Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

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Bills Paxton and Pullman
Until recently: Cormac McCarthy and Carson McCullers
Red and green, apparently

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Will Ferrell
Colin Ferrell
Colin Firth

...are all the same person, as far as I'm concerned.

Also Jeremy Paxman and Jeremy Clarkson, as discussed before.

― Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Bills Paxton and Pullman

OTM

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link

YES.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link

me too.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh and also!

(and this is distressing, because I love MLP)

Mary Louise Parker and Mary Stuart Masterson

I blame Fried Green Tomatoes.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Swamp Thing
Man Thing

This is the only pair in the list that I confuse too.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers / Jonathan Rhys-Davies

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link

paxton/pullman is SO true!

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Jonathans Lethem and Franzen, although as so much now that I've actually read some Lethem.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I sometimes get the Dimbleby brothers mixed up.

The Attenboroughs as well, come to think of it.

But never the McWhirters, despite them being twins.

― onimo (onimo), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

having a final exam in a course i've been blowing off all term and don't even know the location of : dreaming

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, I've got one of my own now: Ted Nugent & Todd Rundgren. I had to google to check that the guy who's a racist is not the same person as the guy who had a feud with the Lennons, and in the time it took me to write this I have already forgotten which is which.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Mel Gibson, Mel Brooks

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link

the correct spelling & the incorrect spelling

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

For years thought Jerry Lewis and Jerry Lee Lewis were the same person, and I still don't know which is which.

― chap (chap), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

well done

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Uh, thanks?

― chap (chap), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Not in terms of what/who they are, but when attempting to speak:

Wittgenstein/Wittenberg
Flann O'Brien/Flannery O'Connor

And more that I've forgotten...

― emil.y (emil.y), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Likewise:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge/Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

You're just fucking with me now.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

somehow, the letter K and the number 5

― 69 (plsmith), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Diet Coca Cola
Piss

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Martin Luther
Luther Martin
Martin Luther King

(and there is no Luther Martin King as far as I'm aware, though there probably should be.)

― Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Isn't the Paxton/Pullman thing kind of a cliche by now, even if true?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

don't think I mix anything up -- RJG (RJ...), January 19th,

I was once in a car with RJG when he very decisively mixed up left and right.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Freddie King / Albert King
Albert King / Albert Collins

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Louis XIII, Louis XIV

i know!!

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't always mix up left and right!

perhaps that was the one and only time, even

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

TS Larry Carlton vs Larry Coryell

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Kenwood Dennard/Durward Kirby/Kirkwood Smith

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

epistemology - epidemiology
tv/movies/interent - life
a bunch of continental philosophers
music - noise
uh - hm

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

The words for the study of insects and the study of word origins - etymology and entymology, maybe? Fucked if I know which goes with which.

― Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

aubergine and courgette. no sense.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't tell you how many people get Dr and Mr Spock confused.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Olivia Newton John Travolta

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Picadilly / Picalilly (but not Picaninny)

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I know people who think Peter Sellers is alive and well because he's in Last Of The Summer Wine every Sunday.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Marcello Carlin and George Carlin.

― God Bows to Meth (noodle vague), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Kelly Brook/Kelly le Brock/Kele le Roc

― chap (chap), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Daniel and Ryan.

― jimn (jimnaseum), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

a schooldays classic:
sanguine/sanguinary

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

thomas tallis and timmy tannin

― tony conrad schnitzler (sanskrit), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Tim Hopkins / Tim Ellison / Tim Finney

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

don't look now and don't look back.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 22 January 2007 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I wish we could combine those! And have Bob Dylan murdered by a psychotic midget in Venice! Excellent!

― Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Monday, 22 January 2007 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link

What a totally random place to wish for Bob Dylan's death!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Simon Cowell's just booked a ticket!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Lloyd Cole and the Coconuts to thread.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Also:
Jeremy Paxman and Jeremy Clarkson
West Ham, Aston Villa and Arsenal
Nick Owen and Nik Cohen

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

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Chris Cillizza
Chris Pirillo

― MarkoP, Thursday, 31 October 2024 16:13 (two weeks ago) link

Harry Chapin
Mary Chapin Carpenter

(not really but I've just cleared up why I thought he was called 'Harry Chapin Carpenter')

― french cricket in the usa (ledge), Thursday, 31 October 2024 16:18 (two weeks ago) link

^ yes and also John Cougar Mellencamp. I think I spend too much time in a day thinking of clever alliteratives that it has compromised my ability to properly file away names

― Patti The Pone (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 31 October 2024 18:51 (two weeks ago) link

Autre Ne Veut
Circuit Des Yeux

― Patti The Pone (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 1 November 2024 17:27 (two weeks ago) link

Ha same

― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 1 November 2024 17:43 (two weeks ago) link

Or maybe it's someone else I conflate with CDY, but they're playing here tonight and I had to remind myself what their deal is

― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 1 November 2024 17:44 (two weeks ago) link

I must confess I sometimes confuse CDY and Lingua Ignota (and I adore both artists)

― Patti The Pone (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 1 November 2024 17:47 (two weeks ago) link

snail mail
soccer mommy

― mookieproof, Saturday, 2 November 2024 03:33 (two weeks ago) link

can't even discern which band name is worse

― mookieproof, Saturday, 2 November 2024 03:34 (two weeks ago) link

fine, it's the latter

― mookieproof, Saturday, 2 November 2024 03:37 (two weeks ago) link

Soccer Mommy
Snail Mail

― nickn, Sunday, March 15, 2020

Snail Mail and Soccer Mommy

― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, December 11, 2021

snail mail
soccer mommy

― mookieproof, Friday, November 1, 2024

One thread.

― nickn, Saturday, 2 November 2024 04:35 (two weeks ago) link

my people

― mookieproof, Saturday, 2 November 2024 04:45 (two weeks ago) link

Wussy
Wishy

― budo jeru, Monday, 4 November 2024 21:59 (one week ago) link

John Krasinski

Zachary Levi

― kato kaelin-manuel miranda (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 5 November 2024 02:18 (one week ago) link

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― kato kaelin-manuel miranda (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 5 November 2024 02:19 (one week ago) link

Laura
Gilda

― WmC, Tuesday, 5 November 2024 03:02 (one week ago) link

Jayma Mays

Lindy Booth

― abreast of what's afoot (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 5 November 2024 23:52 (one week ago) link

jacques maigret
hercule poirot
jacques clouseau

― budo jeru, Friday, 15 November 2024 20:38 (yesterday) link

Clouseau
Cousteau

― velcromagnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 15 November 2024 21:25 (yesterday) link

Pete Sinfield
Pete Wingfield

― biting your uncles (Tom D.), Friday, 15 November 2024 21:50 (yesterday) link

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