"WHEN Chuck Norris does a push-up, he isn't lifting himself up, he's pushing the Earth down."
"If it tastes like chicken, smells like chicken and looks like chicken, but Chuck Norris says it's beef - it's freaking beef."
"The best part of waking up is not Folger's in your cup, it is knowing that Chuck Norris hasn't killed you in your sleep."
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At Lovell's Records in Uptown Whittier, a hand-drawn poster outside the door features their employees' favorite Chuck Norris jokes. Leave it to an independent record store to be the convergence point for online pop culture phenomena. After 50 years, Lovell's jumped into the 21st century when its employees got bored of stapling music posters to its walls. They chose to "download" their own water-cooler moments from the Internet. They've gone where more and more are going - crossing cyberspace into Main Street.
In case you don't have a teenager in the house or aren't 22, let me explain. Chuck Norris, the martial arts expert, movie and TV actor ("Walker, Texas Ranger") and now, infomercial huckster ("The Total Gym") has attained pop icon status on the Internet. Jokes about him play off this small but muscular man's tough-guy image, employing a droll delivery of outrageous "facts" that are, well, outrageous even by Chuck Norris he-man standards.
Norris himself gave the "A-OK" to such publicity by commenting on the Internet buzz via his own official Web site.
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