Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 02, 2010

I have to agree, Hobbes.

The hicup cure with shugar helps, but it makes fat!

@Marg, especially the scare cure.

And you are definitely amused, Hobbes! LOL

I must be a friend because it sure amused me.

Love it…. So hilarious!

I love Calvin and Hobbes dancing around with joy! It’s contagious! Oh happy day, oh happy day, when Jesus washed….my sins away, oh happy day….

Boy…I would love to be in Hobbes place :P.

Hobbes. Tell him about the jump around in circles on one foot while holding your nose and playing the kazoo cure. Video camera not included.

hey lewreader. i’ve tryed that one and didn’t cure me :S

pouncing tiger - does the “scare cure” involve Rosalyn’s participation? lol

is that one really a hiccup-cure?

I find the breath in and out of a paper bag cure works. That’s what the teachers used to use when we were in school. That’s when alot of kids used paper bags for their lunches. I remember one of my teachers used somebody’s lunch bag that smelled like sausage and onions on me once and I thought I’d barf before I got rid of my hiccups.

Somehow, I seem to have learned about preventative medicine. I haven’t had the hiccups since I don’t know when.

Sorry, I don’t know how that works. If I ever figure it out you’ll be the first to know. Maybe it’s the peppers in my diet…

Susie would have had more fun teasing Calvin in his condition.

Johanan Rakkav, I think you have immunized yourself with spicy stuff.

Good morning to all! Hobbes says he’s a “friend”, but then who needs enemies? He should tell him to stick his head in the toilet and count to 10 and then flush. That would also be amusing to his “friend”.

The best cure is to hold your breath, sick your head between your knees and fart. Just the thought of it will cure most people.

If I had a student (grades 7-12) with the hiccups, I would have him/her stand in front of the class and ask all the other students to stare at him/her. Worked every time in just a matter of seconds. In fact, some were cured just walking from their desk to the front of the room. (I wouldn’t force them to stand in front of the class if they didn’t want to, but most chose that method because they had learned from me that it worked.)

Hold breath, and take nine swallows of water. works for me.

The fun way for Calvin: Call Susie and tell her Calvin is making fun of her, a sure fire way to scare the hiccoughs, and other things out of him.

LADYWOLF, like the dance the guys are doing.

LX013, That hymn is well known to me.

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I agree dkram, I would hold my breath, swallow three times (instead of nine) and let the breath out slowly… 99% success rate… :)

LW18: Love it! :)

Classic Hobbes high five

I think you’re right Hobbes! Love this one.

moronbis said, “is that one really a hiccup-cure?”

No, Hobbes just told Calvin to do it for his own amusement. The actual Glass of Water Cure goes like this:

1.Pour some water into your mouth

2.Bend over enough so that your throat goes “up”

3.Swallow the water

4.Repeat until hiccups are cured

Now if only a spammer would sell us a cure.

Sugar on the back of the tongue. Works every time.

Rural Southerners are suing over the term Hick-up. They feel the term monetarily -oppressed- barefooter-up would be a much better term for the condition.

Hey, Sean Ewing, wouldn’t any cure that says, “Repeat until hiccups are cured” be guaranteed to work? Just sayin’. Personally, I never have hiccups any more, since I have been in a constant state of fear since second grade.

I think maybe Hobbes has been advising BP on how to plug that oil spill.

Good one, pamlicorat! I laughed so hard that I’ve got the the hiccups!

what works for me is to think of anything blue

If I ever get them again, I will just think of this strip and see Hobbes in the drivers seat having real fun and giggles. I think, that will cure me?

I’m gonna go ‘Joe’ here and ‘splain how the methods work.

If you think about those methods, the majority involve somehow holding the diaphragm steady. Hiccups are spasms of the diaphragm. If you just take a deep breath (into your lungs so you don’t get an upset tummy) and hold it for as long as you can (8-10 seconds usually does it). It breaks the spasm cycle. Sometimes the hiccups will reoccur within 2-3 minutes, but usually not as bad and holding the breath works quickly.

Sugar on the back of the tongue…the only thing I can think of is the gag reflex which causes one to clamp down on everything thinking ‘Still, still, quiet, quiet’, which is the same thing as holding your breath.

Okay, enough scientific ‘splaining.

Guaranteed Hickup Cure:

1) Fill mouth with cool water 2) Squat over open flame until water boils

Repeat if neccesary.

I can’t remember the last time I had the hiccups. :-D

Calvin must be desperate, he so willingly goes along with Hobbes advice. Love Hobbes complete delight!

grazer:

OUCH! :P

A bar-tender (delete that) cocktail waitress put some bitters on a slice of lemon and had me suck the juice from it. Worked fast, but who has that available at home? But if at a bar (delete that) night club, give it a try.

Good morning Marg! Good morning Fran and Kizzzy!

I wonder if he tried this while wearing his beanie would make him a submarine?

Dr. Hobbes is it now? Having had more than my share of dealings with the medical profession, we really should spell the word as PATIENCE, instead.

a triple shot of bourbon works for me, i don’t care about hiccups then

Don’t complain Calvin, the hiccups seem to be gone, :-D

I think Hobbes helps balance Calvin out and keep him in line. Without Hobbes, Calvin would probably be just another insufferable bratty kid.

My dad used to say he’d give me a quarter if I could hiccup one more time. Always worked. When you TRY to hiccup, you can’t.

Quaby said, about 6 hours ago a whole lot of interesting things. Thank you. And Huntermoon said, about 12 hours ago something very true. Almost all kids get so nervous going up in front of the class that they start to hyperventilate and can hardly talk. This also breaks the cycle. Solution: get Calvin to stand up to Moe and “put him in his place”, once and for all! I am sure he’ll start hyperventilating.

1 good cure is taking a spoonful of sugar. It actually does work (no kidding) but not sure if it works for everyone

The only hiccup cures with a scientific basis are the breathing in the paper bag or holding your breath. That increases the CO^2 concentration in your breath enough to slightly numb the overstimulated vagus nerve which is causing the hiccup in the first place. Holding your breath works the same.

Some claim that the other cures act on the vagus nerve, but they never worked for me.

The prize goes to grazer – good one!!

I’m sorry all but my only cure is hot water for me to relax those muscles. Last time I had hiccups when I had to babies and my body was adjusting then nothing worked and I had to live with the hiccups for a whole day that was 27 and 24 years ago. Other wise when I did, which was never that frequent drank hot water and relaxed.

This drinking upside down one works for me every time!

This one is funny! :) Poor Calvin.