There’s something weird going on out there. First there’s the immense web-popularity of these Chuck Norris facts. But Chuck Norris references are popping-up all over the place, including in this very funny SNL video.
You heard it hear first, unless you heard it somewhere else already: Chuck Norris is the new 1970s/1980s male nostalgia icon. Perhaps the torch was passed from Hasselhoff to Norris at the food service cart during the making of Dodgeball.
Update: There’s some porn ads on the site with the SNL video, I’m told. So you are now warned.
Update II: A reader writes in:
Jonah:
It’s serious. The campus has been taken over by this kind of Chuck Norris-idolatry heretofore unseen. The Greek men can’t speak for 5 minutes without quoting these facts. Frankly, I’m getting sick of it, and pretty scared of the roundhouses.