It didn't quite happen to me ... but I was at Cambridge Folk Festival about 20 years ago having a conversation with some people who really knew about guitars, and I mentioned the Gibson Roy Bookbinder model. I actually meant the Nick Lucas model as played by Roy Bookbinder, but my teeth were in the wrong gear as usual. There was this guy who was trying to drop into the eminent company I was sharing, who started bullshitting about this non-existent model to anyone who cared to listen - but no-one did care. I had mentioned it as a casual remark and was trying to have a 1-2-1 with someone else. Everybody in the group rapidly made excuses and walked off, including the guy I was talking to, leaving me alone with the bullshitter, who was still rattling on - but I hadn't been listening. "What are you talking about?" I asked when I found he was the only person left to talk to. "The Bookbinder guitar" he replied. "That was a slip of the tongue" I said. "I meant the Nick Lucas model". Then it dawned into my consciousness what had happened, and I walked off, leaving him wailing plaintively "But there was a Bookbinder guitar ..."
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