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Soap star 'counts to infinity', and more

11 February 2009

Soap star “counts to infinity”

THERE is a group on Facebook called “Dr Karl Kennedy: Gynaecologist, Psychiatrist, GP, Master of the Universe,” which you can visit via www.karlkennedy.notlong.com.

For reasons that we would not presume to question, it is dedicated, so Jonathan Burton tells us, to a character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours. It makes several claims about this character’s supposed exceptional abilities, such as the fact that he “counted to infinity – twice” and that he “doesn’t wear a watch – HE decides what time it is”.

Claim number five, however, is of a different order: “When Dr…

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