Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

kung pao chicken
general Tso chicken

But it doesn’t really matter because both are delicious

Gareth Thomas
Gareth Hunt

The Vaselines
The Vaccines

Surprised this one hasn't been listed:

Elliot Mazer
Elliot Roberts

omg

Toss up who was more racist I guess

Oh, Roald Dahl, no question. Kipling gets judged by his worst poem (which tbf is his own damn fault), but most of his work is anti-racist by Victorian standards. Dahl was born 50 years later and still managed to be a piece of shit.

I thought the easiest thing in the world would be finding a photo on the internet of Elliot Mazer and Elliot Roberts together, with or without Neil, but not so.

joss whedon and will wheaton - two people whose names appear on the internet a lot who don't do anything i care about.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, woensdag 27 mei 2009 15:18 (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Si Spencer and Si Spurrier, apparently

Count yourself lucky that Simon Guerrier has only written two short stories in comics.

Earth
Hell

oh

Trying and failing to process the death of Si Spencer. There wasn't a week that someone didn't confuse us for each other -- always to my gain. There was no better fellow for whom to be confused.

As clever and warm-hearted a mensch as I ever knew. And a cracking quizmaster.

— Simon "Si Spurrier" Spurrier (@sispurrier) February 17, 2021

Journey to the end of the night
Long day’s journey into night
Dark night of the soul

Oh absolutely, esp the two first ones!

Ed Banger / Ed Hardy

Todd Solondz
Neil LaBute

Can never remember who directed what.

that's funny I mix up Solondz with Harmony Korine sometimes.

I guess he exists somewhere between Korine and LaBute in the landscape of cringy/hard-to-watch?

Steve Hilliage
Steve Hackett

Less reasonably:
Drive Like Jehu
Jeru the Damaja

How about Steve Howe and Steve Harley?

not quite always getting them mixed up but for some reason whenever i see the actor scott glenn i think he's a member of the carradine family

he's in nashville with keith carradine and my head thinks "ah the carradine brothers together"

Omg, homework and discovery!! Been getting those two mixed up for 20 years

sarahell and i were chatting offline, as we do, and we both confused Gary Busey with Nick Nolte, which is not the first occasion that's happened with either of us. (It was in reference to the tropical bro on GHB mugshot of Nolte from 2002)

they do have similar facial features and Nolte's mugshot is the spitting image of how Busey looks regularly.

Warren Ellis (Both of them)
Warren Oates
Warren Buffett

Got Madeline Kahn and Carol Kane confused so much as a kid that I still think of both of them nearly every time I see either one. Realised the other day that I may have also had Bernadette Peters mixed up in there, too.

― this luxury Avenue (sic), Thursday, July 2, 2020 6:52 AM (seven months ago)

LOL yes I was about to mention Bernadette Peters.

― Future England Captain (Tom D.), Thursday, July 2, 2020 6:56 AM (seven months ago)

me too those three!

― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, July 2, 2020 6:59 AM (seven months ago)

Being compelled to watch the 1982 Annie adap rn, can confirm the above.

Jason Sudekis
Jason Mantzoukas

Marc Maron
Marc Moulin

I confess I don't know who Marc Maron is and every time I see the WTF with Marc Maron (it's a podcast) thread, I have to stop and think, "What was the name of that guy who was in Telex... the one who's dead?" Well, the guy who was in Telex... the one who's dead is Marc Moulin.

heinrich von kleist
hugo von hofmannstahl

Tom Hardy
Tom Hiddleston
Tom Holland
Tom Huddlestone

Hiddlestone and Hardy are both actors who I don't know how they don't die of embarrassment at how bad they are. Holland is pretty good at times and Huddlestone looked like a right prospect playing for Derby against us in the league cup when he was like 18 or something for Derby, not followed his career since but I'm sure he never embarrassed himself as much at Spurs as Hiddlestone did playing Hank Williams or Hardy playing Al Capone recently.

Hiddlestone and Hardy. I have to google to make sure I'm not mixing them up. Wouldn't recognize Holland. Had all but forgotten Huddlestone but sometimes have to stop and think whether Hiddleston is called Huddlestone or not. Also I keep thinking there's another acting Tom I've omitted.

Revised list:

Tom Hardy
Tom Hiddleston
Tom Holland
Tom Hollander
Tom Huddleston

I WENT into a public 'ouse to get a pint o' beer,
The publican 'e up an' sez, " We serve no red-coats here."
The girls be'ind the bar they laughed an' giggled fit to die,
I outs into the street again an' to myself sez I:
O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' " Tommy, go away "

I thought ILB FAPs were bad with their three Toms!

Cathal Coughlan and Katell keineg

There are two Tom Hollands.

xxp
It's Hollander I meant not that little spider-shit Holland. He's a useless little shit as well and I used to know his uncle!

A surfeit of Toms.

It wasn't even his uncle I knew it was his second cousin and he was a complete cock as well. his dad Dominic Holland is a "comedian" of the British comedy scene who also is a published author btw.

Hiddleston
Huddleston
Hiddlestone
Huddlestone

Let's call the while thing off

Michael Sheen
Michael Shannon

the latter is the one who sounds like he has a toothpick in his mouth

If somebody mentions Sheen or Shannon, I just ask "Is that the elfin one?"

Regina King and Regina Hall (the names, not the persons, obv), and then sometimes Rebecca Hall comes to muddy things up, such as when she decides to make her feature-film directorial debut at the same time as Regina King's.

Just realized I was conflating Dick van Patten with Jerry van Dyke. Subsequently realized that I have no actual reason to be thinking about either of these people.

how about Dick Shawn, are you thinking about Dick Shawn?

Is that the New Yorker editor or the guy from The Princess Bride?

Sarah Champion, music journalist
Sarah Champion, MP

I've just this minute checked Wiki to check if they aren't the same person.

Phil Elverum
Phil Ek
Daniel Ek