HIGH LIFE
“The longest recorded attack of hiccups,” according to the Guinness Book of World Records, “was one suffered by Charles Osborne (born 1894) of Anthon, Iowa, from 1922 for 64 years. He contracted it when slaughtering a hog and hiccuped about 430 million times in the interim.
“He was unable to find a cure but led a reasonably normal life in which he had two wives and fathered eight children. He did admit, however, that he could not keep in his false teeth. In July, 1986, his hiccup rate went up to 20 to 25 times per minute from 10 per minute in 1985, and an earlier high was 40.”
“When I was kidnaped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.”
--Woody Allen
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