Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

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also, my grandmother once did the micro orgasm thing when reading out a crossword clue. I think the great discomfort I felt probably says more about my (secretly uptight) Freudian unconscious than her slip said of hers.

― Merdeyeux Merdeyeux Merdeyeux (Merdeyeux Merdeyeux Merdeyeux), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Kato (Green Hornet sidekick) and Cato (Pink Panther sidekick)

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Friday, 26 January 2007 02:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I remember Bill Paxton because he was the guy with a Secret New Wave Past and Bill Pullman because he appeared in some Sandra Bullock romantic comedy from the '90s. And Paxton has a tougher, more macho appearance to me (which makes his Secret New Wave Past all the more hilarious IMO). Pullman looks more like he comes from the North.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Friday, 26 January 2007 04:17 (seventeen years ago) link

cavalry
calvary

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 26 January 2007 04:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Ooh, good one Elmo.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Friday, 26 January 2007 04:41 (seventeen years ago) link

George Formby
George Foreman

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 29 January 2007 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Casey Kasem/Kato Kaelin

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 29 January 2007 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I confused villified and vindicated for a long time.

I always, still, get Mike Ness and Mike Watt mixed up. To my boyfriends everlasting dismay.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Monday, 29 January 2007 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Bellini and Donizetti

― Frogm@n Henry (Frogm@n Henry), Monday, 29 January 2007 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I always call Bellini, Boldoni.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 29 January 2007 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

MSN
M&S

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Monday, 29 January 2007 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought Belle and Sebastian were Tuck 'n Patty for a long time, which made me dismissive of Belle and Sebastian. (I had only heard Tuck 'n Patty). So I said they sucked, and people were surprised that I didn't like Belle and Sebastian, but I didn't know I liked them!

I get Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino confused sometimes. Much to everyone on ILX's dismay, these two confessions, I'm guessing! (The boyfriend is especially dismayed about the DeNiro/Pacino confusion.)

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Monday, 29 January 2007 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Jimmy Webb/Mike Batt

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 29 January 2007 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link

John Howard and Louie the Fly

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 01:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Wayne Arthurs and Chris de Burgh

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 03:18 (seventeen years ago) link

"When I was a kid I used to confuse Martin Luther and Martin Luther King."

As an adult playing Trivial Pursuit, two other players almost came to fisticuffs (alcohol-fuelled, which partially explains without excusing) because the dimmer and drunker of the two swore blind ML and MLK were indeed one and the same person.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 03:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, when speaking, I always say "Billy Colony" (for the Big Yin)

― S- (sgh), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 03:30 (seventeen years ago) link

the dimmer and drunker of the two swore blind ML and MLK were indeed one and the same person

I think drunkenness helps, but dimness is a stone-solid requirement for this argument.

― Thumpy Screamy (kenan), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 03:59 (seventeen years ago) link

My mum always used to tell us she was ravished. I think she meant famished.

― Hard like armour (Hard like armour), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 04:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Ravished/famished is hilarious! Is ravenous the culprit?

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 08:08 (seventeen years ago) link

cavalry
calvary

don't confuse those, but *do* confuse Calvary and Calgary sometimes.

― New Mark H (New MarkH), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 11:43 (seventeen years ago) link

katie holmes and kate richie

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 11:47 (seventeen years ago) link

lampooned
pilloried

do they mean the same thing?

― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Bronson Arroyo/Bronson Pinchot

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

cavalry
calvary

my new mnemonic for this is the word "chevalier," but it doesn't always work

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

lampoon (n.)
1645, from Fr. lampon, of unknown origin, said by Fr. etymologists to be from lampons "let us drink," popular refrain for scurrilous 17c. songs, from lamper "to drink, guzzle," a nasalized form of laper "to lap." The verb is first attested 1657.

1. a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
–verb (used with object) 2. to mock or ridicule in a lampoon: to lampoon important leaders in the government.

pillory (n.)
1274 (attested in Anglo-L. from c.1189), from O.Fr. pellori (1168), from M.L. pilloria, of uncertain origin, perhaps a dim of L. pila "pillar, stone barrier." The verb is first attested 1600.

1. a wooden framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, formerly used to expose an offender to public derision.
–verb (used with object) 2. to set in the pillory.
3. to expose to public derision, ridicule, or abuse: The candidate mercilessly pilloried his opponent.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link

also 'lambast'

― vita susicivus (blueski), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Cavalry is originally from vulgar latin 'caballus', horse.

Calvary is the Latin name for Golgotha and derives from 'calvus', bald, which is essentially what the name Calvin means.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Arturo Bandini/Alberto Beddini

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:52 (seventeen years ago) link

http://whttp://www.mbrem.com/images/calvin.gif

My college newspaper ran a photoshopped version with JC throwing devil horns. Ahhh religion, always good for a laugh.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Did I typo or is that url not functional? I can never tell these things.

http://www.mbrem.com/images/calvin.gif

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that a painting of jaXon? or his forebearer olde-jaXon? Where's olde-Britney?

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, that portrait was taken right after Jaxon was nailed to the door by a papal bull.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Benny/Björn

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 1 February 2007 05:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Curt Boettcher
Budd Boetticher

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 1 February 2007 05:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Weatherspoons and McCauleys

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 1 February 2007 09:59 (seventeen years ago) link

backslash and forwardslash.

― Koogy Bloogies (koogs), Thursday, 1 February 2007 11:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I wish we said foreslash instead of forwardslash.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 1 February 2007 11:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Keter Betts
Skeeter Davis

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Booker Little
Walter Booker
Booker Ervin

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link

calumny and contumely

― Bernard Snowy (sixteen sergeants), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Alberto Beddini

"For the woman, the kiss. For the man, the sword." That guy? Am I remembering the right movie?

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Ian Richardson and Robert Stephens.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

Agnetha and Frida

― craven, Monday, 2 April 2007 06:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Macy Gray and Angie Stone.

― Tuomas, Monday, 2 April 2007 09:07 (seventeen years ago) link

five months pass...

Naomi Klein and Naomi Wolf

brainstorming and barnstorming

rows and columns

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Alberto Beddini

"For the woman, the kiss. For the man, the sword." That guy? Am I remembering the right movie?

-- M. White (Miguelito)

Yeah, that's right.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

best thread ever

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

http://images.askmen.com/galleries/actress/mira-sorvino/pictures/mira-sorvino-picture-1.jpg

and

http://images.askmen.com/galleries/actress/mena-suvari/pictures/mena-suvari-picture-1.jpg

(that's mira sorvino and mena suvari)

― CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Productive and entertaining ILX posters/oh I can't be bothered

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link

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