Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

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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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

paediatrics is the kiddly-fiddlers.

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

And paedophiles are foot fetishists, right I get it

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

i thought they were psychopaths?

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

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

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

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

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

John Updike }{ John Irving

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

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

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 19 January 2007 12:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha ha, that's great

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

arse
elbow

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

ethics/morals

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

ILX
work

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

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

but even more recently
jar-bottle

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Swamp Thing

Man Thing

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Shetty

Poppadom

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

Shilpa Shetty
Talitha Getty

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

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

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:26 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Bills Paxton and Pullman

OTM

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

YES.

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

me too.

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers / Jonathan Rhys-Davies

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

paxton/pullman is SO true!

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Mel Gibson, Mel Brooks

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

the correct spelling & the incorrect spelling

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

well done

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Uh, thanks?

― chap (chap), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Likewise:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge/Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

You're just fucking with me now.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

somehow, the letter K and the number 5

― 69 (plsmith), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Diet Coca Cola
Piss

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Martin Luther
Luther Martin
Martin Luther King

(and there is no Luther Martin King as far as I'm aware, though there probably should be.)

― Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Isn't the Paxton/Pullman thing kind of a cliche by now, even if true?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

don't think I mix anything up -- RJG (RJ...), January 19th,

I was once in a car with RJG when he very decisively mixed up left and right.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Freddie King / Albert King
Albert King / Albert Collins

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Louis XIII, Louis XIV

i know!!

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't always mix up left and right!

perhaps that was the one and only time, even

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

TS Larry Carlton vs Larry Coryell

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Kenwood Dennard/Durward Kirby/Kirkwood Smith

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

epistemology - epidemiology
tv/movies/interent - life
a bunch of continental philosophers
music - noise
uh - hm

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

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Wyatt Langford (big-deal baseball prospect)
Wyatt Langmore (cousin of Ruth, trailer-park intellectual from the Ozarks)

― clemenza, Thursday, 21 March 2024 18:06 (four weeks ago) link

Tim Buckley
Tim Hardin
Tim Moore
Tim Rose
Tom Rush
Tom Rapp

― Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 March 2024 18:10 (four weeks ago) link

(xpost) I should have put them in the future edition--Wyatt Langford hasn't been around long enough for me to mix him up with anybody.

― clemenza, Thursday, 21 March 2024 21:41 (four weeks ago) link

Wow, some people seem to view that other thread as a sort of radioactive wasteland like in The Chrysalids or something, so I’m glad you even consider posting on it

― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 March 2024 00:54 (three weeks ago) link

lol

― budo jeru, Friday, 22 March 2024 02:11 (three weeks ago) link

Stefanie Powers of Hart to Hart
Stepfanie Kramer of Hunter

with Stephanie Zimbalist of Remington Steele looming to muddy the waters further

― anatol_merklich, Friday, 22 March 2024 21:57 (three weeks ago) link

Oman
Onan
Imam
Iman

― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 22 March 2024 23:59 (three weeks ago) link

Vetiver
Verbena

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Saturday, 23 March 2024 01:06 (three weeks ago) link

The Squid and the Whale
The Snail and the Whale

― Madchen, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 11:42 (three weeks ago) link

Barbara Murray
Barbara Shelley

Hazel Court
Barbara Shelley

― Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 11:48 (three weeks ago) link

Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft

― Astarion Is Born (Leee), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 14:12 (three weeks ago) link

Jean Baudrillard
Roland Barthes

I may have said this before. No matter how hard I try, I _cannot_ get these two straight. Every time I reference one of the two, which is _constantly_, I have to look up which is which.

― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:09 (three weeks ago) link

Barbara Murray
Barbara Shelley

this plus barbara steele for me (all three of whom make appearances in different danger man episodes)

will forever be confused by erics porter & portman

― no lime tangier, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 22:30 (three weeks ago) link

Frankie Rose
Frankie Cosmos

― jaymc, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 22:38 (three weeks ago) link

Martin Landau
John Cassavetes

― squirm baby squirm (Matt #2), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 14:14 (three weeks ago) link

Probably been mentioned before: Martina McBride and Mindy McCready. I wanted something to play in the car on the drive home yesterday, so I ducked into a thrift shop and bought two Martina McBride CDs for a dollar each. Was happy to see that Christgau thought they were as numbingly generic as I did.

― clemenza, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 14:17 (three weeks ago) link

Neil Jordan/Neil Breen

― soref, Thursday, 28 March 2024 14:16 (three weeks ago) link

Kristen Schaal
Jenny Slate

― meatster of puppets (peace, man), Friday, 29 March 2024 18:09 (two weeks ago) link

Neil Breen/Neal Brennan

― henry s, Friday, 29 March 2024 18:12 (two weeks ago) link

yes.

― budo jeru, Friday, 29 March 2024 18:49 (two weeks ago) link

Alan Holdsworth
Adrian Belew

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Friday, 29 March 2024 19:01 (two weeks ago) link

Topper Headon / Tippi Hedren (only when I read the names)

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 4 April 2024 15:18 (two weeks ago) link

Whenever people mention Jonah Goldberg I picture Jonah Hill, which is often hilarious

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 4 April 2024 15:26 (two weeks ago) link

lol I've been thinking about Doughy Pantload lately for whatever reason (which is a nickname that I guess could apply to either of them?).

― Andrew Marvell Cinematic Universe (Leee), Thursday, 4 April 2024 17:48 (two weeks ago) link

NWOBHM
NSBM

― hogarth brooks (unregistered), Sunday, 7 April 2024 01:55 (one week ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/xDF2vPr.jpeg

― hogarth brooks (unregistered), Sunday, 7 April 2024 01:58 (one week ago) link

Keith Levene
Keith LeBlanc

now I get to be sad twice

― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 7 April 2024 02:13 (one week ago) link

Vic Chesnutt
Cody Chesnutt

― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 11 April 2024 14:54 (one week ago) link

Oh damn, and I just now realized that I've been confusing

Cody Chesnutt
Joey Chesnut

― peace, man, Thursday, 11 April 2024 14:56 (one week ago) link

Sorry, that's

Cody Chesnutt
Joey Chestnut

― peace, man, Thursday, 11 April 2024 14:56 (one week ago) link

restaurant critic Robert Sietsema
restaurant critic Tom Sietsema

(they're distant cousins apparently)

― Ippei's on a bummer now (WmC), Thursday, 11 April 2024 16:40 (one week ago) link

I recognize the first name from the Village Voice book, where he wrote for a decade.

― clemenza, Thursday, 11 April 2024 16:43 (one week ago) link

can’t really explain it, but

fred armison
hank azaria

― mookieproof, Monday, 15 April 2024 06:22 (three days ago) link

Ed Kuepper
Eric Kupper

― henry s, Monday, 15 April 2024 12:49 (three days ago) link

whenever i see Ed Kuepper, for a split second i think, was he in the Fugs?? then i realize the name is making me conflate Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg

― budo jeru, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 04:38 (two days ago) link

Spyro Gyra
Manteca (the Canadian Spyro Gyra)

― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 21:05 (two days ago) link

Conny Plank
Conny Veit

― the scouse that roared (Matt #2), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 21:19 (two days ago) link

otm

― budo jeru, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 00:45 (yesterday) link

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