Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

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

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new edition

Lolleatta Holloway
Lalah Hathaway

See it has been mentioned before, but:

Rooney Mara
Sally Rooney

(and Wayne Rooney)

Rooney Mara / Kate Mara, another perennial

Kate O'Mara

Dan I
Dan S

But not dan m.

Oof, yeah

Lol yes

Adam Corolla
Adam Conover

booo

Sponge
Spoon
Sugar

the bands or the objects?

quidditch
water polo

One has brooms

quidditch
curling

Trolling
Punning

curling
hurling
bobsled
the other insane ice sled thing

you talkin' bout de luge?

Moses
supposes

First, legit lolz for Matt #2

Second, skeleton may be insaner than luge

Two-man luge is the silliest tho

AMG (All Music Guide)
AMG (Angry Metal Guy)

Dan I
Dan S

But not dan m.

There's a Dan.S. now too

Anton Fier
Anton Fig

That wasn't done already?

Guess not. Good on ya.

Ctrl-f said no

Ben Sasse
Josh Hawley

Every GOP congressman under the age of 55

Every GOP congressman over the age of 55

(Don) Dokken
(Kip) Winger

Nathan Lane
Anthony Lane

I'm surprised I haven't already posted that

And a close relative is

Wallace Shawn
William Shawn

Yes, they are close relatives.

yeah i know!

doesn't make it easier when I'm trying to figure out which of those four is which

in both pairs, one is mainly a writer and the other mainly an actor, but there are exceptions

Wallace Shawn would probably tell you he’s a writer who acts for money.

Robert Downey Jr.
Morton Downey Jr.

Baby Please Don't Go
Baby What You Want Me to Do

Lost in Your Eyes
Eternal Flame

Wilfred Bramble
Wilford Brimley

from the semi-obscure octogenarian actress dept:

Antoinette Bower
Anjanette Comer

Wilfrid Brambell in The Thing would have been something to see.

Fran Lebowitz
Annie Liebovitz

In fact, I think I am only just now putting together that these are two different people, seeing the thread about the former at the top of SNA. in as much as I thought about it at all, I always thought the famous photographer happened to dabble in cultural criticism on the side.

not 100% on all fours with this thread, but I just realized that all these years I thought the members of the KLF (a group I never paid much attention to) were black, and that the people I had been picturing were actually PM Dawn

Erick and Parish making dawn are gonna rock ya

Peter Riegert/Paul Reiser

― The Pickety 33⅓ Policeman (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, May 27, 2017 4:54 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Dr Harold Shipman
Professor David Kelly

did not realize until this very day that David Johansen and Buster Poindexter in fact ARE the same person

In soundalike name division:

genderqueer geopolitics journo and New Yorker writer Masha Gessen
genderqueer music journo and Pitchfork writer Sasha Geffen

In non-soundalike division:

Stan Brakhage
Kenneth Anger (also eligible for the surprised to see he's still alive thread)

Robert Mulligan
Richard Mulligan

... brothers!

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