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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)

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 (nineteen years ago)

The words for the study of insects and the study of word origins - etymology and entymology, maybe? Fucked if I know which goes with which.

― Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

aubergine and courgette. no sense.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

I can't tell you how many people get Dr and Mr Spock confused.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

Olivia Newton John Travolta

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

Picadilly / Picalilly (but not Picaninny)

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

I know people who think Peter Sellers is alive and well because he's in Last Of The Summer Wine every Sunday.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

Marcello Carlin and George Carlin.

― God Bows to Meth (noodle vague), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Kelly Brook/Kelly le Brock/Kele le Roc

― chap (chap), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Daniel and Ryan.

― jimn (jimnaseum), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

a schooldays classic:
sanguine/sanguinary

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

thomas tallis and timmy tannin

― tony conrad schnitzler (sanskrit), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

Tim Hopkins / Tim Ellison / Tim Finney

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

don't look now and don't look back.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 22 January 2007 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

I wish we could combine those! And have Bob Dylan murdered by a psychotic midget in Venice! Excellent!

― Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Monday, 22 January 2007 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

What a totally random place to wish for Bob Dylan's death!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

Simon Cowell's just booked a ticket!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

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rita ora
dua lipa
dua saleh
mo salah

Mo Salah
Mo Farah

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

Chaim Topol
Chaim Potok

― anatol_merklich, Friday, 22 May 2026 13:51 (two 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 (one week ago)

The No-Neck Blues Band
The Nihilist Spasm Band

― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 26 May 2026 03:06 (one week ago)

Siri Hustvedt
Sigrid Undset

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

Ultra Vivid Scene
His Name is Alive

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

OTM to all 3 of these

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

old time jass edition:

Elmer Snowden
Elmer Schoebel

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

Harley Peyton
Peyton Reed

― The Yellow Kid, Friday, 29 May 2026 19:37 (one week 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 (six days ago)

80s/90s track and field edition:

Merlene Ottey
Myrtle Augie

― Madchen, Monday, 1 June 2026 15:16 (six days 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 (five days ago)

Mark Goodson
Bill Todman

or is it

Mark Goodman
Bill Todson

― henry s, Tuesday, 2 June 2026 09:55 (five days 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 (five days ago)

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

― clemenza, Friday, 5 June 2026 16:29 (two days ago)

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