While me and my wonderful wife, Cecelia, were watching The Price is Right Live at The Corbin Arena a few weeks ago, I couldn’t help but think of my grandmother on my dad’s side.
Back when I was a kid, Grannie hardly ever missed an episode of The Price is Right with Bob Barker. She watched it religiously every day on CBS at 11 a.m. if I recall the time that it aired correctly.
(Truthfully, I am not sure whether it was the show she liked so well, or if my elderly grandmother just had a thing for Bob Barker. I figure that either one was a realistic possibility…LOL.)
When I was over there at her house I watched numerous showcase showdowns with her. This was definitely her must see show along with professional wrestling, which you didn’t dare try to tell her wasn’t real.
I can remember one memorable The Price is Right episode when I was a kid where professional wrestler Ox Baker – who had the dreaded “heart punch” finisher – made it onto contestant row and then up onto the main stage. I can’t remember whether he won his prize, or whether I was watching that episode with Grannie.
Even though there was no Bob Barker on Feb. 13 at The Corbin Arena, I still think that Grannie would have enjoyed watching the show if she had still been around. I have no doubt that she would have made us take her if she were still with us.
The live show was a fun show to watch.
This was the second time that Cecelia and I had tried to watch the live show. We had tickets a few years ago when it was at The Corbin Arena, but the event date got moved due to weather and we couldn’t make it on the rescheduled date.
Fortunately, Cecelia was able to enjoy her Christmas present this year.
Now to touch on a few other things before I conclude this column.
• KFC what are you doing to us?
Yum! Brands, which is the parent company of KFC, recently announced that KFC was moving its corporate headquarters out of Louisville to Texas. First, KFC dropped the words Kentucky and fried out of name Kentucky Fried Chicken by renaming it KFC in the early 1990s. Now this.
For those that don’t know, Kentucky Fried Chicken was started by Colonel Harland Sanders in his Corbin service station in the 1930s.
Today, there are over 24,000 KFC outlets in more than 145 countries around the world, according to the company’s website.
It’s a bit sad to see KFC go.
• Speaking of the Colonel, I recently got a press release that caught my eye, which mentioned the Colonel.
Choice Mutual, a life insurance agency that specializes in final expense insurance, carried out a poll of 3,128 people to pose the question “if you could be buried next to any celebrity, who would you choose?”
As you might have guessed, Elvis Presley at Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee, was the top choice.
Kentucky native and 16th President Abraham Lincoln, who was buried at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois, was the number two pick on that list.
Three more Kentuckians were in the top 30.
Wilderness pioneer Daniel Boone, who is buried in Frankfort Cemetery in Frankfort, was number 25 on the list. Boxer Muhammad Ali, who is buried in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, is number 28 on the list.
Sanders, who is also buried at Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, made the list at number 30.
For more information about the survey, who else made the top 10, and Choice Mutual, go to https://choicemutual.com/blog/famous-figures-americans-would-be-buried-with/.
• Personally, I don’t care what you do with my body when I die as I will be in a better place and no longer in need of it. I would offer to donate my body to science, but I doubt they would take it. (Science fiction maybe…LOL.) On a more serious note, I would like to donate my organs if possible. If I am not using them, then I might as well help somebody else.
