Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

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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)

Lloyd Cole and the Coconuts to thread.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Also:
Jeremy Paxman and Jeremy Clarkson
West Ham, Aston Villa and Arsenal
Nick Owen and Nik Cohen

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Right and Left

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

Right and Wrong

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

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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 (two weeks ago)

Full Moon in Blue Water
Moon Over Parador

― cryptosicko, Monday, 8 June 2026 02:08 (two weeks ago)

Red Skelton
Red Buttons

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

(xp)

One of them never got a dinner.

― cryptosicko, Monday, 8 June 2026 19:36 (two weeks ago)

J.D. Souther
Terry Southern

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

Hatebreed
Hatebeak

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

CSNY
SDNY

― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 16 June 2026 01:36 (one week ago)

MOU does not stand for Memorandum of Unusual Size

Just like I see USMNT (soccer) and I think Mutant Ninja Turtles

― seersucker MC (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 16 June 2026 02:40 (one week ago)

Phil Spencer
Phil Spector

― Toilets and Cressida (Leee), Tuesday, 16 June 2026 05:02 (one week ago)

Tropical 2
Hawaii: Part II

― MarkoP, Wednesday, 17 June 2026 17:37 (one week ago)

giardia
giardiniera

― The Immortal Bird of Avon (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 17 June 2026 17:57 (one week ago)

^ definitely not a mistake you want in the kitchen

― seersucker MC (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 17 June 2026 17:58 (one week ago)

MOU does not stand for Memorandum of Unusual Size
Just like I see USMNT (soccer) and I think Mutant Ninja Turtles

looool same

― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, 17 June 2026 18:04 (one week ago)

Macaw
Macaque

Both birds as far as my mind's eye is concerned, until someone starts talking about the latter's limbs and appendages

― bendy, Wednesday, 17 June 2026 18:13 (one week ago)

One of my cats had giardia when he was a baby, and it was absolutely horrific, like Silkwood levels of emergency decontamination.

― whimsical skeedaddler (Moodles), Wednesday, 17 June 2026 19:02 (one week ago)

Jonathan Franzen has shown up in the thread a few times, mostly vis-a-vis other Jonathans.

I recently crossed him with Michael Chabon, but then in trying to de-Franzen my Chabon I accidentally got to Glenn Savan.

St. Louis connects Franzen, Savan; Chabon is Pittsburgh.

― Scott Baiowulf (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 19 June 2026 02:16 (one week ago)

Colson Whitehead
Paxton Whitehead

― The Immortal Bird of Avon (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 22 June 2026 20:56 (five days ago)

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