Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

Realized a few days ago that I'd been conflating Emily Blunt and Rose Byrne.

I only realized this was two different people when I watched one of them host Saturday Night Live recently

Chad Everett/Richard Long

James Rado/Gerome Ragni

From John Colville's diary:

"After lunch the PM forestalled Irving Berlin asking leading questions by himself addressing them to his potential interlocutor (e.g. "When do you think the war will end, Mr Berlin?"), this I thought was an ingenious technique. Berlin said he thought Roosevelt would get in at the coming presidential election, and in this his name should help him because in all Republican systems human nature triumphed over constitutional principle and the hereditary system came into its own. This also applied to our own Labour Party in which the wife or son of a well known MP was always in demand as a parliamentary candidate.

It later transpired that the reason Mr Berlin had bee bidden to lunch was a comic misunderstanding. There are sprightly, if somewhat over-vivid, political summaries telegraphed home every week from the Washington Embassy. The PM inquiring who wrote them, had been told by me "Mr Isaiah Berlin, Fellow of All Souls and Tutor of New College." When Irving Berlin came over to entertain the troops with his songs, the PM confused him with Isaiah and invited him to lunch - and conversed with him, to his embarrassment, as if he had been Isaiah.

I don't get the two mixed up but when I'm trying to think of Isaiah's name I always think of Irving first.

Had a somewhat confusing conversation with somebody over the weekend and today I finally figured out the I was talking about "Hair" and he must have been talking about "Hairspray."

When I was in college I conflated the American comic novelist Thomas Berger with the serious British novelist John Berger. I still haven't quite separated the authors of Being Invisible and Lilac and Flag in my head.

Florence Henderson and Barbra Billingsley. When my husband told me that Henderson died yesterday, my response was that she must've been like 100 years old.

edmund white edmund wilson

^^^^

^thirded

Mildred Pierce and Mrs. Miniver (I haven't seen either)

Brock Lesnar, Brock Turner

Brock Samson. Actually, is the name Brock a uniquely American name?

Klaatu
I Am Kloot
Klute

Moonbeam Levels/Moonage Daydream

Sausage companies: Bobak's in Chicago, Patak's near Atlanta

Robert Romanus/Vincent Spano

Joe Walsh
Joe Walsh

Yesterday made me realize--when I thought, "Suzanne Somers' husband"--that I always had to take a few seconds to remember which was Alan Thicke and which was Alan Hamel (Canadian talk-show host).

Thinking the IT crowd girl Katherine Parkinson had graduated to cohosting baking shows with Sue Perkins though somehow doubiting it a bit when I saw she still had red hair in Humans. But they do look very similar don't they?

Subrosa/SubCulture
(Two music venues of relevant recently vintage)

Jerry Livingston/Jay Livingston
or even
Jerry Livingston and Mack David/Jay Livingston and Ray Evans

Actually, is the name Brock a uniquely American name?

nah, it's derived from the Old English word for badger

Similarly, Tod means fox.

Thought it meant "death."

As in
http://www.marktplaza.be/L13719660/1/der-mude-tod-destiny-1921-dvd-13719660.jpg

Ah, okay, looked it up, I see.

Also means or meant "bush," as in Coleridge's "The ivy tod is heavy with snow."

Actually it says tod also means brock, so someone called Tod Brock , would be one of those "double namers" or whatever they are called.

Norton Records/Emperor Norton Records
*ducks*

Alun Owen/Allan Williams (RIP)

Roman Polanski and Francis Ford Coppola. Kind of bad for Coppola because I keep getting it in my head that he's a scumbag rapist which, as far as I know, he's not.

Bitchen Bajas
The Four Bitchin' Babes

The iTunes and Photos icons in the macOS dock. They're not even very similar. Ditto Contacts and Calendar.

Mayberry/Hooterville

The Three Sounds/The Three Suns

Maureen O'Sullivan and Margaret Sullavan

Wow. Is that not on here already?

Also Margaret O'Brien and Marguerite Churchill (who was married to George O'Brien)

Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Mary Margaret O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara

Erdogan / Ertegun

Waiting for someone to say R.D. Laing and k.d. lang

Which one did "Crazy"?

I guess both in their own way

green gartside and grant green

Green Gartside and Greer Garson.

Colombia and Cambodia. I know they're completely different but when they come up it always takes me a couple of seconds to remember which one's in S. America and which one's in Asia

Helen Shaver and Helen Slater. (Started watching 1984's Supergirl last night. "That's Helen Shaver? Can't be her...")

I'm able to keep most bands named after geographic locations straight but I tend to confuse Boston with Kansas and vice versa.

(xp) Good one.