Cackling
Women who cackle are almost always superior to women who don’t. -Linda Holmes
I noticed lately that I have been cackling more. (Which, according to the above quote, is a good thing, so I am fine with it.) I first embraced the cackling a few weeks ago, during an episode of The Amazing Race in which Colin completely melted down because of an ox. I had just had a long day of work, and I came home to watch him meltdown. And I cackled.
According to the definition, cackling is not the most appealing form of laughter. But it feels good to cackle when you read something snarky or you see something like Colin’s meltdown. On Sunday when the outgoing music minister was speaking to the congregation and said, “I feel like I just won an Oscar!” and then went on a little too long. I leaned over to Mike and said, “I dare the organist to ‘play her off the stage.’” It’s a good thing it was the end of the service, because it was definitely a cackling moment. I have been cackling at things I read, strange things at work, and stories Mike tells me about his classmates.
There are moments to giggle and moments to chortle, moments to roll on the floor and moments to (unsuccessfully) laugh quietly when you’re not supposed to be laughing. Cackling is a little bit of funny plus a little bit of schadenfreude (which I expect Geof will take as a shout-out) mixed in with a slightly twisted sense of humor. And I have been enjoying the cackling lately. Very much indeed.
September 28th, 2004 at
i don’t know that i’ve ever heard your cackle.
September 28th, 2004 at
I do!
As for cackling, it’s a guilty pleasure.
September 28th, 2004 at
That’s because we usually talk over email and the board and blogs. Because I have definitely cackled at some of our conversations.
*ack ack ack*
September 28th, 2004 at
Kari-
I so just cackled at the “play him off stage” comment.
I have notice that I cackle more at work now that I read blogs and boards online….
September 28th, 2004 at
are you saying you’re…cackling at me?
September 28th, 2004 at
I’d say the “play him off the stage” comment got more of a “tee hee” out of me.
September 28th, 2004 at
I think this means your becoming an old women at such a young age.
September 28th, 2004 at
Cackling is liberating…or something.
But it’s okay if Alisa thinks you are becoming an old woman at a young age. You are in good company…with me. 
September 28th, 2004 at
Snarky. hehehe.
September 28th, 2004 at
I’m excited to be an old woman who cackles.
September 28th, 2004 at
What the crap is a cackle? When I think about it, I hear The Penguin from one of the Batman movies laughing…is THAT what you do, Kari & Co.?
October 5th, 2004 at
Kari can’t be old … that makes me old.