Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

Katy B.
K. Michelle

John Mahoney (Martin from Fraiser)
John Maloney (British stand up comedian)

Scallions
Scallops

Homer Banks/Darrell Banks

Warren Oates
Warren Beatty

Homer Banks/Darrell Banks

^^^^^^

Patti Deutsch/Louise Lasser

Dov Charney
Dev Hynes

Under the Sun of Satan/Under the Sign of Saturn

10cc
.38 Special

Canada Water and Canary Wharf.

Gary Collins/Gary Seven
(television actor/Star Trek TOS character)

(Should also post Anne Briggs/Robyn Hitchcock as text in case the images ever go away)

For a while it was just Peanut Butter Wolf and Guitar Wolf, and I'd forget which one was Japanese.

― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Wednesday, April 22, 2009 2:24 PM (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I just made this mistake in an IRL conversation the other day. Coworker said she'd seen Peanut Butter Wolf, and I was like, "Japanese, right?"

I keep getting Owen Jones and Owen Smith mixed up. Hardly surprising really when they have are both called Owen and have the two most common surnames in the country -- I'll just have to remember by thinking "the one with the Welsh surname isn't Welsh"

It was compounded when a friend who is also a Labour party activist announced on Facebook "Off to collect Owen Jones! Beyond nervous!" where it was quite plausible that she was actually collecting Owen Smith (apart from the fact he probably has someone to ferry him around I suppose).

Clay Shaw
Clayton Kershaw

http://www.sfgate.com/
http://www.sfgateway.com/

Haneke's The White Ribbon
Voerhoeven's Black Book

Just a momentary "really?" when anyone speaks highly of the former.

john greaves and john wetton

(not so much mixed up as i don't think i've ever consciously distinguished between them)

I've just confused John Terry with Terry Butcher, which was a bit embarrassing and further evidence that I am turning into my mother.

palmer luckey
palmer rockey (of "rockey's style" fame)

john greaves and john wetton

(not so much mixed up as i don't think i've ever consciously distinguished between them)

― mark s, Friday, September 16, 2016 3:46 PM (one week ago)

would pay to hear john greaves sing "heat of the moment"

"Byzantium"/"Sailing to Byzantium"

Thomas Ligotti/György Ligeti

Recently realised that William Blake and William Morris are not the same person.

had to look up william morris bc i was sure you couldn't mean the hollywood talent agency

Jean Shepard/Jean Shepherd/Jean Stafford
(Country Singer (RIP) /Radio Personality/Author)

david denby and david remnick

Sometimes slip and mix up
Allan Clarke/Alan Price but not Alan Clarke
(Hollies/Animals but not director)

As well as
Bobby Elliott/Bobby Gregg
(Hollies drummer/Dylan drummer)

Bill Laswell
Bill Frisell

^ Likewise for those two.

Ronald Harwood / Ronald Hayman / Christopher Hampton / Christopher Frayling

... all squished together in a indistinguishable mush... and that's without including Chris Grayling...

In the same ballpark: Howard Brenton / Howard Barker

Hans Hofmann/Hans Haacke

Jaume Collet-Serra/Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Extremely longstanding, probably mentioned already:

Robert Culp / Robert Webber

Whenever Marlee Matlin comes up in conversation I have to stop and think about whether she's married to James Carville (no, that's Mary Matalin).

I had her mixed up with Marla Maples, which made that Trump article a bit of an odd read.

xx-post I used to always mix up Robert Culp and Robert Ryan (Wild Bunch etc.). I know Ryan was a lot older but it's something about their faces

That's a good one but please throw in Robert Stack and maybe Robert Conrad as well into the mix.

If not Robert Wagner.

But not William Conrad.

Don't try to throw William Conrad anywhere

Lol

today: Flying Nun and Flying Dutchman Records.

flying nun fish/flying dutchman

Wait for it:
Denis O'Dell/Denis O'Brien

Jimmy Witherspoon/Jimmy Rushing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Campbell_(journalist)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Campbell_(journalist,_born_1944)

I'm still occasionally surprised when I see this byline photo above a guardian article by Duncan Campbell (1944), until I remember that he's a different guy from the the other one

http://assets.andrewlownie.co.uk/images/duncan-campbell.jpg