Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

Oh! I Always Get Those Three Mixed Up!

Dominic Grieve
Dominic Cummings
Dominic Raab

I witnessed my wife confusing the latter two earlier!

Dominic Raab
Broccoli Rabe
Boston Rob

Eric Newby / Eric Ambler; maybe because Newby was an ambler.

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 loons
Dominic Cummings / Daniel Hannan

category: please let me never hear about these terrible embarrassing people again
Dominic Raab / Gavin Williamson

Hannan is elected btw.

Oops, you're quite right - and in the region I vote in too.

Well then.

I shall try and remember them like this:
Grieve - grim
Cummings - cunt
Raab - r*pist (probably)

Parry Sound
Perry Stern

John Schlesinger
John Frankenheimer

― WmC, Friday, September 7, 2018 12:52 PM (ten months ago) bookmarkflaglink

Variant on this:
John Frankenheimer
John Boorman

Stephen Dubner
Steven Pinker (whom I kept remembering as Pinkner)

Paul Rudd/Paul Simms

(That one has really been persistent)

Not to be confused with

Phil Rudd
Phil Simms

Correct

Anna Kavan/Ann Quin

This is maybe linked to my confusion about literary Annes upthread, plus one write ice and the other wrote berg, and I’ve read neither

Anna Paquin
Anna Chlumsky

ONUKA / ODESZA.

Bob Lefsetz has seen the future of music and it’s a Ukrainian EDM act? Oh, wait...

Hailee Steinfeld
Shailene Woodley

Maura Tierney
Moira Kelly

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)

Marina Warner
Marina Wheeler

Just realized this one, UK electronic producers:

Rusko
Roska

I mean, c'mon

Rustie doesn't help either

Kim Stanley
Kim Hunter

80s Meryl Streep film Silkwood
80s Meryl Streep film Ironweed

i never got those muddled but i do now want to find out ironweed is silkwood's secret sequel

That Ironweed Trilogy was hella hyped back in the day, with prominent pull quote from none other than Saul Bellow.

See also:

Jane Fonda film Comes a Horseman (1978)
Jane Fonda film Electric Horseman (1979)

Anna Paquin
Anna Chlumsky

Wow I think I just scrompfed both actors into a single entity, along with Kristen Johnston

Speaking of which, I did this the other day:

3rd Rock From The Sun
30 Rock

That Ironweed Trilogy was hella hyped back in the day, with prominent pull quote from none other than Saul Bellow.

Frances O'Grady
Frances Ryan

Recent Woodstock anniversary articles have reminded me that I have never properly mentally separated Ritchie Valens and Richie Havens.

Both famous for their covers!

Speaking of which, I did this the other day:

3rd Rock From The Sun
30 Rock

― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, August 20, 2019 1:46 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I will never not think of 3rd Rock when 30 Rock is brought up.

The Silvercup sign/The Swingline sign RIP

another sunny day
and
sunny day real estate

somehow I can never remember who J.J. Cale is and he winds up becoming this amalgam of John Cale and Cass McCombs in my mind.

Chris Hayes
Chris Hanson

Bret Stephens
Bret Weinstein

gerard butler
gerard way

spatula
scalpel

My brain always wants to momentarily forget which of these I want to say, even though they are quite different implements and I use one of them all the time in different contexts while I’ve used the other maybe twice in my life

Calvary
cavalry

I think people keep mixing up the 2 when it comes to the title of the long jam on side 2 of QMS' Happy Trails.

Just found out that Golgotha was another name for Calvary. I thought I'd heard it was the location of the residue of the human waste that came off the crucified or the residue pile itself. Not sure where i got atht from, some horror type media, comic, book or film I think. Maybe they were just being poetic.

“I Never Will Marry”/“Never Will I Marry”

i used to have problems distinguishing
pederast and
pedophile

I'm not sure I know the difference, but I am not googling to find out.

the former can colloquially overlap with the latter, but is not a subset: specifically an adult male in a continuing intimate relationship with an adolescent boy. a paedophile is someone of either biological sex, physically attracted to pre-pubescents, whether or not they act on those desires.