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I have a somewhat vague memory of a western where the (in)famous 'Doc' Holliday regularly used the phrase, sometimes w/ deadly consequences!

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On Tue, 4/18/17, Jeffrey Schwartz <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] "He's my Caber" sounds cool & exotic...
 To: "tml" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2017, 8:07 AM

 Oh!

 Picturing "I'm your Caber" got me
 thinking.

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 http://home.earthlink.net/~knuthco1/Itemsofinterest1/huckleberrysource.htm

 "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!"
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 On
 Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 8:42 PM, Phil Pugliese (via tml
 list)
 <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 wrote:
 >
 > You know I
 like the idea of this character so much I'm going to
 use'm as an NPC.
 >
 > "Who's that?"
 >
 > "That's
 the/my/his Caber!"
 >
 > "What?"
 >
 > thanks,
 >
 >
 >
 >
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