Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

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OK, now that I get that "Future Edition" is a spin-off rather than a sequel to this thread, I'll repost what I posted there:

Lauren Oyler
Laura Olin

― jaymc, Monday, July 5, 2021 11:20 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

jaymc, Thursday, 19 August 2021 15:51 (two years ago) link

Carl Craig
Carl Cox

keeping myself to myself (Matt #2), Thursday, 19 August 2021 16:07 (two years ago) link

Ahem. The new thread was started to post things that one doesn’t mix up but might mix up in a future perhaps stressful moment because they are next to one another but currently still separate in the mind. This was to prevent *joke* posting in this thread that might later actually come true. I guess something posted in that thread could graduate to this thread. Please feel free to ignore it if it irks you.

― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs),

There are some things or people I don’t really don’t know the difference between, which therefore belong on this thread, such as the classic
Bill Pullman and Bill Paxton
(there’s also a Bill Putnam, but I know he is i different)
Then there are some that I currently do know the difference between, but due to some internal bit rot ( perhaps silby can explain) I might not in the future, so they belong on the other thread, such as
Janet Maslin and Janet Malcolm

Maybe others are already using this thread for both purposes but I got spooked when I saw some things I posted here as a joke and that I couldn’t actually tell the difference between anymore so I started the other one for safety’s sake

― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs)

OMG!! Love this so much. The best part is I never would have figured it out in a million years.

Marcos Marcos-Valle (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 19 August 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link

Been using both threads for things i already get mixed up :(

Marcos Marcos-Valle (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 19 August 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link

Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!
Oh! I Always Got Those Two Mixed Up: Future Edition

(Hope no one else has already made this joke.)

nickn, Thursday, 19 August 2021 16:59 (two years ago) link

Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!
Oh! I Always Got Those Two Mixed Up: Future Edition

― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Monday, July 5, 2021 12:20 PM

Ah, well...

nickn, Thursday, 19 August 2021 17:00 (two years ago) link

Shed Seven
S Club 7

peace, man, Friday, 20 August 2021 23:14 (two years ago) link

Phil Ochs
Burl Ives

peace, man, Thursday, 26 August 2021 12:18 (two years ago) link

lol

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 26 August 2021 12:36 (two years ago) link

Seconded

Hitsville Ukase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 August 2021 12:48 (two years ago) link

Baron Corvo
Gregory Corso

mahb, Thursday, 26 August 2021 13:22 (two years ago) link

^Excellent!

Hitsville Ukase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 August 2021 13:25 (two years ago) link

Lee J Cobb
Rod Steiger

I think I have a real Rod Steiger problem - I am sure I posted Rod Steiger/Roy Scheider upthread

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 26 August 2021 13:27 (two years ago) link

Starting Over (1979: Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, Candice Bergen), It's My Turn (1980: Jill Clayburgh, Michael Douglas, Charles Grodin), Best Friends (1982: Burt Reynolds, Goldie Hawn).

clemenza, Saturday, 28 August 2021 13:08 (two years ago) link

Joe McPhee
Joe Henderson

Eddie Henderson somewhat but not as much as the two Joes.

"Bobby Gillespie" (ft. Heroin) (Tom D.), Saturday, 28 August 2021 13:50 (two years ago) link

Lorde
Grimes

Alba, Sunday, 29 August 2021 22:33 (two years ago) link

Robert McNamara
Donald Rumsfeld

calzino, Sunday, 29 August 2021 22:37 (two years ago) link

More of a visual thing than a person, but people on my FB timeline keep posting the new album by The Bug ('Fire').

It turns out, when scrolling past it quickly, that the artwork is virtually identical to late 90s hard house banger 'Yomanda - Synth & Strings' on Manifesto.

(the one with 3 L's) (Willl), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 14:54 (two years ago) link

Diadochi
Dioscuri

anatol_merklich, Thursday, 2 September 2021 07:21 (two years ago) link

Paul Johnson (Get Get Down)
Paul Simpson (Musical Freedom)

Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 2 September 2021 12:39 (two years ago) link

Drivin N Cryin
Sniff 'n' the Tears

Halfway there but for you, Friday, 3 September 2021 03:47 (two years ago) link

Dave Simpson
Dave Haslam

Alba, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 01:47 (two years ago) link

Lucian Freud
Francis Bacon

Madchen, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 12:25 (two years ago) link

you couldn't get their work mixed up though: Bacon the nightmare distorted face man and Freud the pubic hair and skin specialist!

calzino, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 12:33 (two years ago) link

I looked at the Bacon on this week’s University Challenge and said “Freud” at my TV. Can’t explain it, it happens all the time.

Madchen, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 12:52 (two years ago) link

I think they were acquaintances in the 40's/50's bohemian set in London

calzino, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 12:55 (two years ago) link

That’s right - they painted pictures of each other too.

Tim, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 14:05 (two years ago) link

I can't remember what the Bacon one looked like. but I recall the Freud one as very stylised and quite unlike intense painterly flesh that became his signature style.

calzino, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 14:26 (two years ago) link

Nick Nolte
Gary Busey

Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 16:31 (two years ago) link

omg yea

siffleur’s mom (wins), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 16:35 (two years ago) link

As it turns out:

Jean-Paul Belmondo
Jean-Pierre Leaud

jaymc, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 19:04 (two years ago) link

fiber broadband
fibre broadband

calzino, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 12:15 (two years ago) link

Elizabeth Holmes
Katie Holmes

Alba, Thursday, 9 September 2021 01:28 (two years ago) link

^Good one

What Does Blecch Mean to Me? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 September 2021 14:33 (two years ago) link

Randy Newman
Randy Crawford

edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 9 September 2021 16:24 (two years ago) link

Spoon
Sponge

The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 04:23 (two years ago) link

Jason Isaacs
Sam Neill

papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 05:02 (two years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Mort Garson
Mort Walker

The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 20:49 (two years ago) link

What about Mort Shuman?

Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 20:50 (two years ago) link

so recently whenever i've read the name "abel ferrara" i've thought in my head "that is the weeknd"

he is not.

grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 21:24 (two years ago) link

Trevor Horn
Trevor Rabin

Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 21:41 (two years ago) link

megan fox
olivia munn

mookieproof, Sunday, 17 October 2021 20:49 (two years ago) link

I know this is absurd, but I just confused KMD, Young Black Teenagers, and Urban Dance Squad

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 16:42 (two years ago) link

it's weird to me that there are two famous blonde New Yorkers named Lindsay Crouse

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 20 October 2021 20:56 (two years ago) link

Tompkins Square Records
Chatham Square Productions

The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 23:15 (two years ago) link

xp and to make it even more confusing, the one who's a journalist is not the one who's the sister of journalist Timothy Crouse.

Lily Dale, Thursday, 21 October 2021 03:12 (two years ago) link

Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Sayers

Cost me a question on University Challenge the other day...

Sam Weller, Thursday, 21 October 2021 08:18 (two years ago) link

RADA
PRADA
PRAVDA

edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 21 October 2021 09:06 (two years ago) link

I don't really confuse these, just trying to pitch some lyrics to Plastic Fantastic if they're still going.

edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 21 October 2021 09:17 (two years ago) link


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