From the special Vertical Day website for Mike Huckabee:
29 Things You Don’t Know About Mike Huckabee
- He narrated the Doctor Suess book, Horton Hatches An Egg in a high school play.
- He’s a big fan of The Three Stooges.
- He’s a great cook.
- He rides his bicycle to the grocery store.
- He likes Yarnell’s guilt free ice cream.
- He likes to snorkle.
- He likes the The Colbert Report.
- His favorite actor is Robert De Niro.
- His favorite actress is Meryl Streep.
- He reads a chapter of Proverbs every single day when he wakes up.
- He is not fond of heights.
- He’s like a kid at Christmas because he wants to open Christmas gifts early just so he can see what he got.
- He organizes his socks, and everything else.
- He prepares his own breakfast the night before to save time in the morning because getting up no later than 4:30 might not be enough time.
- He talks to “the Boys” (his three dogs) and thinks they are listening.
- He graduated from College magna cum laude with a 4 year degree in just over 2 years.
- His Dad picked him up from school once in a car that had no body, just a frame and wooden boxes for seats.
- He does great impressions of Billy Graham, Jimmy Stewart, Ronald Reagan, and Ross Perot.
- He was left handed but was made to write with his right hand in elementary school.
- He wanted to be an astronaut in first grade.
- He was a pretty shy kid.
- He can’t sit still. If there is ever a free minute he feels the need to get up and immediately start on a new project, for instance the minute a meal is over he has to get up and start putting things away and doing dishes.
- One of his favorite television shows is The Sopranos.
- His favorite snack food is movie style popcorn. And he likes it so much his wife Janet bought him a popcorn machine for Christmas.
- He gave Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones a pardon when he was Governor.
- He loves to play practical jokes.
- His favorite movies are To Kill a Mockingbird and Casablanca.
- His favorite church hymns are A Mighty Fortress is our God and In the Garden.
- One of his dreams is to watch a game in every Major League baseball park.