# Chuck Norris "rules"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 12, 2006, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-norris-rules/352313 "2006-04-12T01:26:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hombre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecb155/32.png) [@Hombre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hombre)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-norris-rules/352313/1 "2006-04-12T01:26:32Z")
What is the history of [this stuff](http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/page5.html)? I have just discovered it but seems my friends all know about it. Is this taken from something else or is this just for Chucky? Weird. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-norris-rules/352313/2 "2006-04-12T01:57:02Z")
You are lucky you don’t get a roundhouse kick to the face that selectively and permanently debilitates rather than kills you for asking shit like this. Superman wear Chuck Norris pajamas. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-norris-rules/352313/3 "2006-04-12T02:06:21Z")
If you really want a joke explained to you, here it is. The current version most commonly uses Chuck Norris as its hero. It is the internet version of a human legend becoming badder and more incredible with every telling of the story (like Davie Crockett and countless others). People took Chuck Norris and stories of his martial arts skills and spun them into these comically incredible things. ---
**Author:** ![Catalyst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@Catalyst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catalyst)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-norris-rules/352313/4 "2006-04-12T05:46:41Z")
Before Chuck, they were Vin Diesel Jokes. Then roundhouse kicks were added and they became Chuck Norris Jokes. Now they’re migrating to Jack Bauer jokes. They’ve all worn out their welcome in the more trendsetting corners of the Internet. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-norris-rules/352313/5 "2006-04-12T05:59:57Z")
I just asked the same question the other day: > **[Uh, Chuck Norris?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=366606)** > > It’s everywhere. Chuck Norris’ tears cure cancer. Chuck Norris isn’t hung like a horse, horses are hung like him. There is no chin behind Chuck Norris’ beard, just another fist. And so on, and so forth, etc. So what’s with the sudden Chuck... I thought the info there was pretty helpful 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-norris-rules/352313/6 "2006-04-12T06:45:29Z")
And for my Aussie cousins, replace Chuck Norris with David Boon, eg: “Boonie single-handedly stopped the Cronulla riots by yelling, 'Oi you blokes. Stop playing silly buggers.” ---
**Author:** ![VegemiteMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/df788c/32.png) [@VegemiteMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VegemiteMoose)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-norris-rules/352313/7 "2006-04-12T07:04:44Z")
Even further back (96-98) there was a SNL recurring sketch with this theme about a guy named [Bill Brasky](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Brasky) ---
**Author:** ![Hombre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecb155/32.png) [@Hombre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hombre)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-norris-rules/352313/8 "2006-04-13T00:27:46Z")
I really had not heard of this until I posted. Always the last to be hipped to these things I guess. Thanks all for the info. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-norris-rules/352313/9 "2006-04-13T00:31:59Z")
I really want to see Wilford Brimley facts. ---
**Author:** ![Hombre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecb155/32.png) [@Hombre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hombre)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-norris-rules/352313/10 "2006-04-13T00:48:53Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > I really want to see Wilford Brimley facts. Wilford Brimley once thew a roundhouse kick at Chuck Norris. He wound up on AFV. ---
**Author:** ![grimpixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-norris-rules/352313/11 "2006-04-13T11:56:44Z")
I first came across this sort of joke in “Jack Bauer” format - but since Chuck has been around longer than Jack, I imagine his jokes came first (and he’d probably kill anyone who said otherwise…) 😉 Grim