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What's your laugh like? What's the strangest laugh you've ever heard? Have you ever broken up with anyone because of their laugh? Why do we laugh anyway?

― N., Tuesday, 20 August 2002 06:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Hello future gigglers.

― N., Tuesday, 20 August 2002 06:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm cultivating a coquettish, simpering giggle; my normal laugh is more a hyperventilating hyena. Sometimes with an embarrasing snort at the end. urgh.

― petra jane (petra jane), Tuesday, 20 August 2002 07:49 (twenty-three years ago)

sometimes i laugh like a horse. then i gallop away in pure shame.

― nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 20 August 2002 07:55 (twenty-three years ago)

A girl in my freshman dorm laughed like she was having an orgasm. As I recall, it was mostly in her 'come down' breaths after each fit.

Complimenting someone's laugh is pure gold. Mine was once complimented for being "breathy" and I melted.

― bnw (bnw), Tuesday, 20 August 2002 08:08 (twenty-three years ago)

On a teenage school exchange to Germany I was sitting in a cafe in Frankfurt with some of my German freunde. Whenever someone around the table said something funny, one girl would laugh like a wheezing sealion. Well, it was just embarrassing. In the end, I commented on it - hoping that making a joke might make it less uncomfortable. Silence. My host-German turned to me and whispered 'You realise that she has just had one of her lungs removed?

― jerry the nipper, Tuesday, 20 August 2002 08:10 (twenty-three years ago)

That reminds me of the time I spent ages making fun of a blind kid for not noticing what I was doing. I had been playing with him all afternoon and not twigged.

― N., Tuesday, 20 August 2002 08:28 (twenty-three years ago)

THEY REMOVE LUNGS!?!?!?!?

― Dan I., Tuesday, 20 August 2002 08:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Only if your laugh is especially obnoxious.

― N., Tuesday, 20 August 2002 08:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Darn lungs, always getting in the way.

I have an odd laugh that tacks itself on to half my sentences. Very strange.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 August 2002 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

once my roommate was visiting our neighbors and they asked him, so who's the guy that laughs really really loud?

― Josh (Josh), Tuesday, 20 August 2002 14:49 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm sorry josh. i didn't realize i was being so obnoxious.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 20 August 2002 14:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Am I alone in really, really liking Janice on Friends? Including the laugh that everyone on the show really hates?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 20 August 2002 19:02 (twenty-three years ago)

i cackle like a witch. i think. i can't think of any wierd laughs at the mo, but my mum has the strangest sneeze. we laugh cos it feels good.

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 20 August 2002 22:42 (twenty-three years ago)

My voice is so deep that I can't giggle, and my laugh tends to be more of a chortle in my throat (perhaps like a dove?)

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 20 August 2002 23:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I have three laughs: a cackling giggle which is highly annoying to even me, a deep booming belly laugh for stuff that is actually REALLY funny, and a silent, shaking laughter for when things are so hysterically funny that I am in danger of wetting myself.

― rainy, Tuesday, 20 August 2002 23:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I snort sometimes. Then people make fun of me. Other than that my laugh is fairly dull, just "*exhale* ah-ah-ah"

― Maria, Wednesday, 21 August 2002 00:40 (twenty-three years ago)

hee hee. Like rainy I have a few ; quite similar to ones she mentioned. I prefer the haw haw hoo hoo hooo ones that are usually accompanied with tears, and the others that make me double over and hold my stomach.
In regard to the breaking up with someone because of their laugh; almost, I knew it wasnt going to work with this person because I really couldnt stand the sound of his laughter, and probably because he didnt laugh enough so it came as a shock every time. :)

― jeskam, Wednesday, 21 August 2002 11:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I have two: a hideous cackle and a Muttley-esque snigger

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 21:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Ihe short snort exhalations which usually indicate a contemptuous appreciation of stupidity I eschew on the basis that I myself am stupid in the first place.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 22:26 (twenty-three years ago)

lol

― webber (webber), Thursday, 22 August 2002 03:50 (twenty-three years ago)

ROFL

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 22 August 2002 04:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mary Poppins:
Some people laugh through their noses
Sounding something like this: "Mmm..."
Some people laugh through their teeth -- goodness sakes!
Hissing and fizzing like snakes

Bert:
Some laugh too fast
Some only blast - ha!
Others, they twitter like birds
Then there's the kind
What can't make up their mind

Uncle Albert:
When things strike me as funny
I can't hide it inside
And squeak as the squeakelers do
I've got to let go with a ho-ho-ho...
And a ha-ha-ha too!

All:
We love to laugh
Loud and long and clear
We love to laugh
So ev'rybody can hear
The more you laugh
The more you fill with glee
And the more the glee
The more we're a merrier we!

― Paul Eater (eater), Thursday, 22 August 2002 04:04 (twenty-three years ago)

nine years pass...

You may want to click the video to watch it on youtube where you can enable subtitles (CC button).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOCJT2T8Rr4

This is Dutch TV visiting Huug Bosse, a man who can't stop laughing after a full anesthetic for a hip operation.

At first you can't help laughing together with him, but then it becomes tragic: his wife tells about how nobody visits them anymore, she can't actually have a conversation with him anymore because it's so annoying.

It ends with the only thing that makes him cry: the national anthem. (which makes his wife laugh in turn)

― StanM, Saturday, 24 March 2012 00:24 (fourteen years ago)

three years pass...

― jerry the nipper, Tuesday, 20 August 2002 08:10 (12 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

twist in the tale: this was an hilarious joke by the Germans on jtn

I have had several good belly laughs over the weekend and today and its a very nice thing indeed, are we belly laughing enough as a rule, ilx?

― irl lol (darraghmac), Monday, 13 July 2015 15:16 (ten years ago)

I probably have at least one good belly laugh a day on average, but I fill the space between with titters and chortles aplenty. What can I say, guys: I just love to laugh!

― Something Called Fudge (Old Lunch), Monday, 13 July 2015 15:23 (ten years ago)

Hi 5

― irl lol (darraghmac), Monday, 13 July 2015 15:23 (ten years ago)

seven years pass...

"'Ha ha' and 'he he' signify laughter in Latin and in English, because they are cried out when laughing."

Wonderful evidence here in Ælfric's Grammar that 'ha ha' has been the sound and spelling of laughter in English since at least the 11th century and the Old English period. pic.twitter.com/p2o9whW0mG
— Danny Bate (@DannyBate4) June 11, 2023

― mark s, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 13:35 (two years ago)

Cool.

― Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 14:07 (two years ago)

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