Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

Caravaggio - sixteenth century Italian painter

with

Carluccio - an Italian café an deli chain (the interior of the Oxford one was designed by my cousin)

Archipeligo (sequence of islands)

I always try to combine them.

The MS Excel icon and the MS Outlook icon

The order of the alphabet between H and M

i just say "psychoanalysts-psychiatrists-phychologists" cos i never know what i mean.

In English I confuse Brighton and Bristol more than I should.

but even more recently
jar-bottle

Man Thing

Poppadom

...are all the same person, as far as I'm concerned.

Also Jeremy Paxman and Jeremy Clarkson, as discussed before.

OTM

(and this is distressing, because I love MLP)

Mary Louise Parker and Mary Stuart Masterson

I blame Fried Green Tomatoes.

This is the only pair in the list that I confuse too.

The Attenboroughs as well, come to think of it.

But never the McWhirters, despite them being twins.

Wittgenstein/Wittenberg
Flann O'Brien/Flannery O'Connor

And more that I've forgotten...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge/Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

What angle is she lying at though?

Michael Innes
Helen MacInnes

― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 6 July 2021 05:09 (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

For me it's
Michael Innes
Michael Gilbert
(both British crime writers)

Tom D., my thought was heavily influenced by this decently famous John Singer Sargent painting, which is called "Repose."

https://jssgallery.org/Paintings/Repose_Nonchaloire_b.jpg

So ^ that is an angle of repose.

That painting is the ultimate "I'll only let you paint me if you let me get comfy first."

Kim Deal
Kim Gordon

look I'm sorry, ok

Liz Truss
Lynne Truss

CaaL

TS: Kim Gordon vs. Kim Deal

level 42
front 242

Spirit of the Beehive
Secrets of the Beehive

Herp Albert
Herbie Hancock

when I was at school in the 80s we had a science teacher called Mr Hancock, nicknamed Herbie. A few years ago at a party I was stuck with someone who had been at the same school and talked for hours about details I couldn't remember. At one point he said "I met Herbie Hancock last summer" and I thought, thank god, the conversation has turned to music, that's more like it. "Yes, and we chatted about school..." My confusion was total for about five minutes.

mantelpiece
windowsill

Herp Albert

Ha ha I got fixated on not writing Herb Albert and went too far the other way

The wrong way, I guess I mean

Seven Days in May
Seven Days to Noon

It's not as if these come up every day but this whole constellation of names is confusing:

Convair (jets)
Conair (hair dryers)
Con Air (Nic Cage film)
Comair (airline)
Cosmair (former cosmetics company)
Corsair (various ships and planes)
Corvair (sporty Chevrolet)

Severance and Succession

Sam Altman
Sam Bankman-Fried

Real Genius
Weird Science

Jesca Hoop
Jessica Pratt

people you thought were dead but aren't
the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually still alive

Can’t imagine the dire consequences were one to mix up those two

Brad Dourif
Stephen Dorff

"It's not as if these come up every day but this whole constellation of names is confusing:

Convair (jets)"

And of course

ConAm (evil megacorporation in Outland

Convair was one of those huge conglomerates that made all kinds of things. It made a pair of airliners, a supersonic bomber, a turboprop flying boat, the Atlas space rocket, a bunch of algorithms, and a two-megaton anti-bomber missile called the Sky Scorcher, that was presumably designed to destroy entire Soviet bomber formations plus Soviet spies on the ground who might be guiding the bombers and also all birds.

The weird thing is that it did all this while being part of General Dynamics, which was also one of those huge conglomerates that made all kinds of things. So it was a giant spider living in the belly of an even large spider. Imagine if General Dynamics had grown until it ran the entire world. Or if it made a deal with other huge megacorporations to rule the world. And people had to transport data inside their heads and everybody wore sunglasses all the time and had skull guns. How awesome that would be.

I really hope that scenario doesn’t come to pass. For the younger generation especially.

It’s interesting that Convair’s passenger jets were only widely popular for a few years. Don’t think I’ve ever flown in one. They were supposedly faster than the jets before them.

Matt Braunger
Kurt Braunholer

Chris Petit, avant-garde British filmmaker and novelist with a French-sounding name
Chris Marker, avant-garde French filmmaker and novelist with a British-sounding name

Al Bundy
Archie Bunker

Tony Roberts
Tony Robbins

Steve Nye
Steve Nieve

Southland Tales
Southlander

Not something I get mixed up, but i just heard a story about someone confusing Anne Frank and Lisa Frank.

Lisa Frank probably produced a lot of diaries tbrr

They were making a comment on a brightly patterned, kind of psychedelic article of clothing "that reminds me of Anne Frank!"

War of the Roses / English Civil War

The golden bowl (Henry James)
The golden bough (James Frazer)

Marc Andreessen
Louis Andriessen

Bruno Fernandes
Bernardo Silva

James Maddison
Mason Mount

gigabytes
megabytes

wait til you hear about quettabytes

The other prefixes I never confuse - things haven't been measured in kilobytes much this century, and terabytes are still new and the numbers measured in them still low. But whenever I need to specify the size of a memory chip or USB drive or iPhone capacity I always have to think for a moment whether its in MB or GB.

wait til you hear about davidguettabytes

is that kinda like ByteDance?

The only unit of data storage I recognize is the McGruff ByteOuttaCrime.

It’s been so long since Joanna Newsom put out music (or that I’ve engaged with her music) that I saw a photo of her with Andy Samberg and suddenly realized that in my mind she’d just transitioned into being Carla Gugino

Zachary Levi
Zachary Quinto

(one of those cases where I don't really know who the first guy is and have to remind myself he's not the other one)

And then one spends additional cycles on separate Levi from Krasinski and that's already more head space than Levi deserves.

Like how it used to be a thing in simpler times to play on Andy Samberg - Mark Zuckerberg - Jesse Eisenberg; now it would offend with its triviality

One does not hear of people needing to differentiate Krasinski from Quinto

Ivy (the other Adam Schlesinger band)
Poe (the 90s singer/songwriter)