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[[File:zeppelin.jpg|link=xkcd|frame|Oh crud, it's quarter past zeppelin already!?]]
 
Type'''Timepieces 1with Text''': In comedies, clock dials are occasionally seen with one or more of the numbers replaced by a non-numerical word or picture telling what will happen on the hour. ''(Previously called "Type 1".)''
 
Type'''Character 2Chronology''': A slight variation of this is when a character creates a fictional time based upon the actions of one or more other characters. ''(Previously called "Type 2".)''
 
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== Character Chronology ==
=== Advertising ===
* "[[Commercials|Sounds like]] [[Memetic Mutation|Pimms o'clock!]]"▼
 
=== Live-Action TV ===
* In the ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' episode 'Simple Explanation' Kutner does not turn up for work and Taub puts forward an obviously fictitious cover story for him, saying that his dog is sick and he will be there by lunch. At lunchtime House looks at his watch and says "Look at the time. It's half past Taub-was-lying-about-Kutner."
 
▲* "[[Commercials|Sounds like]] [[Memetic Mutation|Pimms o'clock!]]"
=== Magazines ===
* ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'': "[[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner|We are on Eastern Pain Time and it's Dan O' Clock!]]"▼
** [[AltA Text|Allmagazine mixedarticle drinksfrom arethe half-off1920s fromsaid Danthat it was "Sex O'Clock to Danin ThirtyAmerica".]]
 
* [[Mac Hall|Shirtless O'Clock]]▼
=== Music ===
* In the song "Party on Fountain":
{{quote|''What time's it at?''
''It's at Party O'Clock''}}
 
* A magazine article from the 1920s said that it was "Sex O'Clock in America".
=== New Media ===
* ''[[Four4chan]]'': Chan|Good heavens, just look]] [http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b85/NiteRabbit/Rapeclock.jpg at the] [http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b85/NiteRabbit/1275071956205.jpg time!]
* The term "[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=beer%20thirty&defid=1245344 beer thirty]".▼
 
=== Stand-Up Comedy ===
* An ATC Tower relaying local time to an inbound aircraft, "...If you're a civilian, it's 3:00; if you're Air Force, it's 1500; if you're Navy, it's Six-Bells, if you're Army, the big hand is on '3' & little hand is on '12'; if you're Marine, it's 2 hours until the bar opens!
 
=== Video Games ===
* The description for one of the watches you can put on your ''[[Rock Band]]'' character claims it to be "rock o'clock".
 
▲* The term "[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=beer%20thirty&defid=1245344 beer thirty]".
=== Web Comics ===
▲* ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'': "[[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner|We are on Eastern Pain Time and it's Dan O' Clock!]]"
** [[Alt Text|All mixed drinks are half-off from Dan O'Clock to Dan Thirty.]]
▲* ''[[Mac Hall|]]'': Shirtless O'Clock]]
 
 
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