We at Online Clock love to keep our eyes and ears open for new trends in alarm clocks…this just happens to go along with the territory of running the world’s most popular online alarm clock website.

This is why we were recently surprised to learn that there are so many Talking Animal Clocks available out there.

There is certainly something primitive in us that makes us love animals. From the time when we’re small children, up until we become adults and obtain our own menageries of house pets, human beings just love animals. (Well, actually not enough, right? Because if we truly loved animals we wouldn’t push them into extinction or hunt them and eat them…but that’s a separate topic.)

Human beings love buying objects and clothes and anything at all with an animal motif or animals printed on them. This holds true whether we’re talking about t-shirts, pajamas, bed linens, wallets, porcelain keepsakes or even…you guessed it…alarm clocks.

Recently, we discovered an entire zoo’s worth of Talking Animal Clocks and we wanted to present the most interesting of these animal-themed clocks to you here in our alarm clock blog.

So, without any further yabber, yabber, yabber, here is Online Clock’s official list of the very best Talking Animal Clocks:

Hambone Animated Talking Pig Clock
This clock has an animated pig who talks with a Texan cowboy accent. This idea for a clock sounds ridiculous but the clock is actually pretty neat. The Hambone Animated Talking Clock spouts off wake-up messages when the alarm goes off such as: “Does any one feel like a Texas two step?” and “Heeeere, piggy, piggy, piggy!”.

Kimba Animated Talking Chimpanzee Clock
Kimba is apparently the name of the chattering chimp in this Talking Chimpanzee Alarm Clock. Kimba wakes you up by shrieking around a lot like a chimp and spouting a few not-so-notable sayings such as, “Get up!” and “Hi there”. Although Kimba’s wake-up messages are pretty lame, the somewhat hideous shrieking sounds made by this chimp are enough to wake the dead.

Beaks Animated Talking Parrot Clock
The talking parrot in the Beaks Alarm Clock here has a decidedly maritime theme, and it wakes you up with seagoing-related messages such as, “All hands on deck!” and “Wake up or you’ll be shark bait!”. All in all, the Beaks clock is one of the funniest here: it’s kind of like a bird version of Captain Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean who has the job of waking you up each morning.

Bossy Bessie Animated Talking Cow Clock
Bessie is a cow who’s really a bit bossy when she wakes you up with words of wisdom such as, “Oh dear, is it morning already?”. She seems to be a bit vain and is always batting her eyelashes and probably fishing for compliments regarding how good she looks (or so she probably thinks).  Reminiscent of Miss Piggy from Sesame Street.

Talking Pink Cat Clock
This talking pink cat really has nerves. She wakes you up with sayings such as, “Milk time…be a dear and go get me some” and “it’s not easy, being this pretty, you know”. As with Bessy the cow (see the previous alarm clock), this is one vain, stuck-up alarm clock: she probably thinks she’s just purrfect.

Boss Frog Animated Talking Clock
Finally, we present to you the Boss Frog Alarm Clock. This is a big robotic frog who wakes you up froggy-style with such pearls of wisdom as, “It’s move it or lose it time!” and “Froggy to the beat, baby!” and “You snooze, you lose, pal!”. There’s something likable about this robotic frog, so if your kids are frog fans, they just might get a big kick out of this clock.

These clocks are all similar in that they present to us some idealized form of an animal that’s used to wake us up, and they all attempt to come up with witty sayings that are used as alarm messages. Some of the clocks we’ve presented to you succeed more than others in this, and it’s of course up to you to decide whether any of these clocks is good enough to grace your bedside night table.

As you can tell by looking at our collection of Talking Animal Clocks, there is no end to human beings’ imagination when it comes to thinking up ideas for tacky, kitschy, but sometimes wonderful animated clocks with animal themes.

We think this is a good thing, and certainly, if you have a young son or daughter, they will share our opinion.

So, if you’re currently seeking ideas for Christmas gifts for the upcoming holidays and have an animal fan of some kind in your family, keep in mind the possibility of purchasing for them an alarm clock which bleats or barks or otherwise wakes them up with an agreeable animal noise of some kind: a Talking Animal Alarm Clock.

We look forward to our next excursion into the realm of weird alarm clocks with you and say, until then, good night.

Translation: meow, oink, ribbit, etc…

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Put on your Geek glasses and pocket protector and prepare to Geek-out with us, as we delve into the depths of some...Online Alarm Clock Trivia!

Hey Clock Fans, in March of next year we’ll be celebrating four years of being online as the original Online Alarm Clock, and we’ve been thinking that some of you still might know as much about our clock website as you would like to.

For this reason we’ve created this blog post by compiling some of the top Online Alarm Clock Trivia Tips with details and information about OnlineClock.net that’s intended really just for our true fans.

But, by looking at our traffic numbers each month, we know that there are actually a whole lot of you out there!

So sit back, relax, tune in to some groovy music channel on our Clock Radio application to use as background music, and enjoy our list of factoids about everyone’s favorite web-based internet alarm clock.

Here’s our list of Online Alarm Clock Trivia, presented in no particular order of importance:

1. Online Clock was the world’s first website designed to be an internet alarm clock. Since then, we’ve spawned literally dozens of imitators.
2. OnlineClock.net went online back on March 24th, 2006.
3. We made it to the front page of Digg.com the same year, with this story (posted by someone else). This gave our site a huge jump-start (thank you, Digg!!!).
4. We currently have not just one, but over ten different kinds of Online Alarm Clocks which you can find on our Site Map page.
5. OnlineClock.net was created by an American web developer named Tom, a guy who moved from San Francisco to Berlin, Germany about ten years ago. In addition to Online Clock, Tom is a big fan of comics and punk rock.
6. In fact, Online Clock continues to be developed, maintained and marketed by a single individual (we sometimes write using ‘we’ or refer to the ‘OnlineClock.net Team’ just because it sounds kind of lame writing about the site using “I” all the time. Being run by one person has its drawbacks, including the fact that I have to write blog posts like this one sometimes even when I’m on vacation (!). But heck, it’s all worth it…
7. At the time this article was written, OnlineClock was receiving about 1.5 million unique visitors per month.
8. OnlineClock runs on a dedicated Linux server (because they’re the best servers in the world – go Linux!!!)
9. Our Alarm Clock Blog that you’re reading now runs using the popular WordPress open source blogging system (it’s simply the best blogging software on the planet).
10. Although OnlineClock.net has been profitable for some time now, we probably don’t get that much back from it if you take into consideration all of the hours of work we put into it. But hey, that’s OK because the site truly is a labor of love. We really, really care about OnlineClock.net, and we hope that you notice this in various ways, such as the fact that we refuse to over-commercialize the site and we keep our use of advertising tasteful and non-intrusive!

So there you have it, Clock Fans: that was a list of various Online Alarm Clock Trivia which was especially selected for those of you who consider yourself true OnlineClock freaks.

And, judging from the reactions we receive via email, via our Facebook and Twitter account, we know that there are a lot of rapid OnlineClock.net followers out there.

We’re delighted to have all of you as fans – thank you for helping to make Online Clock what it is today!

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What's that hanging so threateningly on the wall there? Why, of course: it's just a Killer Cuckoo Clock!

Most of the people who use Online Clock probably don’t know this, but we’re actually located in Berlin, Germany.

My name’s Tom, and I’m the creator of the original online alarm clock website, and I’m an American guy who moved to Berlin from San Francisco, California about ten years or so ago.

Berlin is a great city. It’s big, it’s pretty cheap (at least by American standards) and it has a lot happening culturally. It’s a city still the process of inventing itself and creating itself…so there’s always something new here. And Germany’s also not a bad place to live, though of course there’s no place like home.

I was doing some research for a blog post about Cuckoo Clocks and I discovered these really great modern Cuckoo Clocks from an artist who apparently goes by the name of Deine Heimat, which means “your country” or “your homeland” translated from the German.

Here we see a Killer Cuckoo Clock with some beautiful blue background lighting.

So obviously, these clocks are made by a German artist.

Doing a little more research, I discovered that this seems to be the handle used by an artist named Stefan Strumbel.

Whatever the case, the unusual and thoroughly modern Killer Cuckoo Clocks of Mr. Strumbel speak for themselves.

Normal Cuckoo Clocks make me chuckle because I actually no of no Germans who purchase or use these clocks in their homes. Instead, Cuckoo Clocks here in Germany seem to be a sort of cottage industry aimed at American tourists.  I’m sorry if I’m spilling some German state secrets here, but this really does seem to be the case. Just about every German national that I’ve come to know in this country thinks that traditional Cuckoo Clocks are pretty hideous, even the older generation!

Or, maybe you prefer a Killer Cuckoo Clock for your home in luxurious white with orange day-glo accents?

So, when you take a look at the Killer Cuckoo Clocks of Deine Heimat, a.k.a. Stefan Strumbel, you’ll see images of:

1. Skulls
2. Machine Guns
3. Wings
4. Bones
5. Hand Grenades
6. Hearts
7. Dead Deer
8. Wild Game
9. Blood

There’s likely a lot of irony intended in the name “Deine Heimat”, because, as I mentioned, I really don’t know any Germany who actually use Cuckoo Clocks at all. I think that Mr. Stumbel is perhaps playing around with the typical stereotypes floating around about Germans here, or perhaps simply making fun of them.

Whatever the case, the clocks are just cool, and kind of throw the typical stereotypes of what German culture is all about on its head, forcing us (and Germans, certainly) to reevaluate them.

You can find out more about the Killer Cuckoo Clocks from Deine Heimat at the Galerie Springmann in Freiburg, Germany.

The artist himself also has a blog online (”Deine Heimat”) on Blogspot here.

For the record, Stefan Strumbel also creates a lot of other great art that has nothing at all to do with Cuckoo Clocks.

But we’re an Alarm Clock Blog, so the clocks are obviously what we’ve chosen to write about.

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Vadim Ryazanov from Baku, Azerbaijan has created Mr. Wake, a robotic rolling alarm clock.

Mr. Wake was created as part of the Mr. Basic V2.0 contest going on at the incredibly fabulous Let’s Make Robots website.

As you can see by taking a look at the photos of Mr. Wake, it’s a rolling robotic car with an alarm clock on its back.

The idea is that, when the alarm on Mr. Wake’s back goes off, he begins rolling around your apartment, forcing you to get out of bed to find him first, in order to be able to turn its alarm off. Of course, by the time you’ve done this, you’re pretty much guaranteed to be fully awake. There is no snooze button on Mr. Wake either (something that we approve of) so this further reinforces the fact that Mr. Wake will indeed wake you up!

Mr. Wake is kind of an alpha geek’s version of Clocky, which we’ve already written about.

Now, we don’t know if you noticed it in the video or not, but one of the things that makes Mr.Wake so cool is that it actually has an infra-red sensor on its back that, when the alarm goes off, propels the vehicle away from you whenever you attempt to grab it. This makes the process of turning off the alarm on Mr. Wake’s back much more difficult, further reinforcing the fact that, when you finally do succeed in turning this alarm clock off, it’ll be extremely likely that you’ll be 100% awake.

Another fascinating thing about Mr. Wake is that the frame of its vehicle has been created from the plastic tubes of about 20 different common pens. You know, the kind of pens that you use to jot down notes or do some drawing with! The pen tubes have been “welded” together and formed into place using a common household lighter. Now that’s ingenuity using common objects!

We think that Mr. Wake, the Rolling Robotic Alarm Clock is a great example of human inventiveness and congratulate Vadim on a job well done.

We hope to see more dazzling designs for offbeat alarm clocks in the future from you, Vadim – keep up the great work!

If you like robots, be sure and take a look at the Let’s Make Robots website for all kinds of wild and wacky robotic devices.

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Before I get into today’s post about a subject near and dear to me, Simpsons Alarm Clocks, first a quick word about the upcoming switch to daylight savings time in 2009.

If you live in Europe, you’ve already switched over to Daylight Savings Time, but if you live in the United States, don’t forget to fall back one hour this Sunday, November 1st at 2:00 a.m.

Most modern PCs automatically update their time settings to Daylight Savings Time online, and this is what enables you to watch the time switch live on Online Clock if you happen to be awake at this hour…just fire up Online Clock in your web browser, and the second that your computer updates its time settings to Daylight Savings Time, you’ll also see the new, correct time being listed on our online alarm clock.

But now to the real reason we’re here today: to showcase some of the killer Simpsons Alarm Clocks available out there!

While trying to find cool clocks to mention on our Facebook Fan Page, we began to notice that there are apparently tons of different Simpsons Alarm Clocks out there, and many of them are actually really neat.

For you, Dear Clock Fans, we’ve assembled a list of our favorites, in order from best to worst!

Simpsons Dome Alarm Clock
Bart and Homer find themselves entrapped within a curious glass dome housing an alarm clock in this hilarious scene right out of the Simpsons. Check it out as Marge attempts to break through the dome with a hammer and Lisa attempts to saw through the glass to free Homer and Bart.

Moe’s Tavern Cuckoo Clock
Moe’s Tavern is the place and Homer is the cuckoo. Homer pops out every hour on the hour to shout out the party cry ‘Woo Hoo’ and wave his fist in the air, as if to annouce that the party has commenced. Check out the dangling pendulums at the bottom which are actually tiny beer glasses.

Animated Homer Talking Clock
These are some of the things that the animated Homer Simpson figure in this cool alarm clock says to wake you up: “Only two things can get me out of bed, donuts and the possibility of donuts to come,” “Wake up – your breakfast is getting all cold and eaten,” and my favorite: “I discovered a meal between breakfast and lunch!” Notice how Homer’s left hand holds a hamburger and his right hand holds a glazed donut. Even the numerals on the clock dial have been replaced with images of food!

Donut Time
Not technically an alarm clock, this clock is still simple and very effective in its design: the revolving second hand has a donut affixed to it, which Homer’s eyes follows in 360 degrees! I think this clock just about sums up Homer’s motivation in life and it has a surprisingly hypnotizing effect on me…Mmmmm donuts!

The 12 Sounds of Homer Clock
In this clock Homer speaks twelve different witty sayings, and some of them are really good, such as “I gave my love a chicken…it had no bones (Mmmm, chicken)” and “English who needs that…I never go to England!” and “Marge, it takes two to lie: one to lie, and one to listen” and my favorite, “Donuts: is there anything they can’t do?” Please pay no attention to the man narrating this video. Despite a striking resemblance, it is not Homer Simpson.

Well, there you go, Simpsons fans. Which Simpsons Alarm Clock is your favorite?

As you can see, you don’t have to live in Springfield to possess a really groovy Simpson Alarm Clock. You just need to go to Amazon or eBay, buy one, and bring it home to you where you live.

We hope you’ve enjoyed this excursion into Homerland and wish you all pleasant dreams…of donuts.

Mmmm, donuts…

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Industrial Designer Dave Rollins from San Jose, California has created a line of offline digital clocks that resemble Online Clock…in a good way.

These clocks come in various styles and colors but all boast a digital numeral display that needs to be assembled by hand, just like puzzles.

In this way, these aren’t really clocks at all, but instead they’re signs and learning aids.

The clock of this kind that most strikingly resembles our online alarm clock is the Digits Clock:

The Digits Clock from Designer Dave Rollins bears a striking resemblance to Online Clock. Well, at least someone has good taste!

The Digits Clock is 19 inches wide and 7 inches high, so it’s actually pretty large in size.

In this next photo you can see what the Digits Clock has apparently been designed for: it’s supposed to be a teaching aid to help youngsters learn about clocks, time and how to tell the time using digital clocks. They learn about these subjects by recreating the time of the day themselves by putting together the pieces that make up the digital numerals of the clock.

By putting together the bits and pieces that construct the digital clock display, they learn how to tell the time from a digital clock:

Junior here is trying to put together his own version of online clock.

Did you know that OnlineClock.net is also frequently used in classrooms around the world as a teaching aid?

We often get emails from teachers who tell us that they use our online alarm clocks in their classrooms to teach youngsters about the subjects of clocks and time. Teachers and college professors also tell us that they like to project our clocks onto their classroom walls, using them to time tests and exams.

Thank you, teachers everywhere, for using our online alarm clocks – we’re very proud that you find our clocks useful in this way!

Surprisingly, while researching this subject and these great-looking clocks from Dave Rollins, we’ve found quite a few negative reviews of the Digits Clock. True, it has a price tag of about $100, and several reviewers have mentioned that this seems to be a steep price tag for something that doesn’t even tell the time.

But they seem to be missing the point about these clocks. These are obviously meant to be art works and teaching aids and not actual working clocks, and if $100 can be used to help several classes of kids better learn how to tell the time, then I think these products are very valuable.

One also has to keep in mind the fact that these digital clock products are probably being produced in very limited quantities, which unfortunately always serves to increase production costs.

Other clocks in the line of digital clock products from Dave Rollins serve other purposes.

These include the following:

1. Striking desk calendars showing the month of the year and day of the month
2. Digital clock signs designed for shop windows showing ‘Be Back at xx:xx’ Time, for when a shop is temporarily closed
3. Teaching aids, as previously mentioned
4. They’re all available in different color combinations and they look so great that they’d conceivably just look cool sitting on one of your shelves simply as works of art or as conversation pieces

More information on these interesting non-online clocks can be found on Mr. Rollins’ own website UseYourDigits.com.

All of Mr. Rollins’ digital clock products may be purchased online from Ponoko.com.

Tags: clock design, clock designer, clock designs, clock puzzles, clock teaching aids, clocks, dave rollins, digit clock, digital clock products, digital clock puzzle, digital clock puzzles

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Hey, Clock Fans and Halloween Fans,

On the first day of Halloween, my true love gave to me, a severed head in a cemetery…

We have a special treat for you now that the Halloween Holidays are just around the corner:  a Halloween Clock Radio!

We at Online Clock are crazy about Halloween, and that’s why we feel this time of year is the right time to do something special to celebrate our favorite holiday.

Hopefully all of you should already know that we created the world’s first web-browser based version of a clock radio.

One of the great things about our clock radio application is that it offers literally hundreds of free online radio stations that you can listen to, whenever you want, on your PC, Mac, laptop or netbook computer.

In our clock radio we have online radio stations organized according to about 20 different genres of music and talk, including everything from Techno to Country and Classical to Alternative. It’s cool and fun to listen to – give it a test-listen!

The only thing required is the free version of the RealPlayer plugin for your web browser. Most of you probably already have this plugin installed on your computer. (If not, no worries – there’s a download link located on the home page of our clock radio application itself.)

In honor of Halloween, our favorite holiday, we’re offering all of you reading this a special collection of Halloween Radio Stations.

That’s right, you can now listen to all kinds of groovy Halloween-themed music on our clock radio application, whenever you’re in the moody to get a little spooky.

Finally, to further get all of you in the mood for Halloween, we’ve included the song “Halloween” by the Misfits in this blog post. (Not familiar with this band? We highly recommend the classic album “Walk Among Us”, if you’re feeling adventuresome…)

If ever there was an official theme song for Halloween, this would be it.

Enjoy!

However you like to celebrate this holiday, we wish you lots of fun and…Happy Halloween !!!

From the makers of the Online Alarm Clock.

We’ll be howling at the moon right with you on October 31st…

AwwwwoooooOOOOOOOO

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My Spider Sense is tingling telling me it's time to...get up out of bed!

Hey, Clock Fans…

Our spider sense is tingling, and you know why? It’s because, while researching new material to share with our Facebook Fans on our Online Alarm Clock Facebook Page, we discovered that there are a heap ‘o different Spiderman Alarm Clocks out there.

In the past, while doing research for our Alarm Clock Blog and for our Facebook Page, we’ve discovered alarm clocks on just about any kind of subject or theme: Sonic the Hedgehog Alarm Clocks, Coca Cola Alarm Clocks, Mr. Peanut Alarm Clocks, Pirates of the Caribbean Alarm Clocks – you name it, if it exists or existed as a popular TV show, comic or film character, you can certainly purchase it as an Alarm Clock.

But why in the heck are there so many Spiderman Alarm Clocks out there?

Don’t get us wrong – we love Spiderman and especially Marvel Comics (though the recent purchase of Marvel Comics by Disney has us a little worried that the more adult comics will perhaps be made a little too clean-cut and sanitized in the future). But why is it that we’ve found up to a dozen different alarm clocks with a Spiderman theme?! That’s a whole lot of clocks, even for a popular web slinger who’s set out to save the planet!

Because there are so many Spiderman Alarm Clocks, and because several of them are really quite cool, we decided to collect some of the more interesting models here and present them all together to you, Clock Fans, in one blog post, making it easy for you to check them all out.

So, without much further ado, let us commence with attempting to create the most definitive Spider Man Alarm Clock post ever published on the world wide web!

Its Web swingin’ time!…I’m just your friendly neighborhood Spiderman…With great power comes great responsibility.

Those are some of the words of wisdom this Spiderman Alarm Clock says, when the alarm is activated. He has some cool web-slinging sound effects, too. This Spiderman figure stands atop a square pedestal with a neat spider motive on it, and the figure is nicely animated. Cool clock!

He couldn’t do anything with his eyes webbed shut, Ha, Ha, Ha, the Green Goblin thought he had it. His time is running out (referring to the Green Goblin).

This Spiderman Alarm Clock has a personal grudge to settle with the Green Goblin. He stands atop a rotating triangle-like city scene and it appears as if the alarm consists of various Spiderman sayings that are rotated randomly, each time the alarm goes off. Unlike the Spiderman figure in the previous clock, this figure isn’t really animated. Instead, it’s the round base on which Spidey stands that moves around. Bonus points for the cool web-slinging, whip-like sound effects in this clock!

Spiderman, Help!…My Spiderman senses are tingling…Then come and get me, if you can, Spiderman…It’s Web-swing time…You’ll never catch me, Web-head, Ha, ha, ha, ha.

A little more unique than the other two, this Spiderman Alarm Clock takes place in a Clock Tower. The Green Goblin goads Spiderman into climbing up the building’s face and going after him, and there is dialog back and forth between Spiderman and the Green Goblin. The fact that there’s a dialog back and forth between Spidey and his arch nemesis, combined with the fact that there is an actual chase scene here, makes this clock a little special: it’s kind of like a mini scene out of a Spiderman comic or film. So far, this one’s our favorite!

Spiderman, Spiderman, does whatever a spider can…Spins a web, any size, catches thieves just like flies. Look out! Here comes the Spiderman!

This Spiderman Alarm Clock looks nice but unfortunately isn’t animated in any way. No matter:  it redeems itself by playing the groovy Spiderman theme song (remember this song from the animated Spiderman Saturday morning cartoon series?). Still, we like the Ramones’ cover version of this song much better. And points off for the total lack of animation in this clock.

And our collection of Spiderman Alarm Clocks wouldn’t be complete without mentioning…the Lexibook Spiderman Alarm Clock Radio.

Besides being a fully functioning alarm clock radio, this cool clock projects the Spiderman symbol onto your ceiling in the dark, together with the current time.  That’s pretty neat. Looking like a giant Spiderman head, this is one killer clock radio!

You can find a video about the Spiderman Alarm Clock radio, together with information on all the other clocks mentioned here, in our Spiderman Alarm Clock Video Playlist which we’ve created on YouTube. If you’re a true Clock Fan, or a Spiderman Fan, or both, you’ll want to check it out.

So there you have it, Clock Fans: several different Spiderman Alarm Clocks, and each of them very different and unique.

Personally, we like them all and that’s why we wrote this blog post…if it’s not fun for us to write about, it’s probably not a whole lot of fun for you to read…so we’re keeping it real.

Several of these alarm clocks are surely no longer manufactured.

For this reason, your best bet on buying them might be on eBay, if you no longer find them on Amazon.

We wish all of you happy hunting, either for yourselves or for the aspiring young web slingers in your families!

Now, where did that Green Goblin run off to?!

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Why is this man laughing? It's because he's just read this blog post about the all-time top Wake Up Gags!

People just don’t like waking up.

Today we curse our alarm clock. But back in the days of dinosaurs and cavemen, we probably cursed out the sun when it woke us up from a sound night’s sleep early in the dawn hours.

The reason why is that, it’s just so nice to sleep…to relax and to rejuvenate ourselves. Being awakened again into consciousness is a jarring experience, kind of like a slap in the face or a blast of cold water.

This all means there are a lot of possibilities for pranks when it comes to waking people up.

It’s difficult enough not to be startled by the sound of your normal alarm clock going off, so we can easily imagine how startling it is to be awakened by even more jarring noises and events!

Let’s take an alarm clock that gives you an electric shock when you turn it off as an example, just to get us warmed up:

But enough with the flowery preamble folks…let’s cut to the action, our raison d’etre for this blog post, which is to list the Top 10 Wake Up Gags!

And here we mean the funniest, best, meanest, cruelest, most diabolical wake up gags of all time, of course.

You’ve seen ‘em. You’ve chuckled at ‘em. And for you, dear Clock Fans, we’ve assembled the best of them together in one big succulent Alarm Clock Blog Post (what you’re reading now). Yes, we’re talking about those funny pranks you can play on loved ones, friends and even perhaps perfect strangers in which someone gets a very rude awakening.

So here is Online Clock’s official list of the Top Ten Wake Up Gags, in order of hilarity.

By that we mean that the best/funniest of these gags can be found right at the start of this list:

1. The Military Coup in Your Bedroom Wake Up Gag * – in which an unsuspecting sleeper is awakened by anti aircraft artillery going off in his bedroom.
2. The Send Them Down the Water Slide Wake Up Gag * – in which unwitting sleepers are sent sliding down a water slide while still sleeping.
3. The Wake Up To Being Hit By the Mob Wake Up Gag * – a sleeper is awakened to experience his very own “death” by a mob hit man squad.
4. The Wake Up to Being Dragged by a Horse Wake Up Gag * – a very startled sleeper wakes up to being dragged through the mud by a horse.
5. The Firecracker On The Ass Wake Up Gag * – self-explanatory. Another example can be found here.
6. The Dozen of Hidden Alarm Clocks Wake Up Gag – a sleeper wakes up to dozens of different alarms peeping around him, and must find where the various alarm clocks have all been hidden. Can be viewed as a video here.
7. The Fart In His Face Wake Up Gag – a hideous but true gag in which you wake up to a black cloud surrounding your face. View at your own discretion (not for the squeamish) here.
8. The Blue Man Group Guy Wake Up Gag – a creative brainstorm that shows the Blue Men are in real life scary as hell. Watch it here.
9. The Shocking Alarm Clock Wake Up Gag – displayed in the first video above, a timeless classic of the Wake Up Gag genre! (See video at the top of this post.)
10. The Set the Clock Two Hours Later and Make him Think he’s Late For Work Wake Up Gag – so simple, yet so deviously effective…

* – All Gags marked with an asterisk above (all of which made the Top Five, coincidentally) can be viewed in the video below. We highly recommend you watch this one, it’s absolutely hilarious!

So there you have it, Clock Fans: those are our tips as the Top Ten Wake Up Gags.

But please, don’t try these stunts at home.

We wouldn’t like anyone to get hurt.

After all, we want all of you to continue being our customers

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Hey, Clock Fans – The Alarm Clock Speaks!

That’s right…we decided it was time to let our Online Alarm Clock speak for itself for a change, so we decided to conduct an interview.

But not just any interview…because this is the first ever interview with–you guessed it–the world’s most popular Online Alarm Clock, OnlineClock.net !

(No, we haven’t gone completely insane. We’re just trying to have some fun here. If you don’t like it, please return to your television set.)

So, without further ado, let’s begin with our Alarm Clock Interview.

The following is a transcript of the actual interview which you can watch in the video above.

And we hope you’ll watch it, because we sure had a lot of fun creating it for all of you.

Hi, My name’s Tom and I’m here today to conduct an interview…with an alarm clock! And not just any alarm clock. I’m talking about the alarm clock that you can find online at OnlineClock.net.

And, OnlineClock.net is America’s original Online Alarm Clock and today we’re going to interview him…

Hellllo, Mr. Online Alarm Clock. How are you doing today?

Oh, hello. How are you doing?

Well, thank you for taking the time for our interview. We have a few questions we’d like to ask you.

OK. Go ahead, you know, I’m just hanging around here anyway. Always hanging around here….ah, always online you know…

OK, well ah, well thanks anyway for taking the time to answer our questions!

The first question we have for you is:  what is it like being America’s most popular Internet Alarm Clock?

Well, it’s good, you know? People know me. They use me. They come to visit me and they find me…very helpful. So…I feel like I’m doing good, you know?

I like it.

Well, that sounds like a very positive attitude.

But, despite all that, is it always easy being an Alarm Clock?

Do you feel that people always really appreciate everything that you do?

Well, umm…when I wake people up from a good night’s sleep…they’re not always so happy at first, uhh…because everybody likes a good night’s sleep.

And sleeping long.

And sleeping late.

Sleeping, sleeping, sleeping.

But – I’m just doing my job when I wake ‘em up, you know?

Ahhh, sometimes you might think it’s a dirty job…but somebody’s gotta do it…

That’s the way I look at it, you know?

Well, ahh, that’s a nice point of view.

But tell us, what about the working hours with your job being an online alarm clock?  As we understand it, you’re online and available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. What’s that like? Don’t you ever get exhausted?!

Well, there aren’t any Trade Unions for Alarm Clocks…at least none that I know of.

So, uhhh, I’ll just keep plugging in there, doin’ my job and the way I see it is:

If people keep using me, uhhh, I’m happy, you know?

I like waking people up!

I like reminding people about stuff so…yeah…come, visit me and set an alarm and I’ll keep doing my job, no problem!

Well, Mr. Online Alarm Clock, we’re very happy that you took this time to talk to us.

And if anyone wishes to visit Mr. Online Alarm Clock, you can do so at any time, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

He can be found at OnlineClock.net.

So there you have it, ladies and germs: the website that brought you the world’s first Online Alarm Clock has now also brought you the world’s first…interview with an Online Alarm Clock!

And the world may never be the same.

Please, drive safely.

And return to your homes.

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