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Obligatory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
I remember back in the early web days I was trying to make a post on a forum with something about Dick Van Dyke, getting a double-whammy name block. He already unfamiliar to the younger people even back then, so none of my attempts to explain who I was talking about worked. I couldn't even say what show he starred in for them to look up, since it was also called The Dick van Dyke Show.
Thanks so much, I knew there was some kind of term of concept for that but couldn't find it!
Tom Scott has a video on it
I always called it the buttbuttination (of Lincoln) problem, heh.
It's a clbuttic mistake.