A friend of mine was responding to my mockery of Corey Booker by accurately claiming “he never said that”. That, and a recent Jonah Goldberg piece got us talking about things “everybody knows” someone said which they really didn’t. Things like:
Beam me up, Scotty.
I can see Russia from my house.
Here’s looking at you, kid.
I invented the internet.
We got to discussing if there is a word to describe that sort of popular misapprehension or if we needed to make one up. Siri was no help at all, and the bartender refused to get involved. Does anyone know?
In any event, we agreed hecklers will be shouting “No, I’m Spartacus!” at Senator Booker to the end of his days. He could solve global warming or win the Third World War single-handedly, but they’ll still do it.