Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

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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)

Blow-Up and Blow-Out

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

jude law and ethan hawke (thanks a lot, gattaca)

― Bernard Snowy (sixteen sergeants), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

Yo momma and a bowling ball

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost to self: obviously this is not due to similarity of names, but I still mix them up so I say it counts)

― Bernard Snowy (sixteen sergeants), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

Enrique and Esteban

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 22 January 2007 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

Rebound Man and Transition Man

― Hard like armour (Hard like armour), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:26 (nineteen years ago)

Like all of them.

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:37 (nineteen years ago)

If you think my typing is bad you should hear me TALK. I am a sentence mangling Spoonerism making free association confusion machine, to both myself and others.

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

High five!

― Hard like armour (Hard like armour), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

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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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