*giggles*

Songs are always good too. 
Rather fond of showtunes myself...................and I do take requests. 

 

Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker,
wherever you're going I'm going your way.
Two drifters off to see the world.
There's such a lot of world to see.
We're after the same rainbow's end--
waiting 'round the bend,
my huckleberry friend,
Moon River and me.

I do need to write a fic in which Sherlock calls John "my huckleberry friend"

And here is the King with a little Reichenbach allusion:

Take my hand, take my whole life too 
For I can't help falling in love with you 

Schmiezi wrote:

I do need to write a fic in which Sherlock calls John "my huckleberry friend"

Huh. I'm surprised that non-Americans would understand Tom Sawyer references-- Tom's friend Huck, living on the river (Mississippi), etc. Did y'all read Tom Sawyer at some point?
 

Last edited by ancientsgate (December 15, 2014 9:28 pm)

ancientsgate wrote:

Schmiezi wrote:

I do need to write a fic in which Sherlock calls John "my huckleberry friend"

Huh. I'm surprised that non-Americans would understand Tom Sawyer references-- Tom's friend Huck, living on the river (Mississippi), etc. Did y'all read Tom Sawyer at some point?
 

Both Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn books were my favourite reading when I was a child. Mark Twain is a very popular, world known author and best American humorist even now. 

Last edited by nakahara (December 15, 2014 9:31 pm)

nakahara wrote:

   Both Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn books were my favourite reading when I was a child. Mark Twain is a very popular, world known author and best American humorist even now. 

Cool! One of my faves as a kid was his "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court".  He was a smart 'un, that Mark Twain, lol.
 

lil wrote:

Think huckleberry friend might fit better as a ref to the song in Breakfast@Tiffany's...Moonriver.

I  just did a brief google search, the song was a  Johnny Mercer/Henry Mancini song, made famous by the singer Andy Williams, and sung by Audrey Hepburn in the movie Moon River.

The "river" inspiration was apparently some place in the USA's southeast, like in Georgia maybe, but not Tom and Huck's beloved Mississippi River.

As for the huckleberry thing ("my huckleberry friend") , I found this:

People have sometimes asked about the meaning of the phrase "huckleberry friend".As a child, Mercer picked huckleberries (like wild blueberries) in the summer. To him, the berries had a personal connection with a carefree boyhood, strengthened by association with Mark Twain's character Huckleberry Finn. The implication was that Holly Golightly, who was actually of hillbilly stock, and Huckleberry Finn might well have been friends, if ever they had met.

Schmiezi wrote:

I just wanted to explain the quote, only to find out that you have all done your research and that there is nothing left for me to explain.  Wish that would happen to me at school more often.

I never thought about what a huckleberry friend was supposed to be, lol. It was just a song lyric that we sang, sounded kinda cool, etc. I do like using google and doing brief searches for info-- what did we do without the internet, back in the day? I know a lot of you reading this don't remember those days, but I sure do, and I like this new world better.
 

Here is something nice for all those who cannot hear about the "gay joke" anymore:

http://miadifferent.tumblr.com/post/105796755113/what-happens-when-the-writers-stop-joking-about