The man behind Australia's most viral meme dies at 82

Jack Karlson became an internet sensation as the subject of the "Succulent Chinese Meal" viral clip.

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The prison escapee and on-again off-again petty criminal – whose best-known alias was Jack Karlson – shot to fame in 2009, after a clip of his dramatic 1991 arrest outside a Chinese restaurant in Brisbane was uploaded to the internet and enthralled the world.

“What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal” Karlson – born Cecil George Edwards – theatrically shouted, while resisting a string of officers.

“Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest” and “get your hand off my penis” were among his other, now immortalised, phrases.

The seminal moment has inspired thousands of memes, musical remixes, reaction videos – and even a few tattoos. Democracy Manifest is also the name of a purebred Australian racehorse.

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