Edmund WilsonEdmund White
also
Angus WilsonA. N. Wilson
― fetter, Monday, 10 June 2019 12:19 (four years ago) link
last week's commemorations reminded me that for a long time the following was true:
DunkirkNormandy
(BBC2 unhelpfully showed Dunkirk on 6th June this year as well)
― koogs, Monday, 10 June 2019 12:25 (four years ago) link
^So fortunate the Allies didn't have that same confusion. "Now remind me again. We're supposed to take as many as we can back to England, or establish a beachhead? Dunno why I can't keep that bit straight."
― punning display, Monday, 10 June 2019 13:14 (four years ago) link
See, I've always been the guy who goes "Omaha Beach? I thought they landed at Normandy?"
― pplains, Monday, 10 June 2019 13:29 (four years ago) link
4HeroFour Tet
i mean lol ok i am old
― mark s, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 13:54 (four years ago) link
4Hero2 Bad Mice
― ☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 13:57 (four years ago) link
Sylvia MilesSara MilesVera Miles
― punning display, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 22:03 (four years ago) link
(Sarah)
― punning display, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 22:04 (four years ago) link
Arthur RansomeArthur Rackham
― John Harris is a Guardian columnist (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 22:10 (four years ago) link
Arthur RackhamAlan Rickman
― punning display, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 22:39 (four years ago) link
Wylie Watson/Wiley Wiggins
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 July 2019 09:59 (four years ago) link
1970s Swedish psych-proggers Älgarnas Trädgård (aka Garden of the Elks)1970s Swedish psych-proggers Trettioåriga Kriget (aka Thirty Years War)
― Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Monday, 1 July 2019 14:28 (four years ago) link
Paul TherouxPaul Auster
― emil.y, Monday, 1 July 2019 14:31 (four years ago) link
I always think "Golden Years" is a Frank Zappa song for the first few bars
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 4 July 2019 10:37 (four years ago) link
Jessica PrattNatalie Prass
― punning display, Thursday, 4 July 2019 12:57 (four years ago) link
John Adams
John Luther Adams
― calzino, Friday, 5 July 2019 12:40 (four years ago) link
^this one is classic
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 5 July 2019 12:42 (four years ago) link
General JacksonGeneral Jackson
Harry Truman apparently used to exclaim, "Jesus Christ and General Jackson!" I don't know if he's referring to Andrew or Stonewall.
I also get Stonewall Jackson and General Sherman mixed up, which is completely mixed up in itself. (It's one of those that I can figure out after two seconds, but damn, why does it always take me two seconds?)
― pplains, Friday, 5 July 2019 12:48 (four years ago) link
What about this guy?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWWCdadcM3c
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 5 July 2019 13:49 (four years ago) link
Hang on SloopySloop John B
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 6 July 2019 06:39 (four years ago) link
Pretty sure when 19th century doodz said "Jackson" unqualified, they would have meant Andrew. A symbol of audacious courage, elan, and not giving a fuck.
― Velcromancer (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 6 July 2019 10:36 (four years ago) link
Ultimate proof of how much of a bandwagon-hopper I was with the Raptors this year: Paul George and Chris Paul.
― clemenza, Saturday, 6 July 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
Hang on SloopySnoopy vs the Red Baron
8 year old me was often disappointed.
― nickn, Saturday, 6 July 2019 22:13 (four years ago) link
Lol
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 July 2019 22:36 (four years ago) link
"Gin and Juice" must have further complicated the situation.
― clemenza, Sunday, 7 July 2019 03:10 (four years ago) link
I was just old enough when Snoop came on the scene to differentiate.
― nickn, Sunday, 7 July 2019 03:21 (four years ago) link
Lucky it wasn’t Vanilla Ice.
― Vape Store (crüt), Sunday, 7 July 2019 03:25 (four years ago) link
Hilarity in the Curtain Shoppe is my new noise combo.
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Sunday, 7 July 2019 09:30 (four years ago) link
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral William J. Crowe Jr Candidate for Vice President of the United States James Bond Stockdale
"Who am I? Why am I here?" "The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff STOLE MY EARRINGS!"
― mark s, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link
MaxwellRockwell
― Vape Store (crüt), Saturday, 13 July 2019 18:41 (four years ago) link
^good one
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 July 2019 19:05 (four years ago) link
James Ellroy & Elmore Leonard
― los blue jeans, Wednesday, October 8, 2014 5:56 AM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 13 July 2019 19:19 (four years ago) link
That is a very common one.
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 July 2019 00:24 (four years ago) link
Yesterday I learned that Kate Mara (full name Kate Rooney Mara) and Rooney Mara (full name Patricia Rooney Mara) are two different people, and I've seen either/both of them in loads of things and considered the-two-people-I-thought-was-one-person to be an excellent actor
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 14 July 2019 02:11 (four years ago) link
Kate O'Mara was also an excellent actor. She was on Dynasty as Caress Morell, also was in The Vampire Lovers (1970).
― Josefa, Sunday, 14 July 2019 02:38 (four years ago) link
James Atlas/James Wolcott(And I see that one blurbed the other's recent book so...)
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 July 2019 04:39 (four years ago) link
Charles Atlas (filmmaker) / Charles Atlas (Archie Comics bodybuilder standby entrepreneur)
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 14 July 2019 05:47 (four years ago) link
Funny that when I google “atlas filmmaker gay” I get The Wachowskis
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 14 July 2019 05:48 (four years ago) link
The Rooney Maras are the union of two Baseball clans - the Rooneys founded the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Maras founded the New York Giants!
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 14 July 2019 10:01 (four years ago) link
I always get this thread mixed up with this one:
Artists with similar names that you get mixed up
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Sunday, 14 July 2019 10:33 (four years ago) link
Great one.
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Sunday, 14 July 2019 10:58 (four years ago) link
Jed Mercurio / Jez Butterworth
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 July 2019 12:43 (four years ago) link
Up the AcademyUp the Creek
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Monday, 22 July 2019 20:37 (four years ago) link
Lee Arthur Smith (possibly should not be in the baseball HOF)Arthur Leigh Allen (possibly the Zodiac killer)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 00:33 (four years ago) link
Starship TroopersSpace Cowboys
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 18:33 (four years ago) link
Max Faget/Max Factor
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 July 2019 12:29 (four years ago) link
The Amazing Rhythm AcesThe Atlanta Rhythm Section
Both of whom turned out to be shitty soft/country rock, to my disappointment.
― crumhorn invasion (Matt #2), Saturday, 27 July 2019 13:16 (four years ago) link
Good one. They were slightly later and British, but I'd almost throw Ace in there.
― clemenza, Saturday, 27 July 2019 13:44 (four years ago) link
I'd also addBobby Moore & the Rhythm Aces
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 July 2019 13:46 (four years ago) link
Oh! I Always Get Those Three Mixed Up!
Dominic GrieveDominic CummingsDominic Raab
― crumhorn invasion (Matt #2), Monday, 29 July 2019 23:25 (four years ago) link