This is GROSS!! *warning*

[Marilyn]

I buy envelopes with peal & stick tabs. They cost a little more, but no licking!!!!

[Amber_lv]

OMG i'm so glad i do everything over the phone i don't even own an envalope or stamp but this is so gross!

From now on I'll tape mine. GAG

LOL

This is totally not true!

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/tacobell.asp

Expectant roaches carry their eggs in a largish brown sac called an ootheca, a firm-walled egg case attached to Mama Roach's posterior. A roach ootheca is about the size of dried bean, not something that could be worked into anyone's gum line.

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

Consider this. A pregnant roach 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. The eggs themselves can't survive at all outside the ootheca, let alone flourish within the body of a mammalian host. You're not likely to find individual cockroach eggs strewn about on random surfaces, in other words — certainly not across the flap of an envelope.

[BabyNicole]

Originally Posted by KellyV

LOL

This is totally not true!

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/tacobell.asp


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

I figured it was an urban legend. I was just going to check Snopes, and you beat me too it. Nice job!

[highlans]

Still not going to lick ( just in case).

[RLC12345678]

Yeah, I had heard the one about Taco Bell, but not envelopes! That is disgusting! And considering I have a HUGE phobia for "R"s (see, I can't even say or type the name of those wretched insects), I will be taping my envelopes from now on. I know it is an urban legend, but it's better to be safe than sorry!

[BabyNicole]

Originally Posted by highlans

Still not going to lick ( just in case).

Even though it's an urban legend, I was giving my friend a bday card today, and I tucked the flap! LOLOL

[Sherry Lynn]

Originally Posted by Marilyn

I buy envelopes with peal & stick tabs. They cost a little more, but no licking!!!!

That's what I use...

weather true or not, I heard that years ago and i use a wet sponge to seal mine ever since....I dont lick anything anymore lol that is gross and could very well happen.