----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard Brazee" <howard at brazee.net> To: <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 4:16 PM Subject: RE: Brust Interview > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Owen [mailto:feetalsjeez at yahoo.com] > Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 9:18 AM > To: dragaera at dragaera.info > Subject: Re: Brust Interview > > > My favorite part was the "I'm your Huckleberry" bit. Considering Steve's > affinity for Val Kilmer's portrayal of Doc Holiday in Tombstone I'm pretty > sure he answered the phone with: "I'm here Huckleberry." > > > > -Tim > > > Occasionally Steve will use a literary reference that goes over my head. I > haven't seen Tombstone - what the heck does that mean? > > It means, as I understand, something like "I'm your man". It comes from using a huckleberry as a unit of measurement: Just a huckleberry shy of blah blah blah...turns into "yeah, that's the huckleberry" as in "that's what'll do the job of completing the set" which turns into "I'm your huckleberry", like "I'm the man that'll do the job you're looking to have done". I think. There're a couple of web pages that talk about this but I don't have links to them anymore. Shawn