h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

OK - The Famous Nyssabird Cure:

Get yourself a shot glass. Fill it mostly full with vinegar. Add a bunch of salt and cayenne, white, and black pepper. Quaff. Choke, gasp, and be cured!

Maths rules ? I don't recall making any rules... but I can confirm that in my world at least 1/2+1/2*1/2=3/4

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"Math is my name, Mathematics is the name of the subject" Me many many times (with a grin unless said to many times in one day)

I use the drinking water upside down method. Works for me. I think it's because you have to concentrate not to spill it or drown.

my calculator took .5 + .5 x .5 and got .5

one of us must live in an interesting universe


(the maths rule bit was - am i meant to multiply before i add ?)

The multiplication comes first. There's an acronym - BODMAS? I can't remember what it stands for (it's a long time since I left school) but multiplication comes before addition.

yeah multiplication before addition... proper order is division multiplication addition subtraction, I believe.

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Brackets, something beginninng with 'O', division, multiplication, addition, subtraction. Yaaay! I knew it would come in handy one day! I thought that in about 1972 - and I was right!

so to get .5 it would be (.5 + .5) x .5 ?


actually i should've known that, and i knew that i should've known that - i can see the information sitting there in my brain but i can't get to it. scarey. forget about hiccups, whats the remedy for cognitive atrophy ?



kea.

I hope by now you've got rid of the hiccoughs!

My remedy is to drink a glass of water down in one go (large gulps) which induces a burp & that usually does the trick.

Unfortunately if you get them once in a day, they seem to recur.

Get someone to scare you... normally if you have been hiccoughing long enough someone will yell at you and it will do the trick

Or else a teaspoon of sugar with two drops of vinegar on it usually works.....

Cure hiccups.. I usually have another beer.. water will probably do as wellll. Haven't tried that lately

I know a guy who has a hiccups cure and it works every time. It works so well I've seen him win money betting people he can cure them.
You get a glass full of water, you cover your ears with your thumbs so they are blocked, cover your nose with your index fingers so your nostrils are blocked, then with the remaining fingers hold the glass of water and drink it till all the water has gone. You might need someone to hold the glass if your fingers aren't that dexterous, but I can guarantee it works - even when drunk.

but if it doesn't at least everyone around you will get a laugh

Hold your breath for 30 minutes. I guarantee that you will never have hiccups again.

I was just going to suggest the same one as SpinksSecret. Although it might be a little less messy if you hold your nose and the glass yourself and get a friend to cover your ears. This has worked everytime I've used it.

PS My little girl just came in hiccupping!

Any body know any cures for hiccuping babies?

Gripewater - but it's never been the same since they stopped putting the gin in!

I can't believe that no-ones mentioned this. Hiccups is a combination of a diaphragm situation as described earlier and too much oxygen in the system.

Take a brown paper bag (or an empty crisp packet if not)put it to your lips and breathe in and out at a normal speed. The idea is when you're breathing in your taking back your own Carbon Dioxide into your system and this stops the hiccups.

I've used this since I was 12, shown many many people and it's never failed me once!

As an acute sufferer of hiccups (I used to hiccup even before I was born apparently and got the hicup 5 or 6 times a day when younger), my all time hiccup cure is a sugar lump, preferably with a couple of drops of Ricqles on it (a mint alcohol which I think you can only get in France) on the back of your tongue, which you then let dissolve down the back of your throat. I have never known it to fail.