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Hiccups. We've all had them...but what are they...really? We may never know...

A cool poem I got from one of my friend's info.
You stand before the final dimension and I am the darkness of etrenity.
Life fears death, but lives only to die.
It starts with anxiey.
Anxiety becomes fear,
Fear leads to anger,
Anger leads to hate,
Hate leads to suffering.
The only cure for this is Total destrustion.
In a world of nothing, fear does not exist.
This is the world that all life desires.

Are Hiccups a thing from outer-space?
Well...no, but Here is what hiccups really are!

Hiccups, believe it or not, are a bit of a medical mystery. There are theories about what causes them, but nobody knows for sure.

The Health channel on MSN lists six potential hiccup triggers, ranging from nothing to spicy foods and drink to, most seriously, a stroke, tumor, or disease. (See the full list in a link below.) My favorite cause is "nothing." Why would your body get hiccups for no reason in particular? And what is the point of them?

Apparently, there is no point.

Most students of singultus, as hiccups are known to hiccup scholars, don't believe hiccups do anything useful. And people have been studying them for a darned long time--since Hippocrates, who lived hundreds of years before Jesus.

An interesting note: One researcher gathered the words for hiccup in 23 languages, and found many, but not all, are onomatopoeic.

In any case, you can be glad you're not Charles Osborne of Anthon, Iowa. He had a case of the hiccups that lasted 65 years.



Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.