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are there any pairs of words or names that you always confuse with one another?

― New Mark H (New MarkH), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:25 (eleven years ago) Permalink

I always confuse

Caravaggio - sixteenth century Italian painter

with

Carluccio - an Italian café an deli chain (the interior of the Oxford one was designed by my cousin)

― New Mark H (New MarkH), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:27 (eleven years ago) Permalink

Arpeggio (sequence of notes)

Archipeligo (sequence of islands)

I always try to combine them.

― Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:29 (eleven years ago) Permalink

Barry Andrews - KBd man w/ XTC
Barry Adamson - wrote pseudo soundtracks for so long, they asked him to do it for real.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:29 (eleven years ago) Permalink

The names Emma and Claire

The MS Excel icon and the MS Outlook icon

The order of the alphabet between H and M

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:30 (eleven years ago) Permalink

My very elderly grandmother used to confuse "pelmet" and "pelvis", causing hilarity in the curtain shop.

― C J (C J), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:30 (eleven years ago) Permalink

don't think I mix anything up

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:31 (eleven years ago) Permalink

kept calling psychiatrists psychologists

― vita susicivus (blueski), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:32 (eleven years ago) Permalink

The and Teh

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:33 (eleven years ago) Permalink

kept calling psychiatrists psychologists
-- vita susicivus (n...), January 19th, 2007.

i just say "psychoanalysts-psychiatrists-phychologists" cos i never know what i mean.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:35 (eleven years ago) Permalink

Shrinks covers it

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:35 (eleven years ago) Permalink

Oh, that's easy for me. There's the one-that-gives-me-pills (psychiatrist) and the one that just talks-a-lot-of-bollocks (psychologist) - but if you've never had either, I can understand the confusion.

― Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:36 (eleven years ago) Permalink

Juoda and syödä! They mean TO DRINK and TO EAT in Finnish but I always get them confused and thus told my teacher that I drink a lot of meat. This is the sort of thing we learn in class. Hmm.

In English I confuse Brighton and Bristol more than I should.

― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:36 (eleven years ago) Permalink

Paediatrics and the feet one... or is paediatrics the feet one?

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:37 (eleven years ago) Permalink

paediatrics is the kiddly-fiddlers.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:39 (eleven years ago) Permalink

And paedophiles are foot fetishists, right I get it

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:39 (eleven years ago) Permalink

i thought they were psychopaths?

― vita susicivus (blueski), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:40 (eleven years ago) Permalink

psychopathologist: studies diseases, so he can give them to you

― vita susicivus (blueski), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:41 (eleven years ago) Permalink

That's areas set aside for the riding of bicycles (xp)

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:41 (eleven years ago) Permalink

John Updike }{ John Irving

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:59 (eleven years ago) Permalink

I did describe someone as behaving as though they were suffering from Stockhausen Syndrome.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 19 January 2007 12:00 (eleven years ago) Permalink

Ha ha, that's great

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 12:01 (eleven years ago) Permalink

arse
elbow

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 19 January 2007 12:06 (eleven years ago) Permalink

ethics/morals

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 12:11 (eleven years ago) Permalink

the numbers 4 and 7 in sequences of numbers, for instance a padlock or a memorable date.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:01 (eleven years ago) Permalink

ILX
work

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:03 (eleven years ago) Permalink

when i was a kid:
bagels-donuts
muffins-cupcakes

but even more recently
jar-bottle

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:04 (eleven years ago) Permalink

Swamp Thing

Man Thing

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:15 (eleven years ago) Permalink

Shetty

Poppadom

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:18 (eleven years ago) Permalink

Shilpa Shetty
Talitha Getty

― Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:20 (eleven years ago) Permalink

Bills Paxton and Pullman
Until recently: Cormac McCarthy and Carson McCullers
Red and green, apparently

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:26 (eleven years ago) Permalink

Will Ferrell
Colin Ferrell
Colin Firth

...are all the same person, as far as I'm concerned.

Also Jeremy Paxman and Jeremy Clarkson, as discussed before.

― Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:30 (eleven years ago) Permalink

Bills Paxton and Pullman

OTM

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:30 (eleven years ago) Permalink

YES.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:33 (eleven years ago) Permalink

me too.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:40 (eleven years ago) Permalink

Oh and also!

(and this is distressing, because I love MLP)

Mary Louise Parker and Mary Stuart Masterson

I blame Fried Green Tomatoes.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:45 (eleven years ago) Permalink

Swamp Thing
Man Thing

This is the only pair in the list that I confuse too.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:59 (eleven years ago) Permalink

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers / Jonathan Rhys-Davies

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:01 (eleven years ago) Permalink

paxton/pullman is SO true!

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:03 (eleven years ago) Permalink

Jonathans Lethem and Franzen, although as so much now that I've actually read some Lethem.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:04 (eleven years ago) Permalink

I sometimes get the Dimbleby brothers mixed up.

The Attenboroughs as well, come to think of it.

But never the McWhirters, despite them being twins.

― onimo (onimo), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:04 (eleven years ago) Permalink

having a final exam in a course i've been blowing off all term and don't even know the location of : dreaming

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:09 (eleven years ago) Permalink

Oh, I've got one of my own now: Ted Nugent & Todd Rundgren. I had to google to check that the guy who's a racist is not the same person as the guy who had a feud with the Lennons, and in the time it took me to write this I have already forgotten which is which.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:11 (eleven years ago) Permalink

Mel Gibson, Mel Brooks

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:32 (eleven years ago) Permalink

the correct spelling & the incorrect spelling

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:41 (eleven years ago) Permalink

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 (eleven years ago) Permalink

well done

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:10 (eleven years ago) Permalink

Uh, thanks?

― chap (chap), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:11 (eleven years ago) Permalink

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 (eleven years ago) Permalink

Likewise:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge/Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:49 (eleven years ago) Permalink

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I was at a math workshop today, and one of the presenters looked uncannily like Jonah Hill--a few pounds lighter, hair a little shorter, otherwise a physical lookalike, and his voice and mannerisms were dead-on. Everyone at my table was in complete agreement. When we called him over to look at something related to the workshop, I had to ask if anyone had ever told him he looked like a famous actor. I expected him to groan and say, "Yeah, I know, Jonah Hill." He said yes, but not Hill: "I get Richard Gere sometimes." It wasn't meant as a joke--he was absolutely serious.

Jonah Hill and Richard Gere: I always get those two mixed up.

― clemenza, Friday, 1 December 2017 04:05 (four months ago) Permalink

Nicolas Slonimsky/Joseph Schillinger

― Anne Git Yorgun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 December 2017 02:18 (four months ago) Permalink

two weeks pass...

Jonathan Chait / Jonathan Haidt

― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 29 December 2017 10:45 (three months ago) Permalink

Ted Solotaroff/Saul Maloff

― Dr. Winston ‘Merritone’ Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 January 2018 01:17 (three months ago) Permalink

Daisy von Scherler Mayer
Daisy von Furth

― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 1 January 2018 02:30 (three months ago) Permalink

Pierrot le fou/Pierrot mon ami

― Dr. Winston ‘Merritone’ Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 January 2018 02:36 (three months ago) Permalink

Dominic Frontiere, musician associated with the LA studio scene (recently deceased)

Domenic Priore, journalist who writes about the LA studio scene

― Josefa, Monday, 1 January 2018 08:09 (three months ago) Permalink

(...of the 1960s in both cases)

― Josefa, Monday, 1 January 2018 08:10 (three months ago) Permalink

Javier Bardem and Benicio del Toro

― MarkoP, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 22:46 (three months ago) Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgfDctMEo0U

― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 22:50 (three months ago) Permalink

Silver Apples and Apples in Stereo

― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Friday, 19 January 2018 05:24 (three months ago) Permalink

Just realised after a comment by the latter about The Presidents Club dinner that I have been conflating Harvey Weinstein and Harvey Goldsmith.

― lana del boy (ledge), Thursday, 25 January 2018 09:12 (two months ago) Permalink

I keep thinking Sarah Greene is the racist alcoholic 80s TV presenter instead of Sarah Kennedy.

― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 28 January 2018 22:58 (two months ago) Permalink

just realised that 2017 sex-scandal tory David Meller is not the same person as early-90s sex-scandal tory David Mellor

― soref, Monday, 29 January 2018 10:47 (two months ago) Permalink

sorry, *2018* sex-scandal tory David Meller

― soref, Monday, 29 January 2018 10:49 (two months ago) Permalink

Jean Renoir and Jean Vigo. Every time I see the name Jean Renoir I think it's the guy who made L'Atalante

― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:48 (two months ago) Permalink

Alison Brie
Brie Larson

― Madchen, Monday, February 29, 2016 9:49 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 4 February 2018 22:24 (two months ago) Permalink

same
they are both only "Brie" in my head

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 5 February 2018 22:06 (two months ago) Permalink

Thomas Jane
James Purefoy

i saw Purefoy in the trailer for Altered Carbon and I'm still not convinced it wasn't Jane.

― omar little, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 19:33 (two months ago) Permalink

Purefoy much hotter.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:38 (two months ago) Permalink

Dylan McDermott Mulroney

― billy, Wednesday, October 12, 2011 1:27 PM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

THIS ^^^

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:38 (two months ago) Permalink

The 1975
Death From Above 1979
At the Drive In
Death Cab for Cutie

― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:40 (two months ago) Permalink

This is just none person whose name I can never get right but I honestly don't know if the guy's name is Tatum Channing or Channing Tatum.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:50 (two months ago) Permalink

Dylan McDermott Mulroney

― billy, Wednesday, October 12, 2011 1:27 PM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

THIS ^^^

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, February 6, 2018 2:38 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

GUys, didja hear?

https://i.imgur.com/Ym9qALz.jpg

― pplains, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:13 (two months ago) Permalink

the quickening!!!

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:08 (two months ago) Permalink

hahaha ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 12 February 2018 21:22 (two months ago) Permalink

Josie Long
Josie Lawrence

― soref, Thursday, 15 February 2018 22:30 (two months ago) Permalink

Dan Fogelberg
Dan Hill

― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Thursday, 22 February 2018 03:55 (one month ago) Permalink

Dan Fogelberg
Dan Fogelman
Dan Fogler

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 February 2018 04:04 (one month ago) Permalink

Mark Ronson
Mick Ralphs

― how's life, Thursday, 22 February 2018 07:24 (one month ago) Permalink

I don't get the people confused, but whenever I hear "Mark Ronson" it takes a few seconds to switch from "Mick Ronson?" to "Oh, that guy I keep hearing the name of."

― nickn, Thursday, 22 February 2018 07:57 (one month ago) Permalink

Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Richardson

― pplains, Thursday, 22 February 2018 14:02 (one month ago) Permalink

Aaaaand I repeat myself.

Patricia Richardson / Patricia Clarkson / the woman who died after skiing into a tree.

― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, October 12, 2011 8:18 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I do think I've got the whole Jeff Bridges/Daniels thing finally worked out though.

― pplains, Thursday, 22 February 2018 14:09 (one month ago) Permalink

Lee Greenwood/Lee Hazlewood

Whenever I see the credit for God Bless the USA I think for a split second, "Wait, the guy who wrote 'Some Velvet Morning'?!"

― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 5 March 2018 15:28 (one month ago) Permalink

Stormy Davis and Storm Davis.

http://www.tradingcarddb.com/Images/Cards/Baseball/204/204-34TFr.jpg

― clemenza, Thursday, 8 March 2018 00:12 (one month ago) Permalink

there's a pitcher/catcher joke there but I'm not gonna make it

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 8 March 2018 01:27 (one month ago) Permalink

Just noticed what I did...Stormy Daniels, not Davis. Not intentional. Kind of kills the joke.

― clemenza, Thursday, 8 March 2018 01:33 (one month ago) Permalink

Jennifer Jason Leigh and Evan Rachel Wood

― MarkoP, Sunday, 11 March 2018 19:07 (one month ago) Permalink

*67
*82

One of them obscures my cellphone number, the other reveals it. I keep fucking it up in my professional life, but luckily it hasn't yet led to any awkwardness.

― sueñx latinx (naus), Thursday, 15 March 2018 07:50 (one month ago) Permalink

Hardly "always," but today I caught a bit of the 80s Canadian flick Hockey Night on TV and briefly mistook Maury Chaykin for M. Emmet Walsh.

― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Friday, 23 March 2018 03:26 (four weeks ago) Permalink

Thomas “Broken Hand” Fitzpatrick/Ranald Slidell “Bad Hand” Mackenzie

― Leslie “POLLS” Hartley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 March 2018 02:26 (three weeks ago) Permalink

Bob Cunningham/Bill Cunningham/Bill Cunningham
(Jazz bassist/Original Box Top turned classical bassist/fashion photographer)

― Leslie “POLLS” Hartley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 March 2018 19:01 (three weeks ago) Permalink

Kate McGarry/Kate McCarrigle

― Leslie “POLLS” Hartley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 March 2018 19:25 (three weeks ago) Permalink

Flood
Youth

― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Sunday, 25 March 2018 19:26 (three weeks ago) Permalink

Ben Sandmel/Ben Sidran

― Leslie “POLLS” Hartley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 March 2018 20:25 (three weeks ago) Permalink

@notch
@dril

― Chunky Backgammon (onimo), Monday, 26 March 2018 22:28 (three weeks ago) Permalink

two weeks pass...

Angie Stone and Jill Scott

― MarkoP, Saturday, 14 April 2018 15:37 (one week ago) Permalink

The Descendants, The Residents, The Replacements, The Rentals, The Smithereens

― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Saturday, 14 April 2018 21:51 (one week ago) Permalink

Lol.

Has somebody already mentioned
The Suburbs/The Suburban Lawns

― Made in the Shadow Blaster (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 14 April 2018 22:17 (one week ago) Permalink

J.T. Walsh
M. Emmet Walsh
R. Lee Ermey

― pplains, Friday, 20 April 2018 09:18 (yesterday) Permalink

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