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I am sure that “Snowgaine” is a reference to the hair stimulation product “Rogaine“, but “Snow way” isn’t as clear. It may be simply a silly alteration of “No way” (as the snowman on the right attempts to deny using medication).
That was my assumption. But now I’m confused as to what the “pop culture references referred to in the tags are.
@ Powers – The “pop culture” reference is merely to the existence of “Rogaine” (and its advertisements). Someone who has never heard of the product (or who overlooks the “e” at the end of “Snowgaine“) might end up trying to deduce a complicated pun on “No pain, no gain” or some other red herring, like body building, or winter hat fashions.
That’s just the phrasing stuck in the category tag, “Pop culture” (and “a couple of”) is just how it originally came up; it might better become, or have an added alternate, just about facts or trivia.
I think the factors relevant here have been successfully identified already. Those would be Rogaine, and “No way, dude!”
(I guess it’s not widely known that the Category tags are organized hierarchically during editing / selection, and the one about a couple of pop culture references helping is grouped under the CIDU branch of the tree)
And clearly the “gain” in “Rogaine” was chosen by the original marketing people long ago for the suggestion from the matching ordinary word. (And possibly the idea that more hair makes one look a bit rogue??) So it transfers okay to the Snogaine idea.
Among my favorite meaningful (or analysable) brand names are Sudafed, which contains pseudephedrine; and Pendaflex, whose product are a system of hanging folders.
Thank you. I had never heard of Rogaine before.
I’m pretty sure the huge ball of snow on his head is the snowman equivalent of an Elvis hairdo.
But names like Mounjaro and Wegovy are just plain weird. The first one looks like “Mount Kilimanjaro” after surgery, and the latter makes me think of pizza.
The guide to monoclonal antibody names is so cool!
I like how they disparage calling a certain kind of stem an “infix”.
Perhaps if a woman headed the project she would be designated the Queen Mab.
Wow. Not until Mitch’s second comment, where he explicitly mentions hair, did I get the right medication reference; I was perfectly happy assuming they were referring to the erectile dysfunction one (which name I still can’t come up with), even though it doesn’t make much sense, and I was going to start wondering why it swelled his head, and not his carrot, if you know what I mean.
Whoever the comedian was who first called our attention to the fact that the first targeted drugs successfully developed to actively cure the problem the were developed for were both for trivial old white men problems was on to something.
There was an earlier form of anti-baldness medication, taken orally, which blocked some actions of androgens! (Since those were implicated in the development of male-pattern-baldness.) And they had some hormonal side-effects as a consequence, not good news for men who might also be candidates for Viagra!
@ larK – It would seem that you missed my reference to “hair” @1 ? :-)
The other baldness med I mentioned:
From GoodRx:
Proscar and Propecia are brand-names for the same medication: finasteride. Proscar is typically used to treat BPH and Propecia is used to treat a type of male hair loss (androgenetic alopecia).
Another meaningful drug name is Premarin, a hormone replacement, and if you do figure it out you will never want to use it or let anyone else use it.
@Kilby: I guess I glossed over it, because right after “hair” you had “stimulation”, so you know where my mind went…
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I am sure that “Snowgaine” is a reference to the hair stimulation product “Rogaine“, but “Snow way” isn’t as clear. It may be simply a silly alteration of “No way” (as the snowman on the right attempts to deny using medication).
That was my assumption. But now I’m confused as to what the “pop culture references referred to in the tags are.
@ Powers – The “pop culture” reference is merely to the existence of “Rogaine” (and its advertisements). Someone who has never heard of the product (or who overlooks the “e” at the end of “Snowgaine“) might end up trying to deduce a complicated pun on “No pain, no gain” or some other red herring, like body building, or winter hat fashions.
That’s just the phrasing stuck in the category tag, “Pop culture” (and “a couple of”) is just how it originally came up; it might better become, or have an added alternate, just about facts or trivia.
I think the factors relevant here have been successfully identified already. Those would be Rogaine, and “No way, dude!”
(I guess it’s not widely known that the Category tags are organized hierarchically during editing / selection, and the one about a couple of pop culture references helping is grouped under the CIDU branch of the tree)
And clearly the “gain” in “Rogaine” was chosen by the original marketing people long ago for the suggestion from the matching ordinary word. (And possibly the idea that more hair makes one look a bit rogue??) So it transfers okay to the Snogaine idea.
Among my favorite meaningful (or analysable) brand names are Sudafed, which contains pseudephedrine; and Pendaflex, whose product are a system of hanging folders.
Thank you. I had never heard of Rogaine before.
I’m pretty sure the huge ball of snow on his head is the snowman equivalent of an Elvis hairdo.
@Mitch4: I like those drug names too. Since then, they’ve gotten crazy/stupid/random, although there IS a scheme to some extent for some families:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomenclature_of_monoclonal_antibodies
But names like Mounjaro and Wegovy are just plain weird. The first one looks like “Mount Kilimanjaro” after surgery, and the latter makes me think of pizza.
The guide to monoclonal antibody names is so cool!
I like how they disparage calling a certain kind of stem an “infix”.
Perhaps if a woman headed the project she would be designated the Queen Mab.
Wow. Not until Mitch’s second comment, where he explicitly mentions hair, did I get the right medication reference; I was perfectly happy assuming they were referring to the erectile dysfunction one (which name I still can’t come up with), even though it doesn’t make much sense, and I was going to start wondering why it swelled his head, and not his carrot, if you know what I mean.
Whoever the comedian was who first called our attention to the fact that the first targeted drugs successfully developed to actively cure the problem the were developed for were both for trivial old white men problems was on to something.
There was an earlier form of anti-baldness medication, taken orally, which blocked some actions of androgens! (Since those were implicated in the development of male-pattern-baldness.) And they had some hormonal side-effects as a consequence, not good news for men who might also be candidates for Viagra!
@ larK – It would seem that you missed my reference to “hair” @1 ? :-)
The other baldness med I mentioned:
From GoodRx:
Proscar and Propecia are brand-names for the same medication: finasteride. Proscar is typically used to treat BPH and Propecia is used to treat a type of male hair loss (androgenetic alopecia).
Another meaningful drug name is Premarin, a hormone replacement, and if you do figure it out you will never want to use it or let anyone else use it.
@Kilby: I guess I glossed over it, because right after “hair” you had “stimulation”, so you know where my mind went…