Becca wrote on Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:57:51 -0500:

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>
>> If you swallow the pencil you'll squawk like a chicken!\

> Thanks for the giggle. :-)

> The home remedy that is almost 100% effective for hiccups is
> sugar. Eat a spoonful of sugar and the hiccups will stop
> immediately. For babies, you can dissolve sugar in a little
> water, administer via baby bottle and their hiccups will stop.
> This truly works.

A variant sometimes succeeds. You take a teaspoonful of sugar and chew
on it until it is all gone. It really did work once!

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not