Winners Don't Use Drugs

reesetee commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

Great list idea! The cholesterol drug names have always grabbed me--Lipitor, Crestor, Pravachol, and so on. And I'm sorry, but Levitra just cracks me up.

September 18, 2007

john commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

wordie?

September 18, 2007

uselessness commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

LOL @ John! :-P

September 18, 2007

trivet commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

I like these! I also enjoy the names of xanax (double points for palindromosity), anxira, lunesta and perhaps my favorite (name-wise), tums...

September 18, 2007

uselessness commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

All great ones! I forgot about Lunesta, that's definitely one of my favs.

September 18, 2007

reesetee commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

Oh yes. Wordie oughta be at the top of this list!

September 18, 2007

reesetee commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

All right, I have one for you: Flomax. *squirm*

September 20, 2007

uselessness commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

Gross!

September 20, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

Oh dude, I like flonase so much better than flonax!

It's nice I'm finally finding time to read everyone's lists they made while I was in seclusion...

October 26, 2007

skipvia commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

It seems like I've already made reference to this in the last day or so, but let's hear it for Anusol, the most unappealing drug name I can think of. (It would be Boniva if Boniva were an ED treatment.)

October 26, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

I'm down with that. Anusol really sucks. It doesn't help disguise anything that the corporate-suggested pronunciation doesn't follow that of the base word, anus. Who were they trying to fool?

October 26, 2007

skipvia commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

Vagisil probably didn't pull the wool over anyone's eyes, either.

October 26, 2007

sionnach commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

Avastin, Herceptin, Xolair, Lucentis, Raptiva, Rituxan, Pulmozyme - all drugs whose development I worked on in my day.

October 26, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

You're right, skipvia. Eeech.

You know, I wonder if veterinary drugs are any more interesting. I gave my dog Interceptor yesterday, which is not only a great word, but also should go on my "Ships of Fame" list... *goes to put it there*

Also Heartgard. Dumb spelling, but... you kind of get what it's for, without being massively grossed out about it. Frontline is similarly inoffensive (though less descriptive). Then there's Clavamox, and that one that begins with an F that I can't remember...

I always thought Kaopectate was a good name. Less engineered than Lipitor, but...

October 26, 2007

skipvia commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

If you're going to imply it, you might as well come right out and say it; for example, "Boudreaux's Butt Paste," a diaper rash cream. Really.

October 26, 2007

reesetee commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

Butt paste?? Skipvia, you're killing me! :-)

October 26, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

I see Butt Paste on the shelf at the store. It always draws my eye from three aisles away, because the packaging has GIGANTIC FONT on it.

October 26, 2007

reesetee commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

You mean it actually exists?

*wondering where c_b and skipvia shop*

October 26, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

Target? Grocery stores? Anywhere fine baby supplies are sold?

October 26, 2007

skipvia commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

It's a real product, reesetee.

October 26, 2007

reesetee commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

Well, why are you guys staring at me as though I grew a second head? You're the ones talking about butt paste, for heaven's sake. :-P

October 27, 2007

uselessness commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

I fear what Google's giant computer brain will have to say about this page.

October 27, 2007

adoarns commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

If you're taking requests: good ol' aspirin; narcotics like roxanol, vicodin, percocet, darvocet, dilaudid; downers ativan, valium, restoril.

December 19, 2007

uselessness commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

Thanks, I added them all! :-)

December 19, 2007

bilby commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

Effexxor is unfortunately not effective against the bizarre double-x syndrome.

December 19, 2007

uselessness commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

Never heard of that one before. I already hate it. Perfect for this list, though. ;-)

December 19, 2007

reesetee commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

Bilby, I don't think that drug is suffering from an abundance of Xs. I think it's only one. Two Fs, though. :-)

December 19, 2007

sionnach commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

I just saw an ad for a new one: Abilify!

December 20, 2007

bilby commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

reesetee you might be right about effexxor. I did a search on both spellings before I made the suggestion and came up with more hits for effexxor than effexor ... which says something about how the public perceive madeupical pharmaceutical labels.

December 20, 2007

uselessness commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

Okay, I changed it to one X. With either spelling the word still suXXorz though. ;-) Also added abilify, which is just plain strange.

December 20, 2007

bilby commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

Enteroviaform.

December 20, 2007

uselessness commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

Okay, now you're making stuff up. You've gotta be.

December 20, 2007

bilby commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

Unfortunately not.

If I wanted to make something up I'd go with, hmm, denialin - any kind of performance-enhancing drug taken by an athlete and claimed to be cough remedy or hair-loss treatment until they get nailed.

December 20, 2007

uselessness commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

Haha! Okay, you've convinced me. But it seems that the correct (or at least more common) spelling is Enterovioform.

December 20, 2007

reesetee commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

Bilby, denialin should go on this list.

December 20, 2007

sionnach commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

Then there's Hirudin, an anti-coagulant derived from the salivary secretions of leeches.

hirudine is an adjective meaning 'leech-like, or pertaining to leeches'

December 20, 2007

bilby commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

Do liniments count? I always thought Dencorub was a bit odd ... naff off ya numpty, I don't want denco (???) all over me.

Doxycycline never stuck with me until I read Harry Potter, after which I was awash with whimsy at curing an infestation of mythical creatures with antibiotics. Of course Doxy- is a member of that large family of drugs who all ride bicycles to work and back home again at the end of the treatment, the tetracyclines.

December 20, 2007

bilby commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

One which cracks me up is Equitrim, a drug made by Boehringer for horses according to Wikipedia. That hasn't stopped brain-deadism reaching for the bottle.

December 20, 2007

Prolagus commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

"Sustanon is a trade name for a (...) blend of four esterized testosterone compounds." (Wikipedia)

In Italy, it dangerousy recalls "non sta su" = "I can't keep it up".

June 28, 2008

reesetee commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

Wow. Apparently they didn't do much market research in Italy.

June 29, 2008

bilby commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

interferon

November 22, 2008

bilby commented on the list winners-don-t-use-drugs

Flibanserin

SheEsh, I'M reAllY coNfusEd ABout uSing cAPitalS oN wORDnik.

November 17, 2009