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Travel Bug Dog Tag "I'm your huckleberry"

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Released:
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Origin:
Colorado, United States
Recently Spotted:
In the hands of MrundMrsTrümmerkönig.

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Current Goal

To be a daisy at traveling around the world from cache to cache spreading the joy of geocaching.

 

PLEASE DON"T KEEP ME.

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Doc Holiday

~~"I'm your huckleberry"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8OWNspU_yE


People often speculate on the exact origin and meaning is of the quaint idiom used by Doc Holliday in the 1993 movie "Tombstone."


The more common usage came to mean, in the words of the "Dictionary of American Slang: Second Supplemented Edition" (Crowell, 1975):
"A man; specif., the exact kind of man needed for a particular purpose. 1936: "Well, I'm your huckleberry, Mr. Haney." Tully, "Bruiser," 37. Since 1880, archaic.
The "Historical Dictionary of American Slang" which is a multivolume work, has about a third of a column of citations documenting this meaning all through the latter 19th century.


So "I'm your huckleberry" means "I'm just the man you're looking for


Now ain't that a daisy!


The "Daisy" comment is easier. In the late 19th century "daisy" was a common slang term for "the best in it's class." So for "daisy" just substitute "the best" and you'll have it. It was a short-lived idiom and doesn't seem to be popular much after 1890.

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Tracking History (53276.2mi) View Map

Visited 11/16/2025 MrundMrsTrümmerkönig took it to FrauDö Niedersachsen, Germany - .1 miles  Visit Log
Visited 11/15/2025 MrundMrsTrümmerkönig took it to Setz dich und sieh mit neuen Augen Niedersachsen, Germany - 53.6 miles  Visit Log
Visited 11/15/2025 MrundMrsTrümmerkönig took it to Total daneben aber doch nicht zu erreichen Schleswig-Holstein, Germany - 28.93 miles  Visit Log
Visited 11/14/2025 MrundMrsTrümmerkönig took it to TB-Hotel Harburger Berge West Niedersachsen, Germany - .1 miles  Visit Log
Visited 11/14/2025 MrundMrsTrümmerkönig took it to A7 Harburger Berge West Hamburg, Germany - 20.9 miles  Visit Log
Visited 11/13/2025 MrundMrsTrümmerkönig took it to Rätselhaftes Blech Nr. 5-Süd - Forst Rantzau Schleswig-Holstein, Germany - 29.18 miles  Visit Log
Visited 11/11/2025 MrundMrsTrümmerkönig took it to B4 | KM004 | Parkplatz Ost Schleswig-Holstein, Germany - 20.55 miles  Visit Log
Visited 11/11/2025 MrundMrsTrümmerkönig took it to A20 Parkplatz Kronberg West Schleswig-Holstein, Germany - 25.86 miles  Visit Log
Visited 11/11/2025 MrundMrsTrümmerkönig took it to Der Schmied Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany - .69 miles  Visit Log
Visited 11/11/2025 MrundMrsTrümmerkönig took it to Wo ist der Bus? Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany - 3.62 miles  Visit Log
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