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I was at an Eddie Izzard show when someone in the audience sneezed. He was in the middle of a bit, he stopped, pointed in the direction of the sneezer, and said, “Good sneeze!” It was a good sneeze, admittedly, but more than that it gave me something to say besides “God bless you.” I had stopped saying it since I became an Atheist, and I didn’t have anything to tell people when they sneezed. For about a year or so, I was a very impolite sneeze responder.
Now I say, “Good sneeze!” all the time. Not only does it give me something to say, but NOBODY else says it, so the sneezer feels like they’ve received some real praise.
