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    Default This is a true story reported on CNN.

    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!!!!

    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.

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    Ew. It sounds unbelievable.

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    In which way can a cockroach live in her tongue?

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    Quote Originally Posted by dotAV_nguTV View Post
    Ew. It sounds unbelievable.
    Unbelievable , but in fact everything is possible happening.
    Quote Originally Posted by stbk2006 View Post
    In which way can a cockroach live in her tongue?
    I think it may be because when the girl was licking the envelopes and got a cut on her tongue there was either a tiny cockroach or an egg got into her open cut and it had traped inside. don't you think?
    Thất bại lớn nhất của đời người là tự đại
    Đáng thương nhất của đời người là tự ti.
    Tự đại + Tự ti = thất bại đáng thương nhất

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    Quote Originally Posted by stbk2006 View Post
    In which way can a cockroach live in her tongue?
    I think this is an "urban legend".

    http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/coc..._licking_2.htm

    Consider this. A pregnant cockroach carries her eggs in a hard capsule called an ootheca, in which they incubate, intact, until the larvae (or "nymphs") hatch, bursting the capsule open from the inside. The eggs themselves are tiny and delicate, and couldn't survive at all outside the ootheca, let alone flourish within the body of a mammalian host. It would be highly improbable, is what I'm saying, to find viable cockroach eggs strewn about on random surfaces — least of all on the folded flap of an envelope.

    Consider, too, the logical inconsistencies in the story. How is it that when the victim visited her doctor the first time, reporting a paper cut and showing visible signs of "abnormal swelling," he found "nothing wrong"? And what was the point, during the second doctor visit, of x-raying the poor woman's tongue? The "lump" allegedly detected by the x-ray was already in plain sight.

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    Advocacy for killing all the cockroaches!

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    Time for some urban language! What a load of b****cks! haha

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    I found myself amused to have made you laugh, Tricky four tits too. Hhahahaha

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tanyenbai View Post
    I found myself amused to have made you laugh, Tricky four tits too. Hhahahaha
    Haha.... so what is the significance of 42? It does have significance.

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