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Subject: Re: Hiccup cure and humor (?)
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Date: Tue, 14-Jun-83 23:38:54 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 14 23:38:54 1983
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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
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