Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

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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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

paediatrics is the kiddly-fiddlers.

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

And paedophiles are foot fetishists, right I get it

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

i thought they were psychopaths?

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

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

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

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

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

John Updike }{ John Irving

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

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

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

Ha ha, that's great

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

arse
elbow

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

ethics/morals

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

ILX
work

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

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

but even more recently
jar-bottle

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

Swamp Thing

Man Thing

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

Shetty

Poppadom

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

Shilpa Shetty
Talitha Getty

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Bills Paxton and Pullman

OTM

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

YES.

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

me too.

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers / Jonathan Rhys-Davies

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

paxton/pullman is SO true!

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

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

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Also by Capra, and also from 1939! That may actually have made the problem worse until now that I'm consciously aware of it; a kind of feeling that the other film than the one I'm thinking of has somehow shapeshifted or something. Thanks for pinning that one down.

― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 18:48 (three weeks ago) link

Control-V
Command-V

― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 May 2024 00:20 (three weeks ago) link

Larry Rivers
Sam Rivers

― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 May 2024 06:15 (three weeks ago) link

Mike Nichols
Mike Newell

― Alba, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 18:30 (two weeks ago) link

orrery
astrolabe

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 31 May 2024 10:51 (one week ago) link

Avicii
Gotye

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 31 May 2024 10:51 (one week ago) link

Ivor Biggun
Jilted John

― oh the crime nowadays back in my day you could leave your door unlocke (Matt #2), Friday, 31 May 2024 10:56 (one week ago) link

PJ Proby
PP Arnold
PF Sloane

3 singers active in the 60s with little else in common. I’m only now sorting it out.

― dan selzer, Friday, 31 May 2024 11:10 (one week ago) link

Jerry Dammers
Jeffrey Dahmer

― Madchen, Friday, 31 May 2024 11:13 (one week ago) link

PP Arnold
Gloria Jones

― Bertold Brak (bendy), Friday, 31 May 2024 17:28 (one week ago) link

Oh yeah, ^this

― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 31 May 2024 23:02 (one week ago) link

lol madchen

― mookieproof, Saturday, 1 June 2024 01:05 (one week ago) link

Maybe if John had more in common with Ivor, he wouldn't have been Jilted

― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 1 June 2024 01:26 (one week ago) link

CNN: S/D [Started by Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett) in February 2004, last updated three minutes ago by scott seward on I Love Everything] 1 new answer
CAN....S and D? [Started by Poops Mcgee in April 2002, last updated eight minutes ago by Mark G on I Love Music] 7 new answers

― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Sunday, 2 June 2024 13:38 (one week ago) link

Caitlin Rose
Caroline Rose

I only heard a few songs by each over the years and had them mentally filed as the same person, until they both released albums around the same time

― Iain Mew (if), Sunday, 2 June 2024 17:22 (one week ago) link

A Simple Favor
A Simple Man
A Serious Man
A Single Man

― Alba, Sunday, 2 June 2024 21:31 (one week ago) link

Ha I meant A Simple Plan. There's no A Simple Man

― Alba, Sunday, 2 June 2024 21:33 (one week ago) link

I stand corrected

https://i.imgur.com/R3PzuI1.jpeg

― Alba, Sunday, 2 June 2024 21:39 (one week ago) link

There's Hal Hartley's Simple Men--probably what you had in mind?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqUSTpL8RHo

― clemenza, Sunday, 2 June 2024 21:43 (one week ago) link

Royal Blue
Navy Blue

― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Monday, 3 June 2024 14:35 (one week ago) link

Zager
Evans

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 6 June 2024 02:43 (one week ago) link

A Simple Man, A Simple Plan, A Simple Canal, A Simple Panama

― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 6 June 2024 04:33 (one week ago) link

the third bardo
bardo pond

Killer Mike
Fat Mike
― Deflatormouse

those are easy for me, to the best of my knowledge killer mike isn't vocal about having a "sissy fetish"

― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 6 June 2024 13:53 (one week ago) link

Paul Revere and the Raiders, Gary US Bonds, Gary Puckett and the Union Gap

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 6 June 2024 15:51 (one week ago) link

Dumont
Dupont

― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 6 June 2024 16:54 (one week ago) link

Mission of Burma
Gang of Four

for some reason

― Deflatormouse, Thursday, 6 June 2024 17:12 (one week ago) link

Whenever I see the TEMS thread I think of the Iraqi rapper that chuck norris interviewed on fox back in the war on terror days

― brimstead, Friday, 7 June 2024 20:54 (six days ago) link

Guillermo Vilas
Vitas Gerulaitis

(Just finished Players, the 1979 version of Challengers--meandered more, just as silly, better tennis.)

― clemenza, Saturday, 8 June 2024 01:58 (five days ago) link

Twice as many career titles and twice the career earnings for Vilas, but 6-6 head-to-head.

https://www.atptour.com/en/players/atp-head-2-head/guillermo-vilas-vs-vitas-gerulaitis/v028/g008

― clemenza, Saturday, 8 June 2024 02:01 (five days ago) link

The Walkmen
Liars

― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 8 June 2024 08:43 (five days ago) link

The Kray Brothers
The Quay Brothers

― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 14:19 (two days ago) link

The Temper Trap
Tender Trap

I was convinced that one of these bands was an Amelia Fletcher project and the other was known for a disastrous concert (some kind of collapse?) that claimed the lives of multiple audience members. I just wasn't sure which was which. but it turns out the disaster I had in mind was actually a suicide at a Swell Season show, and my brane had muddled up the details. pretty perplexing!

― hogarth brooks (unregistered), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 20:04 (two days ago) link

Baudelaire
Rimbaud

― Scott Baculum (Leee), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 20:09 (two days ago) link

Claude Thornhill
Clifford Thornton

― budo jeru, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 20:21 (two days ago) link

Petsmart
Petco

― Gigi Allen (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 20:31 (two days ago) link

Kylo Ren
Rilo Kiley

― Millennium Falco (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 09:15 (yesterday) link

Bill Burr
Bill Bailey

― Scott Baculum (Leee), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 22:16 (yesterday) link

Sufjan Stevens
Devendra Barnhart

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Thursday, 13 June 2024 01:50 (twenty hours ago) link

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