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Peter Aitken
 
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"MaryMind" > wrote in message
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> ms. tonya wrote:
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> > On the Discovery Channel's special Parasites and Humans they were
> > talking about that case of cockroach eggs on envelope glue.
> > It did happen.
> > Couldn't watch all 2 hour special it turned my stomach.
> >

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> I don't think that's possible as it's among the 'Urban Legends' files:
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> http://urbanlegends.about.com/librar.../aa040300b.htm


If you would bother to read the urban legends site you would see that the
legend is about cockroaches hatching in peoples' tongues and the like and
not about roaches eating glue. I have seen roaches eating envelope glue so
it certainly can happen, although I do not know about the eggs.


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