Origins of the Chuck Norris Craze

There was an interesting article in our Sunday papers regarding the origin of the Chuck Craze.

Apparently the origin of the Chuck craze is a website called The Random Chuck Norris Fact Generator, which was started by Ian Specter, a Brown University freshman.
Since last summer, Ian Spector has been spreading jokes like: “Chuck Norris has already been to Mars; that’s why there are no signs of life there.”

He actually started with Vin Diesel. Sample: “When mortals rub two sticks together, we get fire. When Vin Diesel rubs two sticks together, we get Christianity.”

It went over modestly well. Spector asked his web audience to nominate a successor. Chuck Norris was the overwhelming favourite.

I am so glad the Hoff has been silenced, cos that was getting out of hand.