As someone who used to make GUIs for AOL dial up punters when I was a kid, it really sucked watching everyone find the internet. Even then, I couldn't have predicted just how much it'd suck.
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I for one do not miss the jokes deifying the second rate martial artist/fifth rate actor/first rate bigoted fundie at all.
They got old somewhere around the second or third one and then people kept doing it for like a fucking DECADE if not longer!
I did enjoy when TBS bought Walker Texas Ranger, which allowed Conan to have a Chuck Norris lever that played a random out of context clip every time he pulled it.
There was one that I saw, IRL and really wish I had gotten a picture of. It was a Jeep Grand Cherokee that had a dent in the side that looked like it got slammed into a telephone pole, and pushed in the rear passenger door and window. The owner had painted on the side of it, "CN was here."
That one made me chuckle.
Originally the Norris jokes were ironic, because he played "badass" roles in a bunch of shitty movies.
Of course that went the way every single ironic joke goes.
I'm waiting for the "Change my mind" meme format to die because I'm tired of seeing Crowder's stupid, racist face.
AYB is from like 1997.
When Chuck Norris walks into a bar, the bar says "Ouch."
Chuck Norris doesn't do pushups, he pushes the Earth away.
Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door.
The dark is afraid of Chuck Norris.
Chuck Norris once killed two stones with one bird.
Chuck Norris was once bitten by a poisonous snake. And after a month of excruciating pain, the snake died.
Chuck is the poisonous one, since the snake died. The snake was venomous.
I'm so glad pedantry is not dead.
Chuck Norris made his cowboy boots himself from real cowboys.
Chuck Norris can make onions cry.
Light doesn’t travel faster than Chuck Norris - he gives light a head start.
Whenever Chuck Norris’s parents had nightmares at night they would come to his bedroom.
Chuck Norris doesn’t lift weights. They rise out of respect.
AYABTU is older than 2004, isn't it?
Closer to '98/'99, and was alive still in 2000 but was already fading out by 2004.
Source: oldness.
Here I got us some ibuprofen.
Thanks
At least 4 years older
There were T-Shirts with Zero Wing quotes on them in 2001, so yeah
You should post that Egyptian meme with all the other memes hieroglyphed on the wall ...
Like this?
That's not Loss!