# I'm constantly confusing: **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 20, 2005, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-constantly-confusing/285644 "2005-01-20T00:48:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-constantly-confusing/285644/41 "2005-01-20T19:37:16Z")
The colors purple and orange. Well, not really the colors as the names of the colors. For some reason, my brane has labled the color which is a mix of red and yellow as “purple”, and the color which is a mix of red and blue as “orange”. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-constantly-confusing/285644/42 "2005-01-20T19:44:06Z")
> [@Maus Magill](#): > > The colors purple and orange. Well, not really the colors as the names of the colors. > > For some reason, my brane has labled the color which is a mix of red and yellow as “purple”, and the color which is a mix of red and blue as “orange”. Funny, **Maus** , I just posted in your thread, and I came out of there to see you had posted in mine! ---
**Author:** ![vertizontal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ad7895/32.png) [@vertizontal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vertizontal)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-constantly-confusing/285644/43 "2005-01-20T19:51:57Z")
I always have trouble with **vertical** and **horizontal** ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-constantly-confusing/285644/44 "2005-01-20T19:56:36Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Oh, that Miss Morrissette. I have never, ever heard of her referred to in just that way, obviously. I get it, I am exemplifying irony. As often is the case. (I’ll stop now. I’m just teasing. :)) ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-constantly-confusing/285644/45 "2005-01-20T19:57:59Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > As often is the case. > > (I’ll stop now. I’m just teasing. :)) You don’t have to stop, I’m enjoying it. ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-constantly-confusing/285644/46 "2005-01-20T21:37:37Z")
> [@vertizontal](#): > > I always have trouble with **vertical** and **horizontal** Ha! Never noticed your username - but my best friend coined the word “horizontical” when she became similarly confused. I’ll have to tell her there’s a Doper who thinks like she does. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-constantly-confusing/285644/47 "2005-01-20T22:18:48Z")
I keep reading threads where **Wesley Clark** has posted and then running into Wesley Sherman, who works down the hall. 'Cause you see, Clark was a general and Sherman was a general and…oh, never mind. ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-constantly-confusing/285644/48 "2005-01-20T22:32:19Z")
Tom Selleck, James Garner, and Burt Reynolds. Thursdays and the number nine. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. :wally & 😉 ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-constantly-confusing/285644/49 "2005-01-20T22:55:54Z")
> [@LifeOnWry](#): > > **indygrrl** , **andygirl** and **hardygrl** - and I’m pretty sure I’ve screwed up at least one, if not all, of those names. One of them lives in my neighborhood. Likes music, likes girls, likes wrestling, respectively. Hope that helps. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-constantly-confusing/285644/50 "2005-01-20T23:20:44Z")
> [@vertizontal](#): > > I always have trouble with **vertical** and **horizontal** Don’t suppose the whole horizon thing helps… ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-constantly-confusing/285644/51 "2005-01-20T23:49:15Z")
Since I know nothing of any of these, I easily mix up: The Matri **x** **X** -Files **X** -Men **X** -Box **X** ena ---
**Author:** ![Rock\_n\_Roach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Rock\_n\_Roach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rock_n_Roach)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-constantly-confusing/285644/52 "2005-01-21T00:17:39Z")
> [@iampunha](#): > > Don’t suppose the whole horizon thing helps… D’oh! I too have trouble with those so I’m sending out a BIG thank you to you, **iampunha** ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-constantly-confusing/285644/53 "2005-01-21T00:26:49Z")
> [@Maus Magill](#): > > The colors purple and orange. Well, not really the colors as the names of the colors. > > For some reason, my brane has labled the color which is a mix of red and yellow as “purple”, and the color which is a mix of red and blue as “orange”. Ah, I see your problem. You have a “brane”. Just have that replaced with a “brain” and you should be fine. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-constantly-confusing/285644/54 "2005-01-21T01:19:00Z")
> [@Rufus Xavier](#): > > Ah, I see your problem. You have a “brane”. Just have that replaced with a “brain” and you should be fine. 🙂 Holy shit, one of the few times I actually laughed out loud, **really loud**. Glad I’m home alone! (I’m still laughing.) ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-constantly-confusing/285644/55 "2005-01-21T01:21:04Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > one of the few times I actually laughed out loud, **really loud**. :smack: Because of something on the SDMB, of course. I laugh out loud all the time. Hurry, get this post in before someone calls me on it! ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-constantly-confusing/285644/56 "2005-01-21T13:08:02Z")
> [@Rufus Xavier](#): > > Ah, I see your problem. You have a “brane”. Just have that replaced with a “brain” and you should be fine. 🙂 I have a brain. I use it for doing smart things, like designing phone networks, rigging lights, or reading comic books. My brane, on the other hand, is used for confusing colors; waking up with my alarm, taking a shower, and doing my morning routine before my wife points out that it’s Saturday; and talking to my son like donald duck. ---
**Author:** ![Pullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Pullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pullet)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-constantly-confusing/285644/57 "2005-01-21T17:39:02Z")
Hey **Maus Magill** , do you ever get your sense associations mixed up? Like “That trumpet sounds particularly yellow today” or “That food tastes so purple.” That syndrome was all the rage at the science fair my senior year. Now I can’t remember the name of it. \ Though, now that I think of it, Alexander the Grape freezer pops taste purple, not grapey. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-constantly-confusing/285644/58 "2005-01-21T17:57:16Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Holy shit, one of the few times I actually laughed out loud, **really loud**. > > Glad I’m home alone! > > (I’m still laughing.) Reading this post was damn near the highlight of my day yesterday. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-constantly-confusing/285644/59 "2005-01-21T18:27:10Z")
> [@Pullet](#): > > Hey **Maus Magill** , do you ever get your sense associations mixed up? Like “That trumpet sounds particularly yellow today” or “That food tastes so purple.” That syndrome was all the rage at the science fair my senior year. Now I can’t remember the name of it. Nope, just purple and orange. I think the syndrome you’re thinkig of is called “tripping.” ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-constantly-confusing/285644/60 "2005-01-21T19:28:48Z")
> [@Rufus Xavier](#): > > Reading this post was damn near the highlight of my day yesterday. Thank you. No problem. It was the truth. I still find it funny. Say, are you this witty in real life? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-constantly-confusing/285644.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-constantly-confusing/285644.md?page=4)