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Scuba

(53,475 posts)
Fri Mar 9, 2012, 10:22 PM Mar 2012

All drugs have two names

All drugs have two (2) names, a trade name & a generic name.

Example, the trade name is Tylenol and its generic name is Acetaminophen. Aleve is also called Naproxen.

Amoxil is also called Amoxicillin and Advil 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.

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All drugs have two names (Original Post) Scuba Mar 2012 OP
Oh SCUBA!!! elleng Mar 2012 #1
Generic name for Viagra? How about Woodinol? HopeHoops Mar 2012 #2
(Actually, many drugs have MULTIPLE names). HopeHoops Mar 2012 #3
Ibepokin is my favorite, but sounds a bit too much like Ibuprofen siligut Mar 2012 #4

siligut

(12,272 posts)
4. Ibepokin is my favorite, but sounds a bit too much like Ibuprofen
Sat Mar 10, 2012, 10:46 AM
Mar 2012

And any confusion might be either quite disappointing or a nice surprise if it weren't for the damned headache

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