Chuck Norris
What students are talking about today (Sept. 4 edition)
Chuck Norris, Quebec election and Stanley Cup rioters
Chuck Norris jokes rewritten with Mark Carney’s name
Mark Carney counted to infinity—twice
The river that runs under the Chuck Norris Bridge is made from the tears of the men he’s humiliated
Presented with little comment, a plan to name a major new bridge near the capital of Slovakia after 80s action star and tired meme Chuck Norris.
Scraping the Bottom of the Cartoon Barrel – And Loving It!
The press release for Warner Brothers Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1980s DVD is at once hilarious, depressing and frightening. Some background: Warner Brothers has been releasing 2-DVD sets that are grab-bags of Saturday morning cartoon episodes from the ’60s and ’70s. The ’60s cartoons are generally better, but the ’70s sets outsold them. So WB figured that they’d raid their library for some cartoons from the ’80s, since ’80s childhood nostalgia is even bigger than the ’70s variety. Except that, when it came to unreleased cartoons, WB doesn’t have much from the ’80s: they’ve released a fair amount of the Hanna-Barbera stuff they have the rights to. So this set is mostly put together from worse-than-usual H-B cartoons and, above all, the library of Ruby-Spears, a studio put together by Hanna-Barbera writers who wanted to prove that they could make stuff just like their bosses, only worse. (They were soon taken over by the same company that bought H-B, and wound up making anything H-B passed on.)