Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

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travis wammack
lonnie mack

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

Jim Seals
Phil Collins

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

Jon Hassell
Bill Frisell

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

And Bill Laswell

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

Kate St John
Bridget St John

only just realised they're two different people

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

Add in Susan St James

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

Eva Marie Saint
Buffy Sainte-Marie

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

It pains me to say this, but:

John Hurt
William Hurt

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

Donald Glover
Danny Glover

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

Averroës
Avicenna

I believe this is a not entirely uncommon quizzing predicament.

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

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 (four years ago)

From now on in

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

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 (four years ago)

Top of the Pop
TopPop

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

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 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

Blew out my flipflop
Stepped on a TopPop

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

Lol

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

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 (four years ago)

"alouette"
"frère jacques"

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

^good one!

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

And the one before it too

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

"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 (four years ago)

Less excusable:

Alt-J
Jlin

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

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 (four years ago)

Add Ranald Slidell "Bad Hand" Mackenzie

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

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 (four years ago)

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

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

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 (four years ago)

xpost

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

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

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

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

George Segal in both, I think.

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

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

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

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 (four years ago)

David Sancious
David Sanborn

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

That never got mentioned before?

Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 April 2022 00:52 (four years ago)

Julian Assange
Edward Snowden

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

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 (four years ago)

Ode to Bobbie McGentry

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

...and Me

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

Me Keep On Dancing.

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

Tony Levin
Tony Levin

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

Lyle Lovett
Kyle MacLachlan

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

Dave Chapelle / David Lachapelle

fetter, Thursday, 7 April 2022 19:23 (four years ago)

Tim Hardin
Tim Buckley

nickn, Thursday, 7 April 2022 20:16 (four years ago)

...Tim Rose

Phil McCracken (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 April 2022 20:17 (four years ago)

Chris Hedges/Hayes

papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 7 April 2022 20:18 (four years ago)

Tim Buckley
Jeff Buckley

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 7 April 2022 20:18 (four years ago)

house remixer edition

Mark Knight
Mark Kinchen

the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Thursday, 7 April 2022 21:12 (four years ago)


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