Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

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Casey Kasem/Kato Kaelin

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 29 January 2007 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

I confused villified and vindicated for a long time.

I always, still, get Mike Ness and Mike Watt mixed up. To my boyfriends everlasting dismay.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Monday, 29 January 2007 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

Bellini and Donizetti

― Frogm@n Henry (Frogm@n Henry), Monday, 29 January 2007 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

I always call Bellini, Boldoni.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 29 January 2007 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

MSN
M&S

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Monday, 29 January 2007 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

i thought Belle and Sebastian were Tuck 'n Patty for a long time, which made me dismissive of Belle and Sebastian. (I had only heard Tuck 'n Patty). So I said they sucked, and people were surprised that I didn't like Belle and Sebastian, but I didn't know I liked them!

I get Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino confused sometimes. Much to everyone on ILX's dismay, these two confessions, I'm guessing! (The boyfriend is especially dismayed about the DeNiro/Pacino confusion.)

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Monday, 29 January 2007 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

Jimmy Webb/Mike Batt

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 29 January 2007 23:42 (nineteen years ago)

John Howard and Louie the Fly

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 01:16 (nineteen years ago)

Wayne Arthurs and Chris de Burgh

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

"When I was a kid I used to confuse Martin Luther and Martin Luther King."

As an adult playing Trivial Pursuit, two other players almost came to fisticuffs (alcohol-fuelled, which partially explains without excusing) because the dimmer and drunker of the two swore blind ML and MLK were indeed one and the same person.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 03:24 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, when speaking, I always say "Billy Colony" (for the Big Yin)

― S- (sgh), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 03:30 (nineteen years ago)

the dimmer and drunker of the two swore blind ML and MLK were indeed one and the same person

I think drunkenness helps, but dimness is a stone-solid requirement for this argument.

― Thumpy Screamy (kenan), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 03:59 (nineteen years ago)

My mum always used to tell us she was ravished. I think she meant famished.

― Hard like armour (Hard like armour), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 04:29 (nineteen years ago)

Ravished/famished is hilarious! Is ravenous the culprit?

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 08:08 (nineteen years ago)

cavalry
calvary

don't confuse those, but *do* confuse Calvary and Calgary sometimes.

― New Mark H (New MarkH), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

katie holmes and kate richie

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

lampooned
pilloried

do they mean the same thing?

― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

Bronson Arroyo/Bronson Pinchot

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

cavalry
calvary

my new mnemonic for this is the word "chevalier," but it doesn't always work

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

lampoon (n.)
1645, from Fr. lampon, of unknown origin, said by Fr. etymologists to be from lampons "let us drink," popular refrain for scurrilous 17c. songs, from lamper "to drink, guzzle," a nasalized form of laper "to lap." The verb is first attested 1657.

1. a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
–verb (used with object) 2. to mock or ridicule in a lampoon: to lampoon important leaders in the government.

pillory (n.)
1274 (attested in Anglo-L. from c.1189), from O.Fr. pellori (1168), from M.L. pilloria, of uncertain origin, perhaps a dim of L. pila "pillar, stone barrier." The verb is first attested 1600.

1. a wooden framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, formerly used to expose an offender to public derision.
–verb (used with object) 2. to set in the pillory.
3. to expose to public derision, ridicule, or abuse: The candidate mercilessly pilloried his opponent.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

also 'lambast'

― vita susicivus (blueski), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

Cavalry is originally from vulgar latin 'caballus', horse.

Calvary is the Latin name for Golgotha and derives from 'calvus', bald, which is essentially what the name Calvin means.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

Arturo Bandini/Alberto Beddini

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://whttp://www.mbrem.com/images/calvin.gif

My college newspaper ran a photoshopped version with JC throwing devil horns. Ahhh religion, always good for a laugh.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:55 (nineteen years ago)

Did I typo or is that url not functional? I can never tell these things.

http://www.mbrem.com/images/calvin.gif

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:57 (nineteen years ago)

Is that a painting of jaXon? or his forebearer olde-jaXon? Where's olde-Britney?

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:58 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, that portrait was taken right after Jaxon was nailed to the door by a papal bull.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:59 (nineteen years ago)

Benny/Björn

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 1 February 2007 05:19 (nineteen years ago)

Curt Boettcher
Budd Boetticher

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 1 February 2007 05:48 (nineteen years ago)

Weatherspoons and McCauleys

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 1 February 2007 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

backslash and forwardslash.

― Koogy Bloogies (koogs), Thursday, 1 February 2007 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

I wish we said foreslash instead of forwardslash.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 1 February 2007 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

Keter Betts
Skeeter Davis

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

Booker Little
Walter Booker
Booker Ervin

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

calumny and contumely

― Bernard Snowy (sixteen sergeants), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

Alberto Beddini

"For the woman, the kiss. For the man, the sword." That guy? Am I remembering the right movie?

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

Ian Richardson and Robert Stephens.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Agnetha and Frida

― craven, Monday, 2 April 2007 06:06 (nineteen years ago)

Macy Gray and Angie Stone.

― Tuomas, Monday, 2 April 2007 09:07 (nineteen years ago)

five months pass...

Naomi Klein and Naomi Wolf

brainstorming and barnstorming

rows and columns

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

Alberto Beddini

"For the woman, the kiss. For the man, the sword." That guy? Am I remembering the right movie?

-- M. White (Miguelito)

Yeah, that's right.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

best thread ever

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

http://images.askmen.com/galleries/actress/mira-sorvino/pictures/mira-sorvino-picture-1.jpg

and

http://images.askmen.com/galleries/actress/mena-suvari/pictures/mena-suvari-picture-1.jpg

(that's mira sorvino and mena suvari)

― CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

Productive and entertaining ILX posters/oh I can't be bothered

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

flammable and inflammable

― StanM, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

Edmund Wilson and E.O. Wilson. And sometimes Edmund Wilson and Edmund White.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

Sandy Dennis/Sandy Denny.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

Paul Rodgers/Paul Jones

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

Edmund Wilson and Edmund White

yah me too

― n/a, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

Yup. And sometimes

"Bunny" Wilson/"Bunny" Manders

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

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