Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

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Barbara Bach
Barbara Bain

Alba, Saturday, 12 February 2022 10:55 (two years ago) link

barbara babcock

mookieproof, Saturday, 12 February 2022 11:14 (two years ago) link

Stacey Dooley
Stacey Solomon

Madchen, Saturday, 19 February 2022 18:55 (two years ago) link

Love Me Love My Dog
Me and You and a Dog Named Boo

since dozzell was a fixture (Tom D.), Saturday, 19 February 2022 21:06 (two years ago) link

Luka Doncic
Nikola Jokic

Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Saturday, 19 February 2022 21:18 (two years ago) link

Steve Reid
Steve Roach

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 20 February 2022 05:00 (two years ago) link

travis wammack
lonnie mack

budo jeru, Monday, 28 February 2022 20:09 (two years ago) link

Jim Seals
Phil Collins

i read to 69 position (Neanderthal), Sunday, 6 March 2022 19:53 (two years ago) link

Jon Hassell
Bill Frisell

fetter, Monday, 7 March 2022 11:57 (two years ago) link

And Bill Laswell

fetter, Monday, 7 March 2022 12:01 (two years ago) link

Kate St John
Bridget St John

only just realised they're two different people

fetter, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 17:40 (two years ago) link

Add in Susan St James

nickn, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 21:19 (two years ago) link

Eva Marie Saint
Buffy Sainte-Marie

Alba, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 07:04 (two years ago) link

It pains me to say this, but:

John Hurt
William Hurt

Sam Weller, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 10:46 (two years ago) link

Donald Glover
Danny Glover

Madchen, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 11:08 (two years ago) link

Averroës
Avicenna

I believe this is a not entirely uncommon quizzing predicament.

anatol_merklich, Friday, 18 March 2022 11:41 (two years ago) link

I am much more familiar with the former but from now in I will start mixing them I guess.

Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 March 2022 12:11 (two years ago) link

From now on in

Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 March 2022 12:26 (two years ago) link

Averroës
Avicenna

i can't explain exactly why, but this is the kind of post that keeps me coming back to this thread. good stuff!

budo jeru, Friday, 18 March 2022 19:01 (two years ago) link

Top of the Pop
TopPop

Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 March 2022 14:28 (two years ago) link

do you mean Top of the Pop*s*?
or am I just adding to the mixing up now?

celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Saturday, 19 March 2022 14:40 (two years ago) link

Ugh, sorry, was typing too fast, yes, you are correct.

Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 March 2022 14:54 (two years ago) link

Top of the Pops = TOTP = BBC original
TopPop / Toppop = what the Dutch did with the concept

https://media.s-bol.com/1GRXj3MrmBKR/849x1200.jpg

celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Saturday, 19 March 2022 15:02 (two years ago) link

Blew out my flipflop
Stepped on a TopPop

imagine flagons (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 19 March 2022 22:50 (two years ago) link

Lol

Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 March 2022 22:50 (two years ago) link

Barefoot in the Park
The Panic in Needle Park

there's only so far you can go with a jazz tuba solo (Matt #2), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 08:45 (two years ago) link

"alouette"
"frère jacques"

budo jeru, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 14:48 (two years ago) link

^good one!

Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 14:51 (two years ago) link

And the one before it too

Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 14:51 (two years ago) link

"alouette"
"frère jacques"

Oh hell right:

Traditional, famously variantizationized by Mozart: "Ah! Vous dirai-je, maman"
Haydn: Symphony #94 ("Paukenschlag"/"Surprise"), movement 2

anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 18:17 (two years ago) link

Less excusable:

Alt-J
Jlin

anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 18:18 (two years ago) link

Mackenzie Davis
MacKenzie Scott
Mackenzie Crook

It seems my brain files names thinking Mackenzie is enough of an identifier and then I get confused when I see a headline about MacKenzie Scott giving $436m to charity and momentarily wonder how much money he made from The Detectorists.

Alba, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 18:25 (two years ago) link

Add Ranald Slidell "Bad Hand" Mackenzie

Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 18:41 (two years ago) link

It pains me to say this, but:

John Hurt
William Hurt

― Sam Weller, Wednesday, March 16, 2022 10:46 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

Oof, had that last week too.

Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 23 March 2022 19:15 (two years ago) link

was the "pains me to say" part a pun or

Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Wednesday, 23 March 2022 20:29 (two years ago) link

Velocipede, a human-powered land vehicle with one or more wheels
Velociraptor, a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur

the nwa list (Matt #2), Friday, 25 March 2022 09:30 (two years ago) link

xpost

Haha yes, but I've been mixing them up for decades.

Sam Weller, Friday, 25 March 2022 10:08 (two years ago) link

Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice
Fun With Dick and Jane

Alfred Ndwego of Kenya (Tom D.), Sunday, 27 March 2022 12:52 (two years ago) link

George Segal in both, I think.

Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 March 2022 12:59 (two years ago) link

No, Bob & Ted were Robert Culp and Elliott Gould.

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Sunday, 27 March 2022 16:57 (two years ago) link

Oh right, thanks. George Segal was in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, had to look up who played his wife though.

The Central Rockaliser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 March 2022 19:28 (two years ago) link

David Sancious
David Sanborn

Alfred Ndwego of Kenya (Tom D.), Sunday, 3 April 2022 00:46 (two years ago) link

That never got mentioned before?

Julian Assange
Edward Snowden

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 3 April 2022 01:13 (two years ago) link

Me and Bobby McGee
Ode to Billie Joe

... probably not helped by the latter being by Bobbie Gentry.

Phil McCracken (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 April 2022 08:13 (two years ago) link

Ode to Bobbie McGentry

Mark G, Thursday, 7 April 2022 09:18 (two years ago) link

...and Me

Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 7 April 2022 11:20 (two years ago) link

Me Keep On Dancing.

Came Here to Roll the Microscope (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 April 2022 12:07 (two years ago) link

Tony Levin
Tony Levin

Otto Insurance (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 7 April 2022 13:56 (two years ago) link

Lyle Lovett
Kyle MacLachlan

jel--, Thursday, 7 April 2022 18:27 (two years ago) link


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