Friendly advice for a future Googler

Do NOT, when recovering from a head cold, get the hiccups, take a mouthful of carbonated water flavored with lime, stand on your head and instead of swallowing said water (which will realign the diaphragm and is the only way I can get rid of hiccups) accidentally let almost the whole mouthful of water flow up into your sinuses. Yeah, I got rid of my hiccups but I am writhing around on the floor in staggering pain. I don’t know how I’m managing to type this but before I pass out I just wanted to get it up on the internet–this is something not to be experienced.

Someone recently got here Googling, “Do seahorses sneeze?” and my website came up first in the results. Out of all the webpages on the internet, my website came up first in the results. If someone is going to hit this website asking, “Do seahorses sneeze?” I may as well start putting up friendly bits of information like this. So…

POTENTIAL GOOGLER: When I have a head cold, what will happen if I stand on my head and inhale sparkling water flavored with citric acid? Just wondering.

ANSWER: AGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!


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2 responses to “Friendly advice for a future Googler”

  1. Susan Och Avatar

    Next time just try drinking out out the far side (instead of the near side) of the glass. That’s what Gradma Bunny taught me.

  2. Idyllopus Avatar

    Nope. Tried them all. Discovered decades ago that inversion is the only thing that works for me. Occasionally will try the other remedies and they still don’t work. Almost always, just holding my saliva for several seconds then doing a deep waist bend and swallowing does it. But these were major hiccups and so I did the full treatment…

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