We have all heard it, a snort then a laugh, or a laugh then a snort.
We called it the Catholic School Girl snort or just the Catholic Snort. I was told that it develops, mostly in girls, in catholic school from trying not to laugh out loud (which would get you in trouble.)
Do you snort?
Were you raised Catholic or attend Catholic school?
Oh, we call it the Geek Snort since it somehow manages to follow really convoluted and/or silly in-jokes.
I snort.
I was raised by atheists and attended a public school.
I snort sometimes, and not when I’m repressing a laugh. It just sort of happens, and I’m a bit embarrassed by it since it’s such a classically nerdy thing to do.
I snort sometimes when I’m laughing really hard and trying to stop.
Not Catholic.
Snorter here! It developed over the last few years, so definitely not related to my schooling or religion.
Yes, I snort when I’m laughing hard. I’ve only been in a Catholic Church once in my life…to watch my dad get married. I did not attend Catholic school; hell I barely attended school at all.
Yes. So does my daughter. I am the anti-catholic.
On a rare occasion, a snort will slip out. I was raised Catholic and went to Catholic high school, but I am, no more.
I blame the Car Talk guys for their negative influence on me, though.
I’m Catholic and I don’t snort. Of course I sat towards the front in school and was a good girl so I wouldn’t have been suppressing laughter.
It only occurs on rare occasions,when I have sinus allergies. I would certainly work on correcting it, if I did it often. It is after all a pig sound, and who wants to sound like a pig when they laugh.
Not a Catholic, but an occasional snorter, usually when I’m helpless with laughter. And definitely the Car Talk guys have brought snorting to a whole new level of publicness.
I’m a snorter from a long line of snorters, it’s rather embarrassing sometimes.
Not a one of us Catholic.
Unfortunately yes…if I get to laughing too hard I will and I HATE it. I try to avoid it all costs. 
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My mom is a major snorter. It’s her “second level laugh.”
First level–normal laugh
Second level–loud snorting
Third level–high-pitched strangled-sounding wheezing.
I LIVE to get my mom to the third level.
She’s Jewish, and went to public school.
I, fortunately, didn’t inherit the snorting gene.
Yep, I’ve been known to snort. Alas, that only makes whatever I was laughing at even funnier.
Occasionally.
When I really find something funny, my Green Beans Third level, I make no noise at all. It apparently looks really hilarious and weird. I’ll shake and sometimes tears come out of my eyes, but nary a sound until I manage to breathe a bit.
I am not a snorter but a friend is.
Her husband and I have made a game of it. We have a standing competition to see who can get the most snorts in a row. His personal best is 21. Mine is only 16.
I’m not Catholic but I snort occasionally. I can’t recall ever doing it except when my daughter and I get carried away with gigglefits and we both end up “honking”.