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Originally posted by Sylvia
Well, okay, so at one time, "cooties" were real. But, now since we call lice "lice", then that makes cooties a useless word. That is, until children started using it. (maybe it started with girls because they had long hair. just a thought.) Okay, forget the last sentence. Maybe, the cildren actually used "cooties" to mean "lice", but, the original meaning was eventually forgotten, and started pertaining to everybody, not just people who had lice.
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You're correct about the long hair thing... I had completely forgotten about that part. Boys said that girls had cooties, because of their long hair. (lice.. hair) But, yes, it did turn into some lame thing that meant (fake) germs from the opposite sex...