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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-26-06 05:22 PM
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Don't you hate when you forget a word? Happenstance...
I'm looking for a word that means roughly the same thing as happenstance... but more like good things happening completley by accident, unplanned...

I think it starts with an "f"... and it's a funny word. Not fortuitous or fortunate or anything plain like that.
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Spider Jerusalem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-26-06 05:23 PM
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1. Felicitous.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-26-06 05:23 PM
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2. No, thanks...
it's funnier than that.

Not funny ha-ha... funny strange. Unusual like. Uncommon.

I'm not even sure it's an 'f' word.

GRRRRRR
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-26-06 05:23 PM
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3. Fluke or fortuity are what comes to mind.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-26-06 05:26 PM
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5. thanks ... appreciate the effort
this is driving me nuts
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-26-06 05:26 PM
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7. That's okay. Now I'm thinking of a certain word.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-26-06 05:57 PM
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10. And that word would be...
?
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-26-06 05:25 PM
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4. well it's not happy...but it's joy at another's expense...schadenfreude
It's all I can think of.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-26-06 05:26 PM
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6. yeah
but this is like a way of finding things

by chance

happy things... good things, i think
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-26-06 05:27 PM
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8. serendipity?
yer welcome
;-)
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-26-06 05:28 PM
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9. GOD BLESS YOU!
:loveya:
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-26-06 05:58 PM
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11. That didn't begin with an F
;)
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wildhorses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-26-06 05:59 PM
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12. have trouble pronouncing your "ess" words as a child??
f=s :rofl:

and don't forget zodiac! and thanks for the pix;)
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-26-06 06:02 PM
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13. Thenkew. I am the wordsmith. I'll be around again tomorrow.
;-)
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