I told you my method of curing hiccups: drinking water from the wrong side of the glass. You bend over and drink from the far side. I like this method because a) it's silly, and yet b) works. I think because it is so silly, it brings back fond memories of giggling while doing it or watching my mom do it as a kid.
Wowie zowie -- the thing that happened to 'Postropher's comment 8 suggests that special formatting tags will remain active across an explicit <p> and are only deactivated at a carriage return. This seems pretty cool to me, don't know about y'all.
ObOnTopicComment: Tia, thanks for that thing about the diaphragm -- now I know why when I tell loved ones with hiccoughs to "just hold your breath", it never seems to work for them. I was not adequately articulating what they need to do while they are holding their breaths.
11: I really enjoyed it. My post is going to defend it from some unwarranted criticism. I can't promise you that you will though. Getting invaluable context for my future post should be motivation enough.
12: Actually, it is by drinking water from the far side of the glass that I cured my hiccups the time I got them during Communion, but that's one of those things that worked once for me but never did again.
I can't believe how on topic this post is. It just so happens that I'm having the hiccups RIGHT NOW! And it has been going on for a while. Quite a nice start Tia.
Unfortunatly it didn't work for me at all. But still, impressive.
Wow, who'da thunk the OED has a listing for D'oh! -- they spell it Doh, and define it as:
Expressing frustration at the realization that things have turned out badly or not as planned, or that one has just said or done something foolish. Also (usu. mildly derogatory): implying that another person has said or done something foolish (cf. DUH int.).
Okay, it appears to have worked. It didn't on the first few trials, and I was nervous about reporting a failure, but by both holding my nose and pressing my hand into my diaphragm to tell it to be still, I stopped them.
Matt F -- you are a man after my own heart. I spend a non-negligible portion of my free time proselytizing the beauty of John Hurt's music to people around me.
I have a friend who, after seemingly every meal, will hiccup once or twice and then be done. I've always thought that he just has to hiccup once, but now I'm wondering if he doesn't have control over it, and just makes himself stop immediately.
hmmm < blockquote > maybe?
Posted by tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 9:42 AM
#1 gets it exactly right.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 9:45 AM
And then </blockquote> to close them.
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 9:46 AM
Thanks, guys.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 9:47 AM
Whoops, cut that comment short. I meant to add that at Unfogged, special formatting doesn't carry over paragraph (<p>) breaks.
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 9:48 AM
1 actually has extra spaces in it.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 9:48 AM
Does that go for main-page posters too? I thought that was just to control us riff-raff in the comments sect.
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 9:49 AM
special formatting doesn't carry over paragraph (
) breaks.
Blockquote does, though.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 9:50 AM
7 to 5.
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 9:50 AM
I felt like the new girlfriend who takes up with Dad a year after Mom died and wears noxious perfume . . .
I feel like the salt-of-the-earth foster mother with a gold tooth and a warm heart . . .
How about the really hott stepmother who the teenage son wants to have sex with? Could you be that one?
Posted by My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 9:50 AM
Other than providing invaluable context for your future post, is Hustle and Flow worth my time?
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 9:50 AM
I told you my method of curing hiccups: drinking water from the wrong side of the glass. You bend over and drink from the far side. I like this method because a) it's silly, and yet b) works. I think because it is so silly, it brings back fond memories of giggling while doing it or watching my mom do it as a kid.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 9:51 AM
That would probably work- focusing on a diaphragm can be very distracting, depending on where it is at the time.
Posted by SP | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 9:51 AM
8: Apparently <em> does as well.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 9:52 AM
Wowie zowie -- the thing that happened to 'Postropher's comment 8 suggests that special formatting tags will remain active across an explicit <p> and are only deactivated at a carriage return. This seems pretty cool to me, don't know about y'all.
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 9:52 AM
ObOnTopicComment: Tia, thanks for that thing about the diaphragm -- now I know why when I tell loved ones with hiccoughs to "just hold your breath", it never seems to work for them. I was not adequately articulating what they need to do while they are holding their breaths.
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 9:55 AM
hiccoughs
I've seen this spelling before but was always confused by it. Is it merely an alternate spelling, or is there a different pronunciation too?
Posted by Matt F | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 9:59 AM
11: I really enjoyed it. My post is going to defend it from some unwarranted criticism. I can't promise you that you will though. Getting invaluable context for my future post should be motivation enough.
12: Actually, it is by drinking water from the far side of the glass that I cured my hiccups the time I got them during Communion, but that's one of those things that worked once for me but never did again.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 10:01 AM
17 -- same pronunciation
18 -- did you try drinking wine from the wrong side of the glass? And/or accepting the wafer from the wrong appendage of the priest?
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 10:03 AM
19: There was a time when I accepted an appendage of the priest, but that didn't cure my hiccups.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 10:05 AM
Ray Bradbury, "The Man", from The Illustrated Man.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 10:06 AM
20: In fact, it gave me crabs.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 10:07 AM
WOW!
I can't believe how on topic this post is. It just so happens that I'm having the hiccups RIGHT NOW! And it has been going on for a while. Quite a nice start Tia.
Unfortunatly it didn't work for me at all. But still, impressive.
Posted by gg | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 10:08 AM
How do you do block quotes?
Why do you want to prevent people from quoting you?
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 10:11 AM
Thanks, SB!
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 10:13 AM
I really wanted to stop them, so I held my breath, and concentrated really hard on my diaphragm.
If only there were a hiccup phrophylactic for men.
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 10:13 AM
10: Maybe. Who are you nominating for teenage son?
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 10:25 AM
I take it my answer to 11 is "no".
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 10:32 AM
I answered you in 18 if you would bother to rtft.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 10:35 AM
D'oh.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 10:37 AM
actually, Drymala, it's spelled "Annoyed Grunt"
Posted by mike d | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 10:51 AM
No, no -- for you see, I meant it as, "Gee am i dum".
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 10:54 AM
Wow, who'da thunk the OED has a listing for D'oh! -- they spell it Doh, and define it as:
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 10:57 AM
I was going by this, which mentions the OED listing...
Posted by mike d | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 10:59 AM
Who are you nominating for teenage son?
I believe you would get to choose. Rank has its privileges, after all.
Posted by My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:06 AM
Hey, I never realized he was serious. Cool!
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:15 AM
Are we to compete for your affections, Tia? But don't you love all the repopulated earthlings equally?
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:15 AM
Ugh; Tia's link is somewhat NSFW, if only because reading the Sobchak comment slightly beneath it may cause you to vomit all over your boss.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:19 AM
37 makes me consider that if you're all descended from me, this could get a little squicky.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:25 AM
Or hott!
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:26 AM
Thought the title would mean that the post was Becks-style.
Joe D, how did your boss take it?
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:33 AM
She was sympathetic, after I showed her what prompted it.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:37 AM
You guys are not going to believe this. I just got the hiccups. Let's see if it works.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 12:01 PM
Tia, where do fish swim?
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 12:02 PM
In the water?
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 12:03 PM
Okay, it appears to have worked. It didn't on the first few trials, and I was nervous about reporting a failure, but by both holding my nose and pressing my hand into my diaphragm to tell it to be still, I stopped them.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 12:07 PM
The trick with drinking from the opposite side of the glass upside-down is that you have to do it reeeeally slowly.
(In other words, it's a hack for focussing on your diaphragm.)
Posted by Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 12:10 PM
My inner Beavis is clawing his way to the surface.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 12:10 PM
(apo, see 26)
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 12:17 PM
to tell it to be still
"Be still, my beating diaphragm!"
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 12:21 PM
Does Beavis use the subjunctive?
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 12:30 PM
prophylactic. heh heh.
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 12:35 PM
Don't claw at my diaphragm, you'll tear the goddamn thing.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 12:45 PM
48: Wow, that must be as hard for your inner Beavis as tearing Saran wrap!
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 12:46 PM
My inner Beavis is clawing his way to the surface.
In the movie version, the role of apostropher is played by John Hurt.
Posted by My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 12:54 PM
54: True, he doesn't have claw very far.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 12:56 PM
When I read "John Hurt", I first thought of this guy, and was confused. My pop culture knowledge is shamefully low.
Posted by Matt F | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 2:23 PM
Matt F -- you are a man after my own heart. I spend a non-negligible portion of my free time proselytizing the beauty of John Hurt's music to people around me.
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 2:27 PM
Re: 57
If you know the greatness of Mississippi John Hurt, you have no cause to be ashamed of your cultural knowledge, pop or otherwise.
Posted by My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 3:06 PM
I have a friend who, after seemingly every meal, will hiccup once or twice and then be done. I've always thought that he just has to hiccup once, but now I'm wondering if he doesn't have control over it, and just makes himself stop immediately.
Posted by Oz | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 3:20 PM
It is by Bradbury. It's called "The Man", and it appears in The Illustrated Man.
Posted by theophylact | Link to this comment | 02- 1-06 7:27 AM