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This is how I try to live my life.

 

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The best way. ❤️

 

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Me too. I ditched the watch I can't remember how far back.

I always felt that if I waited long enough good things would happen to me.

Kind of the opposite of the "make your own luck" attitude that seems to be everywhere.

Hope everyone knows where the word came from ?

Serendos ,the name for Ceylon and now Sri Lanka ,I think.

 

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I thought it was The Princes of Serendip.

 

Yes. The old word for Sri Lanka, (Ceylon) was Serendip, rather than Serendos.

 

"Sleep tight" and try not to wake with a "hangover"

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/...curious-history-of-beds-through-the-centuries

ie make sure your bed is well sprung with tensioned rope or string and rest on the communal sleeping rope which is cut in the morning if you were not that well off .

At any rate that might be the derivation of those two phrases according to that article.

 

Great scrabble word:



piz·zazz
/pəˈzaz/
noun
INFORMAL
noun: pizazz

1. an attractive combination of vitality and glamour.
   "a new way to add graphic pizzazz to your desktop-publishing project"

 

come·up·pance
/kəˈməpəns/
noun
INFORMAL

1. a punishment or fate that someone deserves.
   "he got his comeuppance"
   
   Similar:
   just deserts
   
   deserved fate
   due
   
   due reward
   just punishment
   retribution
   
   requital
   recompense
   in recompense"
   

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whangdoodle

"The Whangdoodle is a fanciful or humorous being whose undefined appearance and essence is left to individual imagination. Other connotations may include an object of humor, something noisy but of no consequence and insignificant.

19th-century usage[edit]
It appeared in 1858 as a title for and text within a parody sermon "Where the lion roareth and the wang-doodle mourneth," published in Samuel Putnam Avery's The Harp of a Thousand Strings: Or, Laughter for a Lifetime.[1] Possibly due to its resemblance to or formation from existing words whang[a] and doodle,[4] it soon became common to spell it as whangdoodle. The term appeared derisively in 1859 correspondence published in The Cincinnati Lancet & Observer.[5] Mark Twain used it disparagingly in a letter in 1862.[6] By 1877 it had been included in a dictionary."--- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whangdoodle