Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

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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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

paediatrics is the kiddly-fiddlers.

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

And paedophiles are foot fetishists, right I get it

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

i thought they were psychopaths?

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

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

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

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

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

John Updike }{ John Irving

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

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

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

Ha ha, that's great

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

arse
elbow

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

ethics/morals

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

ILX
work

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

Swamp Thing

Man Thing

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

Shetty

Poppadom

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

Shilpa Shetty
Talitha Getty

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

Bills Paxton and Pullman

OTM

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

YES.

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

me too.

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

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers / Jonathan Rhys-Davies

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

paxton/pullman is SO true!

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

Mel Gibson, Mel Brooks

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

the correct spelling & the incorrect spelling

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

well done

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

Uh, thanks?

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

Likewise:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge/Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

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

You're just fucking with me now.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

somehow, the letter K and the number 5

― 69 (plsmith), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

Diet Coca Cola
Piss

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

Freddie King / Albert King
Albert King / Albert Collins

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

Louis XIII, Louis XIV

i know!!

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

TS Larry Carlton vs Larry Coryell

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

Kenwood Dennard/Durward Kirby/Kirkwood Smith

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

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matthew rhys
jonathan rhys meyers

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 12 May 2026 02:01 (one month ago)

Manhattan jazz club edition:
Village Gate
Village Vanguard

― Brenton Wood Conference (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 12 May 2026 13:50 (one month ago)

Alan Douglas, record producer
Jack Douglas, record producer

― Clarinet Cop (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 May 2026 20:43 (one month ago)

Felix Dexter
Dexter Fletcher

― Mark G, Tuesday, 12 May 2026 20:57 (one month ago)

BlackRock
Blackstone

Is there even a difference?

― sonic catterdales (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 13 May 2026 13:17 (four weeks ago)

Alan Howarth
Allan Holdsworth

― c u (crüt), Thursday, 14 May 2026 17:29 (four weeks ago)

rita ora
dua lipa
dua saleh
mo salah

― mookieproof, Thursday, 14 May 2026 22:32 (four weeks ago)

G.W. Pabst
F.W. Murnau

― the prog judge has spoken (Matt #2), Monday, 18 May 2026 12:55 (three weeks ago)

Blatz
Schlitz

― Brenton Wood Conference (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 18 May 2026 13:31 (three weeks ago)

Lee Grant
Ellen Burstyn

― nickn, Monday, 18 May 2026 17:53 (three weeks ago)

rita ora
dua lipa
dua saleh
mo salah

Mo Salah
Mo Farah

― jaymc, Monday, 18 May 2026 18:08 (three weeks ago)

Chaim Topol
Chaim Potok

― anatol_merklich, Friday, 22 May 2026 13:51 (three weeks ago)

Maria Muldaur
Melissa Manchester

― Tom D, focussed with getting on with the job (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 May 2026 10:14 (two weeks ago)

Gary Lucas
Ted Lucas

― henry s, Saturday, 23 May 2026 15:05 (two weeks ago)

Jane Austen
Jane Eyre

― where's ken morse when you need him (Matt #2), Saturday, 23 May 2026 16:13 (two weeks ago)

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
What It's Like Being Alone

specifically, people keep mentioning "don't hug me i'm scared" and i think they're talking about "what it's like being alone", which they're not, because "what it's like being alone" is deeply obscure and prior to last year circulated only as a basically unwatchably bad rip (the currently circulating version is relatively poor quality but doesn't feature a loud buzzing sound running in the background).

one of these days i'll probably watch "don't hug me i'm scared", just like one of these days i'll probably listen to the swedish ghost

― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 25 May 2026 23:08 (two weeks ago)

The No-Neck Blues Band
The Nihilist Spasm Band

― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 26 May 2026 03:06 (two weeks ago)

Siri Hustvedt
Sigrid Undset

― stick your cheffing job (ledge), Friday, 29 May 2026 14:28 (two weeks ago)

Ultra Vivid Scene
His Name is Alive

― where's ken morse when you need him (Matt #2), Friday, 29 May 2026 15:15 (two weeks ago)

OTM to all 3 of these

― Tom D, focussed with getting on with the job (Tom D.), Friday, 29 May 2026 15:30 (two weeks ago)

His Name is Alive
Today is the Day

― a tv star not a dirty computer man (the table is the table), Friday, 29 May 2026 16:20 (two weeks ago)

oh, and for some reason with those two, Texas is the Reason

― a tv star not a dirty computer man (the table is the table), Friday, 29 May 2026 16:21 (two weeks ago)

Amen break
Apache break

More authors I've never read whom I confuse:
Dorothy Sayers
Eudora Welty

― Toilets and Cressida (Leee), Friday, 29 May 2026 16:44 (two weeks ago)

old time jass edition:

Elmer Snowden
Elmer Schoebel

― The Immortal Bird of Avon (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 29 May 2026 17:22 (two weeks ago)

Harley Peyton
Peyton Reed

― The Yellow Kid, Friday, 29 May 2026 19:37 (two weeks ago)

Vince McMahon
Dana White

― Cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria de Episcopio, Saturday, 30 May 2026 02:31 (one week ago)

Hailee Steinfeld
Beanie Feldstein

― anatol_merklich, Monday, 1 June 2026 14:10 (one week ago)

80s/90s track and field edition:

Merlene Ottey
Myrtle Augie

― Madchen, Monday, 1 June 2026 15:16 (one week ago)

Three Doors Down
Third Eye Blind
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, April 25, 2023 7:59 PM (three years ago)

agreed, with added Three Dog Night

― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 2 June 2026 06:09 (one week ago)

Mark Goodson
Bill Todman

or is it

Mark Goodman
Bill Todson

― henry s, Tuesday, 2 June 2026 09:55 (one week ago)

Andrew Watt
Andrew Weiss

(... assumed the former was the latter).

― Tom D, focussed with getting on with the job (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 June 2026 13:04 (one week ago)

Anthony Head (died today)
Anthony Heald (Silence of the Lambs)

― clemenza, Friday, 5 June 2026 16:29 (one week ago)

Corfu
Crete
Cyprus

In that I'm never sure till it after comes out of my mouth if I'm going to say the right name for the one we went on holiday to a couple of years ago (it was Crete). Corsica does not seem to enter into it.

― stick your cheffing job (ledge), Sunday, 7 June 2026 15:51 (five days ago)

Full Moon in Blue Water
Moon Over Parador

― cryptosicko, Monday, 8 June 2026 02:08 (four days ago)

Red Skelton
Red Buttons

― The Immortal Bird of Avon (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 8 June 2026 19:25 (four days ago)

Embarrassed to admit this, but I always thought that Jon Landau the rock critic/producer was also Jon Landau the movie guy.

― clemenza, Monday, 8 June 2026 19:28 (four days ago)

(xp)

One of them never got a dinner.

― cryptosicko, Monday, 8 June 2026 19:36 (four days ago)

J.D. Souther
Terry Southern

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 10 June 2026 20:54 (two days ago)

Hatebreed
Hatebeak

― Roy Ouroboroson (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 11 June 2026 19:21 (yesterday)

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