According to the Guinness Book of World Records, this is the longest bout of hiccups ever recorded. Osborne started hiccupping while attempting to weigh a hog before slaughtering it.
He was unable to find a cure and continued hiccupping until February 1990. During the first few decades, he hiccupped up to 40 times a minute, slowing to 20 a minute in later years.
Eventually, he learned to suppress most of the noise of a typical hiccup by breathing methodically between hiccups. About a year before Osborne died, his hiccups stopped.
