Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

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Scallions may be an Irish thing?

Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 22 March 2020 09:58 (four years ago) link

scallions
scallops

mark s, Sunday, 22 March 2020 10:26 (four years ago) link

I was an adult when I found out that scallops aren't always sliced potato

Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 22 March 2020 10:57 (four years ago) link

they call them collops in my local chippy (rip)

calzino, Sunday, 22 March 2020 11:01 (four years ago) link

My mum called them sybees (no idea if that's how you spell it)

Same here. Spelled 'syboe'. From the French, 'ciboule'. The Auld Alliance at work again?

Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Sunday, 22 March 2020 11:33 (four years ago) link

I was an adult when I found out that scallops aren't always sliced potato

Ditto.

Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Sunday, 22 March 2020 11:34 (four years ago) link

Yes, like how we have ashet pies, from 'assiete'

xp

Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Sunday, 22 March 2020 11:36 (four years ago) link

Oh, is that why it’s called an ashet? I never realised!

Madchen, Sunday, 22 March 2020 13:24 (four years ago) link

shallots
scallions

― MarkoP, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 19:52 (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I call the latter "grunions" to nobody's amusement but my own

meaner stinks meat bake it cone (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 22 March 2020 16:10 (four years ago) link

Arthur Conley
Arthur Alexander

Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Monday, 23 March 2020 09:38 (four years ago) link

Joe Meek
Joe Boyd

punning display, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 20:48 (four years ago) link

jackson browne
warren zevon

mark s, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 16:37 (four years ago) link

Tarriers banjoist Eric Weissberg (RIP)
Tarriers banjoist Erik Darling (RIP)

unregistered, Thursday, 26 March 2020 01:36 (four years ago) link

Sean Bean
Sean Pertwee

akb23 (Matt #2), Thursday, 26 March 2020 08:53 (four years ago) link

Stanley Baker
Stanley Baxter

the grateful dead can dance (anagram), Thursday, 26 March 2020 12:07 (four years ago) link

Max Miller (comedian)
Mick Miller (comedian)

the grateful dead can dance (anagram), Thursday, 26 March 2020 12:13 (four years ago) link

Mick the Miller (greyhound)

fetter, Thursday, 26 March 2020 12:21 (four years ago) link

Kevin Rowland
Rowland S. Howard

☮️ (peace, man), Thursday, 26 March 2020 14:28 (four years ago) link

I call the latter "grunions" to nobody's amusement but my own

― meaner stinks meat bake it cone (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, March 22, 2020 4:10 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I'm imagining scallions all flopping around fucking on the beach?

☮️ (peace, man), Thursday, 26 March 2020 14:30 (four years ago) link

Barre Phillips
Barry Guy

Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 March 2020 15:31 (four years ago) link

I'd never heard of Bobi Wine before today but now plan to confuse him with Toni Wine

Josefa, Thursday, 26 March 2020 16:04 (four years ago) link

The philadelphia story
The philadelphia experiment

closed beta (NotEnough), Friday, 27 March 2020 07:53 (four years ago) link

I was just saying this yesterday!

Andrew Farrell, Friday, 27 March 2020 09:51 (four years ago) link

Mick Ronson
Mick Karn

epistantophus, Sunday, 29 March 2020 04:03 (four years ago) link

Murray Head
Anthony Head

Although I looked them up and it turns out they're brothers. Still, I always just considered them as one composite being.

threnody for the victims of alan shearer (Matt #2), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 09:00 (four years ago) link

Although I looked them up and it turns out they're brothers.

0_o

Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 09:10 (four years ago) link

Yeah, that was new information to me too!

Tuomas, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 10:30 (four years ago) link

Murray - One Night in Bangkok
Anthony - Gold Blend ads

Got it now I think

threnody for the victims of alan shearer (Matt #2), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 10:33 (four years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFw7K5-MV8I

^^^^

mark s, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 11:02 (four years ago) link

important good art itt

mark s, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 11:02 (four years ago) link

The Four Tops
The Spinners

Thank goodness there wasn't another r&b combo from that era called The Dervishes or something.

Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Thursday, 2 April 2020 14:19 (four years ago) link

I get all of those old vocal groups mixed up - I usually recognise Platters songs as my dad played them a lot.

Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Thursday, 2 April 2020 15:40 (four years ago) link

the thin red line
the thin blue line

budo jeru, Saturday, 4 April 2020 21:46 (four years ago) link

The Spinners
The Weavers

who are in an entirely different genre but I still can never remember which is which

threnody for the victims of alan shearer (Matt #2), Saturday, 4 April 2020 21:52 (four years ago) link

... aren't they in the same genre? There's another one:

The Peddlers

... a mystery of a band, nobody has ever listened to them since ca. 1972.

Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 April 2020 21:55 (four years ago) link

i used to have that with

the seekers
the searchers

and still have that problem sometimes with

the new lost city ramblers
the new christy minstrels

budo jeru, Saturday, 4 April 2020 21:56 (four years ago) link

... aren't they in the same genre?

I meant The Detroit Spinners, who were called that in the UK to differentiate them from the folky Spinners. At least I think I meant them. I'm just confusing myself further with all this, I give up.

threnody for the victims of alan shearer (Matt #2), Saturday, 4 April 2020 22:46 (four years ago) link

Midsommar
Midsomer Murders

Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 17 April 2020 21:20 (three years ago) link

Thank You for Smoking
I Love You Phillip Morris

punning display, Friday, 17 April 2020 21:51 (three years ago) link

Velvet Buzzsaw (movie)
Velvet Revolver (rock band)

punning display, Friday, 17 April 2020 22:00 (three years ago) link

(Things You Just Don't Care About Getting Mixed Up)

punning display, Friday, 17 April 2020 22:01 (three years ago) link

Velvet Goldmine (song and movie) conspicuously absent

Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 17 April 2020 22:09 (three years ago) link

Brian Dennehy and Charles Durning

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, January 24, 2007 2:55 AM

Brian Dennehy / every actor that looks like Brian Dennehy

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Saturday, May 31, 2008 4:34 PM

also i read an article in Premiere in about 1987 once about people getting Charles Durning and Brian Dennehy mixed up and have been doing it ever since.

― piscesx, Monday, February 7, 2011 12:07 PM

Just one more round, indulge me.

pplains, Saturday, 18 April 2020 00:52 (three years ago) link

As posted on RIP thread:
Arnold Stang/Danny Goldman

Three Hundred Pounds of Almond Joy (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 18 April 2020 01:09 (three years ago) link

Ha! I remember writing Dennehy in here but couldn't remember who I mixed him up with.

nickn, Saturday, 18 April 2020 01:23 (three years ago) link

All I could think of was Charles Grodin, but thought that couldn't be right. (Too lazy to "show all" and search.)

nickn, Saturday, 18 April 2020 01:25 (three years ago) link

Dennehy / Brian Cox (not that one)

Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 18 April 2020 10:16 (three years ago) link

Nora Ephron
Nora Roberts

☮️ (peace, man), Monday, 20 April 2020 13:39 (three years ago) link

Lynne Truss
Liz Truss

emil.y, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 22:19 (three years ago) link

Brian Stableford
Brian Evenson

Together Again Or (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 April 2020 06:17 (three years ago) link


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