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Your rhyming comics are lovely.
Do more of them.
And then you should create a band (using one of the many names you always say you’ll use) and use the words as lyrics.
You could even make some nice animated music videos.
I did try it once, a long time ago… being in a band. Turns out me and the stage are not destined to be together.
However, I can certainly make more lyrical comics… I have notebooks full of them, I just got the impression people weren’t that keen on them. I’ll see if I can do one this Sunday.
I’ve been on a variety of medications (hooray for having MS… um. Not.) and none of them had inflections in the name. Lots of really catchy 1 and 2 syllable names, though.
Most pharmaceutical brand names are either butcherings of the chemical name of the drug or butcherings of some positive word which has nothing to do with anything or just a bunch of random sounds strung together.
Why must people in marketing always be attacking language? WHY?!?
Yeah, which is why I find it so strange that I take Copaxone for my MS, but its chemical name is glatiremer acetate. Nothing cheerful or chemically-related. It’s like the name was just pulled out of the air.
glatiremer acetate – now that sounds like a half-decent name… I think the namng convention is partly through patronisation, that anyone with an illness wouldn’t be able toremember the chemical name.
Or maybe it is like the cosmetics industry where making up names is a sport.
Not even the doctors know the names of the medications. I take a generic allergy drug, and every time I go in to the doctors, they make me give them the brand name, because no one recognizes the actual chemical name.
1. Set this to some heavy metal/industrial music.
2. ??????
3. Profit!
We did a metal song about gingivitis once… it was pretty rad.
Cool, ging doesn’t get the musical treatment it deserves.
Your rhyming comics are lovely.
Do more of them.
And then you should create a band (using one of the many names you always say you’ll use) and use the words as lyrics.
You could even make some nice animated music videos.
I did try it once, a long time ago… being in a band. Turns out me and the stage are not destined to be together.
However, I can certainly make more lyrical comics… I have notebooks full of them, I just got the impression people weren’t that keen on them. I’ll see if I can do one this Sunday.
I’ve been on a variety of medications (hooray for having MS… um. Not.) and none of them had inflections in the name. Lots of really catchy 1 and 2 syllable names, though.
Most pharmaceutical brand names are either butcherings of the chemical name of the drug or butcherings of some positive word which has nothing to do with anything or just a bunch of random sounds strung together.
Why must people in marketing always be attacking language? WHY?!?
Yeah, which is why I find it so strange that I take Copaxone for my MS, but its chemical name is glatiremer acetate. Nothing cheerful or chemically-related. It’s like the name was just pulled out of the air.
Maybe they took the cop- from cope and tossed in an x and -one to sound more chemicalish.
glatiremer acetate – now that sounds like a half-decent name… I think the namng convention is partly through patronisation, that anyone with an illness wouldn’t be able toremember the chemical name.
Or maybe it is like the cosmetics industry where making up names is a sport.
Not even the doctors know the names of the medications. I take a generic allergy drug, and every time I go in to the doctors, they make me give them the brand name, because no one recognizes the actual chemical name.
Semtex?
That’s not a good way to cure explosive diarrhoea.