1. You shouldn't eat the very end of a banana--the stem end--because there is an amoeba that lives right there on the tip.
2. The moon makes light. Don't you see it shining in the sky at night?
3. Viruses and Bacteria didn't exist in Jesus' day. They didn't come into existence until people began using fertilizer on their gardens.
4. Fever blisters are caused by a virus that lives at the base of your spine, down by your tailbone. It hides there until you get a cold. Then it runs out from its hiding place in your spine all the way to your lip where it makes a sore.
5. Whether or not you get fever blisters depends on how old you were when you got the chicken pox. If you got them before age 3, you get fever blisters. If you got them after age 3, you don't. Or else it's the other way around.
6. You can have black clouds and white clouds in the same sky:
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I never heard that fever blister/chicken pox connection before, but I'm gonna say that you probably get fever blisters if you had chicken pox before you turned three. Everyone in my family had them after the age of three and none of us get fever blisters.
The clouds are awesome.
OMG -- THAT was hilarious!!!! Thank you!!!!
There's an amoeba in the tip of a banana? EEK!
Actually they've gotten some of the facts twisted (surprise!) but the Herpes virus *does* so that. :)
Amy, none of these are true. Fever blisters are caused by the herpes simplex 1 virus. You get it from contact--usually kissing--someone infected with the virus. It has nothing to do with chicken pox.
Sus, you're welcome. It's even funnier when the person telling you this is dead serious!
Opal, not to worry. There isn't really.
Sharon, after hearing this, I did some research and couldn't find anything supporting it. The only article I found stating where it hides said that it stays in a nerve near the cheekbone--not the tailbone.
A few years ago, I had a case of shingles, which the doctor told me was a virus related to chicken pox - I believe he said that if you have had chicken pox, you could get shingles because you carry that virus. I have also heard that the virus is related to fever blisters, but do not know this as a fact. I get FB about once a year. Although all of my family has had chicken-pox, they never get fever blisters (my mom does). I have also heard that fever blisters are at type of herpes, but not the same as the sexually transmitted herpes (which I do NOT have). It is funny what you hear on the subject.
Beautiful sky! This morning the Okie sky was an awesome orange, but I could not get a good photo of it.
Lou, you can get shingles as a complication from chicken pox. Chicken Pox is caused by the Varicella zoster virus, which is in the herpes family.
Fever blisters are also a type of herpes. They are caused by Herpes Simplex 1. Genital Herpes is caused by Herpes Simplex 2.
Skies are devilishly hard to get good pictures of!
What!?! No references for these Mississippi-specific (one assumes) facts?
Why, you'll never get your PhD like this, Girl! ;-)
Ok, ya want references. Here ya go.
1. Mary Ann
2. Norma
3. Also Norma
4. Bubba
5. Mary Ann--again
Don't know any of them? They're all co-workers or former co-workers of mine. Bubba is the one who told me about his stuff falling out of his drawers that time.
Oops! You didn't want to hear that, did you?
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