Hiccup Cures:
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Hiccup Cures:
Okay, in honor of RedStrker6's thread about Gin and vodka, let's hear about your favorite "foolproof" hiccup cure...
Mine is simple. It started out as a slice of lemon coated with sugar and about 2 or 3 drops of angostino bitters. Suck the lemon and your hiccups are gone. Got caught without a bartender nearby with the hiccups once, so I tried a small packet of sugar from a convenience store. Let the sugar dissolve on your tongue, swallow it and your hiccups are miraculously gone!!
Mine is simple. It started out as a slice of lemon coated with sugar and about 2 or 3 drops of angostino bitters. Suck the lemon and your hiccups are gone. Got caught without a bartender nearby with the hiccups once, so I tried a small packet of sugar from a convenience store. Let the sugar dissolve on your tongue, swallow it and your hiccups are miraculously gone!!
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Good one, stu, about the sugar thing...I appreciate the info. Might look into using that since my usual cure (below) has left me without friends for days, sometimes. 
My best cure, since my mug is quite frightening anyway, is to do my best impression of Bigfoot on a full moon. Their gasping for air leaves them cured in no time...
My best cure, since my mug is quite frightening anyway, is to do my best impression of Bigfoot on a full moon. Their gasping for air leaves them cured in no time...
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I've tried a bunch, and while they all worked to a degree, they all usually ended up with me getting hiccups again.
The first one is when I take my index fingers, and push in that little piece of cartilage over your ear and into it...kind of to close off noise. Next, take your thumbs, and push in under your earlobes on the most tender part, and push in while holding your ears. This is supposed to equalize your head, kind of like a reset button for your balance. It's worked before, but has als failed.
19 matches in a glass of water. Don't drink the matches though. I think this is just a mind over matter thing though.
I've also began punching the first one of my friends in the shoulder, if I knew they'd punch my shouder right back. Again, I think it's a mind over matter thing. Don't do it while you're out though.
The first one is when I take my index fingers, and push in that little piece of cartilage over your ear and into it...kind of to close off noise. Next, take your thumbs, and push in under your earlobes on the most tender part, and push in while holding your ears. This is supposed to equalize your head, kind of like a reset button for your balance. It's worked before, but has als failed.
19 matches in a glass of water. Don't drink the matches though. I think this is just a mind over matter thing though.
I've also began punching the first one of my friends in the shoulder, if I knew they'd punch my shouder right back. Again, I think it's a mind over matter thing. Don't do it while you're out though.
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Never fails.
1. Pour 4 oz of bourbon into a small glass
2. Pour 4 oz of tap water into a small glass (room temp)
3. Take turns sipping from each glass over a 30 minute period, until both are gone.
You may still be hiccupping; but you won't care
Ernie
1. Pour 4 oz of bourbon into a small glass
2. Pour 4 oz of tap water into a small glass (room temp)
3. Take turns sipping from each glass over a 30 minute period, until both are gone.
You may still be hiccupping; but you won't care
Ernie
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i just hold my breath. hiccups are a spazm in the diaphram muscle. like when your eye twitches.
so,
suck in as much air as you can to extend the diaphram. hold it till you think your going to explode. repeat until the hiccups are gone.
if you hiccup during the procedure, blow out the air and re inflate immediatly.
works for me every time. it takes about 5 or 6 repeats though. dont give up.
so,
suck in as much air as you can to extend the diaphram. hold it till you think your going to explode. repeat until the hiccups are gone.
if you hiccup during the procedure, blow out the air and re inflate immediatly.
works for me every time. it takes about 5 or 6 repeats though. dont give up.
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From: N. Mississippi
I am fortunate in that I haven't had the hiccups since I was in high school. I did read once where swallowing a teaspoon of sugar would stop them and I tried that when I last had hiccups and it worked.
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Just watch Alan Colmes a little in the evening. You're jaw will be so slack from amazement, even if your diaphram does spasm, you'll be so wide open, you won't feel the hiccup.
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"Hold your breath and count to four million. . . . by ones!!!" (That's what my Dad used to say.)
Seriously. . . . .
Take two matches. Hold them together. Strike them. IMMEDIATELY blow them out.
Place them below your nose and INHALE the smoke (deeply)!!!!
GUARANTEED. . . . hiccups are GONE.
I thought that was Bovine Scatology!! It works!!!
Seriously. . . . .
Take two matches. Hold them together. Strike them. IMMEDIATELY blow them out.
Place them below your nose and INHALE the smoke (deeply)!!!!
GUARANTEED. . . . hiccups are GONE.
I thought that was Bovine Scatology!! It works!!!
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From: China Grove, TX
i drink form the other side of a glass of water. try it sometime. solves 2 things, 1: gets rid of the hiccups, and 2: provides amusment for whoever is watching
don't knwo what i mean? fill a small glass of water, bend over at the waist, put your top lip on the far side of the glass, tip it up, and drink....
don't knwo what i mean? fill a small glass of water, bend over at the waist, put your top lip on the far side of the glass, tip it up, and drink....
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Originally Posted by koalamazed
i just hold my breath. hiccups are a spazm in the diaphram muscle. like when your eye twitches.
so,
suck in as much air as you can to extend the diaphram. hold it till you think your going to explode. repeat until the hiccups are gone.
if you hiccup during the procedure, blow out the air and re inflate immediatly.
works for me every time. it takes about 5 or 6 repeats though. dont give up.
so,
suck in as much air as you can to extend the diaphram. hold it till you think your going to explode. repeat until the hiccups are gone.
if you hiccup during the procedure, blow out the air and re inflate immediatly.
works for me every time. it takes about 5 or 6 repeats though. dont give up.
