 was a common verbal admonishment used among parents in English speaking countries to their children during the mid 1950s to late 1960s.The putdown was often used when a request from a child was viewed as too expensive, unreasonable or outlandish.Bruce Springsteen's song “Aint’ Got You" from the 1987 album "Tunnel of Love" includes the line “I got more good luck honey than old King Farouk.”

English SF/Fantasy author John Whitbourn has published "The Book of Farouk", a fantasy-tinged fictional ‘autobiography' by Farouk, depicting him as a towering global statesman bestriding 20th century history, and an incomparable erotic "artiste" besides.