How did the Chuck Norris facts start?
About three years ago, a kid from Brown University started sending these Chuck Norris facts around via e-mail. I’m reading them and going, hey, these are pretty doggone funny. My favorite was, “They wanted to put Chuck Norris on Mt. Rushmore, but the granite wasn’t tough enough for his beard.” [Laughs.] I figured they’d just last a couple weeks; it amazes me this has gone on for so long. All of a sudden the college crowd picked up on it, and it became a phenomenon, going through colleges, high schools, then middle schools. I started getting emailed facts from Africa. The military in Iraq and Afghanistan started developing their own Chuck Norris facts. That’s actually how I got to Iraq in the first place the troops started bugging their commanders. I went to camps way out in the middle of nowhere and shook hands and took pictures with over 17,000 troops. I’d go to an outdoor toilet and there are Chuck Norris facts on the walls. When I arrived in Iraq, I saw a sign that said, “Chuck Norr
