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
I witnessed my wife confusing the latter two earlier!
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 01:58 (four years ago) link
Dominic RaabBroccoli RabeBoston Rob
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 05:55 (four years ago) link
Eric Newby / Eric Ambler; maybe because Newby was an ambler.
― fetter, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 10:15 (four years ago) link
Dominic Grieve / Dominic Cummings / Dominic Raab
For me I think it is
category: Tory MPs who might be not completely evil or insane (obv still a little as Tories)Dominic Grieve / Nick Boles / maybe Philip Lee a bit now Boles is no longer a Tory(while Googling, surprised to learn Lee is younger than Boles, which I would not have guessed - sorry Dr Lee)
category: dangerous unelected mendacious loonsDominic Cummings / Daniel Hannan
category: please let me never hear about these terrible embarrassing people againDominic Raab / Gavin Williamson
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 10:31 (four years ago) link
Hannan is elected btw.
― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 11:16 (four years ago) link
Oops, you're quite right - and in the region I vote in too.
Well then.
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 11:24 (four years ago) link
I shall try and remember them like this:Grieve - grimCummings - cuntRaab - r*pist (probably)
― crumhorn invasion (Matt #2), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 12:11 (four years ago) link
Parry SoundPerry Stern
― clemenza, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
John SchlesingerJohn Frankenheimer― WmC, Friday, September 7, 2018 12:52 PM (ten months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― WmC, Friday, September 7, 2018 12:52 PM (ten months ago) bookmarkflaglink
Variant on this:John FrankenheimerJohn Boorman
― crumhorn invasion (Matt #2), Friday, 2 August 2019 09:57 (four years ago) link
Stephen DubnerSteven Pinker (whom I kept remembering as Pinkner)
― Coelacanth Green (Leee), Friday, 2 August 2019 20:38 (four years ago) link
Paul Rudd/Paul Simms
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 August 2019 15:07 (four years ago) link
(That one has really been persistent)
Not to be confused with
Phil RuddPhil Simms
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 4 August 2019 15:10 (four years ago) link
Correct
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 August 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
Anna Kavan/Ann QuinThis is maybe linked to my confusion about literary Annes upthread, plus one write ice and the other wrote berg, and I’ve read neither
― YouGov to see it (wins), Monday, 5 August 2019 08:19 (four years ago) link
Anna PaquinAnna Chlumsky
― Madchen, Monday, 5 August 2019 09:57 (four years ago) link
ONUKA / ODESZA.
Bob Lefsetz has seen the future of music and it’s a Ukrainian EDM act? Oh, wait...
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link
Hailee Steinfeld Shailene Woodley
Maura Tierney Moira Kelly
― Rumspringsteen (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 9 August 2019 02:39 (four years ago) link
I've spent 3 years or so thinking that the white-nationalist podcaster and youtuber Stefan Molyneux had created the computer game Populous, but found out today that it was Peter Molyneux (I think I was getting Stefan Molyneux mixed up with Scott Adams here as well, as in the trajectory from creating innocuous thing I liked as a kid in the 90s to reappearing circa 2016 as an insane advocate for crypto-fascism)
― soref, Sunday, 11 August 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
Marina WarnerMarina Wheeler
― Luna Schlosser, Sunday, 11 August 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link
Just realized this one, UK electronic producers:
RuskoRoska
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 16 August 2019 17:19 (four years ago) link
I mean, c'mon
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 16 August 2019 17:21 (four years ago) link
Rustie doesn't help either
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 16 August 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
Kim StanleyKim Hunter
― Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Friday, 16 August 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
80s Meryl Streep film Silkwood80s Meryl Streep film Ironweed
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 07:45 (four years ago) link
i never got those muddled but i do now want to find out ironweed is silkwood's secret sequel
― mark s, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 10:46 (four years ago) link
That Ironweed Trilogy was hella hyped back in the day, with prominent pull quote from none other than Saul Bellow.
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 10:52 (four years ago) link