Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

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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

The words for the study of insects and the study of word origins - etymology and entymology, maybe? Fucked if I know which goes with which.

― Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

aubergine and courgette. no sense.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't tell you how many people get Dr and Mr Spock confused.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Olivia Newton John Travolta

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Picadilly / Picalilly (but not Picaninny)

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I know people who think Peter Sellers is alive and well because he's in Last Of The Summer Wine every Sunday.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Marcello Carlin and George Carlin.

― God Bows to Meth (noodle vague), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Kelly Brook/Kelly le Brock/Kele le Roc

― chap (chap), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Daniel and Ryan.

― jimn (jimnaseum), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

a schooldays classic:
sanguine/sanguinary

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

thomas tallis and timmy tannin

― tony conrad schnitzler (sanskrit), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Tim Hopkins / Tim Ellison / Tim Finney

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

don't look now and don't look back.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 22 January 2007 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I wish we could combine those! And have Bob Dylan murdered by a psychotic midget in Venice! Excellent!

― Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Monday, 22 January 2007 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link

What a totally random place to wish for Bob Dylan's death!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Simon Cowell's just booked a ticket!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Lloyd Cole and the Coconuts to thread.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Also:
Jeremy Paxman and Jeremy Clarkson
West Ham, Aston Villa and Arsenal
Nick Owen and Nik Cohen

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Right and Left

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Right and Wrong

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Blow-Up and Blow-Out

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

jude law and ethan hawke (thanks a lot, gattaca)

― Bernard Snowy (sixteen sergeants), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Yo momma and a bowling ball

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

(xpost to self: obviously this is not due to similarity of names, but I still mix them up so I say it counts)

― Bernard Snowy (sixteen sergeants), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Enrique and Esteban

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 22 January 2007 23:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Rebound Man and Transition Man

― Hard like armour (Hard like armour), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Like all of them.

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:37 (seventeen years ago) link

If you think my typing is bad you should hear me TALK. I am a sentence mangling Spoonerism making free association confusion machine, to both myself and others.

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:38 (seventeen years ago) link

High five!

― Hard like armour (Hard like armour), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Tim Hopkins / Tim Ellison / Tim Finney

Same here.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Just to clarify: I mean which name goes with which poster; it's not like they write the same way or anything. It's like I used to mix up the names Felt and The Fall.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:32 (seventeen years ago) link

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

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...) (webmail), January 19th, 2007 10:05 AM. (jaymc) (later) (link)

Yes. I was justabout to post that this has been covered by "Third Rock from the Sun". Lithgow: "One's a little beefier."

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 03:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Daryl Hannah:

http://images.askmen.com/galleries/actress/daryl-hannah/pictures/daryl-hannah-picture-1.jpg

and
Daryl Somers

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2004/08/27/daryl_somers_narrowweb__200x293,1.jpg

(on the left)

― S- (sgh), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 04:14 (seventeen years ago) link

This is something every Duran fanbeing does at least once: Accidentally say "I'll cross that bridge when I find it," instead of "I'll cross that bridge when I get to it." Confusing to little girl me: Donald Regan and Ronald Reagan. Confusing to preteen me: Roger Taylor of Queen and Roger Taylor of, oh, you know. Can't think of anything else.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 04:35 (seventeen years ago) link

He-man and Fabio

― Hard like armour (Hard like armour), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 04:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Tobey Maguire and Elijah Wood.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 12:36 (seventeen years ago) link

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