Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

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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

If you think my typing is bad you should hear me TALK. I am a sentence mangling Spoonerism making free association confusion machine, to both myself and others.

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:38 (seventeen years ago) link

High five!

― Hard like armour (Hard like armour), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Tim Hopkins / Tim Ellison / Tim Finney

Same here.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Just to clarify: I mean which name goes with which poster; it's not like they write the same way or anything. It's like I used to mix up the names Felt and The Fall.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:32 (seventeen years ago) link

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

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...) (webmail), January 19th, 2007 10:05 AM. (jaymc) (later) (link)

Yes. I was justabout to post that this has been covered by "Third Rock from the Sun". Lithgow: "One's a little beefier."

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 03:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Daryl Hannah:

http://images.askmen.com/galleries/actress/daryl-hannah/pictures/daryl-hannah-picture-1.jpg

and
Daryl Somers

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2004/08/27/daryl_somers_narrowweb__200x293,1.jpg

(on the left)

― S- (sgh), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 04:14 (seventeen years ago) link

This is something every Duran fanbeing does at least once: Accidentally say "I'll cross that bridge when I find it," instead of "I'll cross that bridge when I get to it." Confusing to little girl me: Donald Regan and Ronald Reagan. Confusing to preteen me: Roger Taylor of Queen and Roger Taylor of, oh, you know. Can't think of anything else.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 04:35 (seventeen years ago) link

He-man and Fabio

― Hard like armour (Hard like armour), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 04:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Tobey Maguire and Elijah Wood.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 12:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Are they not the same person?

― Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 12:38 (seventeen years ago) link

That's Jake Gyllenhall you're thinking of.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 12:44 (seventeen years ago) link

vahid & fezaffe

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 06:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Juoda and syödä! They mean TO DRINK and TO EAT in Finnish but I always get them confused and thus told my teacher that I drink a lot of meat. This is the sort of thing we learn in class. Hmm.

You study Finnish? Dare I ask the reason for this?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 06:59 (seventeen years ago) link

don juan & don knotts

― estela (estela), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 07:02 (seventeen years ago) link

jeremy piven and all the other piven-like douches

― tom mix-a-lot (get bent), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 07:07 (seventeen years ago) link

rip torn and rip taylor

― tom mix-a-lot (get bent), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 07:08 (seventeen years ago) link

rip van winkel and r.i.p.

― estela (estela), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 07:14 (seventeen years ago) link

joanna newsom & regina spektor

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 07:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Van Halen & Van Morrison & Los Van Van

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 08:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Jeff Goldblum & Michael Keaton
Burt Reynolds & Tom Selleck

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 08:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Patrick Swayze & Kurt Russell

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 08:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Which of them was in Stargate and which in Donnie Darko?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 08:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Burt Reynolds & Tom Selleck

OMG, I used to get those two mixed up as well! The thing that helps me out is knowing that Reynolds is a nobody now and Selleck is the guy who played "Magnum P.I.", as well as helped Kevin Kline's character get out of the closet in In & Out (so Selleck obv wins). OH, nearly forgot when he was Monica's older boyfriend in "Friends", too! So the '90s obv made Selleck stand out a bit more, thankfully....

And Patrick Swayze is the dude in "Donnie Darko". Kurt Russell I remember as being the guy who started out as a child actor.

I used to be confused by Dorothy Hamill and Mary Lou Retton when I was a little kid, too. Just remembered. And the names of the two families on "Charles In Charge" -- the Powells and the, gee, can't remember the other one. I used to, though, and eventually figured out the Powells were from the latter part of the series and that other family were the first ones, the one without the grandfather.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 08:48 (seventeen years ago) link

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