# What two people or things do you always confuse?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-two-people-or-things-do-you-always-confuse/445312
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [April 14, 2008, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-two-people-or-things-do-you-always-confuse/445312 "2008-04-14T15:38:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2008, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-two-people-or-things-do-you-always-confuse/445312/21 "2008-04-14T18:45:38Z")
I always get tiramisu and Napoleon cake mixed up. For some reason, I think the swirly top of Napoleon cake is what tiramisu should look like.
It’s not too bad because either way you still end up with a tasty dessert. I have a slight preference for Napoleon cake, though, so I have been mildly disappointed a few times.
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2008, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-two-people-or-things-do-you-always-confuse/445312/22 "2008-04-14T19:07:35Z")
[QUOTE=beowulff]
Jake Gyllenhaall: [http://imdb.com/media/rm4172389632/nm0350453](http://imdb.com/media/rm4172389632/nm0350453)
and
Toby Maguire: [http://imdb.com/media/rm3937508608/nm0001497](http://imdb.com/media/rm3937508608/nm0001497)
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Absolutely!
They’re not the same person?
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### Author:  [@Pocito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pocito)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2008, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-two-people-or-things-do-you-always-confuse/445312/23 "2008-04-14T19:14:04Z")
I also do the Al Pacino/Robert de Niro one. It drives my husband absolutely bonkers.
I also get Matthew McConaughey mixed up with every other actor on the planet. He just doesn’t leave any kind of impression on me.
I’ve just recently learned the difference between an artichoke and an avocado. That could’ve made for some interesting guacamole.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2008, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-two-people-or-things-do-you-always-confuse/445312/24 "2008-04-14T19:16:51Z")
[QUOTE=Surok]
Dustin Hoffman/ Al Pacino/ Robert De Niro.
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My brain can never tell Hoffman & Pacino apart.
Matthew Broderick and Matthew Perry.
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### Author:  [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2008, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-two-people-or-things-do-you-always-confuse/445312/25 "2008-04-14T19:18:00Z")
Left and Right. Seriously. Much the same idea, totally arbitrary distinction.
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### Author:  [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-two-people-or-things-do-you-always-confuse/445312/26 "2008-04-14T19:30:34Z")
On TV I watched part of a Johnny Depp movie called [Chill Factor](http://imdb.com/title/tt0163579/). When I looked the movie up in the IMDb, I was started to learn that Johnny Depp wasn’t in it at all. It was [Skeet Ulrich](http://z.about.com/d/tvdramas/1/0/v/E/jer-skeetulrich.jpg).
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2008, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-two-people-or-things-do-you-always-confuse/445312/27 "2008-04-14T19:31:18Z")
I finally thought of who it is that I confuse with Julia Stiles: Kirsten Dunst.
There are other under-30 actresses that I can’t keep straight, but those two really morph into each other regularly.
And then there’s Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet and Toni Collette. Not in looks so much as the types of roles they’ve had and the whole Aussie thing.
And, hey, the younger males are easy for me to interchange, too.
I’m sure there’s little real difference between this crowd and the Troy Donahue, Tab Hunter, Doug McClure and Crispin Glover group, but I get the impression that the cookie cutter just changes shapes every 5-10 years, depending on the casting clique.
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2008, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-two-people-or-things-do-you-always-confuse/445312/28 "2008-04-14T19:35:09Z")
Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy) and Todd McFarlane (Spawn).
They’re both popular “cartoonists” for my generation.
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### Author:  [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-two-people-or-things-do-you-always-confuse/445312/29 "2008-04-14T19:38:47Z")
[QUOTE=Purgatory Creek]
Hah! I always get Kurt Russell and Patrick Swayze mixed up.
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Which is why I came into this thread.
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### Author:  [@RedSwinglineOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedSwinglineOne)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-two-people-or-things-do-you-always-confuse/445312/30 "2008-04-14T19:49:16Z")
Culinary delight doesn’t mean what I thought it did. And I am no longer welcome at Olive Garden…
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### Author:  [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-two-people-or-things-do-you-always-confuse/445312/31 "2008-04-14T19:49:20Z")
I tend to confuse the titles of the films “Lion in Winter” and “Man for All Seasons.” The problems of Henry II or Henry VIII–what’s the difference?
And I have more than once embarassingly confused the names of authors PG Wodehouse and PD James.
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2008, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-two-people-or-things-do-you-always-confuse/445312/32 "2008-04-14T19:51:21Z")
[QUOTE=It’s Not Rocket Surgery!]
I used to confuse the words “cavalry” and “calvary”.
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The phrase “hung like a horse” comes to mind.
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### Author:  [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-two-people-or-things-do-you-always-confuse/445312/33 "2008-04-14T20:02:08Z")
[QUOTE=Bambi Hassenpfeffer]
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.
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I have the same problem with the colors orange and purple. I’m not color blind; I can see the difference, but my brain has swapped the labels.
I’ve recently learned, that both my Father and my older boy have the same problem.
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-two-people-or-things-do-you-always-confuse/445312/34 "2008-04-14T20:05:45Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar]
And then there’s Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet and Toni Collette. Not in looks so much as the types of roles they’ve had and the whole Aussie thing.
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Psst… Kate Winslet is English.
[QUOTE=Paintcharge]
Brian Cox, and Albert Finney
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If you’d seen _Super Troopers_ you’d stop doing that 🙂
I get ice hockey teams mixed up.
The Detroit Flyers, Montreal Maple Leafs, Toronto Blue Jackets…
The only ones I always remember correctly are the Lightning (because they’re just down the road) and the Ducks, because of the stupid movies.
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### Author:  [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-two-people-or-things-do-you-always-confuse/445312/35 "2008-04-14T20:05:50Z")
Kid Rock and Chris Rock. I’m still not sure who Kid Rock is.
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### Author:  [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-two-people-or-things-do-you-always-confuse/445312/36 "2008-04-14T20:22:02Z")
Kate Bosworth and Kate Beckinsale. They are both super hot actresses. I guess that one is blond and the other brunette, but given their names, I can’t remember which is which.
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### Author:  [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-two-people-or-things-do-you-always-confuse/445312/37 "2008-04-14T20:31:56Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar]
I finally thought of who it is that I confuse with Julia Stiles: Kirsten Dunst.
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I often get [Erika Christensen](http://www.vnn.vn/dataimages/original/images635739_Erika_Christensen.jpg) mixed up with [Julia Stiles](http://www.celebrity-hairstyles.org/juliastiles/images/juliastiles2.jpg).
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### Author:  [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-two-people-or-things-do-you-always-confuse/445312/38 "2008-04-14T21:21:16Z")
Well, since looks count, I almost always mistake [Neil Patrick Harris](http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=neil+patrick+harris) for [Christopher Masterson](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0557733/).
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### Author:  [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2008, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-two-people-or-things-do-you-always-confuse/445312/39 "2008-04-14T21:54:02Z")
This isn’t mine, but it’s too good not to share. One night we were sitting around the campfire with my husband’s family when my brother-in-law suggested that we sing some Bob Denver tunes. He meant John Denver, of course—Bob Denver being the guy who played Gillian on “Gilligan’s Island.”
I also had a hell of a time trying to convince my best friend that Steven Tyler is not the lead singer of the Rolling Stones. I think she was mesmerized by the lips.
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### Author:  [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-two-people-or-things-do-you-always-confuse/445312/40 "2008-04-14T22:09:49Z")
Chris Rock/Tucker.
Bill Paxton/Pullman.
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