janeowit's Journal: Do your research people! Those eye drops don't rock.

I enjoy reading McSweeny's lists. Some of them are really funny, a lot of them aren't. The most recent one is Prescription Drug or Metal Band?. That's a really common format, "this or that?". I recall "Ikea product or Lord of the Ring Character" being particularly funny.

So I went through the list, and as someone who has worked a pharmacy for three years I could easily and immediately pick out the names of the prescription drugs. Then I looked at the answers, they were wrong!

Here's the list:

1. Norvasc
2. Xentrix
3. Skelaxin
4. Glycolax
5. Eidolon
6. Acyclovir
7. Hirax
8. Mythotyn
9. Krabathor
10. Ilium
11. Ketek
12. Insomnium
13. Armour Thyroid
14. Depakote
15. Lantus
16. Diovan
17. Zetia
18. Gorgoroth
19. Amebix
20. Finntroll
21. Behexen
22. Flonase
23. Xalatan
24. Avelox
25. Ted Nugent
26. Treponem Pal
27. Advair Diskus
28. Zocor
29. Ensiferum
30. Ambien

Here's the answers:
Metal bands: 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25, 26, 29
Prescription drugs: 1, 3, 4, 6, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 22, 24, 27, 28, 30

First, they forgot to categorize number 15 at all, it is a prescription drug. It's an insulin that crystallizes in the skin after injection which gives it a longer release than regular insulin's. But even worse is when they classified number 23, Xalatan, as a metal band. It's not. It's a first-line glaucoma treatment.

There's no one to contact. If there was I really would. And I understand the point isn't accuracy, it's humor. I just think they should get it right.

Re:

[janeowit]

Being that the "original list" you found was posted after the one on McSweeney's, I'm going to go with the hypothesis that someone reposted it like I did in this journal.

But if your crack research team can find the author for me. I'll write an email with an inappropriate amount of indignation and anger.
Deal? Deal.

I KNEW #3!

[Timex]

I have it for a back problem.

um...

[SolemnDragon]

i'm disturbed to note that i was able to verify at least five of them from my own medicine cabinet. :(

Re:

[turg]

You keep heavy metal CDs in your medicine cabinet?

Not Only Madonna ...

[bettiwettiwoo]

... but McSweeney's Lists in common as well?!

I didn't know a single name: not much of a pill-popper, nor a metal fan. The wrong answers are just ... plain wrong.

Since I positively hate Kubrick's 2001 my current favourite list is HAL's Comments While Trapped on a Desert Island, and Your Name Is Dave [mcsweeneys.net]

Don't do it, it's a trap

[turg]

I say that the mistake is there on purpose and the indignant letters the author receives will be fodder for his next article

Re:

[TechnoLust]

I tip my tin foil hat to your conspiracy theorizing, sir!