Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

people you thought were dead but aren't
the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually still alive

Fred Ward
Fred Willard

^I never had that mix up, but I did often confuse Fred Willard's real name with that of his Fernwood 2 Night character. As in, "You should see Best in Show if only for Jerry Hubbard's performance. He steals the picture."

None of that stuff ever got shown over here, so he was really not well known at all in the UK. As for Fred Ward, as well as getting his name mixed up with Fred Willard, I get his face mixed up with Robert Forster (the late actor, not the guy from the Go-Betweens).

Grace Blakely
Grace Lavery

Robert Forster (late actor)
Robert Forster (guy from the Go-Betweens)

Doncha know your hoover max extracts from your dysons either?

Last scene of Live and Let Die
Last scene of The Spy Who Loved Me

phoebe bridgers
phoebe waller-bridge

c'mon

wait until she releases a pink floyd cover album and Phoebe Bridgers' Wall is on all of the year end lists

Henry James
Henry Miller

Tropic of Capricorn
Tropic of Cancer

Capricorn One
Ice Station Zebra

Anne of Green Gables
House of the Seven Gables

Good stuff

skeet ulrich
dash mihok

Russ Kunkel
Russ Titelman
Ted Templeman

Otm

Amy Grant
Mary Chapin Carpenter

The 1975
Death From Above 1979
At the Drive In
Death Cab for Cutie

― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, February 6, 2018 3:40 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Add Panic! at the Disco to this list

ah that’s a good one, Tom d

Oh! I always get those four Ozu films mixed up:
Late Spring
Early Summer
Early Spring
Late Autumn (that one less so because it's in colour)

Marty Stuart
Marty Robbins

totally !

xxp Plus, I mistake Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring for an Ozu title, not Korean.

Des Lynam
Dickie Davies

Marty Stuart
Marty Robbins

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lol

Sheila Sim
Sylvia Syms

Dan I.
DJI

Dan I
Dan S

John Maus / John Mayer / John Maus (of the Walker Brothers)
John Mayer / John Mayer (Indo-Jazz Fusion guy)

How about John Maus (of the Walker Brothers) and John Mayer (Indo-Jazz Fusion guy), or have you got those two sorted in your head?

Yes, they're entirely separate.

latitude
longitude

convex
concave

just for a moment, every time -
The Gun Club
LA Guns

Hot Press
Trouser Press

(music magz, in case of confusion)

Ira robbins
ira kaplan

Also:
ira robbins
Everett true

Stalactite
Stalagmite

flotsam
Duane Allman

cumulonimbus
John Quincy Adams

Stalactite
Stalagmite

In case you don't know this verbal mnemonic: Stalactites cling tight to the ceiling, and stalagmites might one day reach them and form a column.

Alternatively:

stalaCtite - ceiling
stalaGmite - ground

Madchen otm, wtf sic

take it up with the guides at Jenolan Caves when I was seven

Madchen's is good but does not allow for columns tbf

Blame my Dad.

Jimmy Fallon
Jimmy Kimmel

I don't actually know what either of them look like as I've never seen them in anything but I see the names mentioned and they're interchangeable.

Things I'd buy at a pinch: coffee table book of all the people Tom D has got confused about.

SAHB/SATB/SatB

Doug SAHM