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I always confuse Karen Allen and the one that isn’t Karen Allen. If I’m even spelling it right. One of them was in the Indiana Jones movies, I think. Looked a little like Karen Carpenter, who isn’t the one that isn’t Karen Allen. Well, before Carpenter died, I mean. In fact, a while before she died, to be on the safe side. Who was the one who played the female interest in Scrooged? Was that Karen Allen, or the one who isn’t Karen Allen? I know it wasn’t Karen Carpenter, forget I mentioned Karen Carpenter.
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Karen Allen was in Scrooged. For me, the main Karen Allen lookalike is Jessica Harper, but I don’t know whether she’s your nonKaren.
One that just occurred to me because of a recent Onion AV Club article: Norman Mailer and Arthur Miller. This is compounded by the fact that I always picture playwright Arthur Miller as consumer/legal advisor for WCVB-TV Boston Arthur Miller (at least that’s where I knew him from). Knowing what I do about Mailer, few things would probably infuriate him more than being confused with a short bookish Boston lawyer with glasses and a nasal voice. And that amuses me a great deal.
[QUOTE=Surok]
Dustin Hoffman/ Al Pacino/ Robert De Niro.
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I have Dustin Hoffman sorted all right, but I’ve long since decided that Al Pacino and Robert de Niro are actually just one guy named Albert De Paniro. You know, the guy who was in The Godfather, Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter, and Scarface.
It just makes it easier.
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow]
Office Depot and OfficeMax. It doesn’t help me at all that the closest ones to me are across the street from each other.
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It’s even worse when you’ve worked at one of these stores. I used to work at OfficeMax and people always got us confused with Office Depot, whose store was at the other end of the complex. Some of the more persistent (i.e. pain in the ass) customers would insist that our store had a particular item in stock that only the other store carried, only to finally have it dawn on them that they were thinking of Office Depot instead.
[QUOTE=Peak Banana]
I have Dustin Hoffman sorted all right, but I’ve long since decided that Al Pacino and Robert de Niro are actually just one guy named Albert De Paniro. You know, the guy who was in The Godfather, Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter, and Scarface.
It just makes it easier.
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Don’t you mean, The Goddriver, Taxi Hunter, Deerface, & Scarfather?
I find myself confusing Holly Hunter (“Saving Grace”) and Helen Hunt (“Mad About You”)
[QUOTE=Little Plastic Ninja]
Francis Drake: Sailed for Queen Elizabeth.
Francis Bacon: Member of Parliament for Queen Elizabeth, violently against alchemy.
Roger Bacon: Alchemist.
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You forgot Roger Drake, violently against sailing.
[QUOTE=Napier]
I always confuse Karen Allen and the one that isn’t Karen Allen. If I’m even spelling it right. One of them was in the Indiana Jones movies, I think. Looked a little like Karen Carpenter, who isn’t the one that isn’t Karen Allen. Well, before Carpenter died, I mean. In fact, a while before she died, to be on the safe side. Who was the one who played the female interest in Scrooged? Was that Karen Allen, or the one who isn’t Karen Allen? I know it wasn’t Karen Carpenter, forget I mentioned Karen Carpenter.
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How about Nancy Allen?
All my life I’ve confused rhubarb with rutabaga. Something about the opening “roo” sound causes me to mix them up. Just the other day I was talking about the few kinds of pie that I don’t like, and I said that I didn’t care for rutabaga pie. As soon as I said it, I realized that I meant rhubarb. Although I imagine that rutabaga pie would be pretty dreadful, too.
Jenna Bush/Jenna Elfman/Jenna Fisher/Jenna Jameson/Jameson whisky
Richard Jeni/Bruce Jenner/Richard Crenna
But I’m sure everyone has this problem.
[QUOTE=Death of Rats]
I always confuse Charles Durning and Kenneth McMillan
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For me, just name-wise anyway, it’s always been Durning and Brian Dennehy. They’re only similar in build, so that’s what has to trip me up, but it’s infuriating when I want the one and the other gets in the way. Add to it that they both should be named Charles regardless…
Jenna Elfman and Jeri Ryan. Those two should be cast as sisters.
Borders and Barnes & Noble. I recently agreed to to meet some folks at B&N, but then went to Borders, which is clear at the other end of town. I know I’m not the only one with this problem, as someone else in the group did the same thing.
On a related note, isn’t there another red-headed Kathy beside Griffin? If so, I always confuse those two too. Help!
[QUOTE=Hilarity N. Suze]
Principal/principle
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A lot of people get mixed up on this one. ‘Principle’ should be a noun, and ‘principal’ should be an adjective. But for Americans at least, the first one we ever run into is the ‘principal’ of a school, and that’s obviously a noun.
It helps to remember that title ‘principal’ was originally a short form of ‘principal teacher’. There, now it’s an adjective like it should be.
I always picture Hugh Jackman’s face when someone mentions Gene Hackman. That one’s kinda weird.
March and May. I often say one when I mean the other, so they become: “MarchimeanMay” and “MayimeanMarch.”
Budapest and Bucharest. One is the Hungarian capital, the other the Romanian capital. And as usual I can’t remember which at this moment.
[QUOTE=beanpod]
I always picture Hugh Jackman’s face when someone mentions Gene Hackman. That one’s kinda weird.
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[QUOTE=beowulff]
Jake Gyllenhaall: http://imdb.com/media/rm4172389632/nm0350453
and
Toby Maguire: http://imdb.com/media/rm3937508608/nm0001497
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They’re going to play brothers in their next movie. Called, interestingly enough, Brothers.