Tuesday, December 05, 2000

General Tomfoolery

There was a commercial on TV last night for "Flonase". There's a product with a name that actually sounds like what it does: flow nase. An onomatopoetic drug is kind of cool.

The funny thing about the commercial, though, was that it featured a lab-coated gentleman extolling the virtues of the medication. Instead of the usual small type at the bottom of the screen explaining that, although this gentleman was not a real doctor but was, in fact, an actor portraying the surveyed recommendations of dozens of doctors, there it was in large, bright white letters by his head: "DOCTOR DRAMATIZATION."

I assume he practices at Reenactment General.