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From: hutch@dadla-b.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Hiccup cure and humor (?)
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Date: Wed, 15-Jun-83 13:15:49 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 15 13:15:49 1983
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Yes, the reference about walnuts as a hiccup cure was from the Dick Van Dyke
show.  Specifically, the particular episode was one where Rob and Laura stayed
up late one night watching a space horror flick and then both ended up dreaming
that they were in the story.  The story was that there was this alien race which
had invaded Earth, being very humanlike.  The major difference between us and
them was that they had an eye in the back of their heads, and no thumbs, which
is how their rulers kept them in line (people without thumbs cannot use normal
tools).  They invaded earth by transforming humans into their form of life,
which only ate walnuts.  tres strange.

That is why when I read the article about pressing on the soft palate with the
thumbs to cure hiccups, and the reply "what if you have no thumbs," I broke
out laughing, which annoyed my cubicle mates.

As far as I know. it is unsafe to put walnuts in your mouth when you have the
hiccups, and I advise strongly against it unless you are trained in the Heimlich
maneuver.


Hutch