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Old November 15th, 2006, 09:43 PM
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Don't lick your envelopes!

Here's something to think about. 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 roach 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...


i am buying the self sealing ones from now on
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Old November 15th, 2006, 09:51 PM
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It's just another urban legend.

But you knew that...didn't you?
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Old November 15th, 2006, 09:51 PM
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Email it to all your friends and acquaintances.
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Old November 15th, 2006, 09:52 PM
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Unhappy

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
GROSS!!!!!!
not even going to buy stamps anymore...will bring them to the post officeand let them stamp my bills...eeeeeeeewwwwwwwwww!!!!!

poor lady...
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Old November 15th, 2006, 09:54 PM
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I looked to see if was a wind up as well and missed it.. what would we do with out you Rockboy.......TA

I suppose it could happen.. i have heard stories of nastie creatures that can bury in your skin and hatch out...
Gross
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Old November 15th, 2006, 09:58 PM
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I had a similar problem awhile back but it wasn't an envelope I was licking.
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Old November 15th, 2006, 10:04 PM
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I looked to see if was a wind up as well and missed it..
I used your thread title to search.
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Old November 15th, 2006, 10:05 PM
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I had a similar problem awhile back but it wasn't an envelope I was licking.
Would you care to elaborate?
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Old November 15th, 2006, 10:07 PM
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I had a similar problem awhile back but it wasn't an envelope I was licking.


all stamps and envelopes I get are self adhesive anyways

are cockroach eggs that titchy?

Thank goodness for snopes
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Old November 15th, 2006, 10:10 PM
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Would you care to elaborate?
I had a few to many and thought I was eating a taco. That's all I'm going to say dammit!
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Old November 15th, 2006, 11:47 PM
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Yeah, it's an urban legend but.. don't lick alot of envelopes in a short time. Just use a wet rag or something.
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Old November 16th, 2006, 10:30 AM
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Yeah, it's an urban legend but.. don't lick alot of envelopes in a short time. Just use a wet rag or something.
Im not licking anything.... ever.. urband legend or not
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Old November 16th, 2006, 11:28 AM
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Yeah, it's an urban legend but.. don't lick alot of envelopes in a short time. Just use a wet rag or something.
The glue tastes horrible...
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Old November 16th, 2006, 04:52 PM
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Being someone who works in a post office, just use a wet sponge to seal envelopes. That is what we use at work.
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Old November 16th, 2006, 05:12 PM
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I will not lick envelopes. I will only purchase those that have self sticking adhesive. The plant I work in makes envelopes for greeting cards. If you have ever seen the machines that apply the glue, you would not lick them either. Also I have seen the msds (material safety data sheets) for the glue - Not pretty. Finally some of the operators/setup chew tobacco, guess where the spit goes.
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