I have a lot of crossed wires, I think. It started when I was a little girl and was constantly insistent on watching the Disney movie The Black Hole. I kept insisting I’d never seen it before. What I meant to ask for (and realized about four times) was The Black Cauldron.
There are others.
For example: Fritz the Cat and Felix the Cat are VERY different.
Warren Buffet is the richest man in the country, but he did not get there from royalties on Margaritaville, which would make Jimmy Buffet a little upset.
Someone else has already had problems with Jerry Lewis and Jerry Lee Lewis, so I won’t go there.
I suspect a lot of these will confuse other people, but for instance I can’t keep Kurt Russell and Michael Douglas straight in my head for some reason.
Jeff Bridges starred in one of my very favorite movies, The Big Lebowski, and I don’t like Jeff Daniels at all. But I still swap their names in conversation.
Some people also say Bridges looks like Kurt Russell, but I’ve never made that mistake. If Snake Plissken’s name was Jeff Russell, I guess I’d be screwed.
For some reason when typing about half the time I type “fro” instead of “for”. Unfortunately “fro” is a word so spell check never catches it and when proof reading I often gloss right by it.
I am not dyslexic, I know I do this yet seem unable to stop without slowing myself way down.
Mushrooms and marshmallows. My entire life I’ve been saying mushrooms when I really mean marshmallows. I just can’t ever get marshmallow to come out on the first try.
For the longest time I could not differentiate between Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Dawkins. Reading both of their works put a quick stop to that.
Two waiters at a restaurant the other day looked remarkably similar. Lucky I figured it out before my companion asked the wrong one where our change was.
Until very recently, I was constantly confusing the band Boston with Journey. On the plus side, my wife recently made the same mistake, so I didn’t feel so bad. I also tend to confuse Depeche Mode with The Cure, but that doesn’t come from any particular thought that the two sound alike. I just associate them with the same era of music that I didn’t listen to at the time.
Tuesday/ Thursday. I’ll go for one of them, and almost invariably pick up the other one. Not so good when you’re trying to make a schedule with someone.
And when I was learning Russian, I used to consistently get the words for ‘yesterday’ and ‘tomorrow’ mixed up, leading to such gems as ‘I hope yesterday will be a better day than tomorrow’.
Hell, I think Jeff Bridges and Jeff Daniels look and sound alike too, so I get them mixed up ALL the damn time.
Seriously, for the longest time I honestly thought the guy from Dumb and Dumber was the same guy from The Big Lebowski…I mean, between the beard, long hair, and sunglasses, it easily could have been!
I regularly reverse March & May in conversation and, similarly, February and November.
The first pair are for a decently obvious reason. The second pair, I think, are because one is the second month and the other is the second-to-last month.
My biggest one has long been and still is Siegfried and Roy. I keep calling them Sigmund and Freud. Not if I say their names separately, of course; I don’t call them Sigmund Fischbacher or Freud Horn. It’s just something about saying the duo’s name as popularly spoken that always trips me up.