The Leader

Since the royal wedding fell through, things have been tough for Fridge. His ongoing plans to take over the world were put on hold indefinitely, and for a while, it seemed that he may never again attempt to trample over the face of humanity with finely-chilled glee.

However, all that's changed. Galvanised by the chance that there may soon be a vacancy for an international media mogul who can take a stranglehold on the world's news coverage, Fridge has shuffled into action. He has all the right qualifications: he really doesn't care that much about the truth; he has absolutely no scruples, and a sense of morality that would put a lot of dictators to shame; and he's really quite good at maintaining a pretence that he cares about common people, for at least as long as he can use their money to achieve his own megalomaniacal goals.

He's already circulated his own newspaper reporting current events within the kitchen. Most of it is, of course, completely and totally fabricated, but his lead story about the toaster being to blame for all of the kitchen's social and economic problems has whipped all of the other appliances into an absolute frenzy. Most of them are now calling for the toaster to be deported into the back yard.

I also strongly suspect that he's taking advantage of his proximity to our house's broadband modem to do a bit of dabbling in communications intercepts. In fact, he may even hack into this very blip as I post it up. It's entirely possible that I may be the target of tomorrow's Kitchen Herald expose.

I don't mind too much, though. I bought a cream pie earlier. Sooner or later, one way or another, Fridge will be getting very closely acquainted with it...


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