Huckleberry Hound

I was just listening to an .mp3 of "Moon River", sung by Audrey Hepburn. It was probably recorded off the Breakfast at Tiffany's DVD. And for the first time I noticed the phrase, "your huckleberry friend."

The first thing that reminded me of, of course, is Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday in Tombstone -- "I'm your huckleberry." (Insert appropriate bow of obeisance to Steve Brust here.)

Still, where did the phrase come from, and what the hell does it mean? According to a web-based article I found:

"To be one’s huckleberry—usually as the phrase I’m your huckleberry—is to be just the right person for a given job, or a willing executor of some commission."

Oh. OK.

Gacked from nomi

SimilarMinds Compatibility Results libertango |||||||||| 100% |||||||| 82% Naomi |||||||| 89% |||||||| 90% nomi ||||||||| 89% ||||||||| 90% ivymcallister |||||| 64% ||||||| 75% similarity complementarity

How compatible are you and your friends?

Part II

ISTJ - "Trustee". Decisiveness in practical affairs. Guardian of time- honored institutions. Dependable. 11.6% of total population.

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Apologia vita sua... kinda

Jack Shafer of Slate recently apologized to Sy Hersh of The New Yorker. Why?

Because Sy said we wouldn't find any WMD in Iraq. Shafer not only said we would, but because Hersh had a bad streak predicting events in the War On American Freedom and Democracy Terror, Hersh's prediction we wouldn't find any WMD was a leading indicator we would.

Now if only Shafer will apologize for not writing about how the Administration knew in advance there were no WMD... But, hey, perhaps he has no direct sources. I don't. It's just the most likely explanation, given the facts we have in hand.