My brother once played a recording of an impressive keyboard riff.
"That's good," I said. "Is that you playing the keyboard?"
"No," he replied. "That's Bruce Hornsby."
Oops.
"Hmmm," I thought. "I might as well supplement an inadvertent mistake with a deliberate one."
"Nice lamp," I said, nodding toward a lamp that was obviously store-bought. "Did you make that?"
As people say when driving on ice, it's often advisable to steer into the skid.
