The title "A Clockwork Orange," is said to come from a slang term which Kubrick grew up with in Britain. Older people there would describe someone as being "queer as a clockwork orange." Kubrick describes the term as meaning an inanimate object that has the outward appearence of animation. Scott Allen [log in to unmask] Media Librarian "Trying to stay afloat in Midwestern State University in the seas of technology"