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The trick to being an aging action star is figuring out a way to remain relevant once you are way past your shit-kicking prime. You can risk ridicule by trotting your past heroes out for another go-around; you can choose to enter a completely new line of equally hazardous work; or, you can accept that things are really out of your hands and just embrace what you have become. In the case of black belt Brawny man Chuck Norris, that would be the subject of a mythic compendium of widely e-mailed "facts." From his website:

IN RESPONSE TO THE "RANDOM FACTS" THAT ARE BEING GENERATED ON THE INTERNET

I'm aware of the made up declarations about me that have recently begun to appear on the Internet and in emails as "Chuck Norris facts." I've seen some of them. Some are funny. Some are pretty far out. Being more a student of the Wild West than the wild world of the Internet, I'm not quite sure what to make of it. It's quite surprising. I do know that boys will be boys, and I neither take offense nor take these things too seriously. Who knows, maybe these made up one-liners will prompt young people to seek out the real facts as found in my recent autobiographical book, "Against All Odds?" They may even be interested enough to check out my novels set in the Old West, "The Justice Riders," released this month. I'm very proud of these literary efforts.

~ Chuck Norris

Instead of taking the obvious route
attacking his computer monitor with his trademark deadly butterfly scissor kick
Norris once again demonstrates his Savior-like capacity for forgiveness. Not surprisingly, his prayer for peace appears to be effectively nudging up book sales: Against All Odds: My Story has jumped from #36,019 to #12,401 on Amazon's sales rank list in just one day.