After selling more life insurance for a different company, decided to start a ferry company. Got a job selling life insurance and got fired for insubordination. Stopped being a lawyer after getting into a fistfight with his own client in the courtroom. Worked on trains until he became a lawyer. Faked his birthday to join the army when he was 16 and was honourably discharged a year later Here’s some choice moments from his wiki page and and some other places: Thompson, and Jeff Foxworthy, which is a failed Bill & Ted script just waiting to happen.Īnyways, Colonel Sanders had a goddamn wild life. Other Kentucky Colonels include Muhammad Ali, Winston Churchill, Hunter S.
They don’t even need to have lived in America. They don’t need to have lived in Kentucky. Kentucky Colonels do not need to be from Kentucky.
Though way back in the day Kentucky Colonels did have some manner of involvement in military, it basically just became like Kentucky knighthood where the only qualifications are “Kentucky thinks you’re cool”. Today I learned that Colonel Sanders of delicious crispy chicken fame was not a military colonel but a Kentucky Colonel