Can a neti pot defeat waterboarding?

[thirdname]

I made a joke about this in a thread about the neti pot: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=10674314#post10674314

@thirdname

I neti pot

After I used my Neti pot for the first time, I spent ten minutes huddled in a corner, convinced I had narrowly escaped killing myself. Am I doing something wrong?

but nobody seemed to get the joke.