This is probably one of my top 5 Friends moments. Because not only is Joey saying something wrong, but he is so convinced of his wrongness that he even has an explanation for it.
I had a recent moment like that. My whole life I thought the phrase was “splitting image”. You know, when someone looks like somebody else, they are the splitting image. Because they look so alike, the image could have been split in two. Only, the phrase is actually “spitting image”. I only just found this out recently. Like last week. So for 29 years, I have not only been saying it wrong, but I was so convinced by my wrongness, that I even knew why my wrong way of saying it was right and made sense.
I had a recent moment like that. My whole life I thought the phrase was “splitting image”. You know, when someone looks like somebody else, they are the splitting image. Because they look so alike, the image could have been split in two. Only, the phrase is actually “spitting image”. I only just found this out recently. Like last week. So for 29 years, I have not only been saying it wrong, but I was so convinced by my wrongness, that I even knew why my wrong way of saying it was right and made sense.
In case you were wondering, the correct version, “spitting image” comes from the bible,
where God made Adam out of spit and mud. In order to make him from his own
image.
Which, as it turns out, is one of life's funny little coincidences, because for a very long time I thought the phrase "up and at 'em" was actually "up and Adam".
Which, as it turns out, is one of life's funny little coincidences, because for a very long time I thought the phrase "up and at 'em" was actually "up and Adam".
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