Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

^good one

Peter O'Toole
Peter Steele

yahoo serious
yakov smirnoff

granulated sugar
confectioners sugar

I'll read a recipe that calls for granulated, and I'll think "not regular sugar" and reach for confectioners. Fuckers should stick to calling them either "sugar" or "powdered sugar".

Peter Barkworth / Tony Britton (appearance)
Peter Barkworth / Peter Butterworth (name)

Kevin Coyne
Kevin Ayers

Kevin Coyne even ended up inheriting Kevin Ayers' backing band, at one point.

Edmund Wilson
Edmund White

also

Angus Wilson
A. N. Wilson

last week's commemorations reminded me that for a long time the following was true:

Dunkirk
Normandy

(BBC2 unhelpfully showed Dunkirk on 6th June this year as well)

^So fortunate the Allies didn't have that same confusion. "Now remind me again. We're supposed to take as many as we can back to England, or establish a beachhead? Dunno why I can't keep that bit straight."

See, I've always been the guy who goes "Omaha Beach? I thought they landed at Normandy?"

4Hero
Four Tet

i mean lol ok i am old

4Hero
2 Bad Mice

Sylvia Miles
Sara Miles
Vera Miles

(Sarah)

Arthur Ransome
Arthur Rackham

Arthur Rackham
Alan Rickman

Wylie Watson/Wiley Wiggins

1970s Swedish psych-proggers Älgarnas Trädgård (aka Garden of the Elks)
1970s Swedish psych-proggers Trettioåriga Kriget (aka Thirty Years War)

Paul Theroux
Paul Auster

I always think "Golden Years" is a Frank Zappa song for the first few bars

Jessica Pratt
Natalie Prass

John Adams

John Luther Adams

^this one is classic

General Jackson
General Jackson

Harry Truman apparently used to exclaim, "Jesus Christ and General Jackson!" I don't know if he's referring to Andrew or Stonewall.

I also get Stonewall Jackson and General Sherman mixed up, which is completely mixed up in itself. (It's one of those that I can figure out after two seconds, but damn, why does it always take me two seconds?)

What about this guy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWWCdadcM3c

Hang on Sloopy
Sloop John B

Pretty sure when 19th century doodz said "Jackson" unqualified, they would have meant Andrew. A symbol of audacious courage, elan, and not giving a fuck.

Ultimate proof of how much of a bandwagon-hopper I was with the Raptors this year: Paul George and Chris Paul.

Hang on Sloopy
Snoopy vs the Red Baron

8 year old me was often disappointed.

Lol

"Gin and Juice" must have further complicated the situation.

I was just old enough when Snoop came on the scene to differentiate.

Lucky it wasn’t Vanilla Ice.

Hilarity in the Curtain Shoppe is my new noise combo.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral William J. Crowe Jr
Candidate for Vice President of the United States James Bond Stockdale

"Who am I? Why am I here?"
"The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff STOLE MY EARRINGS!"

Maxwell
Rockwell

^good one

James Ellroy & Elmore Leonard

― los blue jeans, Wednesday, October 8, 2014 5:56 AM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

That is a very common one.

Yesterday I learned that Kate Mara (full name Kate Rooney Mara) and Rooney Mara (full name Patricia Rooney Mara) are two different people, and I've seen either/both of them in loads of things and considered the-two-people-I-thought-was-one-person to be an excellent actor

Kate O'Mara was also an excellent actor. She was on Dynasty as Caress Morell, also was in The Vampire Lovers (1970).

James Atlas/James Wolcott
(And I see that one blurbed the other's recent book so...)

Charles Atlas (filmmaker) / Charles Atlas (Archie Comics bodybuilder standby entrepreneur)

Funny that when I google “atlas filmmaker gay” I get The Wachowskis

The Rooney Maras are the union of two Baseball clans - the Rooneys founded the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Maras founded the New York Giants!

I always get this thread mixed up with this one:

Artists with similar names that you get mixed up

Great one.

Jed Mercurio / Jez Butterworth

Up the Academy
Up the Creek