charlie@cca.UUCP (06/30/83)
One time when I had the hiccups for about half an hour and was getting really angry and frustrated, I decided to time them and compute mean and standard deviation time intervals (to pass the time). The first interval was 7 seconds, the second 15, the third 45, and the fourth never came. It was not coincedence. Since then, I have discovered that timing hiccups always gets rid of them. For other people I've suggested this to, most have rejected the idea as too absurd to try. It worked for most but not all who did.