I know of one for myself-- eating bread or certain kinds of crackers if I haven't eaten or drunk anything else for several hours.
That is my hiccup trigger. Once, when I was in high school, I came home late (I was not out drinking) and was hungry and ate several slices of bread. And got the hiccups. My mother, to this day, is convinced I was drunk despite no other evidence. I told her about the bread thing and she thought I was craxy!
Of course, this is the same woman who was convinced that I was hanging my coat on the plastic hanger she used for her coat instead of the identical hanger next to it that I was supposed to use for my coat because I was trying to send her a subliminal message that I hated and disrespected her. I was 25 at the time.
I'm the same way with bread -- I always assumed it was just some weird me thing!
That's how I understood the process to work. The diaphragm is an automatic muscle, so it's hard to consciously "reset" it.
Yeah. I think any resetting is going to happen with the lungs. That's why holding your breath works sometimes (and drinking, or drinking upside down, eating sugar, or whatever), but only if, when you resume breathing, you're doing it at the right point in the diaphragm's cycle.
The Minnesota Purity Test
Were you able to watch "Fargo" without rewinding to catch bits of dialogue?
Heh. Of course.
Have you ever heard an "Ole and Lena" joke?
Bunches and bunches from my grandfather.
Do you know how to pronounce Shakopee?
Of course.
Do your daily meals consist of breakfast, dinner, and supper?
Yes! (At least it did when I was a kid.)
When you see moonlight on a lake, do you think of a dancing bear and sing "From the land of sky-blue waters... Hamm's, the beer refreshing, Hamm's, the beer refreshing?"
Hee!
(My mom's side of the family is from Minnesota.)
I am 39.7% minnesota pure. I think lower %s means you're more pure.
Does your town have an equal number of bars and churches?
Heh. My college town actually had one more bar than church. Very scandalous.
I guess I am 100% not Minnesotan. Step-dad is 100% though. And a lovely person.
Is it possible for an old break in a leg to start hurting years later?
I think arthritis hits old breaks.
Bread is my hiccup cause almost every time.
My college town actually had one more bar than church. Very scandalous.
My home town had about five or six churches and 21 bars. At one point, anyway (I think there are a few less bars now).
Heh.
Out here, in the other contender for Bluest-State-of-All, many towns have no bars at all (save those in private clubs like country clubs, VFW's etc.), and restaurants have to meet size and seating quotas, before they get a liquor license. There are tight restrictions on how many drinks restaurants can serve, and if the patron doesn't order food, they often can't be served at all.
We do have bars in some places, but many towns are dry. The town in which I grew up doesn't even allow liquor stores (and you cannot buy beer and wine in grocery stores in this, the other contender for Bluest-State-of-All). There is currently a movement to change that, it's being fought fiercely, and by a powerful lobby (the liquor store owners).
Ah, the old meaning of liberal. I'd almost forgotten it.
