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March 21, 2026 — 4:30pm
Chuc k Norris on ce gave a horse an uppercut and now we have giraffes.
Chuck Norris doesn’t sleep. He waits.
Chuck Norris is so tough he can slam a revolving door.
Chuck Norris’ calendar goes straight from March 31 to April 2, because no one fools Chuck Norris.
Chuck Norris, action movie hero and memespiration. Alamy Stock Photo There was a time – in the days when the internet was still a force for fun – when Chuck Norris jokes roamed our screens.
It was the mid-2000s. Twitter and Facebook were not yet ascendant. We weren’t yet glued to our phones. People were still making prank calls using Jack Black soundboards. We allowed Daniel Powter’s Bad Day to become a megahit.
And Norris unwittingly became a pioneer of memedom.
Norris, who died at 86 on Thursday, was the arse-kicking star of the television show Walker, Texas Ranger and action films including The Delta Force, The Hitman and Sidekicks.
The general plot of anything involving Norris went something like this: Norris came. Norris saw. Norris kicked.
He had an air of invincibility, an over-the-top American machismo that endeared him to audiences and made him a box o
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