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* Robert B. Parker's Spenser does this at least once, while commenting on the phenomenon.
* No clipboard, but in ''[[The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul (Literature)|The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul]]'' Dirk Gently gets into a crime scene by being right behind a uniformed policeman, and when that policeman got stopped to show his ID Gently just walked by and said "He's with me."
* Disturbing variant in one of the ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' novels. When [[The Empire|The Imperial Order]] conquers a city she's in, Jebra hides out for several days in a cellar, managing to avoid the invading army. When she finally comes out, she finds them doing their [[Rape, Pillage and Burn|usual thing]]...but they leave her alone, apparently on the assumption that if a woman ''isn't'' being brutally raped already, then she's a woman they're not supposed to brutally rape.
* In the [[Dexter]] novel ''Dearly Devoted Dexter'' Kyle Chutsky points out that "No one ever stops a man with a clipboard."
* One of the tricks Qui-Gon teaches Obi-Wan in the ''[[Jedi Apprentice]]'' books.
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* Michael and his colleagues put this to use more than once in ''[[Burn Notice]]'', usually accompanied by being so loudly bureaucratic that everyone listens to them without question.
** They can also use it to be seen as a harmless, self-important nobody when they need a distraction. A pushy representative of the Homeowner's Lawn Association gets told to [[Incredibly Lame Pun|sod]] off, not shot at.
* Discussed by Liz and Carol on an episode of ''[[
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. In "Goodbye Iowa" Buffy infiltrates the Initiative's [[Elaborate Underground Base]] by posing as a [[Hot Scientist]] with a clipboard and [[Nerd Glasses]]. The clipboard actually comes in useful when she uses it to stop a door closing.
* In ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', Marshal has a fantasy in which his wife dies of a deadly hiccup disease (long story). In this fantasy, she is in a hospital when a doctor comes in and claims she will die. Marshal asks the doctor if he is sure and he says, "It says it right here on the clipboard that doctors always have."
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