May I See Your Aciphex, Please?
Pharmacist: Of course ma’am. Which effects were you particularly interested in? We have a lot of them.
Customer: Oh? There’s more than one Aciphex?
Pharmacist: Umm… that would be “effect,” ma’am. Singular. “More than one ass effect.” Yes, we have over 100 ass effects. Which would you care to see?
Okay so, these pharmaceutical companies must have enough money to run this name through their think tanks. Maybe they did, and they figured only one silly person like myself would see the humor in it and so they went ahead with the name anyway.
Well, I think I’m probably not the only one snickering. This article by Sarah Aswell is hilarious. (I guess with a name like that, her ears were perked up a little more than usual when the commercial came on.)
It made it onto YouTube too, from some astute observer who goes by the name “jbuckley”:
(I should have known there’d be plenty of “smart-asses” out there to catch this huge pharmaceutical blunder.)
