Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!tekmdp!dadla!dadla-b!hutch From: hutch@dadla-b.UUCP Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Hiccup cure and humor (?) Message-ID: <468@dadla-b.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Jun-83 13:15:49 EDT Article-I.D.: dadla-b.468 Posted: Wed Jun 15 13:15:49 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Jun-83 06:12:38 EDT Lines: 20 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