Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

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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

Right and Left

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Right and Wrong

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Blow-Up and Blow-Out

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

jude law and ethan hawke (thanks a lot, gattaca)

― Bernard Snowy (sixteen sergeants), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Yo momma and a bowling ball

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

(xpost to self: obviously this is not due to similarity of names, but I still mix them up so I say it counts)

― Bernard Snowy (sixteen sergeants), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Enrique and Esteban

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 22 January 2007 23:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Rebound Man and Transition Man

― Hard like armour (Hard like armour), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Like all of them.

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:37 (seventeen years ago) link

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Raymond Chandler
Raymond Carver
John Cheever

And because of Chandler's detective fiction, Dashiell Hammett.

― Oedipal Issues, Adipose Tissues (Leee), Saturday, 7 September 2024 17:27 (two weeks ago) link

Nala Sinephro
Nilufer Yahya

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 8 September 2024 04:04 (two weeks ago) link

Marie Helvin
Marie Colvin

― Madchen, Sunday, 8 September 2024 06:07 (two weeks ago) link

Heard a radio ad for an Everclear show today...or Everlast. I used to get them confused then, still do, surprised they haven't been mentioned in this thread (maybe too obvious, or maybe they have and I missed it).

― clemenza, Sunday, 8 September 2024 20:18 (two weeks ago) link

Curt Boettcher
Budd Boetticher

― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 September 2024 16:44 (two weeks ago) link

Mel Stride
Pete Stride

Never mind, Mel. Back to The Lurkers, yeah?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 September 2024 16:50 (two weeks ago) link

Art Alexakis
Dexter Holland

I guess '90s alt-rock frontmen with X's in their names?

― Oedipal Issues, Adipose Tissues (Leee), Tuesday, 10 September 2024 17:23 (two weeks ago) link

I also have to take a minute to disambiguate Everclear/Everlast.

― Oedipal Issues, Adipose Tissues (Leee), Tuesday, 10 September 2024 17:24 (two weeks ago) link

French double-named pianist edition:

Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Marc-Andre Hamelin

But oddly never:
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

― O 'Tis Redding (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 18 September 2024 19:33 (one week ago) link

Gogol
Gorky

― pisspoor bung probe prog (Tom D.), Friday, 20 September 2024 10:21 (one week ago) link

I've read Dead Souls, which seems like a unique classic, and not read any Gorky. My only knowledge of Gorky is from reading about the Soviet Union and the unconfirmed rumours he was poisoned by NKVD agents for his earlier crimes of dissing the fuck out of Lenin and being good pals with Bukharin.

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 20 September 2024 10:51 (one week ago) link

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