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Started by Harley · 24 Jul 2006 · 22 posts survive (22 recovered from printable/lo-fi copies) · Wayback

Harleyr
Just a email that got sent to me today

A woman was working in a post office in California.

One day she licked the envelopes and postage stamps instead of using a sponge. That very day the lady found a cut on her tongue. A week later, she noticed an abnormal swelling of her tongue. She went to the doctor, and they found nothing wrong. Her tongue was not sore or anything. A couple of days later, her tongue started to swell more, and it began to get really sore, so sore, that she could not eat. She went back to the hospital, and demanded something be done. The doctor took an x-ray of her tongue and noticed a lump. He prepared her for minor surgery. When the doctor cut her tongue open, a live cockroach crawled out!!!!

There were cockroach eggs on the seal of the envelope. The egg was able to hatch inside of her tongue, because of her saliva. It was warm and moist...

This is a true story reported on CNN

Andy Hume wrote:

Hey, I used to work in an envelope factory. You wouldn't believe the....things that float around in those gum applicator trays. I haven't licked an envelope for years!" I used to work for a print shop (32 years ago) and we were told NEVER to lick the envelopes. I never understood why until I had to go into storage and pull out 2500 envelopes that were already printed and saw several squads of cockroaches roaming around inside a couple of boxes with eggs everywhere. They eat the glue on the envelopes.

PLEASE PASS THIS ON, TO YOUR FRIENDS. After reading this you will never lick another envelope or stamp again!!!!
Dragoonr
i will never ever lick another envolope in my life
oh my that is a shocker
nO_iRiSr
Sounds like something out of a horror film mellow.gif. Creepy.
jase31r
cough*bullshit*cough
nO_iRiSr
I've heard this before. Apparently it IS true. I guess its possible, stranger things have happened. Doesnt mean I'm going to stop licking envelopes. Its my favorate thing to do when I'm bored. tongue.gif
djkarnager
QUOTE(jase31 @ Jul 24 2006, 11:36 AM)
cough*bullshit*cough
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gotta agree with jase here absolute bullshit.
I take X-rays for a living and guarantee they wouldn't be x-raying a tounge just because it had a lump!
nO_iRiSr
Yeah, you have a point there. more likely to take a biopsy, even that is only after blood tests and tox screens and all that procedural crap. Yeah?
KandiRaverr
how old is that! i heard about that on the email years ago!

but these day's only an idiot would like a stamp or envelope... cosidering they are all self-adhesive! smile.gif hehe
cashewr
even if it is bullshit, i still wont lick another envelope or stamp... blink.gif
asianfunkphenomenar
oh shit...regardless whether its true or not, I'm never licking anything ever again
crIs Pr
i lick faces
asianfunkphenomenar
ROFL...for a minute there I thought that it read "i lick faeces"
Oldskoolier
QUOTE(jase31 @ Jul 24 2006, 11:36 AM)
cough*bullshit*cough
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yup!
missvixenr
QUOTE(jase31 @ Jul 24 2006, 11:36 AM)
cough*bullshit*cough
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...i heard this story ages ago....and i never lick stamps or envelops cos you dont know where they have been...but i agree its bullsh*t tongue.gif
march Er
i've heard it before too... but if im ever sending something thru the post its a package, so i dont need to lick it anyway. fax and email have taken over the rest
Maori_Messiahr
QUOTE(jase31 @ Jul 24 2006, 12:36 PM)
cough*bullshit*cough
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roflmao

tash was scared till she read all the posts confirming that it was crap laugh.gif am i wrong Tash tongue.gif inside you know uncle Daana's correct, wink.gif correct i'm so entirly correct wink.gif tongue.gif laugh.gif tongue.gif MWAH!!!! SO CORRECT i only wrote correct cause i forgot how to spell right well not how to spell it, but if it was write or right lol tongue.gif i know it's right, but i'm not correcting myself tongue.gif MWAH!!!!
missvixenr
unsure.gif

look a monkey *points and runs and hides*
nO_iRiSr
Did somebody say... MONKEY!? AHA!... AHAHA!... AHAHAHAHA!...

*scratches head*

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Maori_Messiahr
What you don't like my monkey mad.gif he's friendly wink.gif tongue.gif
missvixenr
and back on topic...i dont like the sound of the word envelope....and i hate it whae people pronounce it 'on-velope'....sounds crap.....just my personal opinion....

tongue.gif
Jutsinr
QUOTE(jase31 @ Jul 24 2006, 12:36 PM)
cough*bullshit*cough
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Gotta agree with Jase as well.

It's an urban legend. There's about a million-zillion of them, and they're all as true as the next one (ie: not at all tongue.gif).
asianfunkphenomenar
QUOTE(missvixen @ Jul 24 2006, 08:15 PM)
and back on topic...i dont like the sound of the word envelope....and i hate it whae people pronounce it 'on-velope'....sounds crap.....just my personal opinion....

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Whats wrong with "on-vo-lope"? Thats how we pronounciate it. tongue.gif

I reckon it could happen. What if they were spider eggs?

I heard about the story where some guy had dreads and hadnt washed his hair for days; and then spider eggs that were so well hidden in his hair hatched and some crawled into his ear and laid more eggs in his head and such. True story smile.gif