Top 6 Pairs of People or Things I Often Get Confused With Each Other When I Really Shouldn't

6. Gary Cole and William Fitchner

I seriously only recently discovered that these guys are two different actors.  Honestly, see if you do better than me on this quiz.  Which one of these guys plays...

a) the boss in Office Space?

b) the bank owner at the start of The Dark Knight?

c) the Colonel who wants to blow up the asteroid even if it kills the dudes in Armageddon?

d) the bad guy in Pineapple Express?

Done?  Okay, the correct answer is that they're the same person and they both play all of those.

5. Cottage cheese and cream cheese

Sometimes it just takes me a few seconds to figure out which one of these I want to say, okay?  And sometimes I accidentally say the wrong one first, OKAY???

4. Phyllis Diller and Bea Arthur

All I really know about either of these women (other than that they're female comedians) is that when I think of either of them I think of this picture:

I'm actually not sure which one of them that is.

3. Seth Green and Seth Meyers

I do this one a lot, and I've noticed that almost nobody else does.  Seriously, it's a really easy mistake to make!  They're both short little winking-boyish-faced comedians named Seth.  Stop making fun of me when I mention Seth Meyers' cameos on Entourage or say that I'm underwhelmed by Seth Green on Weekend Update.

2. William Butler Yeats and John Keats

I know they don't even rhyme, but their last names do look really similar on the page.  Which one wrote "Ode on a Grecian Urn"?  Damned if I know.

1. H. L. Mencken and H. P. Lovecraft

Want to know how frequently I confuse these guys?  When I was thinking of who I often confuse H.P. Lovecraft with (hangin' preps no regrets), I realized that the person that I was thinking of was actually H. L. Mencken.   I can't even remember who is who when I am thinking about how often I confuse one of them with someone else.  (Note: When I was thinking about who I often confuse Lovecraft with--but I was really thinking of Mencken--I was thinking that it must be either H. G. Wells or H. R. Geiger.  What is with the two-letter-and-a-last-name construction and weird dudes who are somehow involved in science fiction.  Wait, no, Lovecraft isn't a science fiction writer, that's Mencken, right?  AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH)