Serendipity:

[trof]

Finding a post you started and forgot about 3 days ago back up on page one.
Gee, folks do go through the stacks sometimes.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=261336&mesg_id=261336

Serendipity: accidental sagacity; the faculty of making fortunate discoveries of things you were not looking for
Word History: We are indebted to the English author Horace Walpole for the word serendipity, which he coined in one of the 3,000 or more letters on which his literary reputation primarily rests. In a letter of January 28, 1754, Walpole says that “this discovery, indeed, is almost of that kind which I call Serendipity, a very expressive word.” Walpole formed the word on an old name for Sri Lanka, Serendip. He explained that this name was part of the title of “a silly fairy tale, called The Three Princes of Serendip: as their highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of....”

Got any examples of serendipity?

[izzie]

1. I love the word and seems to be an artist lifes blood

I read that their were over 6000 men through hospital in Germany from this war but news to day said under 2000. Any answers on this?

[displacedtexan]

2. karma v serendipity

i'm not sure which to credit, but every time someone tries to dis me, something fabulous happens to me, and the 'disser' gets an ass chomping from someone else (over a totally unrelated issue).