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are there any pairs of words or names that you always confuse with one another?

― New Mark H (New MarkH), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:25 (eighteen years ago)

I always confuse

Caravaggio - sixteenth century Italian painter

with

Carluccio - an Italian café an deli chain (the interior of the Oxford one was designed by my cousin)

― New Mark H (New MarkH), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:27 (eighteen years ago)

Arpeggio (sequence of notes)

Archipeligo (sequence of islands)

I always try to combine them.

― Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:29 (eighteen years ago)

Barry Andrews - KBd man w/ XTC
Barry Adamson - wrote pseudo soundtracks for so long, they asked him to do it for real.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:29 (eighteen years ago)

The names Emma and Claire

The MS Excel icon and the MS Outlook icon

The order of the alphabet between H and M

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:30 (eighteen years ago)

My very elderly grandmother used to confuse "pelmet" and "pelvis", causing hilarity in the curtain shop.

― C J (C J), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:30 (eighteen years ago)

don't think I mix anything up

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:31 (eighteen years ago)

kept calling psychiatrists psychologists

― vita susicivus (blueski), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:32 (eighteen years ago)

The and Teh

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:33 (eighteen years ago)

kept calling psychiatrists psychologists
-- vita susicivus (n...), January 19th, 2007.

i just say "psychoanalysts-psychiatrists-phychologists" cos i never know what i mean.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:35 (eighteen years ago)

Shrinks covers it

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:35 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, that's easy for me. There's the one-that-gives-me-pills (psychiatrist) and the one that just talks-a-lot-of-bollocks (psychologist) - but if you've never had either, I can understand the confusion.

― Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:36 (eighteen years ago)

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.

In English I confuse Brighton and Bristol more than I should.

― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:36 (eighteen years ago)

Paediatrics and the feet one... or is paediatrics the feet one?

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:37 (eighteen years ago)

paediatrics is the kiddly-fiddlers.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:39 (eighteen years ago)

And paedophiles are foot fetishists, right I get it

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:39 (eighteen years ago)

i thought they were psychopaths?

― vita susicivus (blueski), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

psychopathologist: studies diseases, so he can give them to you

― vita susicivus (blueski), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:41 (eighteen years ago)

That's areas set aside for the riding of bicycles (xp)

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:41 (eighteen years ago)

John Updike }{ John Irving

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:59 (eighteen years ago)

I did describe someone as behaving as though they were suffering from Stockhausen Syndrome.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 19 January 2007 12:00 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha, that's great

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 12:01 (eighteen years ago)

arse
elbow

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 19 January 2007 12:06 (eighteen years ago)

ethics/morals

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 12:11 (eighteen years ago)

the numbers 4 and 7 in sequences of numbers, for instance a padlock or a memorable date.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

ILX
work

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

when i was a kid:
bagels-donuts
muffins-cupcakes

but even more recently
jar-bottle

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:04 (eighteen years ago)

Swamp Thing

Man Thing

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:15 (eighteen years ago)

Shetty

Poppadom

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:18 (eighteen years ago)

Shilpa Shetty
Talitha Getty

― Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:20 (eighteen years ago)

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

Bills Paxton and Pullman

OTM

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

YES.

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

me too.

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers / Jonathan Rhys-Davies

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

paxton/pullman is SO true!

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

Mel Gibson, Mel Brooks

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

the correct spelling & the incorrect spelling

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

well done

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

Uh, thanks?

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

Likewise:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge/Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

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

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The Mighty Nut Smash Daddy Gang

irl lol

― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 7 March 2025 14:55 (one month ago)

y'all are getting your mix-ups mixed up

it's

Cherry Poppin' Daddies & Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

and

Mighty Mighty Bosstones & Reel Big Fish

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 7 March 2025 20:27 (one month ago)

you can't cross the streams of the ska revival and the swing revival! I mean geez!

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 7 March 2025 20:28 (one month ago)

Miracle Mile
Marathon Man

― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 11 March 2025 23:56 (one month ago)

beat happening (olympia, washington band featuring k records founder calvin johnson)
teenbeat records (washington, dc-area label founded by mark robinson of the band unrest)
unwound (olympia, washington band on olympia, washington label kill rock stars)

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 12 March 2025 00:15 (one month ago)

I'm Not There
I'm Still Here (2010)
I'm Still Here (2024)

― clemenza, Wednesday, 12 March 2025 00:18 (one month ago)

^same

― budo jeru, Sunday, 16 March 2025 01:46 (one month ago)

The Hunger Games
Game of Thrones

― budo jeru, Sunday, 16 March 2025 01:47 (one month ago)

Bed Bath and Beyond
Bath and Body Works

― Madchen, Sunday, 16 March 2025 02:25 (one month ago)

The Lovin' Spoonful
The Fifth Dimension

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 18 March 2025 15:31 (one month ago)

Cherry Poppin' Daddies & Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

also

The Royal Crown Revue
The Amazing Royal Crowns

― Lee626, Tuesday, 18 March 2025 21:23 (one month ago)

The Iron Man (1989 musical by Pete Townshend)
Iron John (1990 Robert Bly book)
The Iron Giant (1999 animated film)
The Giant's House (1996 Elizabeth McCracken Book)

With me so far? Then

The BFG (Big Friendly Giant) (1982 Roald Dahl book and subsequent film adaptations thereof)

Funnily enough I was already confused by the time the Marvel shit got huge

― at your swervice (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 21 March 2025 23:48 (one month ago)

Mrs. Selvig
Mrs. Cobel

― clemenza, Saturday, 22 March 2025 02:50 (one month ago)

Bed Bath and Beyond
Bath and Body Works

― Madchen, Saturday, March 15, 2025 9:25 PM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

you know ... i think i'm realizing for the first time that these are different things

― budo jeru, Saturday, 22 March 2025 03:08 (one month ago)

Interesting. While they overlap in time I have them in totally different spaces.

Bed Bath & Beyond was not in competition with Bath & Body Works - the latter was a mall phenomenon of the 90s and the former a big-box phenomenon of the 00s. Put crudely, one is associated with girlfriends and the other with wives.

Now Bed Bath & Beyond WAS in competition with Linens 'n Things.

My family nicknames for them were Bed Bath & Behemoth and Linens 'n Shit.

Alternatively Bloodbath and Beyond.

til Foot Locker began as the footwear subsidiary of Woolworth's and subsequently eclipsed it

― at your swervice (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 22 March 2025 07:49 (one month ago)

I can’t be the only one: John Calipari and Rick Pitino

― brimstead, Saturday, 22 March 2025 17:16 (one month ago)

Carmen
Carmina Burana

― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Saturday, 22 March 2025 17:27 (one month ago)

Iain Duncan Smith
William Hague

― student defenestration time (Matt #2), Sunday, 23 March 2025 11:30 (one month ago)

Halfway there but for you
You can see me from Westbury chalk horse (or whatever)

― Crack's Addition (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 23 March 2025 14:07 (one month ago)

Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!
usernames you have sometimes confused

― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 23 March 2025 14:53 (one month ago)

lol

― Crack's Addition (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 23 March 2025 16:47 (one month ago)

No disrepect to either of you at all

― Crack's Addition (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 23 March 2025 16:48 (one month ago)

Both good posters, imo.

Carmen
Carmina Burana

― Muad'Doob (Moodles)

Oh god, yes, this! To make matters worse, when my brain is trying to remember which is which it likes to throw in carmina figurata/carmen figuratum just to add to the confusion.

― emil.y, Sunday, 23 March 2025 17:01 (one month ago)

Carmen
Carmina Burana

Oftentimes I am trying to think of the Mascagni opera and I can't wrench my brain away from "Cavatelli Rusticana"

― The Mikest Whitest monologue ever (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 23 March 2025 22:45 (one month ago)

V.S. Naipaul
V.S. Pritchett

― Skip Intro (punning display), Monday, 31 March 2025 19:40 (one month ago)

James Holden
Jon Hopkins

― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 31 March 2025 19:44 (one month ago)

lol @ "Cavatelli Rusticana"

― budo jeru, Monday, 31 March 2025 19:45 (one month ago)

Thunderclap Newman
Hurricane Smith

― Brad C., Saturday, 5 April 2025 14:53 (one month ago)

Nina Hagen
Lena Lovich

― dan selzer, Sunday, 6 April 2025 11:42 (one month ago)

Irving Berlin
Isaiah Berlin

― zoloft keeps liftin' me (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 14 April 2025 15:13 (three weeks ago)

Rupert Everett
Rufus Sewell

― jaymc, Saturday, 26 April 2025 01:35 (one week ago)

Film directors Mike Nicholls and Mike Newell.

― fetter, Saturday, 26 April 2025 07:38 (one week ago)

Mike Newell
Mike Hodges

― Blake the Messenger (Tom D.), Saturday, 26 April 2025 09:49 (one week ago)

yes

― fetter, Saturday, 26 April 2025 10:28 (one week ago)

gang starr/mobb deep

and you will know us by the trail of dead/godspeed you black emperor

― foghat leghorn (doo rag), Sunday, 27 April 2025 05:34 (one week ago)

gang starr/mobb deep

omg same

and also black star with both of those

― doe on a hill (Deflatormouse), Monday, 28 April 2025 06:01 (one week ago)

mark carney
ralph carney

― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 1 May 2025 17:44 (five days ago)

And Ellington baritone saxophonist Harry Carney!

― Kung Fu Gift Shop (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 1 May 2025 19:11 (five days ago)

It was Mars Williams I used to get mixed up with Ralph Carney.

― dan selzer, Thursday, 1 May 2025 20:04 (five days ago)

Daytime Canon
Dyan Cannon

― clemenza, Thursday, 1 May 2025 21:15 (five days ago)

Valpolicella
Montepulciano

― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 1 May 2025 21:38 (five days ago)

mise-en-scène
mise en place

― zydecodependent (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 2 May 2025 22:42 (four days ago)

kid creole
king creosote

― gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Monday, 5 May 2025 17:39 (yesterday)

Imperial Leather soap
Pears soap

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 5 May 2025 17:54 (yesterday)

kid creole
king creosote

I’d add King Crimson

And I have more than once come out with Lloyd Cole and the Coconuts, for shame.

― Madchen, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 20:25 (two hours ago)

somewhat related is that I always want to call the Elvis movie "King Crawfish"

― budo jeru, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 20:33 (two hours ago)

which would've made for a more interesting movie undoubtedly

― budo jeru, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 20:33 (two hours ago)

Don't forget King Curtis and King Clancy.

― clemenza, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 21:18 (two hours ago)

King Limpet

― Kung Fu Gift Shop (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 6 May 2025 21:18 (two hours ago)

king krule

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 21:21 (two hours ago)

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