Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for April 08, 2018

Boils all over anyway you look at it.:-) There a side ☺

A carbuncle is a red, swollen, and painful cluster of boils that are connected to each other under the skin. A boil (or furuncle) is an infection of a hair follicle that has a small collection of pus (called an abscess) under the skin. Usually single, a carbuncle is most likely to occur on a hairy area of the body such as the back or nape of the neck. But a carbuncle also can develop in other areas of the body such as the buttocks, thighs, groin, and armpits.

Most carbuncles are caused by Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, which inhabit the skin surface, throat, and nasal passages. These bacteria can cause infection by entering the skin through a hair follicle, small scrape, or puncture, although sometimes there is no obvious point of entry.

Filled with pus — a mixture of old and white blood cells, bacteria, and dead skin cells — carbuncles must drain before they’re able to heal. Carbuncles are more likely than boils to leave scars.

An active boil or carbuncle is contagious: the infection can spread to other parts of the person’s body or to other people through skin-to-skin contact or the sharing of personal items. So it’s important to practice appropriate self-care measures, like keeping the area clean and covered, until the carbuncle drains and heals.

Is she planning to drain that carbuncle with her bayonet?

Don’t sit still. Keep moving. Cross and uncross your arms and legs. Stand on one foot, then the other. Lean on things. Fidget. Talk to yourself whenever you get the chance. Run one or both hands over the top of your head. Clear your throat frequently. Keep your eyes in motion. Don’t let your gaze lock onto any fixed point. Every once in a while glance up, or over your shoulder. These actions will let the person, to whom you are conveying your body language, know that you are very interested and engaged, and that you take them seriously. According to the Secret Police Handbook, anyway.

When my body talks people leave the room.

That’s not a carbuncle, that’s a nuclear explosion seen in the first picosecond.

Is she defending the home front?

Wow, was that ever sexist! With apologies, let me try again:

The platoon was ready to follow her through hell, but quietly wished she’s exercise more of a “little angle.” Or maybe direct her full frontal carbuncle at the enemy.

And now we know the origin of her obscure nickname, Carb-auntie.

…Gesundheit..

Ear and eye aches, my butt boil.

Makes me miss Fester Bestertester and Karbunkle.

Bunkle down, Winsocki, bunkle down… You can win, Winsocki, if you bunkle down… If you break their necks…if you make them wrecks…Someone please stop me before I get unbunckled.

You should never drive at an angle unless you have your seat belt bunkled.

I fear the art of coyness has been lost. Vomitus Carbuncleness is an odd sort of vanity.

Carbuncleness carbuncles frear for the loss of the vomitus carbunless vanity

Mummified Zombies, a duck of a duck is still a duck

Is that all there is? “Optimal Body-Language Rapport”?

I will gladly keep any carbuncles I may or may not have hidden from common view. And I do enjoy being an edgy kind of guy (i.e., being, as you say, “at a little bit of an angle”).

What’s your angle?

Now is the time for all Good Men [i.e., human species, either sex, any gender] to burst their carbuncles! Freedom or Death!

Happy Easter to any Orthodox readers, though people reading Frog Applause strike me as tending to be highly unorthodox….