seaglass
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Sun Apr-16-06 07:45 PM
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When someone needs to sneeze do you tell them to look at the light, |
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look at the ceiling or neither? Is there some other suggestion you give them so they can sneeze?
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Sun Apr-16-06 08:03 PM
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1. I remember reading somewhere once that only 20% of the population |
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can have sneezes triggered by looking at a bright light. I'm in that 20%, b/c it always works for me.
It's an interesting phenomenon....
:hi:
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Sun Apr-16-06 08:17 PM
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2. That's what I learned too and I always thought it worked. But |
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when my daughter needed to sneeze today, my mom told her to look at the ceiling (which I found really funny). So then I thought maybe I got it wrong and all that was needed was to look up to sneeze.
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Sun Apr-16-06 08:32 PM
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3. maybe there was a light up there? |
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:shrug: sometimes all it takes for me is the slighest reflection of light...it's weird.
I love your username, btw! tres cool. :thumbsup:
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Sun Apr-16-06 09:00 PM
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Light activates the tear duct, Looking up causes the tears to flow back into the nasal cavity (there really is a connection between the two) and tickle it - Big sneeze!
I often have three big sneezes in the morning when I drive east towards the sun, and once heard a science guy on the radio explain the mechanics.
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Sun Apr-16-06 09:04 PM
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11. Thanks. I always like to learn something new. So my mom |
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was right and so was I.:-)
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Sun Apr-16-06 08:34 PM
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4. As tempted as I am to copycat *this* thread, |
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to do so would invariably be in bad taste. :rofl:
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Sun Apr-16-06 08:34 PM
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5. I don't (well, I just plain don't talk to people), but looking at the |
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light works for me.
Now, if I could just find some way of forcing an unfinished yawn to completion.
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Sun Apr-16-06 08:53 PM
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8. You just made me yawn. I can't even look at the word without |
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yawning.
My kids and I used to try to ruin each others yawns, we thought it was fun.:-)
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Sun Apr-16-06 08:57 PM
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Sun Apr-16-06 08:38 PM
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6. All I know is that if you sneeze |
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fart, cough, and burp all at the same time you don't want to go toward any light. ;).
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Sun Apr-16-06 08:46 PM
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Edited on Sun Apr-16-06 08:46 PM by warrior1
when I said the pledge ofa allegiance. Every damn time.
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Sun Apr-16-06 09:10 PM
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12. I tell them to think of a... |
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White horse.
works everytime.
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