Either the lights are flickering or I am having a stroke.

Admittedly, neither possibility excludes the other.

Hey, I do realize that there are certain gifted individuals among us who can tell that something is “fake” simply because they dislike it.  So fact-checking is really only necessary for those of us who lack such rarefied discernment.

Pal of mine built a custom deck for his backyard; he got offended when I referred to it as a “porch.”

Admittedly, it was a porch choice of words.