If History/Discovery/TL Channel can be believed (I forget which one
the program was on), Colonel Sanders was a "Kentucky Colonel", so
designated by either the govenor or the legislature, and not by
having risen through the ranks in the US armed forces.
Now if we could just do something about the spelling of colonel.
> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 17:29:44 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Mary Whisner <whisner@u.washington.edu>
>
> Good luck. By the way, was Col. Sanders really a Colonel? And if
> he's really wielding a light saber these days, is he now a Jedi
> Knight? So should he be called "Master Sanders?"
>
Master Colonel, or Colonel Master, perhaps?
> -- Mary
> * Mary Whisner, Head of Reference, Gallagher Law Library
> * University of Washington, Seattle, WA . . . whisner@u.washington.edu
> * library's website: http://lib.law.washington.edu
Robert Jacoby (speaking only for myself)
Reference Librarian/Webmaster
Coleman Karesh Law Library
University of South Carolina
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