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#1 2024-09-17 12:33:40

Peter Forster
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From: UK
Registered: 2006-09-06
Posts: 1258

'happens dance' for 'happenstance'

If we allow ‘happen’ to join ‘happening’ in signifying a spontaneous, unplanned event, by happens dance suggests serendipity, occurrences just waltzing into existence.

So it was Carruthers’ chance and, just by happens dance we started chatting and we became good friends. And then life happens, college happens, we went …

I’m a very emotional person, haha. So, um, if you are just arriving now, I posted a video of a wedding that I saw by happens dance. because I ..

And just by happens dance, an old friend of mine called yesterday and this is like my, my old roommate from college.

You are a military child by happens dance. But you’ve proven to be so much more.

Because if by happens dance. we dived into a grandiose World War 3, or we were invaded by other countries, or by aliens, or if the world …

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#2 2024-09-17 13:53:28

DavidTuggy
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From: Mexico
Registered: 2007-10-11
Posts: 2752
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Re: 'happens dance' for 'happenstance'

I love it! Thank you, Peter! My funny bone will be dancing on this one for a while!


*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .

(Possible Corollary: it is, and we are .)

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#3 2024-09-29 09:58:12

David Bird
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From: The Hammer, Ontario
Registered: 2009-07-28
Posts: 1702

Re: 'happens dance' for 'happenstance'

Beauty. An addition to my favourites list.

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