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12-22-2007, 06:53 AM
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#1 | | Longest running avatar Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 6,065 Location: Brisbane, Australia! | Chuck Norris = Little Bitch?
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22963279-2,00.html Quote:
TOUGH guy actor and martial arts expert Chuck Norris has sued publisher Penguin over a book he claims unfairly exploits his famous name, based on a satirical internet list of "mythical facts" about him.
Penguin published The Truth About Chuck Norris: 400 facts about the World's Greatest Human in November.
Author Ian Spector, an undergraduate at Brown University, and two websites he runs to promote the book, including www.truthaboutchuck.com, are also named in the suit.
The book capitalised on "mythical facts" that have been circulating on the internet since 2005 which poked fun at Norris's tough-guy image and super-human abilities, the suit said.
It included such humorous "facts" as "Chuck Norris's tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried" and "Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits," the suit said, as well as "Chuck Norris can charge a cell phone by rubbing it against his beard."
"Some of the 'facts' in the book are racist, lewd or portray Mr Norris as engaged in illegal activities," the lawsuit alleged.
Norris, who rose to fame in the 1970s and 1980s as the star of such films as The Delta Force and Missing in Action, said the book's title would mislead readers into thinking the facts were true.
"Defendants have misappropriated and exploited Mr Norris's name and likeness without authorisation for their own commercial profit," said the lawsuit.
The suit, filed in Manhattan federal court, seeks unspecified monetary damages for trademark infringement, unjust enrichment and privacy rights.
Norris, whose real name is Carlos Ray Norris, claims in the suit he is protective of what his name is associated with. He has recently made US headlines for backing Republican presidential candidate former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee.
Norris, an author himself of fiction and non-fiction books, has been in more than 20 films. The actor was a six-time undefeated World Professional Middle Weight Karate champion who in 1997 became the first man in the western hemisphere to be awarded an 8th degree Black Belt Grand Master recognition in the Tae Kwon Do system, the suit said.
A spokesman for Penguin was not immediately available for comment.
- with Reuters
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Long past his use by date C-level actor wants more money!  | 
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12-22-2007, 07:46 AM
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#2 | | Natu´s fanboy Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 4,336 Location: Portugal Collection Count: 390 | wow, the lack of sense of humor is disturbing...  | 
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12-22-2007, 08:02 AM
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#3 | | He who is he maybe. Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 2,152 Collection Count: wow umm lots. |  | |
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12-22-2007, 08:12 AM
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#4 | | Search and Rescue: Vet Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 2,846 Location: Baltimore Collection Count: not enough News Credits: 1 | Chuck Norris sucks as a martial artist anyway. | |
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12-22-2007, 08:13 AM
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#5 | | Crazy Colon Burner!!!! Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 6,166 Location: UK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | I'm sure I red an interview with him in Empire that asked what he thught of th facts going around and he said they were pretty funny... 
Thanks to Draven for the kickass sig!...
IT'S COLON BURNING TIME!!!!... | |
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12-22-2007, 08:19 AM
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#6 | | ****** of the Minicons Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 3,508 Location: Ontario | Even if he finds them funny it doesn't mean he wants people making money off his name. | |
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12-22-2007, 08:22 AM
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#7 | | Crazy Colon Burner!!!! Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 6,166 Location: UK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Quote:
Originally Posted by The_Bardock  Even if he finds them funny it doesn't mean he wants people making money off his name. | This is true...
Thanks to Draven for the kickass sig!...
IT'S COLON BURNING TIME!!!!... | |
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12-22-2007, 08:27 AM
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#8 | | Banned Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 2,220 Location: Northern VA, or as I like to call it Northern Mexico Collection Count: 600ish | Wait. pretty much everyone here was saying these quotes about a year ago.. talk about flip-floppin.
I was just at that norris site, and found this qoute to be pretty damn funny.
The line in Star Wars, "May the force be with you.", was originally "May Chuck Norris be with you.", but Chuck Norris threatened to sue.
Last edited by .SentinelPrime Is Dead.; 12-22-2007 at 08:37 AM.
Reason: My attempt at humor which no one will laugh at because everyone here hates me with a religious zealous
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12-22-2007, 08:30 AM
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#9 | | Do Not Anger The Mommycon Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 2,147 Location: NE in the Pacific NW Collection Count: As many as my tiny check will allow - which is not much. News Credits: 1 | If he finds some of them morally repugnant and the title misleading, he's got every right to object to his name being used.
--Moony "Imagination is a powerful hypnotic tool because creativity is an altered state of consciousness." | |
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12-22-2007, 09:19 AM
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#10 | | Professed Season 3 fanboy Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,191 Location: Suomi Finland Perkele Collection Count: 64 | Quote:
Originally Posted by .SentinelPrime Is Dead. Wait. pretty much everyone here was saying these quotes about a year ago.. talk about flip-floppin. | Who the heck would buy a book of them when you got a whole internet for it?
Not to mention Chuck Norris is overrated anyway... | |
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