Conference rdvax::grateful

    For hiccups:  Hold a glass of warm water with an upside down
    	          butterknife in it in your left hand.  (Yes!  
    		  that's all you do!)
    
    
    
    :)

A teaspoon of sugar and a vitamin B tablet for hangovers, just before hitting
the sack.

Not that I ever get hangovers, of course.

-dc

    The juice of jewelweed is the best thing I know of to get rid of
    itching from poison ivy.  Also tends to neutralize it so it goes away.
    

prevention of hangovers:

	- drink as much h20 as you can stomach before hittin' the hey.
	  hangovers is dehydration of the brain.

    BTW - the remedy doesn't have to be either for hiccups or
    hangovers, but for anything!
    
    DAMNIT I wish I could be less blonde sometimes!
    
    
    :)

    
    Hmm, never tried jewelweed for poison ivy, but vitamin E works great.
    

    Aloe vera for everything topical... hydrogen peroxide for anything
    infected.. and a spoonful of sugar for hiccups. :-)

    This one isn't for the self.
    
    When you wash your car, instead of pouring the left over soapy water
    down the drain, dump it on the oil spots in your driveway.  The soap
    loosens up and lifts away some of the oil every time you do this. 
    Getting rid of the oil prevents the tar or cement from breaking up.
    
    I live in a townhouse development.  I do this every time I was our
    cars, except, I dump the soapy water on my neighbors parking spot.  He
    used to own a car probably similar to the Swerve-a-lot (TM).  :^)
    
    dave

    At the last family cookout we had at our house, I had a good idea.
    I had 6 pounds of hamburg that needed to be made in burgers for the
    grill.
    
    I flatenned out the hamburg on the kitchen table to the thickness I
    wanted the burgers at.  I got an empty 1 lb. coffee can and cut out the
    burgers with it.  The leftover scraps I shaped by hand.
    
    After grilling, the burgers fit the typical burger bun PERFECTLY! 
    That's assuming you use not more than 25% fat hamburg.
    
    dave

My brother used to get pretty bad headaches, and what he'd do for temporary
relief is rub his thumbs slightly behind them bony ridges over his eyes ...
not deep enough to actually push his eyes into his frontal lobe, though.

Sparky, don't you believe me?  Nary a drop of alcohol has passed my lips.
Want to buy an Isuzu?

- dc

> prevention of hangovers:
>
>	- drink as much h20 as you can stomach before hittin' the hey.
>	  hangovers is dehydration of the brain.

And then, drink some more water...

Seriously!

Works for me, too, JC!

Dave

two for hiccups.....

	drink a glass of water without stopping while someone else
	holds your ears shut.

	drink a glass of water (nonstop) through a #2 lead pencil.

although it looks funny I like the first method better.  Mostly cause the
pencil tastes gross.

When I was little whenever we were coughing hard my Mom would always tell
us to "look up at the birdie".  I really don't know why but I do it and find
myself getting strange looks as a result.

Lisa

    HANGOVERS!
    
    	oppss hope noone has one :')
    
    hell the one that works the best is a Bloody Mary with lots of hot
    stuff in it ! but the only rill one, which I learned in drunk driving
    school, is you got to sleep it off......really.
    
    Chris

    **W H A T**** CHRIS?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    
    Hmmmmm, I'll have to remember that the next time I take you out and
    get you plastered -- real plastered -- heh heh heh!
    
    
    :) :) :) sparky

>
>A teaspoon of sugar and a vitamin B tablet for hangovers, just before hitting
>the sack.
>

but you don't have your hangover yet, just before hitting the sack!

re   <<< Note 300.15 by ROADKL::INGALLS "Wish I was a Nomad, Indian or St." >>>

>>
>>A teaspoon of sugar and a vitamin B tablet for hangovers, just before hitting
>>the sack.
>>
>
>but you don't have your hangover yet, just before hitting the sack!

Yeah, it's preventative, man!  ;^)  Actually I think it'd help the next
morning, too ... 

I left out water, as JC mentioned ... lotsa water ... water ... yeah ...
err, excuse me ...

-dc

My cure for hiccups is to:

1: Take a deep breath, hold it, take a sip of water right away
2: Hold you breath as long as you can
3: Take another sip, just before letting it out


Ear-aches:

  If you pull on your earlobe and it does NOT hurt more - then you have a outer
  ear-ache, then pour a 1/2 teaspon veg oil in the ear and cover with cotton
  ball 

  If you pull your earlobe and it DOES hurt more - then inner ear infection - 
  see doctor 

Cane Sugar to aid clotting on surface cuts...

Raw potato(e) for burns


have to think of a few more...

Glenn

    Charlie Papazian says drink lots o water before bed (to cure the
    dehydration) and take a shower in the morning (to rinse the poisions
    from yer pores) to cure hangovers..oh and drink more homebrew and less
    commercial beers/alcohol
    
    someone told me a splif helps too, but i wouldn't know....
    rfb

>    someone told me a splif helps too, but i wouldn't know....

Fred:           "Can you say ... wake-n-bake ???"

TV Audience:    "YYyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssss."

- jeff

 Seems to me that if one were to consume all that water prior to retiring, 
 one would be getting out of bed rather frequently to evacuate, no?







 Jum who hasn't had a hangover in years

         A breakfast buzz is the most important buzz of the day.
    
    - Cap'n Crispy

> Seems to me that if one were to consume all that water prior to retiring, 
> one would be getting out of bed rather frequently to evacuate, no?

Yeah, but that's better than waking up wishing you could remove your head.

- dc

for a terrible headache, about the only thing that works for some people
i know is Extra Strength THC, not typically available at your neighborhood
drugstore.

Actually, in the past I've found the best way for me to handle a hangover is
(assuming I forgot to toss down a couple aspirin prior to hitting the hay) is
to fry up a couple eggs, place them on toast, load them up with the hottest
salsa I can find, eat those, followed by a jalapeno or 2 and wash it down
with a big ol' glass o' diet coke (caffeine free for me) and then burp for 
the rest of the day, and eventually, depending on the magnitude of the
hangover, I feel like a million bux (give or take a few thou)


Also, if one can find it, a big bowl of menudo does wonders...




Jum

shit jum, sounds like the cholesterol rollercoaster!!!!!  i hope you
'equalize' the cholesterol intake w/ that meal with the proper
medication :-)

    In college we used to say the best cure was, as the saying goes,
    "a little hair of the dog that bit you" - a beer when you wake up.
    Scary part was it seemed to work!
    
    These days (I'm getting mellower) I usually just go for the lots
    of water before bed theory and if I think I've over-indulged, a
    couple of tylenols.
    
    Robyn

RE:<<< Note 300.25 by LJOHUB::GILMORE "You know and I know it's time for change" >>>
   >           -< I heard Fried Cheerios are good too!  :) :) :) >-

    



 Hah!




 Jum

i agree with the sentiments that water is the best cure for a hangover; i think
the main reason you get a hangover is because of dehydration

before you go to bed, drink as much water as you possibly can
then, drink a little bit more

- rich

    I also agree with the H2O b4 bed theory.  However, if you forget
    this another great cure is to wake up, drink lots o' H2O and pop
    about 7 advils or a couple 800mg motrins and go back to sleep 
    for at least half an hour!:-)
    
    chaotic individual

Heidi, you crack me up!

Why do I think you've tested your remedies several times before?

adam :-)

    My favourite hangover cure is dissolve a Berocca tablet in one of those
    glasses of water.
    
    Berocca is a high potency, water soluble vitamin B/C complex. It is
    buffered in some way so that it hits your bloodstream fast. One of
    these in the morning will get you functional. One before crashing would
    too, but I never seem to remember.
    
    I don't think you can buy these in the USofA, but maybe Canada.
    
    They had a neat TV ad for these in Oz, with a guy sitting amongst the
    debris of an apparently successful party and the slogan "Berocca, a
    fizzy drink for adults"...
    
    gary
    
    [special safety tip for professional drinkers: if you dissolve 3 or
    more in one glass, wait for it to cool down before drinking it]

> Seems to me that if one were to consume all that water prior to retiring, 
> one would be getting out of bed rather frequently to evacuate, no?

If you're dehydrated, no.  If you are not dehydrated and won't end up
with a hangover, then yes.   The water thing works for hangovers, which
I agree is due largely to dehydration.  Ever notice the headache being
similar to the one you get on a hot hot day when you're sweating a lot ?

Ken 

For Hiccups...

Drink a glass of water backwards (i.e. drink from the side of the rim that 
is away from you)


For a cold/flu/fever/stuffiness....

In a large rock-glass crush two cloves of garlic, add 1Tbs of Honey and 1.5 
shots of whiskey or Rum, stirr briskly and down in one shot.

The garlic clears your stuffiness, the honey coats your throat and is also 
chock-full of antibiotics, and the whiskey helps clear your head, activate 
the other ingredients, acts as a mild anesthetic and will help you sleep.

Geoff

	For ants in your house, use Boraxo, the soap powder, instead
	of chemicals.   Ants hate it...

	Anyone got any good ideas for _fleas_ ?  On pets and in the house ?
	I just bombarded my house with all kinds of nast chemicals to rid
	it of fleas - no choice in the matter.   My 2 cats and dog wouldn't
 	mind a non-chemical alternative too.

	Ken

RE:      <<< Note 300.34 by SALES::GKELLER "Maine, The way life should be" >>>
                             -< Hiccups and colds >-

>For Hiccups...


 I like to scare the s*it outta the hiccuper :-)





>For a cold/flu/fever/stuffiness....

>In a large rock-glass crush two cloves of garlic, add 1Tbs of Honey and 1.5 
>shots of whiskey or Rum, stirr briskly and down in one shot.


 Last time I did something like this for a cold, etc. I over did it and wound
 up with the worst hangover I ever had, resulting in consumption of much hot
 mexican food :-/  would rather of stuck with the cold..




Jum

> Anyone got any good ideas for _fleas_ ? 

Well, this won't get rid of 'em once they're in the house, but feeding your
dog or cat garlic will make they're blood much less yummy to the fleas, and
they tend to stay away.  Work for people, too.

Cats generally really like garlic, so it shouldn't be to hard to get 'em to
eat it.  And dogs, of course, generally eat anything they can find... :-)

Dave 

    re .35
    
    We use a herbal shampoo on the dog that contains pennyroyal, a member
    of the mint family that contains an oil that repels insects. We also
    put dried pennyroyal (from the garden) in his cedar bed. Seems pretty
    effective in keeping the fleas away.
    
    gary

    Gary -- where would you purchase a pennyroyal herbal dog/cat shampoo?
    My mom would definitely be interested!  
    
    Next year I'm growing herbs in her garden again -- I didn't this year
    and missed them much too much!
    
    thanks!
    Sparky
    

RE:<<< Note 300.39 by LJOHUB::GILMORE "You know and I know it's time for change" >>>
                           -< Anti Flea Herb!  YAY! >-

   > Gary -- where would you purchase a pennyroyal herbal dog/cat shampoo?
   > My mom would definitely be interested!  
    

     Hmmm...your Mom got a flea problem there, Sparky :-)





   
   Jum    

    2 dogs
    7 cats
    
    
    you tell me!
    
    :)

    Yup - mint is a natural flea repellant, plus it makes your cat (or
    dog>) smell yummy.  There's some natural flea powders on the market (I
    have one called Green Ban) that work well.
    
    Personally I've found that the super nuclear 11-month
    loaded-with_chemicals flea collar from Agway works the best.  Haven't
    seen a single flea all year.
    
    Scott
    

>For Hiccups...
>
>Drink a glass of water backwards (i.e. drink from the side of the rim that 
>is away from you)

Gee, sounds like a good way to pour water all over yourself ;-) 8-).

peace,
t!ng

The pets are wearing the nuclear-11 million year flea collars,
and let me tell ya, there are no fleas around the collar.  

What's needed are tail/belly collars :-/

Ken

    re flea collars...
    
    article in the Gazette last week says to NOT count on flea collars
    we have a BIG problem this year with pneumatic plague, spread by fleas.
    a guy in Az. died in Aug from handling an infected cat in Chaffe County
    in July. 
    
    paper suggested dousing (not dosing) yer animuyle with flea powder, 
    plus it's fun to watch the critters shake afterwards (far days)
    and watch it "snow". 
    rfb

that's right.  from what I understand flea collars only work on fleas that
cross over them.  They will eventually get most to all adult fleas as they need
to head over the animal's neck to the ears/eyes for fluid but meanwhile the
babies are hatching on the bellies and backs.... 

    Whut in tarnation is "pneumatic plague"?
    Is that when your critter overinflates and explodes?
    

    Pneumatic plague is a particularly heinous strain tinitis ("tin" ear,
    the disease that Pete Townsend has)  that results
    from years of  operating a pneumatic drill (aka jack hammer).  I guess
    fleas can carry the disease to unsuspecting city-dwellers in their
    sleep.  This accounts for why most cats don't come when they're
    called - they actually can't hear you....;-) ;-)....
    
    
    tim
    

    Grady..you ARE full of it today, ehh??
    
    pnematic (sp) plague is different from blublonic (sp) in that it can be
    spread by an infected animal (cat) sneezing on you!!! (I ALWAYS smack my
    dogs when they sneeze on me %^)  ) to get B plague, a flea must bite
    you, The guy in Az was "being kind to a cat" (that'll teach him!)
    rescued it from under a house where it was obviously sicker than a dog
    (say what?) and it sneezed on him seveeral times, blowing the virus out
    his nose and into the persons lungs. P plague (as well as B) is
    treatable if caught early enough...most people don't realize that
    something is seriously wrong until it's too late. 
    
    Colo is great for stuff like that, we have B and P plagues, rocky mt.
    spotted fever as well as regular tick fever, something i can't even
    pronounce (tulamaria?) that lives between the skin and meat of rabbits
    so that when you skin them in the field or defrost them 6 months later,
    you run the risk of catching it, lime desiese now is encroaching, FUN
    STUFF!!
    rfb

    Sorry, rfb, but that one just struck me a little funny, and my fingers
    ran with it!!
    
    tim
    

    no need to apologize, Tim....you forget, I KNOW you!!! %^)
    
    rfb

    
    	I'd just like to say that I find Tim's explanation far more
    believable than Randy's........
    
    

    re the pennyroyal pet shampoo...
    
    The brand name of the one we currently use is "Nature's Choice". We got
    it at the pet store on Summer St, Chelmsford, but I've seen it in other
    stores. 
    
    gary

    Um, rfb... might you mean pneumonic (as in pneumonia)?  The only
    definition for pneumatic is relating to air pressure.  Bubonic plague
    forms in the lymph nodes.  Then there's the infamous black plague of
    the late 14th century that was so named because of the black patches on
    the skin.  That was spread mainly by infected rats.
    
    Scott
    

Nope,  'cuz pneumonic plague is a whole different kinda problem.

Ya see, pneumonic plague is a semantic anacronism commonly found
amoung engineers, geeks and other types of nerds.  The most common
form of pneumonic plague is TLA syndrome: Three Letter Acronym
syndrome.  This is a neurological disorder typified by an obsessive
compulsive need to abbreviate everything with a three letter
accronym, hence the name.  TLA syndrome was first discovered by
noted behaviour psychologist B.F. Skinner (BFS)...Note that the
name of the syndrome, TLA, is itself a TLA.  Victims of this 
disorder become social outcasts as their ability to communicate
decays into an unintelligible string of abbreviations...


;-) ;-)

tjg

    Nah, that's mnemonic plague. You must have forgotten :-)
    
    gary

    re:.54
    
    scot, eye kant spel fer shut, N U R rite bout da p-new-mony
    
    but it actually was the fleas the rats carried that was the cause of
    the black plague
    
    re:.55 and the 3 letter acronym....
    
    TIM    %^)
    
    
    rfb <----(another one!)

> TIM

Totally Inane Mutha?

Truely Insane Man?

This Is Moronic?

Tasteful In Morning?

I could go on...

D.A.V.E.

    Hmmm.  The information in .55 is a bit out of date.  Almost
    simultaneously with the discovery of TLA syndrome (actually referred to
    as TLAS), it mutated into a much more virulent form.  MLAS (Multi
    Letter Acronym Syndrome).  Witness occurences of it within DEC (EDCS,
    etc.), as well as in this very notesfile  (BAMO, etc.)
    
    Beware!  By now, it may have mutated again into an even more dangerous
    form!

    RE: MLAS (Multi Letter Acronym Syndrome)
    
    Yeah, we suffered this particular malady on our former boat.  It's name
    was WAGS, and everybody always thought it stood for something.  So we
    ended up coining all these things that we could tell folks when they
    asked us what it stood for ...
    
    	We Are Great Sailors
    	Wierd Alcoholics Go Sailing
    	Wild Assholes Getting Shitfaced
    
    					... well, you get the idea ... ;^)
    
    One time, while milling about the starting area before a race, these
    folks from a boat named BLIZZARD came by and asked us what WAGS stood
    for.  We hollered over "We Always Get Skunked" ... then asked them what
    BLIZZARD stood for.  Several hours later, after the race was over, they
    came alongside and hollered over ...
    
    	Big League Idiots Zig-Zag After Racing Drunk
    
    ... being so obviously like-minded, we ended up partying together for
    the rest of the week-end ... ;^)
    
    						... Bobbb
    

one of my faves is:

	GMAFB

Give me a Foolin' Break!

My fav is RTFM!

Read The F***in' Manual

it's a 'nice' way of saying "User Error" when someone has a problem with your
product...

Dave

	A guy in a technical conference uses MMI a lot.

	Man Machine Interface 

	;-)

	Ken

Here's a notsonewone:

"Relax.  Don't worry.  Have a homebrew."

- jeff-who-brewed-his-second-batch-with-Rich-who-brewed-his-first-batch-last-
night