when you swallow chewing gum...

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What really happens? when your younger youre told, or I was anyway, that it sticks your bones together so I was just wondering if it did have any adverse affects?

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Specializes in HIV/AIDS, Dementia, Psych.

Ummmmmm...it goes out the back door...eventually :)

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Yep, that was my understanding too - you can't digest it, so it just passes on through and out. :)

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Specializes in Inpatient Acute Rehab.

OH No!!! My momma lied to me then!!! She told me it would stick my insides together!!!

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My mom said that it could stick to your insides and never come out! She never could explain what it did once it got there though...Oh and she also said not to chew gum when you are lying down because you could choke to death on it. Gotta love her.

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Specializes in ICU.

And then there is the other big chewing gum question posed by Lonnie Donegan

DOES YOUR CHEWING GUM LOSE ITS FLAVOUR ON THE BEDPOST OVERNIGHT ?

Oh me oh my oh you

Whatever shall I do?

Hallelujah, the question is peculiar

I'd give a lot of dough

If only I could know

The answer to my question

Is it yes or is it no?

CHORUS:

Does your chewing gum lose its flavour on the bedpost overnight?

If your mother says don't chew it, do you swallow it in spite?

Can you catch it on your tonsils, can you heave it left and right?

Does your chewing gum lose its flavour on the bedpost overnight?

Here comes a blushing bride

The groom is by her side

Up to the altar, just as steady as Gibraltar

The groom has got the ring

And it's such a pretty thing

But as he slips it on her finger

The choir begins to sing:

CHORUS

Now the nation rise as one

To send their wanted son

Up to the White House, yes, the nation's only White House

To voice their discontent

Unto the Pres-I-dent

The bonny burning question, What has swept this continent?

SPOKEN: If tin whistles are made of tin, what do they make fog horns

out of?

(2nd Voice: Boom! Boom!)

CHORUS

On the bedpost overnight

(2nd Voice: Hello there, I love you and the one who holds you tight!)

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Sat'day night!

On the bedpost overnight

(2nd Voice: A dollar is a dollar and a dime is a dime!)

He'd sing another chorus but he hasn't got the time!

On the bedpost overnight, yeah!

Based on the 1924 original by Ernest Hare & Billy Jones "Does The Spearmint Lose its Flavor

On The Bedpost Overnight?

(Bloom / Breuer / Rose)

Lonnie Donegan - 1958

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DOES YOUR CHEWING GUM LOSE ITS FLAVOUR ON THE BEDPOST OVERNIGHT ?

Let me see? NOPE! Tastes just fine.

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:chuckle I heard that it stays in your system for 7 years.....but thats just what I've heard :rotfl:

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:chuckle I heard that it stays in your system for 7 years.....but thats just what I've heard :rotfl:

That was our favorite too. Boy, stays in your system for seven years. Think of the possibilities - people? What a time released pill that could be. Valium 10 mg. PO Disp: 3, Directions; Take one pill by mouth every seven years. Refills 0.

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Specializes in NICU, Peds, Med-Surg.

Speculating.......LOL over the valium Rx!

I also always heard the "7 year" rule........

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Wow - if it stayed in there for seven years I would be screwed - I swallow mine all the time - probably shouldnt, but I do...

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