Despite multiple suggestions, I am not going to question whether physical mail should still be a thing. We may not send handwritten letters as a primary form of communication anymore, but we still need stuff mailed. Financial documents, legal forms, regrettable wine-drunk Etsy purchases , you catch my drift. No, I'm here to investigate a very specific part of mail: envelopes that you have to lick to seal. Seal-and-lick envelopes were a pretty sweet invention when they first landed in society's collective inbox.
Dont lick any envelopes! - Off-Topic - bestdoll.vip
By Heaven , July 3, in Off-Topic. I got this in an email a LONG time ago like a year ago, maybe more Someone had a maggot in their eye - as in it was living in the eye!!! It was so disgusting!!! First of all, the story was not reported on CNN. Pasting such authoritative-sounding taglines into the text of hoaxes circulating on the Internet in an effort to give them credibility is commonplace, and this is just another case of some nameless prankster doing just that.
In the world according to urban folklore , horrors await us at every turn, lurking even in the most ordinary places. Consider how dangerous it can be just to lick an envelope. An urban legend circulated that cockroach eggs on envelopes could infest your tongue. It was only a hoax. A similar tale was reported as happening to a "co-worker's wife" in Virginia.
What you don't know, wont hurt you, but this one it sure is worth knowing. I used to work for an envelope company. Our plant supervisor used to work in the Chicago plant and told us not to lick the envelopes because they would often find dead rats at the bottom of the glue barrel after thousands of envelopes had been glued and shipped.