poll feature request - once more

brittleblood

if this placed supported polls, i'd have gobs of them...but the next best thing is always standing in line so here goes.

{background} we have two boys - one looks pretty damn much like me and the other looks pretty damn much like mom. i sneeze like the roof will come down + so does the boy who looks pretty damn much like me. my wife sneezes itty bitty sneezes and in sets of three (one time she sneezed four times!!!) and - you guessed - the little one who looks pretty damn much like my wife sneezes itty bitty groups of three sneezes.

so, the poll question!!! with all this great scientific research i just supplied!!! is:

do you think sneezing is hereditary?

a) absolutely! i don't look a thing like 68 and i sneeze itty bitty sneezes!
b) that's far-fetched, but i waffle on all things so i'm not ruling out anything
c) absurd! sneezing is an art-form and each person has his/her own signature sneeze
d) i'm going to do my own testing...starting with pepper up my partner's nasals

as usual, you can order off the menu...

BigD-Bluez

I'm not sure about sneezing, although I'd nod toward hereditary influences, but regarding that other grand function of the nasopharyngeal area I vote fer sure - both my folks were champion log-sawers, and I lay my affiction (my wife would call it her affliction) squarely at their feet, no disrespect intended.

Doofy

All well + good for nature, but nurture is a potential confounder here. Perhaps No. One Son wishes, explicitly or otherwise, to be just such another fellow as Dear Old Dad, emulating him in all he does or says; whereas your Youngest, horrified at such a prospect, finds a more apt model in Mrs Bb. In other words, how can we differentiate between evoked vs evolved sternutation? We can't, or we can't know we can, that's how.

brittleblood

10 points off for answering y'er own rhetorical question.

jackedUPjazz

I never sneeze, I always do one of those underdeveloped low power pseudo sneezes because full sneezes make me fart which is generally frowned upon in polite company.

cafreema

I sneeze louder than Thor.

Craig

Germanprof

A carriage drew up at the entrance porch. The doors flew open and out jumped a uniformed, stooping gentleman who dashed up the steps. The feeling of horror and amazement that gripped Kovalyov when he recognized his own nose defies description! After this extraordinary sight everything went topsy-turvy. He could hardly keep to his feet, but decided at all costs to wait until the nose returned to the carriage, although he was shaking all over and felt quite feverish. About two minutes later a nose really did come out. It was wearing a gold-braided uniform with a high stand-up collar and chamois trousers, and had a sword at its side...And it was abundantly clear that the nose was going to visit someone.
Poor Kovalyov nearly went out of his mind. He did no know what to make of it. How, in fact, could a nose, which only yesterday was in the middle of his face, and which could not possibly walk around or drive in a carriage, suddenly turn up in a uniform!

- Nikolai Gogol

BigD-Bluez

Well, I don't know about Thor, but I myself have been likened to a large North American forest dwelling ungulate, a cartoon likening of which was generally found in the company of a squirrel.

Brighternow

Weeping like the ghost of winter, we watch our tears
kiss ash and turn to steam. We walk on hot coals
where a stream meandered. Tarred and tanned. We
flex and count the tumours on our hands--spreading
swiftly now. For this, we waited just a lifetime.
Sun blessed mirror shaded mad dogs. Blow a kiss we'll
all fall over. Hunting the oasis but there's only cola-
sensurround. A technicolour thrill . . . it costs a fortune,
so it must be real. For just a little sip, we'll
keep waiting (just a lifetime.)
And some of us work underground. We dug a hole and
settled down. We waited for the gentle sound of steady
rain to soak the ground and raattle on our ventilator.
Guess the time we sat there waiting. Yes, you
guessed! We waited just a lifetime.
And dragons walked the earth again; parrafin was free.
A fire-eater went insane and torched the final tree.
And one fine say the planet crumbled, just cos
someone sneezed. For this, we waited just a lifetime.

Katrina

Yes, I always sneeze twice, like my mom did.