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Sep 14 05: science moment, &c.
Let it be known far and wide: the science behind hiccups and how to make them stop, posted to the indispensible and increasingly famous Making Light by Diane Duane, who is One Who Knows. It’s one of many comments to a posting about habanero chiles, and what to do with them, and how not to injure yourself in the process, which is worth reading for its own sake. Just head to the top of the page; you’ll thank me later.
Any time I think about hiccups my mind’s eye turns inevitably to the Great Thinking Contest—and if you are a person of truly discerning tastes then so do you—so now I am snickering at random intervals here at my desk. “Halp! My powerful brain is blowed itself up!”
You know, if I had put that line on a t-shirt back in college, I bet I woulda made a skillion dollars.