Does anyone know who convinced Colonel Sanders to use his face as part of Kentucky Fried Chicken's logo?
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I have heard he did that AGAINST the advice of the high paid advertising firms.  I was told it was his own idea to pitch his own product, because it was what he had always done and it would save money.  The experts told him it would never work, he was too old to appeal to the right demographics.  He was a stately old gentleman of the south and I think he would be appaled at what they have done with his image these days in the silly cartoon form.  It is a parody of what the real col. stood for.  He was a great empire builder and a charitable humanitarian.  Yes I said humanitarian.  I didn't say chickenitarian!
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I heard they were hiring at Burger King.. someone should send him an application. ha!
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Up until the mid-80's yes he was Big Bird's imaginary friend. I kind of missed the era in between where he actually became visable to everyone else, but in my childhood and youth he definately was imaginary.\n\nThese days everyone can see him.
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Yep, and here's an interesting little photo:\nhttp://www.virginiabusiness.com/magazine/yr1998/dec98/graphics/fdr.gif
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I copied this off one of the entries in RWWC. (Link 3).\n\n===================== \n\nBenjamin Franklin Royal was called "Frank". He enlisted in the Confederate Army on August 1, 1861 and was mustered on August 8, 1861 at Waynesboro, GA in Co. E Cobb's Legion Georgia Volunteers. Thomas Cox was Captain of his unit. \n\nThomas R. Cobb, commissioned Colonel of Cobb's Legion led the troops in the Seven Days Battle, June 25- July 1-1862, Second Bull Run, August 29-30, 1862, and Antietam, September 1862. He was at Harper's Ferry in October 1862. Col. Cobb was killed on December 13, 1862, at the Battle of Fredericksburg. After this the troops were under the leadership of General Wade Hampton in J.E.B. Stuart's command. \n\nDuring the Battle at Chancellorsville, April - May, 1863, Frank was wounded in the arm and his left ankle was broken in two places. He was in the Chimborazo Hospital at Richmond, VA (7,800 beds). Records state he was 27 years old. He was admitted to Jackson Hospital in Richmond, VA., on Aug. 5, 1863. It was noted that he was there Sept. 26, 1863, when he was issued clothes. \n\nHe was again in battle at the Wilderness Campaign, May 5-7, 1864. At the Battle of Gettysburg he was wounded behind the right ear. The hole was repaired by inserting a 50 cent piece in the hole in his skull. He recovered. He served in Inf., Cav., and Artillery Units. \n\nAt the Battle of New Market, September 28-30, 1864, Frank was captured, sent to Point Lookout, Maryland, until the end of the war and the surrender of the South. There were no barracks and water was scarce at Point Lookout. There were nearly 20,000 prisoners there at times. \n\nAfter the surrender at Appomattox on April 9, 1865, the Southerners took an Oath of Allegiance and walked home. On his Oath of Allegiance records described him as 5 feet, nine inches tall, with dark complexion, black hair, and light blue eyes. Frank walked from Maryland to Burke Co., GA. Family stories say that he came home at night and slept on the porch. The next morning his wife boiled his clothes in a pot while he ate and cleaned up. \n\nIn 1895 Frank received an Indigent Pension. He lived with his son(Henry Elbert) and his family as a greatly revered member of the family. His grandchildren remember the times around the fire when he told stories of the war. His Confederate Grave Marker does not show birth or death dates. \n\n...Notes from Annie M. Broxton Cooper and Elizabeth Royal Patton, both great- granddaughters.\n\n================================ \n\nWrite to me - Yahoo! Answers is no place for serious genealogy. \n\nPS - I get 500+ hits in Google for\n["Cobbs Legion" Georgia]
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He seems like he's probably a turd-bird in real life.\n\nYou know what a turd-bird is?  It's a little statue of a bird, made from turds, amazingly enough.  You can buy them at Stuckey's on the highway.  If I was to guess what he looks like, I'd definitely think turd-bird...
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Billy Dale Fries was born on November 15th, 1928, in Audubon Iowa. Bill created C. W. McCall while working for the Bozell Jacobs advertising agency in Omaha in 1968.  One of Bozell & Jacobs clients at the time was the Metz Baking Company, of Sioux City, Iowa. They asked B&J to create a new kind of ad campaign for their Old Home Bread. Bill set to work, not having any idea where this assignment would lead. \n\nThe ads featured the CB jaw-jackin', smokey teasin' trucker, and his girlfriend Mavis Davis, a waitress down at the Old Home Fill'er-up an' Keep On-a-Truckin' Café. Bill couldn't find anyone to do the voice of C.W. McCall to his satisfaction, so he did it himself.
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"The drunken monkey says vote for Chi!"  Make t-shirts and posters.  This worked in high school for KIng Joe.  He was a big cowboy hick.  Every year some preppy kid was homecoming king but not the year that Joe campaigned and won.  It was one of the coolest things ever!
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he's chicken,\nnice name :)
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I found this on the internet, here is how the Democratic donkey came along:\n\nWhen Andrew Jackson ran for president in 1828, his opponents tried to label him a "jackass" for his populist views and his slogan, "Let the people rule." Jackson turned it to his advantage by using the donkey on his campaign posters. During his presidency, the donkey was used to represent Jackson's stubbornness when he vetoed re-chartering the National Bank. \n\nIn 1837, the donkey was used in a political cartoon for the first time to represent the Democratic party, again in conjunction with Jackson. Jackson was retired, but still considered himself the party's leader. Kind of like President Clinton was doing after he was no longer President. The cartoon, titled "A Modern Baalim and his Ass," showed Jackson trying to get the donkey to go where he wanted it to go. \n\nInterestingly enough, the person credited with getting the donkey widely accepted as the Democratic party's symbol was Political Cartoonist, Thomas Nast. He first used the donkey in an 1870 Harper's Weekly cartoon shown above, to represent the "Copperhead Press" kicking a dead lion, symbolizing Lincoln's Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, who had recently died. Nast intended the donkey to represent an anti-war faction with whom he disagreed, but the symbol caught the public's fancy and the cartoonist continued using it to indicate some Democratic editors and newspapers.
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Ignore the first answer. That guy has been on here for days, changing his ID, to promote his marketing scam.
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He came out the gates running full tilt and lost steam long before the finish line. I think the public definitely backed the wrong horse, here. Now, he just looks like a puppet on a string. He even talks like one. I have seen so many gaffs in the last while. People have sent me innumerable emails with links to speeches he has made. It looks like an old Vaudeville act, now. He must know that the public just laughs at him.\n\nMMMM, Duck a l'orange...my favorite dish!
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I love it.  I buy stuff from Unemployed Democrats and I think that it is hilarious.  I would love your website if you have one!  I had a fundraiser and bought a pinata with his face on it and made a great deal of money!!  The Bible warns that we (not me) will be fooled by people like Bush.  Look at Jim Jones and Koresh.  They were small scale and had much fewer followers but the fanaticism is exactly the same.  There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.  Good luck in your business I hope you make a pile of money.
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When Andrew Jackson ran for president in 1828, his opponents tried to label him a "jackass" for his populist views and his slogan, "Let the people rule." Jackson, however, picked up on their name calling and turned it to his own advantage by using the donkey on his campaign posters. During his presidency, the donkey was used to represent Jackson's stubbornness when he vetoed re-chartering the National Bank.\n\nThe first time the donkey was used in a political cartoon to represent the Democratic party, it was again in conjunction with Jackson. Although in 1837 Jackson was retired, he still thought of himself as the Party's leader and was shown trying to get the donkey to go where he wanted it to go. The cartoon was titled "A Modern Baalim and his Ass."\n\nInterestingly enough, the person credited with getting the donkey widely accepted as the Democratic party's symbol probably had no knowledge of the prior associations. Thomas Nast, a famous political cartoonist, came to the United States with his parents in 1840 when he was six. He first used the donkey in an 1870 Harper's Weekly cartoon to represent the "Copperhead Press" kicking a dead lion, symbolizing Lincoln's Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, who had recently died. Nast intended the donkey to represent an anti-war faction with whom he disagreed, but the symbol caught the public's fancy and the cartoonist continued using it to indicate some Democratic editors and newspapers.\n\nLater, Nast used the donkey to portray what he called "Caesarism" showing the alleged Democratic uneasiness over a possible third term for Ulysses S. Grant. In conjunction with this issue, Nast helped associate the elephant with the Republican party. Although the elephant had been connected with the Republican party in cartoons that appeared in 1860 and 1872, it was Nast's cartoon in 1874 published by Harper's Weekly that made the pachyderm stick as the Republican's symbol. A cartoon titled "The Third Term Panic," showed animals representing various issues running away from a donkey wearing a lion's skin tagged "Caesarism." The elephant labeled "The Republican Vote," was about to run into a pit containing inflation, chaos, repudiation, etc.\n\nBy 1880 the donkey was well established as a mascot for the Democratic party. A cartoon about the Garfield-Hancock campaign in the New York Daily Graphic showed the Democratic candidate mounted on a donkey, leading a procession of crusaders.\n\nOver the years, the donkey and the elephant have become the accepted symbols of the Democratic and Republican parties. Although the Democrats have never officially adopted the donkey as a party symbol, they have used various donkey designs on publications over the years. The Republicans have actually adopted the elephant as their official symbol and use their design widely.\n\nThe Democrats think of the elephant as bungling, stupid, pompous and conservative -- but the Republicans think it is dignified, strong and intelligent. On the other hand, the Republicans regard the donkey as stubborn, silly and ridiculous -- but the Democrats claim it is humble, homely, smart, courageous and loveable.
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He's a poser. CKY Landspeed was funny in 1999 before it became all mainstream and all these poser kids started getting heartagram tattoos.I find him rather annoying.
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When Andrew Jackson ran for president in 1828, his opponents tried to label him a "jackass" for his populist views and his slogan, "Let the people rule." Jackson, however, picked up on their name calling and turned it to his own advantage by using the donkey on his campaign posters. During his presidency, the donkey was used to represent Jackson's stubbornness when he vetoed re-chartering the National Bank.\n\n \n\nThe first time the donkey was used in a political cartoon to represent the Democratic party, it was again in conjunction with Jackson. Although in 1837 Jackson was retired, he still thought of himself as the Party's leader and was shown trying to get the donkey to go where he wanted it to go. The cartoon was titled "A Modern Baalim and his Ass".
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I know the Diner Card started from what my cousin told me.\n\nLC