Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

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.

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

Diamanda Galás
Marina Diamandis

Mike Post
Mike Curb

Good one

There's a Devon-based guitar teacher called M1ke B0llard if you want to add him to the fray (yes I googled the name)

Carol White/Carol Wayne

Can I broaden the topic to "Oh!, my dad always got those two mixed up"? If so:

Jim Morrison / Morrissey

Mike Leigh / Spike Lee

Would watch Nuts In May as directed by Spike Lee

BFF
2FA

Sean O'Hagan (of High Llamas/Stereolab)
Sean O'Hagan (Guardian journo)

In fact I've only recently realised they're two different people.

Wait, didn't Sean O'Hagan of
the Llamas also do some music writing?

Yeah I'm even more confused now

No, that was Sean O'Hagan of the Guardian.

Wild

Norbert Putnam/Curly Putman

Capybara
Coypu

Danny Hutton/Danny Huston

Rocketman
The Rocketeer

Little Rocketeer

Christopher Timothy
Christopher Beeny

Richard Serra
Richard Long

Milwaukee
Zilwaukee

this one's easy for me because I take the steamer to Zilwaukee for all my timber milling

Looked up Kilwaukee last night, hoping to join in on the metric fun...

... but apparently, Milwaukee has its fair share of violent problems!

Theodore Bikel
Severn Darden

(Admittedly, I don't think about either of them that often to always get them mixed up, but there's no "Oh! I Once Got Those Two Mixed Up" thread.)

Brandi Carlile
Belinda Carlisle

Tod Machover
Tod Dockstader

Brandi Carlile
Belinda Carlisle

― blows with the wind donors (crüt)

oh, good, it's not just me - i did eventually get it sorted but it was very confusing for a bit.

i'm particularly bad with actors. most recently i can't differentiate james woods and james spader.

Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Safran Foer

xp I'd like to thank Woods for going very loudly Trump-nuts there, it helped a lot.

escolar and escarole

Robert Forster (actor)
Robert Blake

Me too, I try and remember them as Go-Betweens guy / go-to-prison guy but it still doesn't work

red pill
blue pill

SCIF
Schiff

cypro and cipro

I'm always thinking Sam Smith is Bon Iver for some reason.

i keep confusing sam smith with sam sanders and/or sam amidon

i'm probably the only person on earth who does this

DMBQ
NRBQ

https://i.ibb.co/RcqJQ2J/bichonzilla.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/LttBQ7C/file-23114-maltese-460x290.jpg

Lol

Cymande
Mandrill

... and you would think Mandré, but not so much really. I might have posted this before.