Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

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Capricorn One
Ice Station Zebra

pplains, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 21:37 (three years ago) link

Anne of Green Gables
House of the Seven Gables

Sam Weller, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 22:13 (three years ago) link

Good stuff

Spocks on the Run (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 22:14 (three years ago) link

skeet ulrich
dash mihok

brimstead, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 23:48 (three years ago) link

Russ Kunkel
Russ Titelman
Ted Templeman

Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 May 2020 11:25 (three years ago) link

Otm

Spocks on the Run (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 May 2020 11:31 (three years ago) link

Amy Grant
Mary Chapin Carpenter

Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Sunday, 24 May 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link

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

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 24 May 2020 18:55 (three years ago) link

ah that’s a good one, Tom d

brimstead, Sunday, 24 May 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link

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)

while the city bleeps (Matt #2), Sunday, 24 May 2020 19:45 (three years ago) link

Marty Stuart
Marty Robbins

peace, man, Monday, 25 May 2020 14:33 (three years ago) link

totally !

budo jeru, Monday, 25 May 2020 14:37 (three years ago) link

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

punning display, Monday, 25 May 2020 14:40 (three years ago) link

Des Lynam
Dickie Davies

some infected evening (Matt #2), Friday, 29 May 2020 10:47 (three years ago) link

Marty Stuart
Marty Robbins

I can totally tell these guys apart, for the time being at least, but sense the approaching pull of the Chaotic Mix-Up Attractor.

Trouble Is My Métier (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 May 2020 11:00 (three years ago) link

lol

peace, man, Friday, 29 May 2020 12:29 (three years ago) link

Sheila Sim
Sylvia Syms

Ward Fowler, Sunday, 31 May 2020 15:05 (three years ago) link

Dan I.
DJI

all cats are beautiful (silby), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 02:11 (three years ago) link

Dan I
Dan S

Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 07:39 (three years ago) link

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

Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 23:26 (three years ago) link

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?

dominance and transmission (Matt #2), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 23:28 (three years ago) link

Yes, they're entirely separate.

Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 23:30 (three years ago) link

latitude
longitude

convex
concave

Sam Weller, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 07:46 (three years ago) link

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

Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 16:37 (three years ago) link

Hot Press
Trouser Press

(music magz, in case of confusion)

Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 June 2020 17:26 (three years ago) link

Ira robbins
ira kaplan

Also:
ira robbins
Everett true

Stalactite
Stalagmite

Deflatormouse, Friday, 5 June 2020 02:58 (three years ago) link

flotsam
Duane Allman

Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 5 June 2020 03:10 (three years ago) link

cumulonimbus
John Quincy Adams

Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 5 June 2020 03:10 (three years ago) link

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.

an, uh, razor of love (sic), Friday, 5 June 2020 06:21 (three years ago) link

Alternatively:

stalaCtite - ceiling
stalaGmite - ground

Madchen, Friday, 5 June 2020 06:32 (three years ago) link

Madchen otm, wtf sic

Andrew Farrell, Friday, 5 June 2020 08:19 (three years ago) link

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

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

an, uh, razor of love (sic), Friday, 5 June 2020 08:29 (three years ago) link

Blame my Dad.

Madchen, Friday, 5 June 2020 08:34 (three years ago) link

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.

Captain Beeftweet (Tom D.), Friday, 5 June 2020 13:17 (three years ago) link

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

Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 6 June 2020 10:25 (three years ago) link

SAHB/SATB/SatB

How I Wrote Neuroplastic Man (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 June 2020 22:25 (three years ago) link

Doug SAHM

Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Saturday, 6 June 2020 22:52 (three years ago) link

ilxors get a lot of pairings of people and things I've never heard of mixed up

BRAVE THE AFRIAD (onimo), Sunday, 7 June 2020 11:30 (three years ago) link

ACAB
Abacab

Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 8 June 2020 17:24 (three years ago) link

Abscam
Abba
ASCAP
Capybara

Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 8 June 2020 19:02 (three years ago) link

Tom Selleck's mustache
Burt Reynolds's mustache

By extension:
Tom Selleck
Burt Reynolds

Deflatormouse, Saturday, 13 June 2020 04:43 (three years ago) link

Rachel Reeves
Rachel Riley

Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 14 June 2020 19:30 (three years ago) link

Moira Lister
Moira Shearer

Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Monday, 15 June 2020 12:13 (three years ago) link

... and Norma Shearer

Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Monday, 15 June 2020 12:14 (three years ago) link

singing the last few posts to the tune of Hello by The Beloved in my head

an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 12:21 (three years ago) link

Aaltra
Ad Astra

punning display, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:48 (three years ago) link

Jimmy Fallon
Jimmy Kimmel

ok it's only reading this that I've realised that there's more than one "that american talkshow host called Jimmy-something"

thomasintrouble, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 19:45 (three years ago) link

It always confuses me that Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a philosopher interested in the concepts of the "primitive" and the "savage" and that Henry Rousseau was a "primitivist" painter who painted jungles

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 18 June 2020 02:46 (three years ago) link

Basil Dearden
Joseph Losey

A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link


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