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22 | 57.89% |
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7 | 18.42% |
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1 | 2.63% |
| Something else |
  
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3 | 7.89% |
| Nothing |
  
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5 | 13.16% |
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03-11-2009, 08:39 AM
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Usually "bless you". It's a knee-jerk reaction. Although my daughter thinks it's so funny to hear me say "Blessyou!" that she'll fake sneeze just to get me to say it
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03-11-2009, 08:44 AM
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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"You're so good looking'"
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I didn't know this one at the time I started the thread, but my pottery teacher says that all the time now. Big Seinfeld fan, apparently. so I mooched through to see if anyone had mentioned it when I saw the zombies were in town. Might've guessed..... 
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03-11-2009, 10:53 AM
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Bless you, or gesundheit....it varies. If it's a big sneeze I might say Bloody hell.
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03-11-2009, 11:13 AM
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The reason people say gesundheit [good health] or bless you is because when a person sneezes their heart stops for that instant.
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03-11-2009, 11:28 AM
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I hear them call the tide
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no, it doesn't. as i understood it, the "gesundheit" simply relates to the fact that a sneeze usually indicates sickness, and the "bless you" is because people used to believe that you lose consciousness when you sneeze, which gives the devil an opportunity to sneak in and possess your soul. Of course both of those could be bullshit too. 
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03-13-2009, 12:50 AM
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03-15-2009, 08:34 AM
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Interesting topic.
Most of the time when someone "blesses" me after sneezing I completely ignore their blessing or just nod to them. The entire notion seems pretty silly and I politely try not to encourage it. There are some interesting alternatives listed previously that may fall into my person use, "bloody hell" may be my new response to being blessed. That ol' "cockblessyou" is a good one too.
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03-11-2009, 11:15 AM
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I forgot, I say gesundheit probably because until I was around five my vocabulary was mostly German.
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03-11-2009, 11:16 AM
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Come on, cat.
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03-11-2009, 11:37 AM
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I usually say "godzilla."
If I sneeze and someone says godblessyou, I say "Mothra." |
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03-11-2009, 11:52 AM
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Mothra.
That struck me just right.
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03-11-2009, 09:38 PM
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Mostly Gesundheit, but occasionally "blessings," less frequently, "use a tissue, you pig."
The last is mostly reserved for male cow orkers. I have the misfortune of engaging in long series of sneezes. Not Guinness-level numbers, but usually at least 8-12 at a go. I have to gasp out to people who start blessing me "hold onto it, I won't be done for a while, and you'll get tired of doing that. Save 'em up for the end."
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03-12-2009, 03:48 AM
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03-11-2009, 11:56 PM
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(I dunno how to do the youtube thingy)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P21irX3zXCo "Nothing happens when you die."
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