Rectal hiccups cure secures Ig Nobel Prize

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Two studies which demonstrated that rectal massage was a cure for "intractable hiccups" last night secured the prestigious Ig Nobel Prize for Medicine at the annual Annals of Improbable Research awards ceremony.

Francis M Fesmire of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine was honoured for his medical case report entitled "Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage", sharing the spoils with and Majed Odeh, Harry Bassan, and Arie Oliven of Bnai Zion Medical Centre, Haifa, Israel, for their subsequent medical case report also titled "Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage."
Other laureats stepping up to receive their awards at Harvard's Sanders Theatre included: Nic Svenson and Piers Barnes of the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organisation, for "calculating the number of photographs you must take to (almost) ensure that nobody in a group photo will have their eyes closed" (Mathematics award); Basile Audoly and Sebastien Neukirch of the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, in Paris, for their "insights into why, when you bend dry spaghetti, it often breaks into more than two pieces" (Physics); and Antonio Mulet, José Javier Benedito and José Bon of the University of Valencia, Spain, and Carmen Rosselló of the University of Illes Balears, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, for their study "Ultrasonic Velocity in Cheddar Cheese as Affected by Temperature." (Chemistry).

The full list of ground-breaking scientific endeavour can be found here. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to deal with a nasty bout of hiccups...®
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Who the hell did this research? Has to have been a government grant, huh?
 
I think it's painfully obvious who did the research. The question would be why were they doing it when they had the hiccups in the first place.
 
Because we're not talking about our own. And the article isn't about ass hiccups. It's about curing hiccups by having something shoved up your ass.
 
Well, that bit of information would have only been evident to me if I'd read the article, now wouldn't it?
BoP asked about ass hiccups, now didn't she? :p
 
And up until your post, noone actually thought ass hiccups existed. Now we're gonna be all in a panic that the guy next to us on the bus might be suffering them.
 
I love the Math category

Mathematics: Nic Svenson and Piers Barnes of the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organisation, for calculating the number of shots a photographer must take to almost ensure none in a group photo will have their eyes closed.
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You mean the number of shots needed isn't infinite?

And RE: ass hiccups... sometimes if my butthole itches, I'm glad if I have to fart because when I do, it scratches the itch.

Tonks, you can thank me for making everyone forget about your little TMI bit later. :D
 
Maybe it's his sphincter that's abrasive and the air flow from his anus is rubbing it to and fro hence scratching itself.
 
If it's one of the noisy farts, that comes out in a series of bubbles, the rapid opening and closing of the ass scratches it. If it's an SBD that comes out in one big bubble, it doesn't scratch it.
 
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