Tom in London wrote:
Try interpreting in both directions, all day, at a high-powered business meeting *which you are also supposed to be attending as a key participant* in a small echoing room filled with people smoking. Try continuing to do it when everyone decides to "take a break for coffee".
Try doing the same thing again the next day.
I used to do this and it nearly killed me. By the end of the first day I was quite ill and my throat felt like sandpaper.
But I never sneezed. My biggest problem was not having time to swallow, and spraying saliva over the very important businesswoman sitting opposite me.
OMG, that seems horrible! You should get like 2 grand a day for something like this plus acupuncture and massage sessions at the end of each day. But it doesn't make me feel better about my sneezes cuz you didn't sneeze! 
So Ana, I hope that makes you feel a little bit less silly for asking ! As for sneezing, amazingly, Liz's suggestion works: when you feel a sneeze coming on, just look at the brightest source of light (natural or artificial) in your surroundings. I guarantee you that your urge to sneeze will simply vanish.
[Edited at 2011-09-15 12:54 GMT]
Tom, you don't know my sneezes. They're like some new strand of super sneezes or something. I know about the source of light stopping sneezes but it's never worked for me. I'll record myself one day and you'll see 
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