Another one from the news. I just read of the man about to sell his Picasso for $139 million, but popped his elbow through the canvas just before finalizing the sale. Talk about hapless!
This is also a good one for all its tie-ins to other happening words. I'm so happy. What a wonderful happenstance.
Etc.,
Slava
Hapless
A fellow bibliophile asked me to take a look at a painting he picked up on a rural book-buying excursion. It was, possibly, an original, signed Picasso. Skeptical, I agreed to appraise it. Indeed, it was a Picasso(!): screen printed on "actual" canvas and "touched up" by a former owner in bold, black brush strokes.
Hap-ly, he picked it up for very little (from people not realizing they were sitting on a gold mine--heh heh) and, being a person with a good sense of humor, he might well still have it.
-gailr
who has no Picassos in her collection...
Hap-ly, he picked it up for very little (from people not realizing they were sitting on a gold mine--heh heh) and, being a person with a good sense of humor, he might well still have it.
-gailr
who has no Picassos in her collection...
Hapless
"unfortunate," 1568, from hap (q.v.).
Hap
c.1205, "chance, luck," from O.N. happ "chance, good luck," from P.Gmc. *khapan (source of O.E. gehæp "convenient, fit"). Meaning "good fortune" is from c.1225.
"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once. Lately it hasn't been working."
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