So, I'm minding my own business, picking up some food basics, like milk and eggs, in the new Super Target (yes, you can't just call it Target, after they spent all that money on brighter lighting), and I'm stood at the checkout.

The woman in front of me engages the cashier in conversation, and she punctuates her sentences with nervous laughter. Then it suddenly hits me, where I'd heard that laugh before... Janice on Friends. It was exactly like it. I'd always assumed the whole "Janice's laugh" was just a fictional thing.

I think it was Basil Fawlty who once described that kind of laugh as sounding like, "someone machine-gunning a seal".