A Game-Going Misfit?

Q
K 10 5 3 2
A K Q 8 4
K 3
10 5 4 2 K J 7
A 8 7 6 Q 9 4
5 2 J 10 9 7 3
Q J 7 8 5
A 9 8 6 3
J
6
A 10 9 6 4 2 Vul: No one

NorthEastSouthWest
1 Pass 1 Pass
2 Pass 2 All pass

If you seem to have a game-going hand, I'd think you'd want to bid it, even on a misfit. After all, if you have 26 hcp's and all suits covered, and they have 14, well, you probably have as good a chance as coming up with 9 tricks as they do with 5.
Here, the final bids ranged from the timid 2 spades above (the hand I happened to be kibitzing) to 6 no, down four! Maybe those two pairs ought to get together for some conferencing. Of those successfully in 3 no, most, it appeared, got there by a jump rebid of three diamonds, though I did note one pair that got there by a minimum 2 diamond rebid, then a rebid of 2 no, then 3 no.
Is it cold? Well, I can't quite say that. It looks as though a spade opening lead would queer the opportunity to establish clubs for 5 winners, and I suppose it behooves me not to advocate making a beatable bid. But perhaps the best measure is given here: of the people in 3 no, forty made it and 8 did not. Looks like a pretty good bet.
In any event, the hand shows that even on a misfit, you don't want to drop the bidding before you've announced your values. If you've got the standard 26 hcp's, you may well have game. But as for the people in slam, I'd suggest that as your hand gets more and more appealing the better the fit, so should you think of cooling it if you don't see a single fitting suit. A three diamonds rebid is perhaps a bit of an overbid, but then 2 diamonds is certainly an underbid, and you might want to take the lesser of two evils.
[years later]I feel a bit queasy about touting a 3 no contract that after all can be beat. I presume I was influenced by the high proportion of those in 3 no who made. After all, all bidding is risk, and here it takes a specific suit to beat three no, indeed, a suit bid by declarer, which doesn't tend to invite leads in it. So I guess I don't feel queasy enough to delete it.
Obviously clubs offer the par contract: 4 clubs, I would say. Declarer should be able to ruff one spade and throw two on the diamonds. One club must be lost, so that would mean one club, one spade and one heart. In any event, in a discussion of misfits, that yukky spade suit is simply not worth a second bid, not when there's a six-card suit not yet bid. Oh, you'd have to go to a higher level? Oh, c'mon. You're not vulnerable, and you're doubling your chances of finding a fit. Again, resort to a minor is disdained for a miserable major as trump. That's the way to stay in a misfit, no?