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[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] bfg9k@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

WHAT YOU SAY??

[–] tym@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

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.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

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!

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 hours ago

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.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

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.

[–] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 20 hours ago

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.

[–] ksigley@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago

I'm waiting for the "Change my mind" meme format to die because I'm tired of seeing Crowder's stupid, racist face.

[–] opossumo@lemmings.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 1 points 40 minutes ago

thank you, that was bugging me

i got dsl right before d2 and this meme was already all over

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

When Chuck Norris walks into a bar, the bar says "Ouch."

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Chuck Norris doesn't do pushups, he pushes the Earth away.

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The dark is afraid of Chuck Norris.

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Chuck Norris once killed two stones with one bird.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 12 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Chuck Norris was once bitten by a poisonous snake. And after a month of excruciating pain, the snake died.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Chuck is the poisonous one, since the snake died. The snake was venomous.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 4 points 6 hours ago

I'm so glad pedantry is not dead.

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Chuck Norris made his cowboy boots himself from real cowboys.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Chuck Norris can make onions cry.

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Light doesn’t travel faster than Chuck Norris - he gives light a head start.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Whenever Chuck Norris’s parents had nightmares at night they would come to his bedroom.

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Chuck Norris doesn’t lift weights. They rise out of respect.

[–] trk@aussie.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

Chuck Norris can win Connect4 in three moves

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

AYABTU is older than 2004, isn't it?

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 14 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Closer to '98/'99, and was alive still in 2000 but was already fading out by 2004.

Source: oldness.

[–] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Here I got us some ibuprofen.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 4 points 23 hours ago

At least 4 years older

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

There were T-Shirts with Zero Wing quotes on them in 2001, so yeah

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You should post that Egyptian meme with all the other memes hieroglyphed on the wall ...