Sunday, May 09, 2004
Man Has Been Hiccuping For 44 years
News Observer: Man has been hiccuping for 44 years
John Francis Crosland has been hiccuping for more than 40 years. Every day since John F. Kennedy was first in office as president, Crosland has gulped or gasped or had that catch in his throat.
"I just hiccup all the time. A lot of times I be doing something and hiccuping, and I don't pay them no attention," he said. "If you want to know the truth, it don't too much matter. It worries other people more than it worries me."
Crosland, who is 68, could be on his way to having the world's longest case of continuing hiccups.
The Guinness Book of World Records lists an Iowa man, Charles Osborne, as having them the longest: 69 years. Osborne was slaughtering a hog in 1922 when he first began hiccuping, and he is said to have hiccuped at the rate of 40 times a minute until February 1990. He died a year later.
First you said 74 years and now I read it's a mere 44 years. 44 years is nothing.
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