Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 18, 2019

That will just make you hiccup faster.

Maybe cookies will help.

Eat a box of Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs. That should do the trick.

There is only one sure way to cure the hiccups, dunk your head in a five gallon bucket of water three times, and remove it twice.

I actually did that…minus the hiccups.

“Getcher motor runnin’…!”

I think I tried this remedy myself when getting the hiccups (after first reading this C&H strip on one of my books).

Hobbes can continue to have so much fun with wannabe hiccup cures!

Hyperactivity and hiccups is a deadly combination. I predict shenanigans with possible hijinx ensuing.

Have you been watching Mary Poppins Hobbes?

Lemon Juice

Try some expresso with lots of sugar. Surely that will do it plus you will get the added bouncing off the walls effect.

Maybe it worked a little?

I hate it when I get the hiccups. If I don’t have the right medicine, it can last for over a day, and gives me a horrible headache. But I do know now that it’s triggered by eating excessively spicy food, so I try to avoid that as far as possible.

maybe it will make you sweeter!!!

From WebMD: Hold your breath and swallow three times,Breathe into a paper bag,Drink a glass of water quickly,Swallow a teaspoon of sugar,Pull on your tongue,Gargle with water,

This reminds me so much of my breakfast cereal!

♪ ♫ ♪ Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down….

Hobbes is correct. Swallowing granulated sugar will stop hiccuping. Swallow it dry as quickly as possible. Really works.

Scientists have determined that consuming sugar does not make a child hyperactive. So far no parents have believed the report.

Hobbes should’ve told him, “You have to kiss a girl.”

Next on Hobbes agenda, get Calvin an appointment with the dentist.

Spoonful of sugar works for me — but you’ve got to gun it down your gullet as quick as possible.

Add cinnamon.

All we Germans love sweets, add chocolate and we love it more.

Just go ahead and break out the Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs. Recommended by 9 out of 10 kids with ADHD.

Calvin’s dentist lives in a mansion somewhere on the Mediterranean coast

Sure fire solution: dip a Q Tip in wine and massage your pallet with it. Wait. Calvin can’t use wine, he’s only 6.

Spoonful of sugar usually works for me. Could be a placebo effect, but I don’t care as long as it works!

I know a cure for Calvin. “Hey Calvin! ROSALYN’S at the door!”

Give him a shot of bitters! That’ll clear it right up!

Then Calvin turned into Cornholio…

Calvin Calvin

Yes papa

Eating sugar

No papa

Telling lies

No papa

Open ur mouth

IT WAS HOBBES DAD I SWEAR!!! HE MADE ME DO IT

Tell you what works. A spoonful of HONEY. Never fails. I once dated a nurse and the only good thing to come from that was this hiccup cure.

This can be read as subtle commentary about trying to cure ailments with manufactured drugs (which sugar surely is). Or it can be just clean fun. Next: Blowing bubbles into a glass of soda through a very thin straw; then scaring him out of his socks…

This really works. I tried it when I was getting non-stop hiccups.