Cachinnation

ABC WEDNESDAY

http://abcwednesday-mrsnesbitt.blogspot.com/

 

CACHINNATION!

I have done it, so have you!

It's an easy thing to do!

I've cachinnated I admit,

And made an awful mess of it!

As a schoolgirl, filled with dread,

I was up before the 'Head',

For some dreadful foul misdeed

Unfit for your pure eyes to read!

With lowered eyes I looked demure;

Penitent and prim and pure.

And then I saw Miss Ross disclose

A great big pimple on her nose!

I cachinnated, snorted, sniggered,

My face, with pent-up mirth, disfigured!

I'd like to say that was the last time,

But cachinnating became a pastime!

On countless times since then, I fear,

I've cachinnated loud and clear!

Weddings? There's a situation

Designed for awful cachinnation!

Someone's hat may set me off!

I try to  pretend I have a cough,

But then I catch another's eye

And both of us simply let fly

Snorting, spluttering, cachinnating....
Absolutely devastating!

I can ruin a celebration

With unbounded cachinnation!

*

'What' you say 'Is cachinnation?'

Read below for an explanation.

*

* Laughter at an inappropriate time.

----------------------------------------------------

QUID PRO QUO
(An Acrostic)

Questions arise about this phrase!
Unless they’re answered I’m in a daze!
Is the meaning 'tit-for-tat'?
'Do this for me and I’ll do that?'
*
Perhaps the Latin suits it better
Revealing the meaning in each letter.
Or do we use Latin to be clever?
*
Queries just go on for ever.
Useless to explain the reason
Out goes Latin till next season!
*