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DrStalker
on May 7, 2015
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Is there a word like serendipity that means "found as a joke" instead of "found by a fortunate accident?"
JoshTriplett
on May 7, 2015
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Not a single word, but
http://catb.org/jargon/html/H/ha-ha-only-serious.html
is related.
derefr
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Not a
word
, per se, but this mechanism of discovery tends to correlate with being the sort of thing that wins an Ig Nobel prize.
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