Friday, February 17, 2012

No kidding

This is a drug ad I saw in a journal recently:





What makes it great is the line at the bottom:


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28 comments:

  1. MillaFebruary 17, 2012 at 7:11 AM

    Good to know! I certainly do not even hope that someone would think that they would be either.... but then agin you never know!

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  2. AmyFebruary 17, 2012 at 7:29 AM

    Gotta love Oxycontin and the idiot who thought the picture of tablet was actual size!

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 17, 2012 at 7:57 AM

    Lovely weasel words. So unexpected, yet put there to make some whiny lawyer happy. Very funny.

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  4. JulieFebruary 17, 2012 at 8:40 AM

    you think ????

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  5. LindaFebruary 17, 2012 at 8:42 AM

    Glad I'm not the only one who recognized the drug.

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  6. AnonymousFebruary 17, 2012 at 9:05 AM

    From what I hear, if you take one of these, you may very well feel like the pill really was that big after it starts to kick in! - Especially if your body is not used to it.

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  7. OMDGFebruary 17, 2012 at 9:11 AM

    Funny. I wonder if some people are that stupid. Judging by some of your posts, my guess is... yes.

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  8. Grumpy PharmDFebruary 17, 2012 at 9:17 AM

    Do you have any OC's? OP's don't work for me!!! (And I can't make a profit 'cause no one's buying them!!!)

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  9. AnonymousFebruary 17, 2012 at 9:31 AM

    "Dr Grumpy, my old oxycontins aren't as large as the new ones I saw in the ad. How come the other doctors give out bigger oxy's than you do? Can you write me a new prescription for the really big ones?"

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  10. JonoFebruary 17, 2012 at 10:17 AM

    Okay, that one made me spew coffee.

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  11. Mike LooneyFebruary 17, 2012 at 10:32 AM

    One pill makes you larger
    And one pill makes you small
    And the ones that mother gives you
    Don't do anything at all
    Go ask Alice, when she's ten feet tall

    If you don't know where this is from ask your parents.

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  12. AnonymousFebruary 17, 2012 at 11:33 AM

    Well then now I don't want it.

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  13. bobbieFebruary 17, 2012 at 11:34 AM

    I'm with Mr. Looney ~ that was the first thing I thought of!!!
    (Proudly showing my age!)

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  14. PackerFebruary 17, 2012 at 11:39 AM

    White
    Rabbit
    Based on the Book Go ask Alice, not Alice in Wonderland as most people think


    What do I win ? .

    I should be taking pills to be able to undestand the new grumpy verifiers.

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  15. ndenunzFebruary 17, 2012 at 12:05 PM

    Back in the day when Pharma gave out goodies, we once got a box of cookies. The box was labeled with the Paxil logo but had this disclaimer: "Cookies do not contain Paxil".

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  16. MarniFebruary 17, 2012 at 12:21 PM

    Even better, ndenunz, I had hand lotion from Allegra, helpfully labelled "Does not contain Allegra!"

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  17. thethingspatientssayFebruary 17, 2012 at 1:52 PM

    It would have been better if they'd said they were the actual size and came in suppository form only.

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  18. Ole Phat StuFebruary 17, 2012 at 2:45 PM

    The right size to hold between your knees, ladies ;-)

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  19. AnonymousFebruary 17, 2012 at 3:10 PM

    You mean those people in the ad AREN'T ACTUAL PATIENTS!!!

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  20. wellillbeFebruary 17, 2012 at 4:09 PM

    My first thought was that they were trying to tell people that oxycontil will landthem in a jail line up! Didnt realize they were trying to promote the drug.

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  21. Sharon MarieFebruary 17, 2012 at 4:23 PM

    And I thought my calcium tablets were big lol!

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  22. MooseFebruary 17, 2012 at 6:52 PM

    But my headache IS actual size...

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  23. EDNurseasaurasFebruary 17, 2012 at 8:35 PM

    My first thought: "...and a 10 from the Russian judge!

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  24. AnonymousFebruary 17, 2012 at 11:05 PM

    It's being discontinued in Ontario at the end of February!!! Woot! woot! Being replaced by OxyNeo... Not sure how much better that's gonna be, but the arguements with drug addicts will surely give me warm fuzzy feelings...

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  25. AnonymousFebruary 18, 2012 at 9:32 AM

    You know that you've been a pharmacist for too long when 1. You recognise the tablets straight away and 2. know the strengths purely from the colour!

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  26. AnonymousFebruary 18, 2012 at 11:37 AM

    Oxy. Gotta love it.

    BTW, Mike, I was thinking the same song lyric. and the new verifiers do S-U-C-K

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  27. Frantic PharmacistFebruary 20, 2012 at 9:45 PM

    Good God. You'd think they were advertising M&M's. Everybody dig in!

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  28. ToodlesJune 1, 2013 at 7:15 PM

    @Packer

    Actually the book's title "go ask alice" was based on white rabbit song by jefferson airplane which is based on alice in wonderland.

    So you win nothing.

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So wadda you think?