Too many similar names, it gets confusing

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I don’t watch TV or follow sports much. But you still see names from there appearing when you browse web sites and online news and such. So:

There’s someone called “Rocker” – and then there’s someone else called “The Rock” – and then there’s “Chris Rock”.

I can’t tell any of these apart. There might be more Rockoid sports names out there, I’m not sure. Having no distinct meaning for me, they all sort of blend into one another.

Then there’s “Russell Crowe” – and “Sheryl Crowe” – and “The Crowes” . . . are they related? Do they have anything to do with each other? Heck if I know. I can’t even tell where one leaves off and another begins.

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Cameron Crowe, Russell Crowe (Crow?). John Updike, Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis, CS Lewis. There’s a few more I can’t think of right now, mostly in the world of entertainment.
Can’t get them straight in my mind for the life of me. (Ok, I know exactly who CS Lewis is… the rest of them not so much)

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Cameron Crowe, Russell Crowe (Crow?). John Updike, Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis, CS Lewis. There’s a few more I can’t think of right now, mostly in the world of entertainment.
Can’t get them straight in my mind for the life of me. (Ok, I know exactly who CS Lewis is… the rest of them not so much)

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Yeah, Cameron Crowe, that’s the one I was trying to think of. See, they all merge into one another.

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And don’t forget Tom Green the bigamist / BF of Drew Barrymore

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And speaking of “The Rock” — WTF is wrong with the guy’s face??

It’s like when moms used to say to kids who pulled grotesque faces: “If you keep doing that, your face will get stuck that way permanently.” Apparently in his case it did!

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For the longest time I couldn’t tell Dylan McDermott from Dermot Mulroney (sp?)… until I started watching The Practice.

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Am I the only one who confuses Tom Sizemore and Michael Madsen? I can’t even give you examples of which is which. They just play the same character. It makes me nuts.

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I don’t blame the world for getting people mixed up. It’s me. I must learn to pay more attention.

Ernie Pyle is not Tennassee Ernie Ford or Gomer Pyle.

James Ellroy and Elmore Leonard are two completely different writers.
JZ, DMX, DOB, Ice-T, --WTF?

Cristina Aguilera is really, really skinny. Britny Spears is just skinny.
Who says the last two don’t sound alike?

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Shelly Long and Shelly Duvall. Shelly Long was on Cheers, right? And Shelly Duvall was in Popeye and The Shining, right? I always get them confused.

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Drew Carey, Mariah Carey, Jim Carrey. There was an episode of Celebrity Deathmatch where they were all squabbling over who had the parking spot marked “Carey”.

Jomo, The Rock is Samoan and African. He is also hot. So shuddup.

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I have seen lots of Africans and Polynesians in my day, and they don’t go around pulling weird faces all the time.

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It’s the same on the board. There’s now Astro, Astroman and Astroboy14 and Monster, Monster104 and Monstre. Probably others aswell which I don’t notice because I can’t tell them apart.

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“The Rock” would be quite handsome if he didn’t keep making his face all weird.

It was said of Mussolini: “I can imagine how much his face must hurt at the end of the day.”

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Jack Nicholson and (first name??) Micholson (probably spelled that wrong, but I know it sounds like same as ‘Nicholson’), the golfer. Or Jack Nickalus. When my dad watches golf I always catch myself thinking, “Oh, is Jack Nicholson golfing in this tournament today?” Or, as Homer Simpson said, “That shot is impossible! Jack Nicholson himself couldn’t make it!”

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We’re missing an obvious one, speaking of fellow posters:

Mojo Jojo
Jomo Mojo

:smiley:

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I was wondering what took you so long to point that out!

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This whole series screws me up, (but particularly the Perkins brothers):

Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Perkins
Marlon Perkins
Marlon Brando

And the Jack Nicklaus/ Nicholson thing always got me, too.

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I was just getting yelled at about doing this very thing.

Every single time I want to say glowing, praise-heaping adoration to one of my favorite actors, I always say,

God, I just love Morgan Fairchild.

I MEAN to say Morgan FREEMAN!!

It wouldn’t be so bad if I didn’t make the same error every single time. It’s gotten embarrassing.

There is also my problem with Carole Keene and Carol King. But that was from a different era.

I sometimes confuse Gene Simmons and Jean Simmons, too, but not so much now that Jean Simmons stopped parading around in those ridiculous costumes. :wink:

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Isn’t it Carole King (with an “e”)? Or am I now thinking of Carole Lombard?

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