Author Topic: Never lick an Postage Envelopes (Read 2109 times)

Binechi · « **on:** January 23, 2014, 08:54:26 AM »

> Never Lick An Postage Envelopes...... CAUTION.....MUST SHARE THIS

One day a girl 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 INFO TO
> YOUR FRIENDS. After reading this you will never lick another envelope or
> stamp.

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soulguard · « **Reply #1 on:** January 23, 2014, 02:53:14 PM »

Well!

Im never opening a letter from your country ever again!

We dont even have cockroaches in this country, I dont want to be the first to contaminate the emerald isle by being a living host for spores of symbiotic cockroach larvific parasites within me!

Not my cup of tea.

Frances · « **Reply #2 on:** January 23, 2014, 03:49:08 PM »

:dancing-banana:THE FUNGUS IS AMUNG US!!!! :jumping2:

Dolores · « **Reply #3 on:** January 23, 2014, 03:56:06 PM »

This is a false Internet rumor that originated in the late 1990s:

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/insects/cockroacheggs.asp

http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/cockroaches/a/fear_of_licking.htm

Nadir · « **Reply #4 on:** January 24, 2014, 02:05:27 AM »

Quote from: Dolores

This is a false Internet rumor that originated in the late 1990s:

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/insects/cockroacheggs.asp

http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/cockroaches/a/fear_of_licking.htm

Cockroach eggs are dark coloured and quite easily spotted, besides I don't think they'd easily stick to an envelope. Sounds very far-fatched as Dolores has indicated.

That doesn't mean I'll be licking any envelopes. There are other (microscopic) nasties about.

Neil Obstat · « **Reply #5 on:** January 24, 2014, 03:59:02 AM »

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Cockroach eggs vary in size depending on the variety but many of them are the size off small beans, others the size of rice grains and some about the size of grains of sand. But they're all bigger than flea eggs, which are like very small grains of sand, but you can see them with the naked eye and they look just like "eggs" like in chicken eggs, but only very tiny. And when you break them, you can see they look like a broken chicken egg, just without all the yellow yolk inside. Roach eggs are big enough to crush between your fingernails, but they're pretty sturdy.

Would you notice grains of sand on the envelope you're liking? I think so!

So for cockroach eggs to be "stuck" to envelope glue, you would be saying, "What are these bumps on the envelope?" -- especially if you're LICKING them.

Now anthrax or small pox spores, or plague cells, that might be a problem!

Quasimodo · « **Reply #6 on:** January 24, 2014, 07:40:50 AM »

I like the taste of the glue. There are probably bug eggs in the food we eat anyway. I will continue to lick them.

Frances · « **Reply #7 on:** January 25, 2014, 12:06:14 AM »

Quote from: Quasimodo

I like the taste of the glue. There are probably bug eggs in the food we eat anyway. I will continue to lick them.

:dancing-banana:Don't lick envelopes on Friday. You know what glue is made of, right?