Another little lesson for life...

[Geeky1]

It's late, I'm going to bed in a few minutes, so I'm tired and my mental capacity is even less than what it normally is. With that in mind, here's another little invaluable life lesson: don't sneeze with a breath mint in your mouth. I just fired one at my monitor. ;D ;D

[Lord_Night]

;D ;D
Did it stick to it Geeky....

if it didnt it wasnt done yet... LOL

[dragonV8]

Hmmmm...........hope you didn't waste it, hehehe. :D

Talk about sneezing, ever tried it with your eyes open. :rolleyes:

[Weedo]

My wife did that with chocolate pudding one time. It was not a pretty site.

[mmonnin]

Its impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. Its part of the reaction.

[entropy]

Its impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. Its part of the reaction.
I read something in Discover, I believe it was, that said the 'wires' in that reaction are slightly crossed. When your brain spasms your diaphragm, it accidentally fires your eye's shut, too. Weird, hey?

[Kwitko]

A thousand years from now, some anthropologist will unearth Geeky's musings and proclaim him one of history's greatest thinkers.

[dragonV8]

Its impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. Its part of the reaction.




"When you stifle a sneeze, you can prevent the clearance of the germs or irritants from your body and increase your needs to keep sneezing or develop an infection," said Dr. Donald Donovan, an associate professor of otorhinolaryngology at Baylor. "The best thing is to sneeze with your nose and mouth open into a tissue away from other people."

That same pressure activates a reflex in most people to close their eyes while they sneeze. Scientists speculate that the reflex evolved to help protect the eyes from the particles a sneeze expels, but not everyone has it.

"The old wives tale that if you sneeze with your eyes open, you will blow them out is absolutely untrue," Bordelon said.

http://www.bcm.edu/pa/alergysuffers.htm

[RWB]

I get images in my head now with those freaks who can pop their eyes out of their sockets. ;D

[primesuspect]

" In rare cases, increased pressure from holding your nose and closing your mouth can blow out the eardrums."

omg! :eek3:

[Geeky1]

A thousand years from now, some anthropologist will unearth Geeky's musings and proclaim him one of history's greatest thinkers.

A pity that it'll take that long for my genius to be recognized. :p

[Guyute]

Geeky- Here's another one- don't carry your two-year-old daughter in the mall. Mine farted horrendously last month and a lady walking beside us thought it was me (I'm34 but any guy LOOKS like he'd do it in public, I guess...). I just had to laugh.

[entropy]

" In rare cases, increased pressure from holding your nose and closing your mouth can blow out the eardrums."

omg! :eek3:
ROFL! I remember with my old neighbors, when we were 4 or 5, we would just sit and do this for kicks! ;D I remember once my ears felt like they were gonna bleed, and I was insanely dizzy. Did it stop me? HELL NO! ;D Ahhhh, good times, good times ... could this have a tad to do with how I'm already starting to lose a small part of my hearing at 16? (being in band, being a drummer, going to Summerfest for the last 10 years, and my philosophy of, "If you're gonna play it, blast it" doesn't help, either :-/:p)

Anyways, thanks for mentioning that ... that totally made my night :D

[TheGr81]

My brother always holds in his sneezes. He says he "doesn't know" how to let it out. :wtf:

[muddocktor]

Geeky- Here's another one- don't carry your two-year-old daughter in the mall. Mine farted horrendously last month and a lady walking beside us thought it was me (I'm34 but any guy LOOKS like he'd do it in public, I guess...). I just had to laugh.

Guyute, you now need to train your daughter to say "Mom-ma, why did you do that?" when your wife is with you and her in the mall. It is really funny, the reactions your wife will have. ;D ;D ;D My wife would turn red as hell! ;D ;D

[Xander]

don't sneeze with a breath mint in your mouth. I just fired one at my monitor. ;D ;D

FIVE SECOND RULE!!!!

[Geeky1]

Ok, I've just proven that two breath mints does indeed equal twice the destruction... :banghead:

[LawnMM]

Don't stifle a sneeze. You essentially hold all that energy thats trying to get out in, and it places a lot of stress on the innerworkings of your head. You could rupture a blood vessel in your head doing that.

[Guyute]

Doc- I will DEFINITELY do that- she is getting to the point where she is a parrot and picks up on those little "suggestions". hehehehe...FINALLY a little mind that I can warp to my own specifications...boooohhhwahahahahaha...

I was telling this to a guy I work with and he said that he and his 5-year-old daughter were walking through a store about a week before my escapade and she looked at him and said very plainly "ooooh oohhh Daddy I SHARTED!!!" (I had never heard this word before but I quickly realized what it was ...yuk). He said he almost died. He never realized he had said that within her hearing distance.