Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

Caravaggio - sixteenth century Italian painter

with

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

Archipeligo (sequence of islands)

I always try to combine them.

The MS Excel icon and the MS Outlook icon

The order of the alphabet between H and M

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

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

but even more recently
jar-bottle

Man Thing

Poppadom

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

Also Jeremy Paxman and Jeremy Clarkson, as discussed before.

OTM

(and this is distressing, because I love MLP)

Mary Louise Parker and Mary Stuart Masterson

I blame Fried Green Tomatoes.

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

The Attenboroughs as well, come to think of it.

But never the McWhirters, despite them being twins.

Wittgenstein/Wittenberg
Flann O'Brien/Flannery O'Connor

And more that I've forgotten...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge/Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

The Hamburglar
H. R. Puffnstuff

Aargh, Pufnstuf.

Probably already mentioned by Morbius or somebody:

I sure hope so...

Oumou Sangare
Onuma Singsiri

Nothing to do with their names, but I was watching Warning Shot with Stephanie Powers, and I realized I've always mixed her up with Jill St. John--which is not hard to figure out with the connecting thread of Robert Wagner.

ivory and bamboo

How many ounces in a pound.
How many pounds in a stone.

... also I've just found Americans don't use stones at all, only pounds. Something to do with stones being an Imperial measurement and the US being out of the Empire when Imperial measurements were quantified.

I just experienced about 60-90 seconds of Heaven 17/East 17 confusion

Everybody in the house of Temptation

add in some Zapp:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J7AOS_7_uk

(to Tom D.’s issue)

There is no doubt a different amount of bounce in a UK/Imperial ounce than a US ounce.

And when in the Southern Hemisphere, remember that the angle of the dangle is directly proportional to the heat of the meat.

I'm another who mixes up Carey Mulligan with Michelle Williams. However, I also get those two confused with Emily Watson, even though she's considerably older.

Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!
Oh! I Always Got Those Two Mixed Up: Future Edition

Otm

I know who paul giamatti is but i always think paul rudd is also paul giamatti.

Lol

Michael Innes
Helen MacInnes

Richard Lester
Richard Donner

...probably because they both directed parts of Superman II - at that point in their careers they converged into one person for me, a super-director who made everything from Beatles cash-in films, segments of the Banana Splits and Lethal Weapon.

And Goonies/Goons!

Rodri
Jorginho

Harry Kane
Prince Harry

The Internet and Reality

George Benson
George Winston

Dom Littlewood
Greg Wallace

Carmine Appice
Vinny Appice

...are somewhat tricky to keep straight, but I really came here to say it has recently come to my attention that in the professional realm, Carmine Appice pronounces his surname a-PIECE, whereas his younger brother Vinny Appice pronounces it APP-a-cee.

I always pronounced it a-PEE-chay, maybe they could compromise on my version? Beck Bogert Appice must have endured some interesting pronounciations in their short-lived time.

apiche?

Stillwater
Sweetwater

I guess I always thought Tcheky Karyo and Elias Koteas were the same actor, for no other reason than they both have Ks in their names

Can this thread be locked since there is a new one now? Or is the new one serving some other function that I haven't grasped?

Oh! I Always Got Those Two Mixed Up: Future Edition

this thread is barely even that long

Yeah I thought the new thread was some twist I didn’t get

Ahem. The new thread was started to post things that one doesn’t mix up but might mix up in a future perhaps stressful moment because they are next to one another but currently still separate in the mind. This was to prevent *joke* posting in this thread that might later actually come true. I guess something posted in that thread could graduate to this thread. Please feel free to ignore it if it irks you.

sorry still dgi

There are some things or people I don’t really don’t know the difference between, which therefore belong on this thread, such as the classic
Bill Pullman and Bill Paxton
(there’s also a Bill Putnam, but I know he is i different)
Then there are some that I currently do know the difference between, but due to some internal bit rot ( perhaps silby can explain) I might not in the future, so they belong on the other thread, such as
Janet Maslin and Janet Malcolm

Maybe others are already using this thread for both purposes but I got spooked when I saw some things I posted here as a joke and that I couldn’t actually tell the difference between anymore so I started the other one for safety’s sake

I now g but it’s a bit too speciality for me

due to some internal bit rot ( perhaps silby can explain)

If I started worrying too much about which posts are made in earnest and which for lolz I’d have to leave ILX for my own sanity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9d-1d0ltCM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1w8tzJ-qEk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yyQS2_atJU

The other thread is a James Redd special, bless him, which I've never really got my head around.

All my threads can’t be classics, now, can they?

Oh wait.

They are very distinctive. This is a good thing.

Ari Aster
Robert Eggers

I saw a picture of Steve Vai and Joe Satriani together - I already mix them up, and I thought they looked like two different version of the same guy.

in the young longhaired days of course, not the current bald satriani days

This isn't the one but it basically captures it
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ee/0f/24/ee0f24e046619c906f5e2a58d3934cd1.jpg