Inspirations and Similar Trends
In India, there exist similar jokes in the form of factoids and quotes about Indian film actor Rajinikanth. The factoids about Tamil actor Rajinikanth are inspired by Chuck Norris facts in that those follow the same pattern as Chuck Norris facts. While some Rajinikanth jokes are original, many of them are circulated with Norris' name replaced by Rajinikanth's.
A page on Tumblr was formed to create similar facts for the Doctor Who character Rory Williams.
Schalke 04 football player Hans Sarpei received a similar Facebook audience claiming similar factoids about him.
During the 2012 Armenian parliamentary election, there have been found some ballots with Chuck Norris' name written on them as a candidate.
In Egypt, and prior to the Egyptian presidential election, 2012, similar jokes were made upon Omar Suleiman the Ex-Director of the General Intelligence Directorate in the same style of Chuck Norris facts, making fun of the powers and skills that his supporters claimed to be his to promote him before the elections.
Similar jokes exist in Russia. They are made upon famous Russian journalist, political pundit and winner of different intellectual games (which he won numerous times) Anatoly Wasserman. They state that Wasserman has a superforce and superintellect that allow him to do everything (for example "after the night with Wasserman a prostitute entered Moscow State University" - that joke is about 2 things he is most famous for - his erudition and virginity). Also, some facts tell that Wasserman is the father of Chuck Norris, so, he has more power.
In Brazil the Capitão Nascimento, main character of the movie The Elite Squad, is also attributed similar powers due its role as the BOPE´s capitain, a special police squad in Rio´s military police.
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Famous quotes containing the words inspirations, similar and/or trends:
“My dream is that as the years go by and the world knows more and more of America, it ... will turn to America for those moral inspirations that lie at the basis of all freedom ... that America will come into the full light of the day when all shall know that she puts human rights above all other rights, and that her flag is the flag not only of America but of humanity.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“It seemed there was a sort of poisoning, an auto-infection of the organisms, so Dr. Krokowski said; it was caused by the disintegration of a substance ... and the products of this disintegration operated like an intoxicant upon the nerve-centres of the spinal cord, with an effect similar to that of certain poisons, such as morphia, or cocaine.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
“Power-worship blurs political judgement because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)