Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!floyd!trb From: trb@floyd.UUCP Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Hiccup cure and humor (?) Message-ID: <1570@floyd.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Jun-83 23:38:54 EDT Article-I.D.: floyd.1570 Posted: Tue Jun 14 23:38:54 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Jun-83 19:53:55 EDT Lines: 19 yale-com!bj talks about using Q-tips* to swab out your ears and stop hiccups. I'm going to sound like your mother, but I'm going to say this anyway, as a public service. Don't go jamming Q-tips into the ear canal. I was a teenage Q-tips addict and my ears eventually got clogged up with cotton and infected cruft. A doctor had to flush out my ears and so much gunge came out of my ears that you'd have thought it was a miracle. Having infected ears is no fun either, not to mention the fact that there's potential for permanent damage. Also, I use Q-tips brand swabs, for historical reasons. I really think that the Johnson + Johnson ones hold together better, the cotton tips are less likely to come apart in your ear. I'm still a Q-tips addict, but now it's under control. (That's what they tell us at the QA meetings). Andy Tannenbaum Bell Labs Whippany, NJ (201) 386-6491 ----- Q-Tips is a registered trademark of Cheesebrough Ponds Inc.