Would you rather?

1. Have hiccups for the rest of your life?

2. Or feel like you need to sneeze and not be able to for the rest of your life?

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
1. Have hiccups for the rest of your life?

2. Or feel like you need to sneeze and not be able to for the rest of your life?

I'd see another doctor given those choices.

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
1. Have hiccups for the rest of your life?

2. Or feel like you need to sneeze and not be able to for the rest of your life?

I would do nothing of the kind.

Originally posted by Torunn
I would do nothing of the kind.

Perhaps i should have said, 'If you HAD to choose.' (For a reason I haven't yet postulated).

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
Perhaps i should have said, 'If you HAD to choose.' (For a reason I haven't yet postulated).

Then I would choose the second alternative. How would you choose?

Originally posted by Torunn
Then I would choose the second alternative. How would you choose?

Probably the second. I think we should give the hiccups to Wolfgang.

My guess is both would drive you to madness. So all they would do is shorten "the rest" part.

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
1. Have hiccups for the rest of your life?

2. Or feel like you need to sneeze and not be able to for the rest of your life?

3. Perpetual flatulence.

Originally posted by josephw
3. Perpetual flatulence.

God gave you a third option?
Cool.

Now please open a window.

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
Probably the second. I think we should give the hiccups to Wolfgang.

You can't give the hiccups to another ... it isn't contagious.

Originally posted by wolfgang59
You can't give the hiccups to another ... it isn't contagious.

I would give you a glass of water, and then startle you while you were drinking it, and in so doing cause a sudden, involuntary contraction of the diaphragm muscle.

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
I would give you a glass of water, and then startle you while you were drinking it, and in so doing cause a sudden, involuntary contraction of the diaphragm muscle.

Anyone catching me drinking water would be startled!

Originally posted by wolfgang59
Anyone catching me drinking water would be startled!

Tea is composed mainly of water you know 😉

Originally posted by Ponderable
Tea is composed mainly of water you know 😉

So is beer.

Originally posted by wolfgang59
So is beer.

So are humans. Cf: Bones McCoy in Star Trek - The Omega Glory