re: best way to get rid of hiccups?

I take a deep breath through my mouth then drink a glass of water while slowly exhaling through my nose. Keep gulping until it almost hurts to exhale. The trick is to take small sips of water. For me, the process takes about a minute, with the last 10 seconds being really hard to continue exhaling. This simulates drowning, which causes your diaphragm to reset, stopping the hiccups.

Learned this trick years ago when I had the hiccups for three days straight. It was some weird reaction to taking too many valiums one night at a party.