# A New Drug? And It's Called "Levitra?" Well, I Better Get Me Some! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 15, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-drug-and-its-called-levitra-well-i-better-get-me-some/201797 "2003-09-15T20:17:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-drug-and-its-called-levitra-well-i-better-get-me-some/201797/21 "2003-09-16T16:42:35Z")
“Do you ever get that feeling? You know the one I mean. That’s why I take these. Talk to your doctor about them.” ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-drug-and-its-called-levitra-well-i-better-get-me-some/201797/22 "2003-09-16T17:07:36Z")
I watched the TV commercial, and I’m sure that Levitra helps you throw a football more accurately. The guy in the commercial couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn pre-Levitra, but post-Levitra threw that football threw the tire _every stinkin’ time_. I hear Donavan McNabb has been prescribed Levitra… /gratuitous whack at the Eagles ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-drug-and-its-called-levitra-well-i-better-get-me-some/201797/23 "2003-09-16T17:19:39Z")
plnnr, my God, I’m laughing my rear off here… ---
**Author:** ![DaToad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@DaToad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaToad)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-drug-and-its-called-levitra-well-i-better-get-me-some/201797/24 "2003-09-16T18:53:08Z")
Hey ya’ll, don’t be making fun of that _ **Levitra** _ stuff. I took it and it made me look ten years younger. It made me so big and hard, it streched the wrinkles outta my face. ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-drug-and-its-called-levitra-well-i-better-get-me-some/201797/25 "2003-09-16T19:02:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*“Do you suffer from NPR? Ask your doctor for maraliacyn . . .” \*\* Ha! Bit of a hijack here, but is she the one on the Talk of the Nation bumpers who can’t say “This is NPR, National Public Radio” like a normal person? And instead says it something like “This _is_ NPR… NATional PUBlic Radio”? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-drug-and-its-called-levitra-well-i-better-get-me-some/201797/26 "2003-09-16T19:54:13Z")
She’s on _All Things Considered_ . . . Haven’t listened to it in years, but I still think of her as “that antibiotic lady . . .” ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-drug-and-its-called-levitra-well-i-better-get-me-some/201797/27 "2003-09-16T23:49:36Z")
In the newspaper the other day, a small item mentioned that football hero Mike Ditka had been hired to “spokes” for the new impotence drug. The company originally had planned to hire a kicker for the spots, with the tagline, **"It’s up! And it’s good !"** ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-drug-and-its-called-levitra-well-i-better-get-me-some/201797/28 "2003-09-24T01:41:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shirley Ujest \* > \*\*[Carl the Groundskeeper} It’s in the hole. [/] \*\* Ooh, you terrible terrible person ! I now have Mandarin Orange seltzer water up my nose. For shame !!! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-drug-and-its-called-levitra-well-i-better-get-me-some/201797/29 "2003-09-24T01:48:21Z")
😃 My job is done here. And if you blame anyone, it’s all **Eve’s** fault. She _brought it up first_. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-drug-and-its-called-levitra-well-i-better-get-me-some/201797/30 "2003-09-24T03:29:18Z")
I don’t remember the name of the drug but I’ve been seeing a bunch of comercials on TV that picture a group of women standing in line with their shirts pulled up with writing on their tummies. I never have enough curiousity to write down the name so I can investigate but the fact that all the people in line are female makes me wonder whether the cramping and such being discusses is “hormonal” rather than “digestive” in nature, if you know what I mean. (and since I don’t believe I’m troubled by it anyway, I’m not really sure that I want to learn more about the condition that it is supposed to treat but still . . . ) ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-drug-and-its-called-levitra-well-i-better-get-me-some/201797/31 "2003-09-24T03:41:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rhubarb \* > \*\*Jeez, they sure want a wad of cash for a woody don’t they? $94 for 4 pills! That’s $23.50 per stiffie. Whoda thunk men would be willing to pay that much for what they once had to use their algebra book to cover up in high school? \*\* You know, some days I love the SDMB more than others. This is definitely one of them. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-drug-and-its-called-levitra-well-i-better-get-me-some/201797/32 "2003-09-29T11:34:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eureka \* > \*\*I’ve been seeing a bunch of comercials on TV that picture a group of women standing in line with their shirts pulled up with writing on their tummies. \*\* Wait. Let me get this straight, ok? I can give a woman a small pill that will make her want to pull her shirt up? I LOVE THIS COUNTRY !!! 😃 **Eve**? **Shirley** was right. This is your fault. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-drug-and-its-called-levitra-well-i-better-get-me-some/201797/33 "2003-09-29T11:47:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ferret Herder \* > \*\*My husband and I were laughing at the commercial where some guy was having trouble throwing a football through a rope-swing tire, and then finally started making it. We started coming up with sarcastic commercial taglines - “Having trouble getting it in the hole?” > > (Then again, when the “What’s changed about you, Bob?” commercials come on, and people start offering possibilities like hair color, lost weight, etc., we instead try to come up with as many euphemisms for erections as we can. “Tenting, Bob?” We’re easily amused.) \*\* The first one’s really dumb. The reason he can’t get the damn ball through the tire is because he _never could_. I mean, really. How many people can do that, anyway? It’s not as if he were some ex-NFL quarterback. “Dude. Did it ever occur to you that you simply suck ass?” And the second one is interesting. Those pills slay me. I take one and all of a sudden I’m the most popular guy around? How does this happen, exactly? Does everyone see not only this shit-eating grin I’m wearing like a badge of honor but also this huge bulge in my pants? “Wow, check it out! He’s obviously on some kind of boner-inducing drug… let’s ask him what’s new!” ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-drug-and-its-called-levitra-well-i-better-get-me-some/201797/34 "2003-09-29T17:03:36Z")
What’s _really_ bizarre is being a non-TV watcher, and hearing these commercials on the radio. Not only can’t they _tell_ you what the damned purple pill is for, but visual cues are obviously out as well. So I’ve been scratching my head, wondering, “what do they think I’m gonna do - call up my doctor about each drug they advertise, just to see if, by sheer dumb luck, it might be something I need? Excuse me here, but I’ve got a _life_. Get back to me when you care to tell me what the drug’s _for_.” ---
**Author:** ![lovelyluka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f475e1/32.png) [@lovelyluka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lovelyluka)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-drug-and-its-called-levitra-well-i-better-get-me-some/201797/35 "2003-09-29T18:48:14Z")
I always hated the commercial for Procrit, which has an old man (I think an auctioneer) complaining that since he’s been on chemotherapy, his anemia has made him feel so bad that he can’t work. Yeah. Apparently he forgot that he has _cancer_, and that just might be the reason he’s feeling so bad. Arrrghhh. At least you know what it treats before you start ridiculing the sappy way they’re pushing it. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-drug-and-its-called-levitra-well-i-better-get-me-some/201797/36 "2003-09-29T22:12:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eureka \* > **I don’t remember the name of the drug but I’ve been seeing a bunch of comercials on TV that picture a group of women standing in line with their shirts pulled up with writing on their tummies.** At least their belly buttons aren’t singing. _That_ was effin’ _creepy._ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-drug-and-its-called-levitra-well-i-better-get-me-some/201797.md?page=1)