Dragaera

Photic Sneezing, again

Fri Jun 30 13:18:50 PDT 2006


> -----Original Message-----
> From: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info [mailto:dragaera-
> bounces at dragaera.info] On Behalf Of Davdi Silverrock
> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 1:06 PM
> To: Dragaera List
> Subject: Photic Sneezing, again
> 
> I was browsing through the excellent linguistic resource Language Log,
> and discoved a page that had the following:
> 
> [cite] The small child of a friend of mine once said "The sun makes
> you hot and sneeze," [/cite]
> 
> While the sentence was brought up for its linguistic implications, I
> could not help but be reminded of the following posts from the
> archives:
> 
> http://dragaera.info/mailinglists/archive.cgi/1/4239
> 
> http://dragaera.info/mailinglists/archive.cgi/1/4276
> 
> http://dragaera.info/mailinglists/archive.cgi/1/4288
> 
> Which in turn makes me wonder: Is there anyone else on this list
> besides SKZB who is a photic sneezer?
> 
> I myself am not, and the first post above was the first time I had
> heard of such a thing.

I'm not a photic sneezer, but both my father and I sneeze after eating a
large meal. When I was a kid I used to tease my father by telling him he was
full up to his nose.

It was funny when I was 7. Now that I get full up to my nose it's not so
funny.