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joule on January 29, 2008 - 10:18am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Badges?! ..... We don't need no stinkin badges!

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SacredCowTipper on January 29, 2008 - 2:26pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Moe fan? I happened to listen to a show with that bit in it on my trip this week :-)

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joule on January 29, 2008 - 7:58pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

'Moe fan' ..... what on earth are you talking about?

The 'We don't need no stinkin badges' thing is the famous line out of the classic movie, 'Treasure of the Sierra Madre', with Humphrey Bogart.

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Durandal on January 29, 2008 - 9:10pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

While with Cheech & Chong, it's "Badgers? We don't need no stinkin badgers!"

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elwoodelmore on January 30, 2008 - 7:36am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

the phrase has become a cultural icon. and really, it is p/o related but the connection may be obscure. i recommend reading the book by b traven and watching the dvd version of the movie* which includes a documentary on the making of the movie.

you may have trouble finding them (book and dvd) in your mainstream library, i found them at a branch library in a seedy part of town (along with "twilight"). maybe just coincidence.

*bogie wore a wig during the making of the movie, he had lost his hair because of fertility treatments, trying to have a kid with lauren bacall. i know, i know this is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay of topic.

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SacredCowTipper on January 30, 2008 - 9:06am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I don't know that I've ever seen a movie with Bogart in it, but I have certainly listened to M.O.E. here and there, and this line pops up during a song called "Mexico".

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MUDLOGGER on January 30, 2008 - 9:28am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

It also appears in Blazing Saddles in the scene where they are getting a whole bunch of baddies (KKK, Wehrmacht and Mexican Bandits etc) to swear into a posse.

My kids used to be in stitches and quoted it all the time, especially at cub scouts and brownies.

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