Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

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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)

Tim Hopkins / Tim Ellison / Tim Finney

Same here.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:19 (nineteen years ago)

Just to clarify: I mean which name goes with which poster; it's not like they write the same way or anything. It's like I used to mix up the names Felt and The Fall.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:32 (nineteen years ago)

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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 (six days ago)

Mark Goodson
Bill Todman

or is it

Mark Goodman
Bill Todson

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

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

― clemenza, Friday, 5 June 2026 16:29 (three days 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 (yesterday)

Full Moon in Blue Water
Moon Over Parador

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

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