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- Sirocco, on 10/12/2007, -2/+46>> Well, you can usually get rod of hiccups
Was that a Freudian slip? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26So the next time your girlfriend has a hiccup, you might just get lucky.
- TheScareScrow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23I for one would rather just have hiccups than take a finger up the ass.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23from a chronic hickuper
a mouth full of sugar works every time, instantly.
I have not tried the sugar rectally. - fffizzz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Except shes getting something other than a finger... ohhh huh? Where am I?
- Tenlow, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22Now if they could only figure out how to cure finger aches by sticking a woodpecker's head up your ass.
- Rikkochet, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19Well, you can usually get rod of hiccups by steadying your breathing and relaxing. I usually just close my eyse for a minute and breathe slowly and steadily and they're gone...
I can imagine a finger in your ass is probably going to make you breathe very carefully and you're not going to be moving around much..... - dave5623, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13That's not time they have on their hands, thats doo-doo baby!
- Patented, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14A life without hiccups, apparently.
- iFelix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11These are the titles from research papers, the article is a news item on how these research papers have won the Ig Nobel awards.
- haggie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Rectum?
Damn near killed 'em! - Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10@PowerCow
Well, the weekend's coming up! - merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Sounds like you've already got the how worked out.
Mr. Gere. - fffizzz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Shes holding the light for the guy behind him to help guide his finger?
- NoLeafClover, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10“so i guess the only useful thing Israel has done to mankind is shove its finger up its ass.”
You pompous little dickbag. Yeah, I caught the Shlomo comment as well you little anti-Semitic douche. Well here are a few facts for you. The evil Jews and there colonized land, Israel has contributed quite a bit to this world, namely in the field of agriculture and sciences, most prominently with technology. So remove your arrogant head out of your ass (and cure your hiccups, hey, I can stay on topic) and keep reading.
Israeli Facts / Contributions include:
1. Israel leads the world in the number of scientists and technicians in the workforce, with 145 per 10,000, as opposed to 85 in the U.S., over 70 in Japan, and less than 60 in Germany. With over 25% of its work force employed in technical professions, Israel places first in this category as well.
2. Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees to the population in the world.
3. Israel has the highest per capita ratio of scientific publications in the world by a large margin, as well as one of the highest per capita rates of patents filed.
4. Israel has the highest percentage in the world of home computers per capita.
5. Outside the U.S. and Canada, Israel has the largest number of NASDAQ listed companies.
6. With more than 3,000 high-tech companies and start-ups, Israel has the highest concentration of hi-tech companies in the world apart from the Silicon Valley.
7. With an aerial arsenal of over 250 F-16s, Israel has the largest fleet of the aircraft outside of the U.S.
8. Israel's $100 billion economy is larger than all of its immediate neighbors combined.
9. The cell phone was developed in Israel by Motorola-Israel. Motorola built its largest development center worldwide in Israel.
10. Windows NT software was developed by Microsoft-Israel.
11. The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel.
12. Voice mail technology was developed in Israel.
13. AOL's instant message program was designed by an Israeli software company.
14. Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only R&D facilities outside the U.S. in Israel.
15. On a per capita basis, Israel has the largest number of biotech start-ups.
16. Some 24% of Israel's workforce holds university degrees -- ranking third in the industrialized world, after the U.S. and Holland -- and 12% hold advanced degrees.
Btw, Jews have won quite a bit of those little Nobel prizes, while representing just 1/4 of 1%percent of the worlds population.
At least 171 Jews and persons of half-Jewish ancestry have been awarded the Nobel Prize, accounting for 23% of all individual recipients worldwide between 1901 and 2005, and constituting 37% of all US recipients during the same period. In the scientific research fields of Chemistry, Economics, Medicine, and Physics, the corresponding world and US percentages are 26% and 39%, respectively. (Jews currently make up approximately 0.25% of the world's population and 2% of the US population.)
• Chemistry (28 prize winners, 19% of world total, 27% of US total)
• Economics (22 prize winners, 39% of world total, 53% of US total)
• Literature (13 prize winners, 13% of world total, 27% of US total)
• Physiology or Medicine (52 prize winners, 28% of world total, 42% of US total)
• Peace (9 prize winners, 10% of world total, 11% of US total)3
• Physics (47 prize winners, 27% of world total, 38% of US total) - H2SO4, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9What about those with thier heads up thier ass - what do they have?
- Kale, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Ig Nobel, not Nobel. RTFA
- tagtomlin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6And if you follow the link, it's all saved in the appropriately and scarily named -
Annals of Emergency Medicine
Well, it made me laugh... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10lol @ sorroco - brilliant!
insta-digg - tsteele93, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Oh, I have the hiccups! I have the hiccups. Over here! Hello...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Greatest joke ever. Period. Semicolon;
- OwdenBowden, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7I am just happy I was not a test subject. Someone has way too much time on their hands to come up with this discovery.
- iFelix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Termination of intractable hiccups with digital rectal massage.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=3395000&dopt=Citation
Cure for a headache
http://bjo.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/extract/86/8/843
http://www.improb.com/ig-pastwinners.html#ig2006 - gothamcityprjct, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6http://*****.com/
- Funkly, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I got the hiccups the other day, and my wife said I'll give you a hundred dollars if you stop.
I stopped. This only works once but it DOES work. i dont know why...
Not gonna try this one though.. - MacGyver2210, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Termination of intractable hiccups with digital rectal massage.Odeh M, Bassan H, Oliven A.
Department of Inernal Medicine, Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel.
A 60-year-old man with acute pancreatitis developed persistent hiccups after insertion of a nasogastric tube. Removal of the latter did not terminate the hiccups which had also been treated with different drugs, and several manoeuvres were attempted, but with no success. Digital rectal massage was then performed resulting in abrupt cessation of the hiccups. Recurrence of the hiccups occurred several hours later, and again, they were terminated immediately with digital rectal massage. No other recurrences were observed. This is the second reported case associating cessation of intractable hiccups with digital rectal massage. We suggest that this manoeuvre should be considered in cases of intractable hiccups before proceeding with pharmacological agents.
PMID: 2299306 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] - DesolataX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5So now when you go for a prostate exam, the doctor can help you with two things :-P
- ekestler, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4They have, or rather suffer from, what is known as RCI Syndrome.
Recto-Cranial Inversion. - wibblewibble, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3The mind boggles. Leading edge science for sure. What did they use as a placebo? :)
We are sure to have peace in our time with the smartest minds on this :) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Does anyone have links to the actual pappers they won prizes for, or are those not out yet?
- MYarms, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Whats with that ultra pale woman with the black eyes holding a flashlight in the first picture?
- Yupp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's best to combine multiple techniques for instant relief:
Make sure to cover your finger with the sugar before putting it in your anus. - tito13kfm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I can understand wanting to know why a woodpecker does not get a headache, or figuring out a way to drive teenagers away with high frequency noise. But I absolutely cannot figure out who was the first person to even think about sticking a finger up your ass when you have the hiccups. Maybe it was Chip from that myspace video.
- vectorman06, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5This article made me laugh lol.
- Daken, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I had to oportunity to go to the Ig Nobel awards at Harvard, and I have to say, there pretty good. Aside from the actual awards its a great atmosphere, and theres nothing like watching actual Nobel prize winners throw paper airplanes at the Ig Nobel winners.
- steelmaverick, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Pappers?
- rages4calm, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5Sticking a finger up your ass to get rid of hiccups probably works because your thinking about that finger up your ass rather then your hiccups and all this ***** on your finger, that and your probably breathing harder then usual.
- shatters, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I laughed at laugh lol
- MacGyver2210, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3I hate to be the one to say it NoLeafClover, but it appears many of those things Israel has only because other countries gave it to them, especially #5, #6, #7, #10, #11, and #13(Please note AMERICA Online - not Israel online).
Because a company from the US outsources their business to Israel isn't a real good bragging point. Also, the US has been helping Israel for a long time, because they seem to have a knack for pissing people off over there. Honestly, I don't know crap about the whole peace situation in Israel, but don't try to tout US Military gifts/assistance as achievements of Israel. - dealsdealer, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3HOLY GUACAMOLE !!!!!!
these studies nowadays ........... - bcorder, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2They actually discovered that the head works better than a finger, but with so many volunteers, they were afraid of mass casulaties.
- shatters, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2UFIA?
- cquilliam, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1that made me laugh
- versionist, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3It is also known to cure heterosexuality in men.
- kidc, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3Surprised nobody brought up Goatse yet...
- slickjones, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2agreed
- nixr, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1I can see it at the office now : "Quick, I have the hiccups. Stick your finger up my ass!"
- tsteele93, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3I hate to be anal about this, but you are not supposed to use google as a verb. Your link should be http://www.justfreakinglookitupongoogle.com. Otherwise, Google will sic their lawyers on you - which can also cure hiccups by they way.
- gothamcityprjct, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2oops. Which means bury this.
- slickjones, on 10/12/2007, -9/+0hehe,
ever heard of freedom of speech, you little kike?
dont talk about the average of the population, cuz theres barely 6 million of u filthy zionists, and like macgyver said, half of the stuff u listed comes from america.
and i didnt comment on here to be lectured about israel, so STFU. -
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