There are Dead-Heads: the famous fans of the Grateful Dead who once roamed the country in dilapidated VWs trying to catch every concert.

Parrot-Heads are known to go to great lengths for a Jimmy Buffett concert, or the perfectly salted margarita.

There are even Cheese-Heads: loyal Green Bay Packers fans willing to denegrate themselves with a huge chunk of styrofoam cheddar on their noggins.

Now I’m inventing my own “head” club. Cool Hand Luke-Heads.

After my article href="http://www.film.com/story/allireallyneedtoknowilearnedfromcoolhandluke/12987396">All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Cool Hand Luke, I have been overwhelmed by my fellow fans of this fantastic film. It seems CHL has made a lasting impression on an awful lot of us through the years.

Here’s some of what you wrote me.

Dawn from Alabama wrote:

“I really enjoyed reading the thought that you put into the Cool Hand Luke quotes. They are right on.”

Go Tigers, Dawn. Sorry about the Crimson Tide, though.

Norm pointed out a slight error:

“You said that Luke never says the phrase, ‘What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate,’ but rather it is spoken by the warden. That may be true initially, but doesn’t Luke say it at the end of the movie before getting shot?”

Matthew caught the same slight error:

“I just happened to see the movie just last night and Luke says that very line just before he gets blown away.”

Yes, gents, Luke does in fact say the line, “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.” The warden says it first, when Luke is captured after his initial escape. Then at the end of the film, after his third escape when Luke is surrounded in the church, he walks to the window and shouts the same line. He’s not really saying it, I don’t think, just mocking the warden. But Luke knows it’s the end of the line, joking sarcastically with Dragline, “They’ll even give us our same bunks back.”

Jon from New York points out a terrfic line that I completely missed:

“When they were out on the road … there was a stunningly beautiful woman in the adjacent field … and Newman hollers out, ‘Thinkin’ about it over here, boss!’”

If you’ve seen the movie, you know the inmates have to tell the bosses every time they do anything. “Takin’ it off over here, Boss” if they’re taking off their shirt. Or “Gettin’ up over here, Boss” if they leave their bunk to go to the bathroom.

The line Jon points out is great because it’s an example of Luke’s contempt for authority. The inmates all see the beautiful woman washing her car. Of course the guards can’t stop Luke from thinking something, but he mockingly asks permission anyway. Thanks, Jon, for the great catch.

And thanks to all you Luke-Heads who took the time to write. I try to answer as many emails as I can. To crib a variation on one more line from CHL:

“Love me, hate me … anything. Just let me know you’re out there.”

Ethan Morris: “Not always right, but never in doubt.” Go ahead and write me.