I've only recently realised that they were too separate media Revs, when I idly wondered about the trajectory from the Communards to blaming the social care crisis on Remainers
( https://unherd.com/2019/02/why-wont-remainers-talk-about-family/ )
Which unlikely pairings have you confused, and what was it that made the penny drop?
Twin Brothers Irving and Isaiah Berlin.
Blast - typo in the opening paragraph. Should of course be TWO not TOO.
Bens Bradley and Bradshaw MP are different. Blimey I thought, Bradshaw's ... changed.
There's already a long-running thread for that: http://notthetalk.com/discussion/top/43062
Oh - I thought there might be, but couldn't find it. Thanks.
When I was about 5, I remember being confused between Captain Kirk and Captain Cook.
and a few years later, I struggled with Warsaw and Walsall.
Esther McVeigh and Timothy McVeigh - actually still not sure which is which.
Norman Smith and David Cameron on the radio.
Nanette Newman and Natalie Wood.
Barbra Streisand and Better Middler
Sigourney Weaver and Stockard Channing
Jan Leeming and Angela Rippon
Kenneth Cope, Kenneth More and Kenneth Connor.
Stockard Channing, Channing Tatum and Tatum O'Neill
And more hilariously, Margaret Rutherford and Margaret Lockwood.
My colleague made the same error the other day.
Fern Brittan and Fern Cotton.
Fern Cotton and Dot Cotton.
Fern Brittan and Leon Brittan.
I once met Leon Brittan. Not a face you forget in a hurry.
No matter how hard you try.
Leon Brittan visited our school to talk to the sixth form when I were a lad. I was in the rugby team, and we had a match that Wednesday, so we hung around waiting outside the assembly hall to get a peek at him before we left.
As LB and the headmaster turned the corner to approach us, the head visibly quailed as if we were waiting there to assault them. Idiot.
Leon Brittan strode towards us unperturbed.