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Something about Huckleberry Finn? Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, river, etc.

"I'm your huckleberry." Doc Holiday in "Tombstone."
And then there's Huckleberry HoundDog.
I'm with you kicky. What in the heck is a huckleberry? Is it a berry of some kind?

We always called wild blueberries "huckleberries", and Google confirms that to be correct.

http://www.statehousegirls.net/id/symbols/fruit/

I think "I'm your Huckleberry" is again Huckleberry Finn/ Tom Sawyer. The original buddy/ road story. "Huckleberry friend" as sung by Audrey Hepburn to me means a sort of tomboyish, close friendship.

It is the Huckleberry Finn/ Tom Sawyer relationship in the mark twain novel, a "huckleberry friend" in this case is the right person for the job.

The "Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, H-O" by J.E. Lighter (Random House, New York, 1997) lists several meanings: 1. minuscule amount. 2. a fellow; character; boy. "one's huckleberry," the very person for the job. 3. bad treatment. "the huckleberry" is similar to "the raspberry." 4. a foolish, inept or inconsequential fellow.

As you can see it depends on how the word is being used.

Read http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-huc1.htm

Interesting, I wonder if Huckleberry Finn was so named because of the connotations above -- 2. a fellow; character; boy. "one's huckleberry," the very person for the job -- or if the connotations came from Huckleberry Finn.

From the link I posted:

As huckleberries are small, dark and rather insignificant, in the early part of the nineteenth century the word became a synonym for something humble or minor, or a tiny amount. An example from 1832: "He was within a huckleberry of being smothered to death". Later on it came to mean somebody inconsequential. Mark Twain borrowed some aspects of these ideas to name his famous character, Huckleberry Finn. His idea, as he told an interviewer in 1895, was to establish that he was a boy "of lower extraction or degree" than Tom Sawyer.

HUCLEBERRY FRIEND
I looked through my copy of "Huckleberry Finn" and came up with this idea: In the book, Huck has to struggle to befriend a slave named Jim, an arduous task in the 1880's ante bellum south. In the course of their adventures their friendship becomes a strong and enduring entity.

Johnny Mercer, the lyricist wrote:

"Two drifters, off to see the world,
There's such a lot of world to see,
We're after the same rainbow's end
Waitin' round the bend
My Huckleberry friend,
Moon river and me."

I imagine this was a clever word play to insinuate a friendship forged through travel and adventure. On a raft. On Moon River

WARNING: Lyricists and composers lead complicated lives.

We can either have a heated debate about this or just agree that I'm right. A big LOL!

Soz, could you do something about your avatar. It's really irritating. Sincerely,

Panzade. Secretary for Edgar Blythe's Legionnaires

panzade. Absolutely! You are right! but then, so is everyone else.

I think the clue is "drifters" and the analogy is the river of the moon to the great Mississippi. Sorta reminds me of the hobos of the wabashed coffee.

I don't find Sozobe's avatar irritating at all, what is the problem?

I think it means a foolish friend, like in the bold definition. Like fools in love, stuff like that.

And I like Soz's avatar.

Puhleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezze!
Can't anyone pull a leg around here?

Kicky, I enjoy your musings a lot. Give us another question.

Kinda busy right now--f*cking work--but don't worry, I'll have more brain droppings later. I always do.

Of course the story is fiction...but, could you imagine having a friend named Huckleberry?

I also like Sozobe's avatar...a woman with strength!

Heh!

Meanwhile, panzade sweetie, you do realize that your avatar is just this blank box with a red X up in the corner, doncha?

That's what I see, anyway.

<looks around furtively and wonders briefly about what others see... or don't see... feels existential crisis looming... skedaddles>

Soz, Panz was just jokin' with 'ya.