On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 18:55:27 -0500, zxcvbob >
wrote:

>PENMART01 wrote:
>> If you lick your envelopes ... You won't anymore!!! 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 cut her tongue on the envelope. 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 roach 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...
>
>Impossible. Have you ever seen cockroach eggs? They are much larger
>than you might expect.
>
>>
>> This is a true story reported on CNN.
>
>Well, with a citation like that, I guess it *must* be true. (if you
>believe this story, I've got a cookie recipe for sale...)
>
>Bob

There was a rumor all my growing up life that if you cut yourself on
coral, in the ocean, that coral would grow inside your skin, so we
were always very careful to really rinse that coral cut. Well of
course it was not true and was only made barely plausible to
youngsters because coral cuts got very infected so the site would
swell and fester. Coral is made up of many little tiny animals and
they cause nasty infections.

I doubt that anything, except for human cells, can grow in a human.
aloha,
skeptical Thunder


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