An article called Canadian Beacon jumped out at me from my Nature Medicine RSS feed yesterday. As a good bacon (and pun) loving syrup sucker ice hole Canadian, I clicked through to read the whole article, and almost immediately attracted a colleague to my desk to see what all the laughing was aboot about.
For this, my friends, was the graphic used to illustrate the list of drugs most commonly purchased from online Canadian pharmacies by Americans:
The only way this could possibly have been any funnier is if they’d used an image of a lumberjack instead of a mountie in conjunction with the words “female hormone replacement therapy”
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Well played, Nature Medicine. This article made my entire week.
I’m confused about why the Flomax label is pointing there.
I think the artist was just continuing the theme of taking the piss.
Now that you mention it, the Asacol label looks a bit off, too. I’ve always thought that the puffy-outy bits of the dress uniform trousers were some kind of reminder of the mounties’ equine traditions, but maybe there’s something else going on.
Did a few of the commonly ordered drugs get censored by Nature Medicine’s spam filters? The ones that should have been pointing where Flomax currently is?
Yes, after all, the best-known such drug does rhyme with the Canadian National Waterfall…
Well, there is an awful lot of blank space in the
Northwest Territoriestop left…