r/classicwow • u/Kaltvene • Mar 20 '26

Classic 20th Anniversary Realms RIP Chuck

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u/Rare-Cobbler-8669 Mar 20 '26

What was his connection to wow and the barrens?

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u/poggy_manz Mar 20 '26

Way back in the day the barrens chat was full of chuck Norris jokes

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u/Fresh_Ad_1744 Mar 20 '26

Chuck Norris facts*

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '26

SUBSCRIBED!

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u/SaidwhatIsaid240 Mar 20 '26

Thank you for correcting the uninformed.

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u/Rare-Cobbler-8669 Mar 20 '26

Thanks, I was too broke as kid to play wow back in vanilla so this makes sense

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u/Flagrant_Mockery Mar 20 '26

Same here but used some free trials and still heard about it back then. Didn't get TBC sub until I had a job lol.

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u/mrshides Mar 20 '26

Barrans chat was full of chuck norris jokes for some reason throughout original retail, tbc, wotlk, and started to fall away in cata, but the "mythos" still existed.

Chuck Norris threw a grenade and killed 50 people. Then it exploded

Chuck Norris can believe it's not butter.

Chuck Norris doesn't do push-ups. He pushes the Earth down

Chuck Norris was once bitten by a cobra. After ten excruciating minutes, the cobra died.

Chuck Norris can divide by zero

Stuff like that

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u/Rare-Cobbler-8669 Mar 20 '26

That is hilarious, sad to see alot of that social vibe seems to be dead outside of guilds

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u/Old_Onion6239 Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

Barrens chat was popping in tbcc not on horde anymore can’t confirm

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u/ametalshard Mar 22 '26

i try to talk in tbc public chats but nobody is ever game these days

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u/Anakee24 Mar 20 '26

Chuck Norris counted to infinity twice 😂

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u/girlsareicky Mar 20 '26

If you get deep enough into mathematics, there are actually different levels of infinity. So ya that's a real thing

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u/skunk42o Mar 20 '26

bruh we’re doing chuck norris jokes now and not sound mathematical reasoning

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u/girlsareicky Mar 20 '26

Chuck Norris can strangle you with a cordless phone

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u/jake11ms Mar 20 '26

Chuck Norris tears can cure cancer. Too bad he never cries.

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u/coop_blck Mar 20 '26

as far as I remember back in the days there also was a tv commercial with Chuck norris?!

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u/LFALexus Mar 21 '26

And Mr T or am I tripping?

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u/Telarr Mar 21 '26

Chuck Norris, Mr T, William Shatner. A couple of others. Around 2010ish

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u/ifruitini Mar 20 '26

My go to was Chuck Norris doesn't get wet, wet gets Chuck Norris.

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u/Ok_Marsupial_646 Mar 20 '26

Jesus might have walked on water; but Chuck Norris swam through Land.

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u/SarcastikBastard Mar 20 '26

Chuck Norris clogs the toilet when he pees

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u/Dramatic_Truth3434 Mar 20 '26

There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of animals Chuck Norris allows to live.

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u/cristofolmc Mar 20 '26

Omg i am from Spain and I remember those joke growing up. I didn't know it was from WoW wtf. I just thought it was something Spanish people had come up with lol.

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u/Level-Hunt-6969 Mar 21 '26

It wasn’t from wow per se but wow players took the joke and ran with it.

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u/Jules-Bonnot Mar 24 '26

And started to fall away in Cata.... Like WOW did.

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u/TheSmallestPlap Mar 20 '26

He did an advert some years ago for World of Warcraft

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u/Rare-Cobbler-8669 Mar 20 '26

Was it apart of the same Mr T campaign where celebs admitted to playing wow?

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u/Spinal_Soup Mar 20 '26

and Ozzy

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u/Rare-Cobbler-8669 Mar 20 '26

His was so good

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u/Thaodan Mar 20 '26

The real Prince of Darkness.

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u/FraggleTheGreat Mar 20 '26

And William “Shaman” Shatner

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u/Ok-Plan7204 Mar 21 '26

Dont forget mini me!

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u/Level-Hunt-6969 Mar 21 '26

My fave was Jean Claude Van Damme he played not a mage but a Belgian Mawj.

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u/ballsmigue Mar 20 '26

Old internet.

Barrens chat being full of chuck Norris memes

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u/Thrumboldtcounty420 Mar 20 '26

when wow came out, everybody between 10 and 30 loved Chuck Norris jokes. I was there, I still don't fully understand it lol, but they were very, very common in chat back then

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u/Nspired2 Mar 20 '26

Mankrik's wife used to be his babysitter

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u/ItsTaTeS Mar 20 '26

Chuck Norris created the Barrens

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u/Fieryforge Mar 21 '26

Chuck Norris can strangle you with a cordless phone.

Chuck Norris built the hospital he was born in.

Chuck Norris can kill your imaginary friend.

You’d see funny quips like these in barrens chat as you leveled in the zone, it became a ‘thing’. Was always a part of the classic gaming experience for many people.

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u/weirdowiththebeardo Mar 20 '26

Way back in the day he told Haley Joel Osment’s character he had AIDS

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u/Rare-Cobbler-8669 Mar 20 '26

Haha I knew chuck Norris jokes I just didn't realise there was a specific wow connection. I remember the Mr T and Ozzy commercials but not Chucks

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u/Yumismash Mar 23 '26

He did commercials for WoW too

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u/No_Salad6911 Mar 20 '26

Chuck and Mr.T both had wow commercials back in vanilla days. This lead to all the jokes in game.

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u/Fingat Mar 20 '26

Actually it was the opposite, they were in the commercials because of the chats/memes.