Obituary

Chuck Norris Facts began as a single forum post — 'Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.' — and became the first great format of the modern web: a list of impossible feats attributed to a man who could not possibly do them, told with total sincerity. 'Chuck Norris can divide by zero.' 'Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer. Too bad he never cries.' It peaked when the man himself recorded a video reading his own facts and the joke died the moment it became official. You cannot meme a man who joins in. He simply absorbed the meme, as he absorbs all things.

Born

2005

Died

2008

Cause of death

Died of being factually accurate

Last sighting

A 2008 TV commercial for a pain reliever

Resting place

Section Z, Row 6 — the ancestral plot

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