Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

Barclay James Harvest
Bachman Turner Overdrive

BJH - went to Earth
BTO - took care of business

Important input. I shall consider.

Black Thought
Gift of Gab

Little Simz
Little Mix

Rita sue and Bob too
Bob and carol and ted and Alice

Marvin Barnes and Marvin Webster.

I'm halfway through Bad News: The Turbulent Life Marvin Barnes, Pro Basketball's Original Renegade. When I bought it a year or two ago, I suspect I thought I was buying a book about Marvin Webster: longer career, easy to remember because of his nickname "The Human Eraser."

Their rookie seasons were separated by only a year, both began in the ABA, and--although Webster had the nickname that celebrated his shot-making prowess--Barnes was also a proficient shot-blocker. Because of his drug addiction and other issues, Barnes was out of the NBA by 1980; Webster played until 1987.

Barnes was Philly's #2 pick in the '74 NBA draft, after Bill Walton. Denver held his ABA rights, and an agreement was reached whereby if he signed with any ABA team other than Denver, they'd get the #1 pick in the '75 draft. St. Louis signed Barnes, Denver got the consolation draft pick, and they took...Marvin Webster.

"his shot-making prowess"--should say "shot-blocking prowess"

Denver took David Thompson in the '75 draft. They seemed to have a knack in those days for picking potential superstars who flamed out.

Thompson was drafted #2 by the Squires.

https://www.prosportstransactions.com/basketball/DraftTrades/Years/1975-aba.htm

I guess you could say he was picked #2 because Denver had the "bonus" pick that year. Thompson in fact was the #1 pick of both Virginia (ABA) and Atlanta (NBA). He never played for either team. I was a 10-year-old kid living in Denver at the time, and I don't remember exactly how Thompson ended up signing with Denver, but it was a big deal.

Yeah, it seems like a semantic issue--Wikipedia says Thompson was #1...Thompson's career was short, and I guess that's what you mean by flaming out, but he did average 22.7 PPG and shoot over 50% from the floor, and he was inducted into the HOF in 1996 (obviously his college career figured heavily into that).

He could legitimately have been the GOAT if not for a combination of injuries and drug use. Sadly, one of the things he is best remembered for is ending his career by being pushed down the stairs at Studio 54 and injuring his knee. That said, I remember being at a Nuggets game in the late 80s-early 90s at which he was in attendance. When his presence was announced, he got a standing ovation.

Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl) wrote this on thread Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up! on board I Love Everything on Feb 18, 2012

John Milius and Walter Hill. I say one, I mean the other. AND I KNOW WHO THEY ARE. It's so dumb.

Me too.

Mildred Natwick
Mildred Dunnock

The even looked a lot alike.

Bojan Bogdanović
Boban Marjanović

Are you aware there is also a Bogdan Bogdanovic? More obvious to mix up with Bojan than Boban is!

Lebanon Hanover
Telefon Tel Aviv

Adrian Lyne
Alan Parker

My Brilliant Friend
My Brilliant Career

Dennis Waterman
Pete Waterman

... write-in vote by Nadhim Zahawi

Samuel Alito
Antonin Scalia

Robert Morris
Morris Louis

Dengue Dengue Dengue
Dengue Fever

oh, never mind, that was meant for the other thread. I always get those two mixed up!

The Spectator
The New Statesman

One of these political magazines is a fascist rag run by Andrew Neil, one is a supposedly centre-left Guardian-style melt thing, but which is which? I can never remember without looking it up.

Ditto.

there's always a ph34r of accidental mixing-up when I need to mention any of

Boccherini
Botticelli
Boccaccio

those three easily-mixed-up Italians of long ago who, um, excelled in entirely different arts and together span half a millennium between the birth of the first and death of the last :-/

The Clientele
Clinic

Friday the 13th
Halloween

So many bands

And also the trees
A minor forest

Friday the 13th
Halloween

oh yeah

Ty Segall
Thee Oh Sees

Shadowy Men On a Shadowy Planet
Man…or Astroman?

Man…or Astroman?
The Aquabats

Lygia Clark
Lygia Pape

Modest Mouse
Mouse on Mars

Man... or Astroman?
Spacemen 3

(xp) ditto

Robert Kirby
Blue Weaver

Probably because both played keyboards for the Strawbs but are better known elsewhere. Can never remember which one of them worked with the Bee Gees and which with Nick Drake without looking it up.

Lou Reed never went on a foul-mouthed rant about Robert Kirby.

Parker Posey and Posie Parker (a TERF apparently)

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 27 January 2019 15:54 (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

i mean ffs someone here is aiming for confusion (of course it's the terf)

a bit rough on the actor Posey if someone might get you mixed up with the nutjob who suggested armed men should start entering women's toilet to "protect" them.

Bob Lind
Bob Hund

Steely Dan
Duran Duran

Oh, many years ago, Steeleye Span and Steely Dan.

Yeah, kind of for me too, though it more falls into the realm of “I can’t help one name making me think of this other” than actual mixing up. See also: Fairport Convention, who I was aware of after Fairground Attraction.

tennis players:
(Hubert) Hurkacz
(Márton) Fucsovics

Melissa Leo
Maria Bello

Holly Hunter
Meg Ryan