Do you lick envelopes?

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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, which 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.
 
they do make the glue out of some dodgy stuff but that sounds like classic internet myth to me
 
I think if you believe that it's windaes (windows, for those of you in the south) you've been licking, not envelopes :naughty:
 
Would they be the ones on her monitor?
 
I'm 32 years old. I've got this far by licking envelopes, using mobile phones, catching buses late at night, flashing my lights at other drivers who forgot to turn theirs on etc etc

I think I'll be fine if I don't "Pass this on" ;)
 
myth or not , makes no odds to me , i only use selfseal envelopes :lol:
 
I find the self-seal sticky drags all the spit off my tongue...bleeeurgh...
 
Anything that claims it's a true story and then doesn't provide a link is usually complete ********. :p

I lick envelopes and stamps (well not any more...), however I lick them so infrequently I don't care.
 
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