The Grumpy Room

My girlfriend reminded me today of a product for acid reflux called AcipHex and a completely awesome TV commercial we have both seen. Now I am all for medicine and things that will help people, but seriously I think companies need to hire employees with an ounce of common sense. Consider this one. When you read it everything seems perfectly fine. What if I told you the pH is an f sound and the c is a soft c? So now you have a product called Ass Effects, or AssFX if you are super cool like that.

I mean did these people listen to the name of their product any of the TWO HUNDRED MILLION times they said it during the development process? Maybe it was developed by a bunch of 12-year-old boys who thought it would be a funny inside joke. Or a bunch of scientists who act like 12-year-old boys. Either way, WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!?

Then again maybe the stuff works because it has the same stuff they use in Olestra-based potato chips (I always thought having WOW on the chips was suspicious, perhaps it was just a subtle hint).