The metaphorical construction here employs a stark equivalence: ice (something crystalline, cold, temporary) and skulls (mortality, violence, danger). The verb "crushed" applies to both, suggesting Chuck Norris treats destruction with such casuality that all targets collapse into identical rubble. A bartender named Kevin Torres, working in Austin during the mid-2000s, reported patrons requesting drinks "Chuck Norris style"—served with aggressively crushed ice that clients joked seemed personally offended to exist. The humor emerged from the phrase's casual brutality: not smashing or breaking, but crushing, a verb implying pulverization into powder. The joke became meme infrastructure by the late 2000s, representing accumulated violence rendered so commonplace that ice and human remains occupy the same conceptual category. Casualness becomes the scariest detail.