The best way to get rid of hiccups is either to hold your breath in or to breath really slowly until it goes away. It calms your diaphragm and thus stops the hiccups. ;)

It was all in good intentions. I'm sure your professor didn't do it on purpose.

psu tends to do that.

On the bright side, he sounds like a cool professor. Its always nice when you enjoy your professors lectures.

Fill up a glass with two thirds of water. tip it slightly , not towards you as usual, but the other way, as though you were letting someone opposite you drink from it ; Then slowly drink the water from the further side of the glass. It makes you bend over it and open your diaphragm, it's fun, it's fast and it never fails (if nothing else, it never fails to make your friends laugh). I taught my kids the trick, and they've never had that problem again.

Eh, wait til you have a hysterectomy...then the fun really starts...

When I was in high school, after classes a bunch of the students sort of hang out in the band room while waiting for practice. One of the drummer's sister was hanging around and started righting on the board. I, in the teacher's voice, snuck up right behind her and whispered in her ear, "why are you writing on my chalkboard?" She screamed and ran out the room and into the teacher. She came back in and said it wasn't funny while laughing and then said, "I think I peed a little." Funniest shit.

It could be worst you could have done it for no absolute reason

Work your kegels.

That sucks a whole lot. I get terrible hiccups (the best is in the middle of the night, when my dog barks at me and wakes everyone up), but my usual method (fill a glass or bottle of water, bend forward at the waist, chug while bent over) works really fast. But FYL, indeed. =/