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Q: Origiin of phrase "I don't need no stinkin' " ( Answered 5 out of 5 stars,   2 Comments )
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Subject: Origiin of phrase "I don't need no stinkin' "
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: kayto22-ga
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Posted: 19 Mar 2004 04:11 PST
Expires: 18 Apr 2004 05:11 PDT
Question ID: 318266
This has become a catchphrase, one that I cannot remember the origin. 
It was uttered by a Mexican bandito in a movie (I think) and I cannot
remember the next word, as in, "(Blank? I don't need no
stinkin'(blank)"  Everyone uses it now and inserts the word of their
choice.
No reason--I once knew, and now I don't.
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Subject: Re: Origiin of phrase "I don't need no stinkin' "
Answered By: leli-ga on 19 Mar 2004 04:51 PST
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
Hi kayto

It was "stinkin' badges"!

The movie was "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre", directed by John
Huston in 1948, and starring Humphrey Bogart.

The phrase was also used in a scene in "Blazing Saddles".


"Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges.
I don't have to show you any stinking badges!"
--Gold Hat, as played by Alfonso Bedoya
"The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948)
http://www.darryl.com/badges/


"There are so many highlights such as the famous scene in which
banditos face Bogart and his pals and Alphonse Bedoya utters the
famous line about "badges, badges, we don't need no stinkin' badges."
"
From the Internet Movie Database:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0040897/


""Badges? I don't need no stinkin' badges!" - Mexican bandit Alfonso
Bedoyo, "Treasure of the Sierra Madre""
http://www.alaskasbest.com/movies.htm


"Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges."
from: "Blazing Saddles"
http://www.scvhistory.com/scvhistory/lw2145c.htm


I hope this answers your question, but please feel free to ask if you
would like me to clarify anything.

Best wishes - Leli


searches:

"don't need no stinkin" mexican bandit
://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22don%27t+need+no+stinkin%22+mexican+bandit&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

"don't need no stinkin" "sierra madre"
://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22don%27t+need+no+stinkin%22+%22sierra+madre%22&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
kayto22-ga rated this answer:5 out of 5 stars

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Subject: Re: Origiin of phrase "I don't need no stinkin' "
From: ac67-ga on 19 Mar 2004 06:54 PST
 
This phrase has been imitated in so many movies, that there is a whole
page dedicated to citing references to it: 
http://www.darryl.com/badges/  .  One of my favorite is Wierd Al
Yankovic in UHF.  There is a character doing an animal show and a
delivery man brings by the animals for the next show, including some
badgers, to which he replies, "Badgers?  We don't need no stinkin
badgers!"
Subject: Re: Origiin of phrase "I don't need no stinkin' "
From: jtwatson-ga on 22 Mar 2004 11:30 PST
 
It should be mentioned that before the movie, there was a book by B. Traven:
"Nothing is known of virtually the first twenty years of Traven's
life. As a young man he went by the name of Ret Marut, and published
an underground anarchist magazine, Der Ziegelbrenner, (The Brick
Thrower) in Germany. He disappeared for a time only to reappear in a
British prison. After vanishing from London, a man calling himself B.
Traven, began sending manuscripts in German to Das Buchengild, a
German publisher. By the 1940's, Traven was known throughout the
literary world and John Huston came to film The Treasure of the Sierra
Madre. A man showed up on the set, claiming to be an agent of
Traven's, one Hal Croves; whom Huston suspected of being Traven
himself. "
http://www.dreamgarden.com/ksb/authors/traven.html

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