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Stinking badges

Posted by Appletree on August 15, 2000

In Reply to: Stinking badges posted by ESC on July 29, 2000

You can also find this line in the film, 'Blazing Saddles'which is where I believe it has gained its popularity. It's well worth seeing!

: : The Phrase Finder search has an option to submit new phrases/sayings to the database. I look through these occasionally and, having weeded out the abusive, wrongly-submitted and/or frankly bizarre there are usually many new and welcome phrases. One that I've come across in various forms recently goes something like "we don't need no stinking badges". I've not heard this anywhere in real life, but my best guess is its some kind of catchphrase - maybe US origin? Can anyone enlighten me as to where it comes from and what it means please?

: : Gary.

: That would be a line from "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" "a classic tale of the elusive search for gold by a trio of ill-matched prospectors" www.filmsite.org/ trea.html with Humphrey Bogart starring as Fred C. Dobbs "Dobbsie."

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: Gold Hat: Oiga, senor. We are Federales. You know, the mounted police.
: Dobbs: If you're the police, where are your badges?
: Gold Hat: Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!
: Dobbs: You'd better not come any closer.

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