Awakening The Giants

When I was young I was very intrigued by stories of giants. Fairy tales have them and they seemed to be at large and aplenty. Giants with three eyes with the third one in the middle. They are huge, very tall - 7 to 10 feet tall, maybe more and they were all strong. You go slay the giant and the King will give consent for the hands of her Princess, not sure if you have a chance to see how the Princess look like before you decide. Do you know the one where the King was willing to give the hands of her beautiful Princess to the man who would fetch him the most ping pong balls? Princes of countries near and far did their best. The first one thought he was successful when he came forth with a hundred only to realise soon the second one came back with a thousand but both started laughing when they saw the third one crawling in all tattered and torn holding only two balls. The King was bemused and enquired: "What happened to you when all I asked was for you to bring back the most ...