Yarbles

"Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly, thou."

I mean, who could ever forget the touching moment in [The] Monster Squad when a pre-teenager kicks the Wolfman in the nuts and utters the classic line "The Wolfman has yarbles!"

"I'm not worried. This kid's got giant yarbles." "Giant yarbles make bigger targets," I say. "Maybe he ought to wear more than a loincloth." Ockham laughs. Slaps me on the back. "Didn't know you had a sense of humor, chief."

Well, my droogs, this is a load of yarbles. Right now at New World Stages, a risible British adaptation of A Clockwork Orange is doing a bit of the old ultraviolence to its audience.

James Brown looked a tool on C4's Withnail Weekend. Brown's crew at Loaded was credited with inventing the Withnail drinking game "I Demand to Have Some Booze". Utter yarbles. Fact: the game, where viewers simultaneously enjoy beverages identical to those consumed by characters on screen, was introduced by a journalist on the Evening Standard's London Life section in the mid-1980s.

"God knows, does He?" grinned Andy, unfazed. "Why hasn't He struck me dead then, kiddo?" Chris looked at him. "Just because He hasn't yet doesn't mean He won't. I hope I'm not standing next to you when it happens, that's all." "Yarbles!"

"Oh, yarbles," Micky whispered. "This really is a bitch, isn't it?"