Once upon a time a kind hearted Queen lived in self-exile with Prince Ken. Prince Charming was their only son. The Queen and Ken decided to raise Charming far away from the bad omens of the kingdom, in the land of foreign tongues.
There also lived Barbie and her sister, Snow White. One fine day, at the tip of sword, the mean General Shrek took over the kingdom from Barbie. Shrek accused, Barbie rocked his boat; so he banished her to donjons. Scared out of her wits, too fragile to bare the discomfort, Barbie pledged to leave the kingdom for 10 years.
Meanwhile, the Queen banished Ken to a far far away Fairyland. Queen had no choice because somehow Ken earned the nickname of Collector. It was casting a bad joo-joo on her prospects of returning to the throne and also on her party’s political future.
In return of Ken's silence, the kindhearted Queen ensured he maintained a lifestyle, befitting of an emperor, even in the Fairyland. She spared no expense and bought him multiple offshore businesses and palaces; including couple of luxury apartments in the city of royalties, Manhattan. Whenever a mortal wondered about Ken’s whereabouts, the Queen would explain, Ken is too ill to brave the arduous journey back to home.
So little did she knew, that her untimely and tragic death would miraculously lift all the black-magic off Ken’s tortured body and soul? Without wasting a moment, Ken returned to save the kingdom from sure disintegration. His heart still heavy from the grief, Ken reluctantly agreed to assist Prince Charming with running the party and the kingdom too.
Citing Queen’s will and with the blessings of Ken, the 19-years-old Prince claimed party’s throne. The naysayers cried, even Richard Holbrooke has spent more time in the kingdom, but the boy-king silenced the cynics with a one-liner, “Democracy is the best revenge.” At least, the slogan served well to stem the rumors that his party believed in the monarchy.
Since King’s father, Co-King Ken – the undisputed leader of the Royal Scot-free Club -- took the reigns of power from the evil General, no one could tell heads from tail. Just when seas appeared to be calming down for clear sailing, somehow King’s Palace managed to steer up a storm. Its blundering decisions, like the renegade signed pledges with Barbie and the conciliators’ issue earned it utter embarrassment and notoriety of the worst kind.
A jewel in Ken’s crown was an odd address he delivered from the dark depths of his bunker. Laced with strange references of healing-chariots and conspiracies, the Co-King forewarned the Fairyland passport holders. Stuttering, he glanced side to side, as if he was addressing a huge crowd. Ironically, his audience was a lone magic-mirror. Such theatrics must have teased the inquisitive minds over the intellectual capacity of his courtiers. One could only hope, the courtiers weren’t drawn from the same magic pool he selected the bodyguards of the departed Queen!
Co-King Ken’s pledge of no-first use of doomsday arrows, his generous peace offering of his Spy Chief to the Barbarians, his disclosure that Barbarians never threatened the Kingdom, and the way he gallantly gave-in to every embarrassing condition Uncle Sam demanded to toss few shillings in his hat, should have earned him the Nobel-Prize. But who knew, Uncle Sam would swindle what should have been his prize. Sources divulged, it was the Fairyland passport holders and the brotherhood Ken entrusted to investigate his Queen’s death who hatched the conspiracy to deny him the prize.
For their part, the supposed rival royals, the Barbie Family, quite rapidly mastered the art of what little girls called, ‘Barbie and the tea party’. The jealous ones recalled it as, ‘you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours’. Ken like any good playmate, always brought irresistible offerings to the tea party that Barbie simply couldn’t ignore. When Ken complained, the road to Barbie’s Wonderland was too narrow and bumpy. ‘Why worry when the mayor could build a brand-new multilane highway to the Wonderland’, said Snow White.
The unnatural love affair of Ken and Barbie enraged the masses. They had enough of the nauseating royal romance and mismanagement of the Kingdom. Finally, armed with torches, forks and pitches, the citizens came out to the streets. Ken and Barbie’s love couldn’t weather people’s wrath. Not even Uncle Sam could save their rule. Eventually, the raging mad crowds reduced Ken’s fiefdom to rubble. The liberated rejoiced the end of an incompetent monarchy.
Everybody lived happily ever after! The end.
There also lived Barbie and her sister, Snow White. One fine day, at the tip of sword, the mean General Shrek took over the kingdom from Barbie. Shrek accused, Barbie rocked his boat; so he banished her to donjons. Scared out of her wits, too fragile to bare the discomfort, Barbie pledged to leave the kingdom for 10 years.
Meanwhile, the Queen banished Ken to a far far away Fairyland. Queen had no choice because somehow Ken earned the nickname of Collector. It was casting a bad joo-joo on her prospects of returning to the throne and also on her party’s political future.
In return of Ken's silence, the kindhearted Queen ensured he maintained a lifestyle, befitting of an emperor, even in the Fairyland. She spared no expense and bought him multiple offshore businesses and palaces; including couple of luxury apartments in the city of royalties, Manhattan. Whenever a mortal wondered about Ken’s whereabouts, the Queen would explain, Ken is too ill to brave the arduous journey back to home.
So little did she knew, that her untimely and tragic death would miraculously lift all the black-magic off Ken’s tortured body and soul? Without wasting a moment, Ken returned to save the kingdom from sure disintegration. His heart still heavy from the grief, Ken reluctantly agreed to assist Prince Charming with running the party and the kingdom too.
Citing Queen’s will and with the blessings of Ken, the 19-years-old Prince claimed party’s throne. The naysayers cried, even Richard Holbrooke has spent more time in the kingdom, but the boy-king silenced the cynics with a one-liner, “Democracy is the best revenge.” At least, the slogan served well to stem the rumors that his party believed in the monarchy.
Since King’s father, Co-King Ken – the undisputed leader of the Royal Scot-free Club -- took the reigns of power from the evil General, no one could tell heads from tail. Just when seas appeared to be calming down for clear sailing, somehow King’s Palace managed to steer up a storm. Its blundering decisions, like the renegade signed pledges with Barbie and the conciliators’ issue earned it utter embarrassment and notoriety of the worst kind.
A jewel in Ken’s crown was an odd address he delivered from the dark depths of his bunker. Laced with strange references of healing-chariots and conspiracies, the Co-King forewarned the Fairyland passport holders. Stuttering, he glanced side to side, as if he was addressing a huge crowd. Ironically, his audience was a lone magic-mirror. Such theatrics must have teased the inquisitive minds over the intellectual capacity of his courtiers. One could only hope, the courtiers weren’t drawn from the same magic pool he selected the bodyguards of the departed Queen!
Co-King Ken’s pledge of no-first use of doomsday arrows, his generous peace offering of his Spy Chief to the Barbarians, his disclosure that Barbarians never threatened the Kingdom, and the way he gallantly gave-in to every embarrassing condition Uncle Sam demanded to toss few shillings in his hat, should have earned him the Nobel-Prize. But who knew, Uncle Sam would swindle what should have been his prize. Sources divulged, it was the Fairyland passport holders and the brotherhood Ken entrusted to investigate his Queen’s death who hatched the conspiracy to deny him the prize.
For their part, the supposed rival royals, the Barbie Family, quite rapidly mastered the art of what little girls called, ‘Barbie and the tea party’. The jealous ones recalled it as, ‘you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours’. Ken like any good playmate, always brought irresistible offerings to the tea party that Barbie simply couldn’t ignore. When Ken complained, the road to Barbie’s Wonderland was too narrow and bumpy. ‘Why worry when the mayor could build a brand-new multilane highway to the Wonderland’, said Snow White.
The unnatural love affair of Ken and Barbie enraged the masses. They had enough of the nauseating royal romance and mismanagement of the Kingdom. Finally, armed with torches, forks and pitches, the citizens came out to the streets. Ken and Barbie’s love couldn’t weather people’s wrath. Not even Uncle Sam could save their rule. Eventually, the raging mad crowds reduced Ken’s fiefdom to rubble. The liberated rejoiced the end of an incompetent monarchy.
Everybody lived happily ever after! The end.
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