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If you lick your envelopes...You won't anymore!!!!

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 cut her tongue on the envelope.
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 roach 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.

2) 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!"

3) To All:
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 envelops that were already printed for a
customer who was doing a mailing and saw several
squads of roaches roaming around inside a couple of
boxes with eggs everywhere. They eat the glue on the
envelopes. I think print shops have a harder time
controlling roaches than a restaurant. I always buy
the self sealing type. Or if need be I use a glue
stick to seal one that has the type of glue that needs
to be wet to stick.

PLEASE PASS THIS ON, if you like, TO YOUR FRIENDS.
After reading this you will never lick another
envelope or stamp ever again.
Ice Tea
6:00:39 PM
9/17/03

must be a hoax
Ice Tea
6:00:55 PM
9/17/03

Thats nice!


But not real!


8\
Crazy Mike Backpacks
6:02:01 PM
9/17/03

I lick.
bacpac
6:02:58 PM
9/17/03

I've used sponges for years
Ice Tea
6:07:15 PM
9/17/03

Sponges offer better protection
Ice Tea
6:07:46 PM
9/17/03

What? You don't like roach eggs? What's wrong with you?
PackMonkey
6:07:59 PM
9/17/03

Oh come now...you have to get your protein somehow..
deathmarch99
6:10:07 PM
9/17/03

George Costanza's fiance.
Tilt
6:12:33 PM
9/17/03

I've heard of this before. I only lick the stamps, I find someone else dumb enough to like the envelopes


PS. Working on 2nd beer now in half an hour.
Free24
6:24:36 PM
9/17/03



Sigh...

You'd think that, with all the urban legends floating around on the internet, that more people would bother to check with an urban-legends clearinghouse like Snopes before promulgating yet another urban legend. Here's Snopes' take on cockroach-eggs hoaxes.

Forrest
9:40:52 PM
9/17/03

who cares if its a hoax...
Its glue, made up of either varied chemicals...or melted down horse. I haven't licked an envelope in years, and I now but self stick stamps.

Here's a thought for you...licking stamps and envelopes is just like licking a horsesass. Now...go lick.
stikmon
10:07:26 PM
9/17/03

Horses ass? Isn't that where Spam comes from?
ULTRAPecker
10:09:18 PM
9/17/03

yep...
spam=horseass
stikmon
10:17:00 PM
9/17/03

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