Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

I used to mix up Patrice Rushen and Patrick Moraz because one of the former’s early solo albums has proggy cover art so I thought “oh yeah, keyboardist from Relayer”

Blootered, waiting for the late night bus on a Friday night in George Square:

Faifley
Paisley

Reminded by a question on Pointless today: every time I try to think of the name of the US flagmaker Betsy Ross, I come up with the name of the actress Fannie Flagg, and cannot get any further than that. Not exactly "getting them mixed up", just an incredibly stupid quirk of my brain.

Marisa Tomei
Minnie Driver

Imogen Heap/Poots

Mackenzie Crook
Mackenzie Davis

Kit Harington (Jon Snow)
Christopher Abbott (Charlie from "Girls")

skinny puppy
snarky puppy

“Big” Don Abernathy
Dandy Don Weiner

conlon nancarrow
nuno canavarro

Mark Helprin
Mark Haddon

Graham Parker
Graham Bond

the latter is long gone and was an absolute headcase, it's ridic to get them mixed really but I do.

Thaddeus McCotter
Trey Gowdy
Tom Cotton

I start out vaguely aware that these are different guys with different career trajectories but then I remember I don't fucking care

Hal Ketchum (RIP yesterday)
Hal Needham (RIP 2013)

^
Hank Ketchum (RIP 2001)

Heinz Ketchup (long live)

Matthew Sweet
Matthew Dear

When I see them I'm easily able to identify them, but for some reason when I try to mentally picture which of them was in what movie, I often confuse Martin Landau and Frank Langella.

Like just this moment, when I checked to confirm my certainty that Langella played Lugosi in Ed Wood. Nope. They don't even look that much alike, ffs. I don't know what my problem is.

Maybe this?

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZTg3YmEwNjItZDdhYS00ODIzLTg5YzAtOGNhNTBhYWM0ZmEyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTQxNzMzNDI@._V1_UY1200_CR86,0,630,1200_AL_.jpg

I used to get Raul Julia and Frank Langella mixed up, don't know if I ever posted that.

You guys forgot author Jack Ketchum.

Olivia Newton-John and Sheena Easton

turns out I've been mixing Scott Glenn and David Carradine up a lot.

Maxine Waters
Crystal Waters

The Sundays
The Runaways
The Go-Betweens
The Smithereens

George Plimpton
Bill Plympton

Daniel Kitson
David Kitson

I don’t get them mixed up exactly but I want to suggest that clemenza is the Canadian WmC

OK I was temporarily going out of my mind thinking I was mixing up Rashida Jones and Rashida Jones but it turns out there are two Rashida Joneses, who knew?

how could you mix one Rashida Jones up for another if there weren't two?

Are there?

yea one's a tv executive

I knew there must be two people when I saw the news about the MSNBC appointment but I thought I must have got the actor’s name wrong. Mixing up two names. But I hadn’t mixed up two names as there was only one name.

It strikes me that this thread is half for cases of people mixing up similar names and half for mixing up similar people.

It's usually both in my case. To wit:

Paul Anka
Neil Sedaka

Neil Sedaka
Neil Diamond

Yes - was actually thinking about posting that same one recently. I throw Barry Manilow in there as a third

Darren Hanlon
Darren Hayman

The indiest mix-up of all time?

East and west

gary burton
burton green

greene*

"the wild magnolias" (1975)
"the wild tchoupitoulas" (1976)

Freddie Hubbard
Bobby Hutcherson
Joe Henderson

Anthony Shaffer
Peter Shaffer

Adam Corolla
Adam Conover

Judy Collins
Shirley Collins

Made this mistake while interviewing a Big Name Recording Artist recently, but he politely pretended not to notice.

The Birthday Party
The Wedding Present

^^ yes!

Anthony Shaffer
Peter Shaffer

Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Heaton

idk why. they aren't the same age, they don't look alike, they're very diff pepole, yet for years I kept hearing one's name and expecting to see the other.

Really sometimes it is just about the similarity of the names, isn't it?