Reinvention

I often use the sentence "It's bad luck to be superstitious." because I think it's funny. I like the reaction it provokes.

I was thinking I might have made it up, but then I heard a variation used on the t.v. series Jack of All Trades and so I thought I'd go look it up.

Turns out there's a guy named Andrew W. Mathis who this quote is attributed to. So I wanted to look him up. The only thing that comes up is that he came up with this phrase.

Oh well. It's not the first time I've come up with something when in fact I heard about it, forgot about it and then reconstructed it.