DONT LICK A STAMP
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maybe its old story to some.... and it might well be another urban legend....
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 -
i read from somewhere tt every stamp u lick u are consuming 1/10 calorie!
now got those self adhesive ones mah, no need to lick lah -
hmmm, then use spermy lor
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Originally posted by mistyblue:maybe its old story to some.... and it might well be another urban legend....
Might well?
I think it sure is, if you never check back to the person who mailed you this. -
if it was really reported on CNN, then could be real ..
there should be video clip or picture captured -
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anything that says this is fake.Originally posted by mistyblue:PLEASE PASS THIS ON, TO YOUR FRIENDS. -
+1Originally posted by the.owl:anything that says this is fake.
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PLEASE PASS THIS ON, TO YOUR FRIENDS. After reading this you will never lick another envelope or stamp again
i luv these sentences -
For goodness' sake... please do your research and check whether it is an urban legend before passing on any unfounded rumours...
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ohh....Originally posted by sgboy2004:hmmm, then use spermy lor -
I am not against morphing this into a talk crap thread
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Mistyblue mistyblue.. tsk tsk -
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hai ... boring mah...Originally posted by DriftingGuy:Mistyblue mistyblue.. tsk tsk 
So post something stupid and let people talk crap ... ease some stress and make people laugh abit... 
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Convert your stress to disgust by posting that peekture of worms in a woman's faceOriginally posted by mistyblue:hai ... boring mah... So post something stupid and let people talk crap ... ease some stress and make people laugh abit... -
Don't you hate people who spread these evil words... I hope they get their deserve...
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Eukk! Stupid chain letters!
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shd be real as its shown in CNN.
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can lick money or not?
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there is this sugar cane thing, its true
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J.H. Daugrois1 , V. Dumont1, P. Champoiseau1, L. Costet2, R. Boisne-Noc1 and P. Rott3(1) Station de Roujol, CIRAD-CA, 97170, Petit Bourg, Guadeloupe, French West Indies
(2) Laboratoire de Phytopathologie, CIRAD, BP 180, 97455 Saint Pierre Cedex, Réunion Island, France
(3) UMR 385 ENSAM-INRA-CIRAD Biologie et Génétique des Interactions Plante-Parasite, TA 71/09, Avenue Agropolis, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
Abstract Two sugarcane plots were set up in Guadeloupe with disease-free tissue cultured plants in a banana growing location distant from sugarcane fields. Thirteen weeks after planting sugarcane in the field, a Xanthomonas albilineans strain belonging to serotype 3 (strain XaS3) was detected in water sampled at sunrise on the leaves in the first plot. This strain randomly invaded the sugarcane canopy. Seven weeks later, a new strain belonging to serotype 1 (strain XaS1) appeared on leaves and populations of strain XaS1 progressively increased on the leaf surface, whereas populations of strain XaS3 progressively decreased. Leaf scald symptoms were first noted 26 weeks after sugarcane planting. However, only strain XaS1 was isolated from leaves and a few sugarcane stalks showing symptoms. Both strains also colonized the second field plot, which was studied at the end of the experiment to avoid human interference of aerial contamination of sugarcane. After inoculation of three sugarcane cultivars by the decapitation technique, strain XaS1 was as virulent or more virulent than five other strains of X. albilineans isolated from diseased sugarcane plants in Guadeloupe. Although strain XaS3 colonized a few stalks, it failed to produce any symptoms and was the least virulent strain. Leaf surface colonization by X. albilineans was reproduced in a greenhouse trial by spraying the pathogen on sugarcane foliage. After 8 weeks, the pathogen was isolated from disinfected leaf blades. Although the leaf scald pathogen is thought to be mainly transmitted by infected cuttings, aerial transmission of X. albilineans is also known to occur. These results indicate the importance of sugarcane phyllosphere colonization by virulent strains in the epidemiological cycle of leaf scald disease in Guadeloupe.