Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

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Hillaire Belloc
Honoré de Balzac

Wiggum Dorma (wins), Saturday, 20 August 2022 20:06 (one year ago) link

Marisol
Maripol

Look closely, that is all. (doo dah), Sunday, 21 August 2022 00:46 (one year ago) link

Superchunk
Spacehog

Midlake
Clearlake

School of Seven Bells
Sleigh Bells
Howling Bells

Grandpont Genie, Sunday, 21 August 2022 11:15 (one year ago) link

come on pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego
Baby, why don't we go?

Mike Love
Evil bitter man crapping on his band's legacy

Grandpont Genie, Sunday, 21 August 2022 11:18 (one year ago) link

It occurs to me that I mostly mix up names of people in the same profession

Don Cheadle
Don Ameche

Gary Burton
Burton Greene

Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 14:02 (one year ago) link

Hillaire Belloc
Honoré de Balzac

― Wiggum Dorma (wins), Saturday, August 20, 2022 3:06 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

for me it's:

hilaire belloc
evelyn waugh

budo jeru, Thursday, 25 August 2022 01:04 (one year ago) link

both catholic englishman "men of letters" writing in the '40s who nobody in america gives a shit about or even knows who they are, with girl names

budo jeru, Thursday, 25 August 2022 01:06 (one year ago) link

richard austin freeman/freeman wills croft

no lime tangier, Thursday, 25 August 2022 07:54 (one year ago) link

I keep thinking the "where harry met sally" sign in katz's deli is in cafe lalo (because it's where meg ryan met tom hanks in 'you've got mail' and this is somehow commemorated- i think it's just noted on their menu).

The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Friday, 26 August 2022 02:31 (one year ago) link

Chris Woakes
Ben Foakes

... but not Ben Stokes

Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Friday, 26 August 2022 14:27 (one year ago) link

Autreche
Aphex Twin

big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 26 August 2022 14:56 (one year ago) link

‘tis the 2010s Album rollout that made me realise this

heresy, I know

big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 26 August 2022 14:58 (one year ago) link

Fishbone

Firehose

gin and tonic the hedgehog (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 27 August 2022 02:02 (one year ago) link

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Manford Mann's Earth Band

BrianB, Sunday, 28 August 2022 16:02 (one year ago) link

Glen Ballard
Desmond Child

The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Monday, 29 August 2022 01:52 (one year ago) link

Martha Graham
Twyla Tharp

Probably a third modern choreographer I'm forgetting.

we talkin bout praxis (Leee), Monday, 29 August 2022 23:31 (one year ago) link

Golden Earring
Shocking Blue

budo jeru, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 02:27 (one year ago) link

Kenny Burrell
Dave Burrell

Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 22:02 (one year ago) link

Tom Bihn, backpack manufacturer
Tom Beghin, fortepianist
Thom Bargen, coffee roaster

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Wednesday, 31 August 2022 05:29 (one year ago) link

Shelley Long
Shelley Duvall
Shelley Winters

clouds, Sunday, 4 September 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link

Yes!

Alba, Sunday, 4 September 2022 20:45 (one year ago) link

St Etienne
St Vincent

silverfish, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 15:51 (one year ago) link

Kenneth Clark
James Burke

budo jeru, Saturday, 10 September 2022 20:29 (one year ago) link

Judd Hirsch
Judd Nelson

Alba, Sunday, 11 September 2022 06:50 (one year ago) link

Denis Lawson
Leigh Lawson

Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Sunday, 11 September 2022 10:04 (one year ago) link

Puy
Pau

(as in French cities/towns)

anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 05:59 (one year ago) link

for me it's Gau / Pau

budo jeru, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 13:43 (one year ago) link

Modigliani
Giacometti

Madchen, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 18:53 (one year ago) link

Ken Loach
Mike Leigh

anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 19:10 (one year ago) link

ned doheny
ned beatty

Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 16 September 2022 04:30 (one year ago) link

Englebert Humperdinck
Buster Poindexter

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 16 September 2022 13:58 (one year ago) link

…b-b-but Englebert Humperdinck : Buster Poindexter = Lavator Shemmelpennick, no???

big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 16 September 2022 15:23 (one year ago) link

Ya got me!

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 16 September 2022 22:15 (one year ago) link

Abe Froman
Abe Vigoda

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 16 September 2022 22:21 (one year ago) link

Nina Nastasia
Nina Nesbitt

In that I will see posters for or mentions of the latter in the press and feel momentarily confused that Nina Nastasia is now a mainstream pop star or something, before realising.

brain (krakow), Saturday, 17 September 2022 09:20 (one year ago) link

Mark Ryden
Mark Rydell

jaymc, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 13:31 (one year ago) link

Simon Callow
Simon Cadell
Simon Cowell

Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 October 2022 09:37 (one year ago) link

The Emirates
The Etihad

Madchen, Saturday, 1 October 2022 12:05 (one year ago) link

The Golden Palominos
Golden Smog

peace, man, Monday, 3 October 2022 12:58 (one year ago) link

Kitten Natividad
Lolita Davidovich

punning display, Friday, 7 October 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link

Mark Ryden
Mark Rydell

Mark Rypien
Mark Rylance

(Well not really, but I couldn't pass up the chance.)

Kim Wipers - Youth in America (Leee), Friday, 7 October 2022 21:55 (one year ago) link

Extremely local DC version:

Bailey's Crossroads
Seven Corners

Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 16:37 (one year ago) link

I can understand their conflatability, but they are adjacent to one another, mushing into one area at points.

A Maryland equivalent is the Bethesda-White Flint-Rockville axis.

Woe betide the person who gets mixed up on Bethesda vs. Chevy Chase vs. Silver Spring, because those really are in very different places.

the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link

the alarm
the call

mookieproof, Friday, 14 October 2022 16:57 (one year ago) link

Dawn Richard
Richard Dawson

willem, Friday, 14 October 2022 18:03 (one year ago) link

otm

budo jeru, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 03:00 (one year ago) link

Capybara
Coypu

Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Sunday, 30 October 2022 16:52 (one year ago) link

+ Coati

blissfully unawarewolf (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 30 October 2022 18:11 (one year ago) link

Stonehouse
Stonehaven
Strathaven

Madchen, Sunday, 30 October 2022 18:25 (one year ago) link

Junior Boys
Junior Senior

big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 30 October 2022 18:28 (one year ago) link


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