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Well if it ain't fat stinking billy goat Billy Boy in poison! How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap stinking chip oil?

Come and get one in the yarbles! If you have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly thou!
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Translate please. 馃
BlueMetalChick26-30, F
@SW-User It's a line from a movie, "A Clockwork Orange", released in 1971 and based on a book of the same name by Anthony Burgess, written in 1962. Both the book and film are spoken in a bizarre dialect of speech called "Nadsat" which is a highly unusual combination of old English, cockney English, and Russian slang words.

This quote in particular is from a scene in which the main character, Alex DeLarge, and his three "droogs" (Russian slang for friend or buddy) get into a fight with a rival gang in a derelict casino. The leader of the other gang is named Billy Boy, and he and his four droogs are about to rape a "devotchka" (Russian slang for a pretty young woman) when Alex and his gang show up. Alex shouts out this line to distract Billy Boy and his droogs, allowing the woman to escape.

Basically, when you translate Alex's line into plain English, he's calling Billy Boy fat and saying he smells bad, and he called him a "eunuch jelly". A eunuch is a man who has been castrated and no longer has testicles, and the "jelly" bit is supposed to mean that he's soft like jelly. Basically he's calling him a sissy.
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@BlueMetalChick cool... I'll have to check that movie out. 馃憣馃徎
BlueMetalChick26-30, F
@SW-User It was an extremely controversial movie when it came out because of its normalization of violence and predatory sexual behavior, which is the intention of the book. The big question is, how important is free will when compared to creating a safe society.
NativeOregonian51-55
@BlueMetalChick I've not seen this movie in roughly 30 years, only partway through that is. A Portland arthouse theater screened it in 1989, and the one scene disturbed me so much I walked out.
BlueMetalChick26-30, F
@NativeOregonian On a guess I'd wager that the scene in question is when Alex breaks into the home of the writer?
NativeOregonian51-55
@BlueMetalChick Where he violates the writer's wife, yes.
BlueMetalChick26-30, F
@NativeOregonian Yeah that's easily the hardest scene in the movie to watch. For some reason, the mask he wears makes it particularly upsetting for me. It hits perfectly in the uncanny valley of being not human enough to look like a real person, but not inhuman enough to be obvious. It's the perfect balance between the two to just be...bothersome.
NativeOregonian51-55
@BlueMetalChick I had read that more people walked out of that movie for that scene than any other movie, except one, Caligula, which also stars Malcolm McDowell.
BlueMetalChick26-30, F
@NativeOregonian I would highly recommend you try watching it again, perhaps skip that scene though. So long as you know what was supposed to happen, you don't actually need to watch it for the rest of the film to make sense.
NativeOregonian51-55
@BlueMetalChick I might try someday, but no guarantees.