glory days. These jokes, which he finds hysterical (if not a little crude), have catapulted him to god-like status. In an article from WorldNetDaily.com, Chuck Norris is interviewed about the jokes surrounding his super human strength. He finds most to be good fun and some rather offensive. He claims that he is not as saintly strong as the "facts" make him to be. Here is a video of Chuck Norris reading jokes about himself he's never heard before on a talk show:

Why has it caught on so quickly? I can't say that I know. All I know is that this internet phenomenon has transformed this old actor into a current celebrity. But maybe this deity has been tricking us all along! It is already considered "fact" by the Chuck Norris fans that "Chuck Norris has never won an Academy Award for acting... because he's not acting."