A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange is a fiction 1962 novel by Anthony Burgess, and forms the basis for the 1971 film adaptation by Stanley Kubrick. The novel is widely regarded as a successor to earlier great fiction novels such as Nineteen Eighty-Four, Brave New World and We.

Alternate usages

• Clockwork Orange is also a nickname of the Glasgow Subway, the SPT metro line of Glasgow, Scotland.
• Clockwork Orange was also the nickname for the Dutch national soccer teams of the early 1970s, for their precision passing and ballhandling and the team's orange jerseys.
• Clockwork Orange is also the name of a supposed 1970s hard-right-wing MI5 operation led by one Colin Wallace, designed to discredit the Irish Republicans, Harold Wilson and his Labour Party, and the Conservative's leader Edward Heath, ultimately putting Margaret Thatcher in power. (http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=3637, http://www.wakeupmag.co.uk/articles/sstate3.htm. The name was used on the floor of the House on February 1, 1990. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm198990/cmhansrd/1990-02-01/Orals-2.html)
• Clockwork Orange is the current name of the Princeton Men's Club Ultimate (sport) team. The women's team also shares this name, though it is often referred to as Lady Clockwork.http://www.princeton.edu/~clockwrk/
• Clockwork Grapefruit is a familiar in the online game Kingdom of Loathing and a pun on Clockwork Orange. Its attack messages such as " delivers a horrorshow tolchok to your opponent's gulliver" heavily feature Nadsat slang.