So I was watching TV this weekend, and saw an ad for Ambien. Finally, it hit me like a ton of bricks: Ambien. AM + bien (fr. for “good”) = Good morning! How clever is that?
So, was I the last person on earth to figure this out?
Second to last. And I speak French, dammit.
:smack: Third to last. Of course, I just figured out that Silk = Soy + Milk.
Slow on the uptake? Moi??
I feel so dumb!
Oy. I’m, what, fourth behind you? And my husband even takes the stuff occasionally.
You might be near the last for French speaker to get this. Speaking English and some German I don’t get it.
I do notice that there are a large number of severe side effects spewed forth during the ads, so how good of a day you can have is suspect.
bien is also Spanish for good.
But that didn’t help me.
I’ve always wondered if there is a job position for someone specifically to make up names for new drugs, and nothing else.
If that’s the case, I wonder if the joker who named the pill Aciphex was really bored that day, or what.
I didn’t know either. But in my defense I haven’t given even a little bit of thought.
I never put those together either, but like Khadaji, I didn’t try either. I just got the Kay Jeweler’s “Every kiss begins with Kay” campaign about a year ago. Whoooooooshed right over my head it did. (Kiss begins with K.)
Ahhh. Now I can feel superior to all who post their “ahhhs” after me. Or feel even more like a goof if no one does.
Huh. I’ll be darned. I took the stuff for years & never realized that.
I don’t get it…
It’s pronounced “ass effects”, basically. I have a friend who is a physician, and even she is completely mortified mentioning it to patients.
I didn’t realize this either, although it does seem obvious now.
Then again, when the first ads for Levitra first came out, I had no idea it was an ED drug. The “get back in the game” tag line and symbolism of a guy throwing a football through a tire swing went completely over my head. I took it way too literally and figured it was some drug for chronic muscle pain, like Celebrex. So go figure…
It would be nore apropos if it was a cream for hemorrhoids.
Or an anti-diarrheal medication.
Or for diaper rash.
Or - you get the picture.
I didn’t get it.
Pretty clever.
In German , I think it would be AMGut.
An MD told me this years ago. Apparently he heard it from a drug rep. I have told lots of people and they never think it is as cool as I do. I am glad you guys think it is clever.
How about that!
I’m off to stand in the Clueless Line…
My favorite drug name these days is “Flonase”
Gee, wonder what that does???