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#1 2016-12-27 20:30:57

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

It's just a cool incidence

Our house was broken into and then exactly two weeks later a man came knocking on our door from pinnacle security and offered us an alarm system i grew suspicious at that moment but i later thought its just a cool incidence.
Yahoo questions

Do you think there might be a rule stating that if asked a question, one must not hold back anything? Or do you think it’s just a cool incidence that every time someone asks for information, the host says “I’ll hold back nothing” and does not hesitate to tell the story?
Literature blog

no I didn’t have anything to do with the song , just a cool incidence of serendipity. smile
Celebrity chef

It likely is not a coolincidence that this occurs at the same time as the immunity deal.
Breitbart innuendo

This one makes reference to the coolth of the incidence:

i hate it..but its a coolincident. although its not cool.. hahaha
http://mybeautifulpupu.blogspot.ca/2007 … lo_27.html

I like it. It’s not just a boring coincidence, it’s a cool incidence.

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#2 2017-01-02 13:04:57

kem
Eggcornista
From: Victoria, BC
Registered: 2007-08-28
Posts: 2872

Re: It's just a cool incidence

I wonder if some of these could be cupertinos that arise when the user tries to hyphenate “coincidence” (i.e., “co-incidence”)? Though making “cool” out of “co-” seems a bit of a reach for a spelling checker.


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#3 2017-01-02 19:26:28

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

Re: It's just a cool incidence

The chances are huge that most of these are silicisms or WTFT. There are more than 400 ghits for “cooincidence”. In the last hit she acknowledges the cool part, and no spell checker would offer coolincident, so there’s that.

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