This drug will abilify you to live a normal life!
Gah. It kills me that there are huge teams of marketing brainiacs who get paid way more than I've ever made in my life to sit around in a room and toss around ridiculous names for drugs. (You know the old saying about a camel being a horse designed by a committee...)
Early on in their mysterious ad campaign, I actually thought Acela was some sort of new drug. My guess was arthritis medication.

isn't there a procrit? if so, they probably just changed the name because it was too similar to procreate.

Abilify reminds me of a made up word that Bush would use in a speech.

The New Yorker had a great cartoon about a year ago with made up names-- it was hilarious...but also way to close to reality. I'll have to go look for that.

Isn't procrit for kidney disease or something? Or cancer?

I thought Acela was a drug, too. And I also secretly hoped that Nexium, aka "The Purple Pill," was some sort of medication that I might need...because, let's face it, how often does your medication get to be a pretty color? Sadly, that's probably a hook that the marketers thought of ahead of time....

procrit is related to cancer, it is used to increase red blood cell count for people undergoing chemotherapy. the effect is an increase in energy for the person using it. i would say your potentiate would also be a good name for a similar type of drug (it reminds me of potential energy, charging something).

i think the ed drug names are especially funny, though for cialis, you'll have to look @ its generic name of TADA!-lafil to get the laugh.

try CAVERJECT and CHRONULAC.

we do not speak the name cialis. we hate cialis, if only for the 8 million spam messages per day that we get about them.

Abilify (verb) - to talk up one's abilities in such a way that people may actually think you have some, an action used mostly in a) presidential campaigns, b) job interviews, and c) blind dates. Likely coined by a Republican.

The president had a great one last night: pay-go. He meant to say "pay as you go" but kinda forgot some words and then stuck to his guns, saying "pay-go" about four times!

I'm sure there's a gas station/convenience store, somewhere, called Pay-Go.

Kerry totally laughed out loud at the pay-go thing, too. It was great.

Yeah, nexium looks awesome! How bout those commercials where the sun is made of a great big Nexium! It's like Tootsie Rolls!

Apparently, a portion of the world were laughing out loud at the spittle stuck in the corner of Bush's mouth...see paragraph five of this article. I didn't notice, as I have a 13" screen.

that sure was pretty. they should've stopped the debate and had one of his advisors wipe his mouth. he's like the kid that always needs mom with him, as he makes stupid decisions and gets himself in trouble.

chronulac - a time released lactase pill for people with lactose intolerance.

i can't come up with anything for caverject.

My husband works in the pharmacy of a cancer hospital that is frequented by drug reps. We have two shiny red Procrit travel mugs, a ton of those little stress ball things shaped like red blood cells that our cat has taken over as toys, and so many pens I doubt we will ever run out or forget the name Procrit. The amount of drug paraphernalia he receives is insane, although I have to say the Viagra fridge magnets crack me up. Oh, yeah, we also have a bunch of those drug pads around the house as well; the Mr. is notorious for sticking them, and a handful pens, in the pockets of his scrubs then forgetting to empty them out as he leaves the hospital.