Rescuing A Drowned Person

[Khandro]

In case you are ever find yourself in such an emergency & are uncertain what to do:
https://ibb.co/Pt38GmY

[jourdain2]

I'm certainly glad to know that (I think) Khandro.

[jno]

what's "recover" mean, bringing them back to life or just retrieving the body? I suppose if you do want to keep the body to hand, pumping it full of helium like a balloon and tying a piece of string to one foot would do the trick.

[THECORBYLOON]

That was featured on QI a while ago.

Read just now that the nicotine was meant to speed up the heartbeat and the warm smoke was meant to dry out the moisture.

[Buenchico]

Thanks, Khandro ;-)

That advice has since been updated though. The correct procedure (which I thoroughly approve of) now involves heading to the nearest pub:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/humane-society
;-)

[jno]

there is actually a saying in the USA, "to blow smoke up someone's ass".

blowing smoke up my ass
Most literally translating to "trying to get a reaction" out of somebody. Originated from a 16th century technique to determine death by literally blowing tobacco smoke into someone's anus (through a long pipe) - where a reaction indicated that the person was still alive.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=blowing%20smoke%20up%20my%20ass