Post by Don on Oct 19, 2006 11:07:46 GMT -5
A snippet taken from: askbobrankin.com/cure_for_hiccups.html
It'll Cure Hiccups, But... Surely you've heard of the Nobel Prize, which is awarded for great achievements in science and civics. But have you heard about the IG NOBEL Prize? The Igs, which honor individuals whose achievements "cannot or should not be reproduced" are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative, and take a good-natured poke at some remarkably goofy things done in the name of science.
The winner of this year's Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine went to Francis M. Fesmire of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, for discovering that "Stick two fingers in your butt and call me in the morning" really DOES work as a cure for hiccups. His medical case report "Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage" delves into all the ifs ands and (ahem) buts of the methodology.
It'll Cure Hiccups, But... Surely you've heard of the Nobel Prize, which is awarded for great achievements in science and civics. But have you heard about the IG NOBEL Prize? The Igs, which honor individuals whose achievements "cannot or should not be reproduced" are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative, and take a good-natured poke at some remarkably goofy things done in the name of science.
The winner of this year's Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine went to Francis M. Fesmire of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, for discovering that "Stick two fingers in your butt and call me in the morning" really DOES work as a cure for hiccups. His medical case report "Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage" delves into all the ifs ands and (ahem) buts of the methodology.
