I just heard this hilarious joke and thought I'd share it with you
guys:

"If you are a lesbian suffering from depression ask your doctor about Tricoxagin.�

:-D

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On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 00:32:31 +0100, Cursitor Doom <[email protected]>
wrote:

I just heard this hilarious joke and thought I'd share it with you
guys:

"If you are a lesbian suffering from depression ask your doctor about >Tricoxagin.�

:-D

I am reminded of the motto of The National Lampoon:

Good Taste Isn't Everything

(Who makes up drug names anyhow?)

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On 22/04/2025 9:32 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

I just heard this hilarious joke and thought I'd share it with you
guys:

"If you are a lesbian suffering from depression ask your doctor about Tricoxagin.”

Cursitor Doom's grasp of reality is remarkably feeble. He may really
think that this is a "hilarious joke" rather than 12-year-old-school-boy
smut.

--
Bill Sloman, sydney

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On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 17:11:55 -0700, john larkin <[email protected]>
wrote:

On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 00:32:31 +0100, Cursitor Doom <[email protected]>
wrote:

I just heard this hilarious joke and thought I'd share it with you
guys:

"If you are a lesbian suffering from depression ask your doctor about >>Tricoxagin.�

:-D

I am reminded of the motto of The National Lampoon:

Good Taste Isn't Everything

(Who makes up drug names anyhow?)

The drug company who owns the patent is free to call it whatever they
like pretty much. But drugs have several names. There's the
proprietory name (Tricoxagin in this example) then there's the generic
name, which will be less 'popular' and recognizable. For example,
Prozac (proprietory) is also fluoxetine IIRC. Then there's the
chemical names of which there are at least three or four
variants.Those describe the precise molecule itself with zero
ambiguity. Lyrica, sold by Pfizer under that name is also pregabalin
and it's prime chemical name can be 3-Isobutyl-GABA, or (S)-3-Isobutyl-aminobutyric acid, or IsobutylGABA (among others!)

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On 26/04/2025 3:30 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 17:11:55 -0700, john larkin <[email protected]>
wrote:

On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 00:32:31 +0100, Cursitor Doom <[email protected]>
wrote:

I just heard this hilarious joke and thought I'd share it with you
guys:

"If you are a lesbian suffering from depression ask your doctor about
Tricoxagin.”

:-D

I am reminded of the motto of The National Lampoon:

Good Taste Isn't Everything

(Who makes up drug names anyhow?)

The drug company who owns the patent is free to call it whatever they
like pretty much. But drugs have several names. There's the
proprietory name (Tricoxagin in this example) then there's the generic
name, which will be less 'popular' and recognizable. For example,
Prozac (proprietory) is also fluoxetine IIRC. Then there's the
chemical names of which there are at least three or four
variants.Those describe the precise molecule itself with zero
ambiguity.

The variants typically sacrifice precision for brevity.

Lyrica, sold by Pfizer under that name is also pregabalin
and it's prime chemical name can be 3-Isobutyl-GABA, or (S)-3-Isobutyl-aminobutyric acid, or IsobutylGABA (among others!)

There is a standard for chemical naming which nails down the structure
and distinguishes optical isomers. For organic chemicals the names can
be remarkably long. Even butane has two structural isomers - there's a
straight chain isomer and methyl-propane with three methyl group and one hydrogen atom attached to a central carbon atom.

Diamond, graphite and the buckmeister-fullerine are all isomers of
carbon but the structural differences are important.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

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On 4/22/2025 1:56 AM, Bill Sloman wrote:

On 22/04/2025 9:32 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

I just heard this hilarious joke and thought I'd share it with you
guys:

"If you are a lesbian suffering from depression ask your doctor about
Tricoxagin.”

Cursitor Doom's grasp of reality is remarkably feeble. He may really
think that this is a "hilarious joke" rather than 12-year-old-school-boy smut.

This is why lesbians don't ask him on too many dates, I guess

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On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 17:13:27 -0400, bitrex <[email protected]> wrote:

On 4/22/2025 1:56 AM, Bill Sloman wrote:

On 22/04/2025 9:32 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

I just heard this hilarious joke and thought I'd share it with you
guys:

"If you are a lesbian suffering from depression ask your doctor about
Tricoxagin.�

Cursitor Doom's grasp of reality is remarkably feeble. He may really
think that this is a "hilarious joke" rather than 12-year-old-school-boy
smut.

This is why lesbians don't ask him on too many dates, I guess

It's true I've never had many lesbians ask me out, but I don't think
that's due to my admittedly puerile sense of humour. At least I still
*have* a sense of humour - unlike Bill, who (if he ever had one) lost
it many years ago in the process of becoming the misanthropic loner we
know and love today.

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On 4/05/2025 9:46 pm, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 17:13:27 -0400, bitrex <[email protected]> wrote:

On 4/22/2025 1:56 AM, Bill Sloman wrote:

On 22/04/2025 9:32 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

I just heard this hilarious joke and thought I'd share it with you
guys:

"If you are a lesbian suffering from depression ask your doctor about
Tricoxagin.”

Cursitor Doom's grasp of reality is remarkably feeble. He may really
think that this is a "hilarious joke" rather than 12-year-old-school-boy >>> smut.

This is why lesbians don't ask him on too many dates, I guess

It's true I've never had many lesbians ask me out, but I don't think
that's due to my admittedly puerile sense of humour. At least I still
*have* a sense of humour - unlike Bill, who (if he ever had one) lost
it many years ago in the process of becoming the misanthropic loner we
know and love today.

So Cursitor Doom doesn't get my jokes. The "hilarious" claim in the
original subject line makes it fairly clear that Cursitor Doom's sense
of humour isn't up to much, so one can deduce that he can't detect
anything subtle.

Calling his "joke" "12-year-old-school-boy smut" was calling it puerile.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/puerile

Puerile is low-frequency word, and using it is a bit pretentious, but
that's our Cursitor Doom.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

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