I was recently talking to a young lady, when i felt a twitch of the nose and what followed was a full-fledged sneeze. The normal response would have been 'bless you'. Instead, I got a hard, resounding whack. Since I did manage to get my hand in place before all the air in the lungs burst loose, I was a bit bewildered about the stout reprimand. "You were thinking of sex!" was the response.

Research has done it again. Gone are the days when people talked of the heart stopping while you sneezed and hence, 'bless you' was the response (since you got back to life!). Today, you've got all the more reason to watch that truant nose when in the company of the opposite sex.

Now the researcher was kind enough to mention that this is the case only with 'some individuals,' our constant need for generalisation gets the better of us and we usually use the 'findings' of this research as and how it pleases us.

Generalisations in such researches is good for a few laughs, but can be a bit dangerous when you consider hardcore medical research. It often leads to a lot of confusion over what is the right research to follow. In case you follow medical research in papers or other media, you might want to look at this article to help you figure out what the hell are these researchers talking about!

As for the young lady, I just waited until she sneezed and the joke was on her.