Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

Guess not. Good on ya.

Ctrl-f said no

Ben Sasse
Josh Hawley

Every GOP congressman under the age of 55

Every GOP congressman over the age of 55

(Don) Dokken
(Kip) Winger

Nathan Lane
Anthony Lane

I'm surprised I haven't already posted that

And a close relative is

Wallace Shawn
William Shawn

Yes, they are close relatives.

yeah i know!

doesn't make it easier when I'm trying to figure out which of those four is which

in both pairs, one is mainly a writer and the other mainly an actor, but there are exceptions

Wallace Shawn would probably tell you he’s a writer who acts for money.

Robert Downey Jr.
Morton Downey Jr.

Baby Please Don't Go
Baby What You Want Me to Do

Lost in Your Eyes
Eternal Flame

Wilfred Bramble
Wilford Brimley

from the semi-obscure octogenarian actress dept:

Antoinette Bower
Anjanette Comer

Wilfrid Brambell in The Thing would have been something to see.

Fran Lebowitz
Annie Liebovitz

In fact, I think I am only just now putting together that these are two different people, seeing the thread about the former at the top of SNA. in as much as I thought about it at all, I always thought the famous photographer happened to dabble in cultural criticism on the side.

not 100% on all fours with this thread, but I just realized that all these years I thought the members of the KLF (a group I never paid much attention to) were black, and that the people I had been picturing were actually PM Dawn

Erick and Parish making dawn are gonna rock ya

Peter Riegert/Paul Reiser

― The Pickety 33⅓ Policeman (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, May 27, 2017 4:54 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Dr Harold Shipman
Professor David Kelly

did not realize until this very day that David Johansen and Buster Poindexter in fact ARE the same person

In soundalike name division:

genderqueer geopolitics journo and New Yorker writer Masha Gessen
genderqueer music journo and Pitchfork writer Sasha Geffen

In non-soundalike division:

Stan Brakhage
Kenneth Anger (also eligible for the surprised to see he's still alive thread)

Robert Mulligan
Richard Mulligan

... brothers!

Hot, Cool & Vicious
CrazySexyCool

oh that reminds me:

CrazySexyCool
SweetSexySavage

but I actually came here to post:

Bad Bunny
Burna Boy

because both words have appeared today on different threads:

tulips
turnips

only ever for a second or two but still!

two lips on a turnip

https://i.imgur.com/0qp4Wzt.jpg

or is it a tulip bulb, hmmm?

mike starr and danny aiello

I guess it's easier now that one is dead

Bernie Taupin (Elton John's Lyricist)
Bennie Maupin (reed man for Headhunters)

xp: I don't know how to break this to you, but

Homefront
Homeland
Homecoming

Three American TV series. I've only seen the third.

James Morrison
morrisp
thomp

just realized i have been mixing this one up for a while

egyptian lover
pharoahe monch

gtfo

lol

La cartera
La maleta

(I’m learning Spanish)

:)

Roald Dahl
Rudyard Kipling

I know who they are and all, but their collective works just merge into one in my mind.

Toss up who was more racist I guess

mike starr and danny aiello

I guess it's easier now that one is dead

― Wrong Screamed Barney (Neanderthal), Monday, February 1, 2021 8:55 PM bookmarkflaglink

xp: I don't know how to break this to you, but

― peace, man, Tuesday, February 2, 2021 6:52 AM bookmarkflaglink

lol different Mike Starr

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Starr_(actor)

lily james/lily collins

Yes!

Indeed!

kung pao chicken
general Tso chicken

But it doesn’t really matter because both are delicious

Gareth Thomas
Gareth Hunt

The Vaselines
The Vaccines