Ridiculous o'clock

[pne]

I just saw a journal entry which used the phrase “ridiculous o’clock”.

Amusing and evocative! And googling for it, it's fairly popular (often with “in the morning” added, and often—unsurprisingly—in the context of waking up, though sometimes in the context of “staying up until”.)

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[fledchen.livejournal.com]

I generally refer to my wake-up time (3:45 a.m.) as either "ass o'clock" or "the hemorrhoids of dawn." It's relatively common to refer to getting up early as getting up at "the ass-crack of dawn" but since at my latitude it's *never* going to be anywhere near sunrise at 3:35, I've decided upon the visceral image of "hemorrhoids."