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:
“We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white setting and attended similar schools as “not black enough.” ...Our concept of black experience has been too narrow and constricting.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)
“Thanks to recent trends in the theory of knowledge, history is now better aware of its own worth and unassailability than it formerly was. It is precisely in its inexact character, in the fact that it can never be normative and does not have to be, that its security lies.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)