Who in the world could have expected a response like this?

When we asked you to name a favorite line from a movie, well...

We thought we’d get a few answers — you know, well-known actors saying something memorable in big-name films.

Instead, here came an avalanche.

Not just lines from movies, either. Readers added personal stories, some funny, some romantic, some nostalgic.

How about Bruce Wallies, who liked “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” so much that he named two of his dogs after the roles played by Paul Newman and Robert Redford?

Or consider Karen Welts, who submitted what turned out to be our most popular line: Val Kilmer as the legendary Doc Holliday in “Tombstone,” announcing he was ready for a gun battle to the death with longtime tormentor Johnny Ringo.

When Ringo turns up in a clearing and spits out a challenge, Doc replies in his smooth and soft Southern drawl...

“I’m your huckleberry!”

MORE ON that phrase in a moment, but Ms. Welts’ tale added something a little special.

She said: “The popular take is, “I’ll be your huckleberry,” and I like that better.

“When our son got married in New Zealand to a Kiwi, we took over 300 huckleberry chocolates, and inside each box was a note: ‘All the way from Idaho, U.S.A...I’ll be your huckleberry.’

“Kiwis like that term and the movie so much that they got a real kick out of the chocolates and movie quote.”

In the Wild West of the late 19th century, though, the phrase most definitely was “I’m your huckleberry.”

It meant something like: “I’m your man.” Or sometimes: “If you want to dance, I’m your partner.”

The line also had a slightly superior meaning to it, which is exactly what Doc Holliday was saying to Ringo.

Another phrase from that era turned up in the same scene.

After Doc shoots down Johnny Ringo, he stands briefly over the body and says: “You’re no daisy.”

The word “daisy” in those days meant being the best, which the stone dead Ringo clearly had not been.

BESIDES Kilmer as Doc, our readers were pretty clear that they loved Clint Eastwood.

Several tingling lines were submitted from Eastwood’s rogue cop Dirty Harry.

For instance: “Go ahead, make my day!”

There was almost a tie for getting that one in first. It was close between Faye Shankle and the engaged couple of Cyndi Hallgren and Pat Coffield.

By now, you’re probably beginning to see that we can’t possibly mention all the people who voted (many of whom offered up several great lines).

In fact, there’s no way to tell all these fun stories in just one day, so we’ll continue this on Saturday.

For today, we’ll depart with another intimidating speech from Dirty Harry, this one presented word for word by Rich Diott...

Harry is standing over a bank robber whom he’s just shot, but the wounded guy on the ground sees a gun just a couple feet away.

Meanwhile, Harry aims his monstrous pistol at the crook and says: “I know what you’re thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’”

“Well, do ya, punk?”

More on Clint and other memorable movie lines on Saturday.

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Steve Cameron is a columnist for The Press. Follow A Brand New Day at facebook.com/BrandNewDayCDAPress. Email: scameron@cdapress.com