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08 June 2006

In an early Dilbert strip, Bob the Dinosaur confesses his awful secret to the world:→[More:]"I can't tell the difference between Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings!"

Me, I can't tell the difference between Tobey Maguire and Elijah Wood. Nor can I tell Vincent D'Onofrio and Vince Vaughan apart. How about you?

post by: DevilsAdvocate at: 15:46 | 21 comments

I always get Jeremy Irons and Ralph Fiennes confused. And any cast members of the OC, I just know they all suck.

posted by SassHat 08 June | 15:49

Elton John and Billy Joel. Never have been, never will be able to. It doesn't bother me, though.

posted by elizard 08 June | 15:50

I can't tell Ashley and Mary Kate Olsen apart.

Hmm that's probably not what you were going for.

OK, I can't tell Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh apart.

I can't tell Bill Pullman and Bill Paxton apart, and I bet you can't either. Just a hunch.

posted by iconomy 08 June | 15:52

I confuse Tobey Maguire and Topher Grace.

But Vincent D'onofrio and Vince Vaughn, not so much.

posted by mullacc 08 June | 15:52

Chester Arthur and William Henry Harrison

posted by mcgraw 08 June | 15:54

I laughed out loud, damn you mcgraw! I'm going to be giggling about that all the way home. I'm a giggler.

posted by iconomy 08 June | 15:56

;)

posted by mcgraw 08 June | 15:57

I read or saw an interview with Bill Pullman once where he said that even he confuses himself with Bill Paxton. And that he once called himself Bill Paxman by accident.

posted by mullacc 08 June | 15:57

There are two computer guys at my company, Ray and Ron. They don't look that much alike, so it's not that I can't tell them apart so much as I can't remember which is which.

posted by Orange Swan 08 June | 15:57

My mother and my father.

WOE IS ME!

posted by Hugh Janus 08 June | 15:59

Bill Pullman and Bill Paxton are two different people???? I thought they were just different stage names for one guy.
Which one was in ID4?

posted by signal 08 June | 16:15

Also, I have this problem with 2 women in my masters program. I only figured out they were 2 people after like2 months, and I can only tell them apart becuase one's glasses have a slightly thicker frame than the other one's. They're both the same black-frame rectangluar 'serious' glasses, of course.
I'm friends with one of them and don't really get along with the other one, problem is I'm not sure which is the one that I should be friendly with.

posted by signal 08 June | 16:18

Boomer Esiason and Phil Sims, not that it matters anymore since neither plays football.

posted by fenriq 08 June | 16:18

Anymore, damn.

posted by fenriq 08 June | 16:19

They were both in CB4, if I'm not mistaken, signal.

posted by mcgraw 08 June | 16:19

I can't tell the difference between mcgraw and dfowler.

posted by goatdog 08 June | 16:23

I know I'm going to have trouble telling Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric apart myself.

posted by wendell 08 June | 16:25

Hugh, your mother is the one with the mustache.

posted by warbaby 08 June | 16:44

Many can't tell the different between me and Brad Pitt:

≡ Click to see image ≡ ≡ Click to see image ≡

posted by Doohickie 08 June | 22:35

The resemblance is fargin' EERIE, Doohickie!

posted by croctommy 09 June | 01:25

Charlton Heston and Burt Lancaster

Lee Marvin and James Coburn

David Keith and Keith David

posted by kirkaracha 09 June | 13:13

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