Ray's Thought for the Day

I apologize to everyone in advance for what I, Ray am about to spell. I have striven long against this spell, but I am weak, weak and I caint hep myself.

Ever since Crumby and Hope started the fuss about caruncles, I, Ray have been reflectin' on the similar spell, carbuncles. Not the jewels carbuncles either, but those carbuncles that are known to afflict the dermis of mammals and even localized deep tissues in the general vicinity of the afflicted dermis forming large purulent sores that are of even greater dimension and attitude than boils.

Now I have never officially had a carbuncle on my dermis, but I had a boil on my back for a good while that waxed to a great size and ultimately required much ministration from many of the Cowbarn Druidry to effect its eventual destruction, for verily it waxed huge and had many lives. And though I have always thought of it fondly as an extraordinary great boil, it may, in fact, have qualified as a carbuncle. I still carry a scar on my back from that particular boil if anyone would like to inspect it,(the scar) and perhaps measure its dimensions with a ruler. Lucky for me the Kingship of the Ulaid didn't come open whilst I was afflicted with that boil. I would have been, disqualified, due to that boil, er perhaps, carbuncle.