Nope. The only concrete hints we started gettng that there was actually a White Stripes parody were the screenshots of CNR, which was long after this speculation.Big Spoon wrote:But, IIRC, we had hints that lead us to believe both of those things.
I think the only reasons they were speuclated were that they had a distinctive style and were popular in the years leading up.
And I don't even think I even mentioned my Chuck Norris speculation on this site, which came solely out of the popularity of the jokes at the time and Al's tendancy to do songs that feel like the result of brainstorming jokes related to a topic and fitting them into a song, which Chuck Norris jokes felt perfectly suited for.