Talk:Huckleberry/Archive 1

Archive 1

Huckleberry friend

I'd like to know what "Huckleberry friend" means in the song "Moon river". -- Jerry Crimson Mann 08:09, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

It means male homosexual. Joey Porter of the Pittsburgh Steelers called Kellen Winslow Jr. of the Cleveland Browns "Huckleberry," and then used a much harsher word, more common and with the same meaning, to describe Winslow less than a month later.

Can we get some real confirmation of this? It sounds like a load of BS to me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.92.185.106 (talk) 17:55, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Google to the rescue - the first search link confirms the Joey Porter story - http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06346/745408-87.stm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.167.39.47 (talk) 08:54, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

What is the meaning of it in tombstone, "I'm your huckleberry." Sounds like the modern term for man maybe? but in a more condensending way?

I'm fairly certain that when used in reference to a person, a huckleberry is ... someone you can count on. In Breakfast at Tiffany's, Fred was someone that Holly could count on, in Tombstone Doc Holliday was someone Wyatt Earp could count on, etc etc. --user.lain 20:05, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Merge

Just wondering if it would make sense to merge this with blueberry? FlagSteward 14:44, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

No, it would not make sense to merge the two because a Huckleberry is not a Blueberry. There is alot of arguement over where the true Hucks grow, but rest assured they do exist. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fotosnaps1 (talk • contribs) 18:07, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Turn into disambiguation page?

There's a tag suggesting this should be a disambiguation page. I'm inclined to disagree; a disambiguation page just can't give enough information to let people know which plant they mean (the distinction between Gaylussacia and the blueberries and such of Vaccinium is a subtle one, and it only gets worse if you start in on common English names like huckleberry compared with others like blueberry, bilberry, etc, etc). The only thing which I could, perhaps, see fitting the disambiguation page format is the one species from Solanum, but at least in my experience that is much less well-known than the huckleberries of the Ericaceae. Kingdon (talk) 15:54, 7 May 2008 (UTC)