I call it the `Prairie Ouster`: Take 4 raw eggs, some olive oil (large dash), some vinegar (another large dash) salt & pepper and some tabasco sauce if you can find it, stick them all in a paper cup/bowl made of today's newspaper and use it as an excuse to get next to the most senior person in the office you can find, and when there simply smack the mixture into their face, making sure to rub it deep into their eyes and ears.

It'll cure your hangover in a second, I guarantee it The concerns of the unemployed easily overshadow those who have simply had a good night out. Even it it was at a karaoke bar.

Other than that try (and I'm not joking here) pinching the joint between your thumb and index finger very hard - the nerve that takes most pain messages from brain to body (everything runs down the spine regardless of where the pain is) and vice-versa (the Vagus nerve, it's called) runs right through the webbed muscular area between thumb and forefinger on both hands quite near the surface, or is at least affected by surface pressure for some reason.

Pinch it hard and it will cut off a lot of the pain message from the face and head (and the internal organd especially as well), apparently it can also help headaches, but remember young padawans; there is no real substitute for f**kloads of water and a hatred of the Japanese for inventing karaoke

Painkillers are also handy, natch.