Unfortunately at a unit somewhere in Central England, the 'management' could be classed as movie buffs as far as badges are concerned.
The original quotation comes from the 1948 film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre with Humphrey Bogart. In one of the scenes in the movie, a Mexican bandit leader (Gold Hat, played by Alfonso Bedoya) is trying to convince Fred C. Dobbs (played by Bogart) and company that they are the Federales.
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!!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaxURLFn6jU
This in turn was adapted from B. Traven's 1927 novel upon which the movie was based:
"All right," Curtain shouted back. "If you are the police, where are your badges? Let's see them."
"Badges, to god-damned hell with badges! We have no badges. In fact, we don't need badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges, you god-damned cabrón and ching' tu madre!
etc etc found at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinking_badges
Of course the all time movie favourite has to be -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lj056ao6GE
Back on thread, and there may well be a patch emerging fron the Midlands in the near future. However, I didn't say that because..
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