Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 30, 2009

Serious hiccups…

I don’t know mom…water never cured my hiccups.

We say, someone is thinking for you very intensivly when someone has got hiccups!

I can’t decide which is my favorite, Calvin’s expression in panel 2 or 3?

Looks like he ate a firecracker.

I’ve had hiccups like that and water doesn’t do a dang thing for them!

Teaspoon of sugar used to do the trick.

If you drink the water very slowly, it might work. It does for me.

If you steal and eat something also they say you get hiccups… wonder what was stolen by calvin!

Try pickle juice instead. Preferably dill.

The trigger for me was spicy food…right.. water never worked for me either..

Marg’s changed look from today.. :)

Don’t hold your breath.

Wow, I can’t remember the last time I even had the hiccups. I think my allergies keep killing them off.

Drinking water from a glass with both arms raised straight up over your head usually works - but Mom would have to get involved and hold the glass of water for Calvin.

Drink a glass of water upside down. By the time you finish changing your shirt…No more hiccups.

All I have to do is take about 5-10 really deep breaths through my mouth and they’re gone.

Breathing into a paper bag sometimes worked for me. Otherwise, I’d eat something. A hiccup is really just a backwards swallow. If you get it turned around it goes away.

Holding my breath usually works but not immediately. What’s really awful is getting the hiccups while you’re out in public.

I get hiccoughs like Calvin - my head just doesn’t change shape like that! My mom taught me to pant like a puppy, tongue out and all, and from the diaphragm, for about 15 secs. It usually works.

Blotter acid works to get rid of hiccups…or so I’ve been told.

What is blotter acid? Or do I want to know?

A swallow of lemon juice or olive juice works for me. Something out of the ordinary shocks the system and stops the hiccups. At least for me.

Celecca: Since Joe isn’t around to help out, I just looked it up myself. It’s LSD. According to Wikepedia: LSD is typically delivered orally, usually on a substrate such as absorbent blotter paper, a sugar cube, or gelatin. Hence the nickname. So, are you glad you know? P.S. Is there any kind of blotter paper other than the absorbent kind?

One of my favorites. And I can’t decide either. Panel 2 or 3.

the cure….lay off the maggot soup. doctors have known for years, you want hiccups, eat maggot soup.

Typical Calvin…always dramatic.

Pacejv sugar always works for me, too

MisngNOLA LMAO on the blotter acid remark!!! I never knew it could be used for hiccups.

The teaspoon of sugar recommended by Pacejv works most consistently for me,,, someone told me a teaspoon of sand would do the same thing. Something about the sandpaper effect on nerve endings. Think I’ll stick with the sugar.

I saw a trick on Sesame street that works for me. You pull on one earlobe fairly hard while drinking water from a glass without stopping, but not gulping.

Holding my breath for 30 seconds usually works.

YOU BETTER DO SOMETHING and FAST! Very many repeats of panels 2 and 3 and the wallpaper will be ripped from the walls by the shockwaves followed by shattering windows…

nothing evr wrked 4 me i just waited awhile and they eventualy went away

That’s why people don’t usually eat maggots cuz they give you hiccups the next day

To held on breath and swallow three times helps!

My Dad’s favorite: if you can hiccup again, I’ll give you a quarter. Once you’re trying to hiccup, they stop.

Sugar usually works, but it’s not always handy. Holding your breath until you hiccup (hiccup while holding breath) usually worked for me.

I read in the Guinness Book of World Records that the longest recorded case of the hiccups was 64(ish) years… seeing as how Calvin doesn’t age, he could go for the title!

Ray C said, about 3 inquiries ago

“P.S. Is there any kind of blotter paper other than the absorbent kind?”

There was once, but the company that made it went bankrupt, was reorganized, and now makes hammers and toilet seats for the Air Force…

go and eat maggots calvin… they might help….

There is a young girl who has hicups and took a Dr.’s a while to figure it out related to allergies. She was on the evening news the young girl was misserable. I got on this way to late for cure for hicups. Commentors if you read this. You body is naturally warm. Your bodys has spasms. Drink warm to hot water to relax muscles. Coffee or any hot dink can work. This will relax does muscles inside the body. When it’s cold outside me I tend to tense and cold will make me tense as well, where as warm to hot makes melow.

What we called “drinking a glass of water upside down” always worked for me. The phrase is a euphemism for drinking from the side of the glass that is away from your mouth, rather than from the near side of the glass. Neither you nor the glass is actually upside down, but it does entail you bending forward at a sharp angle. It’s also important to keep swallowing continuously until you have to stop to take a breath.

3rd panel is my favorite…

Plug your ears while you drink that water Calvin, you might have to ask hobbes to hold the glass for you though. The only time this method has ever failed is when you don’t drink enough water, you have to drink an entire glass while keeping your ears plugged, just don’t let Hobbes pour the water down your shirt instead.

Some hiccup cures I have heard and used (sometimes one will work for me and sometimes not):

1) Drink a glass of water while holding your breath (this is what we always did when I was a kid) 2) Press on the base of your throat to a count of 10 3) Take a pinch of salt or sugar (this is because sometimes hiccups are caused by an electrolyte imbalance and salt or sugar will correct that) 4) Drink some soda pop (same reasoning as #3)

Wow I did not know there is that many cures for the hiccups

I love the tie-ins to yesterday’s strips!!

I also don’t remember the last time I had the hiccups.

Lastly, what about good old fashioned, being scared out of your wits, as a cure for the hiccups?

:-D

Ya know - if I used blotter paper, my head WOULD change shape like Calvin’s!

Ray C Thanks for the info. And I grew up in the 60’s. We were always warned about stamps.

The ONLY sure fire way to get rid of the hiccups is to change your heart rate dramticlly, Running ALWAYS works. up and down the stairs for 2 min will get rid of them.

All they are is a muscle spasm in the diapfram, make the diaphram work harder and it changes the rhythm.

Panel 2 is a liitle better.

i like to give ridiculous suggestions to the poor fool that would believe me and to my surprise they would work. i guess that…HIC…oh bleeep, now i’m…HIC…getting them and pretty…HIC…bad too! quick, to the…HIC… mirror!

Jumping jacks are my favorite cure for hiccups. Works quickly every time.

Oh no, the dreaded hiccups!!

I have had my students take a very deep breath, hold it a bit, then release it slowly as they stand in line at the water fountain. I do the same thing, myself, without the water fountain part. I think it helps keep pressure on the diaphragm, which is the thing that is spasming to cause the hiccups. It seems to work most times.

The maddening thing about hiccups is that everybody has a favorite home cure, and not a single one of them works worth a damn.

Then Hobbes attacked him, but the hiccups managed to lure the Tiger away in fear.

If all else fails have someone sneak up on you and grab you or blow up a bag and pop it nearby. Anything like that to scare you will usually freak you out enough to stop the hiccups.

I was in the hospital for a ruptured appendix when my nurse told me about this hiccup cure. Press down firmly on your eyes when they’re closed, of course. It works perfectly, and I didn’t split my stitches.

Love ur hiccup expression calvin

A few spoonfuls of peanut butter can help with those hiccups, unless he’s got a peanut butter allergy.