Blazing Saddles: "The sheriff is a ..."

[sadbear]

[DJ13]

1. Why?

You need to have a context for that kind of a post.

[orpupilofnature57]

3. It was cutting edge humor ,and the joke was on

WASPy Racism ,a fairly new concept then.

[Herlong]

6. Why?

You need context?

[orpupilofnature57]

2. 1974 ,My wife and I were in 11th grade.

and the oxegen in our lungs were frozen ,at the preagnant pause the first time Harvey Korman said " The sheriff is a " .

[mulsh]

4. Being from Oakland, CA I was always amused that the name of the town is Rockridge.

Even more so when I realized that co-writer Richard Pryor was living in the area when he wrote the script.

(Rockridge is a fairly affluent area in Oakland, I lived in that neighborhood for over 20 years&gt

[Lone_Star_Dem]

5. This is the first thing I thought of when I saw Santorum's video.

I texted my brother and he said it was for him too. Of course we did grow up watching Blazing Saddles over and over again on VHS.

[Initech]

7. I thought the same thing too.

[Quixote1818]

8. Blazing Saddles pointed out a lot of different types of racism

from how the Blacks, Chinese, Mexicans, Women and even the Irish were treated.

[Ron Obvious]

9. Horses?!

Horses?! Why, you dummy, we can't risk any horses! Go send a couple of ...