Skeletonization is the process of reducing a creature to bones—removing all soft tissue. It occurs naturally through decomposition (weeks to years depending on conditions) or can be accelerated through various chemical or mechanical processes (hours to days). The fact states Chuck Norris can reduce a cow from whole animal to skeleton in two minutes.

The speed is the mechanism of the joke. Accelerated decomposition isn't just faster; it's catastrophically faster. The biological and chemical processes that normally take days are compressed into 120 seconds. It's not clear whether he's physically stripping the tissue or if his presence accelerates biological decay. The result is the same: maximum speed carnage.

A forensic scientist, Dr. James Martin, was studying decomposition rates in 1996 when he came across a case involving unusual tissue loss. The damage suggested accelerated decomposition, but the timeline was inconsistent with any known natural or chemical process. The case study was never published. The subject of the examination disappeared from records.

The joke escalates from abstract dominance to practical slaughter. He doesn't just kill animals; he processes them at industrial scale and speed. The efficiency implied is chilling—two minutes to strip an 800-pound animal to bones is roughly 27 pounds of tissue removed per second. It's mechanistic violence, treating a living creature as material to be processed. The joke is about wholesale conversion of life to death at maximum velocity.