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| Thread ID: 108052 | 2010-03-12 03:36:00 | In Pharmacology | KarameaDave (15222) | PC World Chat |
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| 866293 | 2010-03-12 03:36:00 | In Pharmacology In Pharmacology, all drugs have two names, a trade name and generic name . For example, the trade name of Panadol also has a generic name of Paracetamol . Amoxil is also call Amoxicillin and Nurofen is also called Ibuprofen . The FDA has been looking for a generic name for Viagra . After careful consideration by a team of government experts, it recently announced that it has settled on the generic name of Mycoxafloppin . Also considered were Mycoxafailin, Mydixadrupin, Mydixarizin, Dixafix, and of course, Ibepokin . Pfizer Corp . . announced today that Viagra will soon be available in liquid form, and will be marketed by Pepsi Cola as a power beverage suitable for use as a mixer . It will now be possible for a man to literally pour himself a stiff one . Obviously we can no longer call this a soft drink, and it gives new meaning to the names of 'cocktails', 'highballs' and just a good old-fashioned 'stiff drink' . Pepsi will market the new concoction by the name of: MOUNT & DO . Thought for the day: There is more money being spent on breast implants and Viagra today than on Alzheimer's research . This means that by 2040, there should be a large elderly population with perky Boobs and huge erections and absolutely no recollection of what to do with them . |
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| 866294 | 2010-03-12 04:05:00 | :lol: | prefect (6291) | ||
| 866295 | 2010-03-12 07:39:00 | Sildenafil Citrate is the actual generic name in case anyone is keen to know :p | Renmoo (66) | ||
| 866296 | 2010-03-12 23:35:00 | Until they shortened it's name, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane was a very poor seller. People couldn't pronounce it so they couldn't ask for it. The labels were so big, the minimum pack was a 200 litre drum. It proved impossible to fit it into a singing commercial. Newspaper advertisements were too big to be cost effective - they were double page and expensive, but what was worse, readers frequently fell asleep reading the title. HOWEVER - when they shortened it's name to DDT, sales boomed and bugs (plus birds and later, people) started dying all over the place. Rachel Carson wrote "Silent Spring" and made a killing about the killing, then ecology got a start as a popular cult and away we went. See what marketing can do given a catchy short name? (Like Vista, although that introduces and fosters bugs instead of killing them.) |
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