Hiccups? - Stick Your Finger Where The Sun Don't Shine

[sandgk]

Finally a thorough and guaranteed effective cure for the Hiccups.

Courtesy of The IgNoble Awards

-- MEDICINE - Francis Fesmire of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine and the team of Majed Odeh, Harry Bassan and Arie Oliven of Bnai Zion Medical Center in Haifa, Israel who both published studies entitled "Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage."

Other highlights

-- NUTRITION - Wasmia Al-Houty of Kuwait University and Faten Al-Mussalam of the Kuwait Environment Public Authority, for showing that dung beetles are finicky eaters.

You bet they are, no shit!

And as if the prospect of curing hiccups with rectal massage wasn't enough for some of the BP residents there is this development, sure to benefit the lives of beleagured High School teachers everywhere:

-- PEACE - Howard Stapleton of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, for inventing a teen-ager repellent -- a device that makes a high-pitched noise that is annoying to teen-agers but inaudible to most adults; and for later using the technology to make cellphone ringtones that teenagers can hear but not their teachers.

All these and more in the press release

 

[BB73]

Playing stinkfinger sounds like more fun than drinking with the glass backwards. Did they pay research subjects for this study?

 

[sandgk]

Playing stinkfinger sounds like more fun than drinking with the glass backwards. Did they pay research subjects for this study?

Well I heard some ground breaking research of this nature was actually conducted in the Offices of Congressman Foley, but that is just an ugly rumor.