Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

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I don't really get them mixed up, but whenever I come across Olivia Rodrigo's name in print, I have to focus for a second to tell myself it's not Oingo Boingo.

peace, man, Friday, 11 June 2021 14:45 (two years ago) link

I'm always confusing the names of various ominous organizations so I made a handy chart to keep track pic.twitter.com/A12DozNKNs

— (ac)Reddited Investor (@chelounger) June 10, 2021

silverfish, Friday, 11 June 2021 15:21 (two years ago) link

From the list of voters in the all-time movie poll:

Thermo Farrell
Andrew Thinwall

clemenza, Monday, 14 June 2021 19:50 (two years ago) link

John Giorno
Jean Giono

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Thursday, 17 June 2021 00:24 (two years ago) link

Vali Myers
Valie Export

Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Thursday, 17 June 2021 00:40 (two years ago) link

W.G Sebald
W.S. Merwin

Modernanist (doo dah), Thursday, 17 June 2021 01:56 (two years ago) link

Mousa Dembélé
Moussa Dembélé
Ousmane Dembélé

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Saturday, 19 June 2021 14:23 (two years ago) link

Goofy
Pluto

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Sunday, 20 June 2021 11:49 (two years ago) link

Royal Blue
Navy Blue

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Sunday, 20 June 2021 16:24 (two years ago) link

^Haha that would be a UK-specific one I suppose. Although where royal ends and navy begins I could see being a contentious point.

Josefa, Sunday, 20 June 2021 17:41 (two years ago) link

Yes, I was wondering what those were called outside the UK, if they have specific names at all.

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Sunday, 20 June 2021 17:43 (two years ago) link

I mean, sky blue is pretty obvious ... and universal.

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Sunday, 20 June 2021 17:43 (two years ago) link

They’re called the same things in the US but there’s not the natural link between the words ‘royal’ and ‘navy’

Josefa, Sunday, 20 June 2021 17:45 (two years ago) link

Oh right, like 1776 never happened.

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Sunday, 20 June 2021 17:47 (two years ago) link

the word "royal" in the US usually makes people think of RC cola

cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 June 2021 17:47 (two years ago) link

Does it? I would think of the Kansas City baseball team first and then maybe the old typewriter brand.

Josefa, Sunday, 20 June 2021 17:52 (two years ago) link

Wrt to 1776 I think that in the American imagination the British will always be associated with the color red, because of the coats they wore at that time. It’s also why the New England Patriots changed their dominant uniform color from red to blue back in the 1990s. People thought it was incongruous that they would wear red jerseys given the historical connotations.

Josefa, Sunday, 20 June 2021 18:04 (two years ago) link

Navy blue is darker than royal blue. I associate that color with pea coats.

Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Sunday, 20 June 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link

Mark Kozelek
Mark Lanegan

esp likely to mix up when discussing the oddball/asshole humans as opposed to their music (as recently in Covidiots thread)

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 17:35 (two years ago) link

Sparklehorse
Lambchop

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 17:47 (two years ago) link

Warren Ellis the shitty comic book guy vs. Warren Ellis the Bad Seed and Dirty Three guy

The former has been all over Twitter this week for shitty behavior and more than once I've gotten bummed thinking it was the latter before I remembered the other guy exists.

a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 19:35 (two years ago) link

I suspect the bad Warren Ellis attempted to return from cancellation just 49 weeks after https://www.somanyofus.com/ because he saw outpouring of support and good press for the other Warren Ellis launching an animal sanctuary in Sumatra, and thought he might be able to trend positively

bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 19:50 (two years ago) link

What about the bed Warren Evans?

https://warrenevans.com/beds/

Alba, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 21:06 (two years ago) link

The Abominable Dr. Phibes
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

peace, man, Sunday, 27 June 2021 12:36 (two years ago) link

Glenn Greenwald
Glenn McDonald
(only because I keep wondering why ILX keeps calling Glenn McD "indefensible")

assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 27 June 2021 13:38 (two years ago) link

James Franciscus
Tony Franciosa

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 16:59 (two years ago) link

^Wow

Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:01 (two years ago) link

Gregg Araki
Jon Moritsugu

(may have listed this before)

nickn, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:14 (two years ago) link

Coulda sworn I did Franciscus/Franciosa before on this thread but evidently not. One thing that helps me tell them apart is I can easily imagine Tony Franciosa saying “That’s sensational!” but James Franciscus I can’t

Josefa, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link

Which one was Longstreet, the blind(ed) detective? Believe it is the second one.

Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:39 (two years ago) link

Which one was married to Shelley Winters? Less sure of that.

Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:40 (two years ago) link

Longstreet = James
Mr Winters = Tony

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:41 (two years ago) link

By the second one I meant James Franciscus. Who did indeed play Longstreet and the other one was married to Shelley Winters, as I suspected but couldn’t be sure of.
xp

Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:42 (two years ago) link

Huh… Franciosa rebounded from Shelley and married the daughter of director William Wellman

Josefa, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:47 (two years ago) link

Before Tony Franciosa, Shelley Winters was married to Vittorio Gassman for two years!

Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:48 (two years ago) link

Huh… Franciosa rebounded from Shelley and married the daughter of director William Wellman

Wait, I don’t see this.

Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:51 (two years ago) link

They're nothing alike of course, Franciscus was a bland blond and Franciosa was a scenery chewing NY Italian with a Kirk Douglas chin.

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:52 (two years ago) link

Shelley Winters stayed single for 45 years after the Franciosa thing and then remarried one day before she died

Josefa, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:54 (two years ago) link

Actually it was James Franciscus who married William Wellman’s daughter! The confusion continues!

Josefa, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:56 (two years ago) link

Whenever I see a reference to The Thompson Twins, I picture Linda and Richard

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 18:25 (two years ago) link

Shelley Winters was with Gerry De Ford for 19 years and they married the day before she died. Unmarried /= single.

Madchen, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 18:40 (two years ago) link

Josh Brolin
Charles Grodin

BABA BUOY (Leee), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 20:35 (two years ago) link

G.E. Stinson (ambient zen guitarist)
G.E. Smith (Hall & Oates guitarist)

the kim variant (Matt #2), Thursday, 1 July 2021 10:08 (two years ago) link

The Hamburglar
H. R. Puffnstuff

Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 July 2021 10:53 (two years ago) link

Aargh, Pufnstuf.

Probably already mentioned by Morbius or somebody:

Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 July 2021 10:54 (two years ago) link

I sure hope so...

Mark G, Thursday, 1 July 2021 11:13 (two years ago) link

Oumou Sangare
Onuma Singsiri

Deflatormouse, Saturday, 3 July 2021 23:18 (two years ago) link

Nothing to do with their names, but I was watching Warning Shot with Stephanie Powers, and I realized I've always mixed her up with Jill St. John--which is not hard to figure out with the connecting thread of Robert Wagner.

clemenza, Sunday, 4 July 2021 06:18 (two years ago) link

ivory and bamboo

Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 4 July 2021 09:13 (two years ago) link

How many ounces in a pound.
How many pounds in a stone.

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 July 2021 09:20 (two years ago) link


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