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[SPEC] Ceretin
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leakingpen
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POTUS wrote:
TintedNeon wrote
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I was not going to say anything until I read that word. I have never seen that word before tonight, but your post was not where I saw it first. I saw it in one of many possible anagrams and wondered what it was. The words I used were from the crest of the Academy (not the Latin). I know, I know, stop doing anagrams they'll make me crazy, but this is a coincidence and I am noting it. I'm starting to think there is a whole class of people with ESP and they are introducing themseleves to us - for real. See what anagrams can do . . .!#$%@^!!![/u]



of course there are. and no, thats whats going on over at maydaymystery.
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 		SPEC on ceretin
Mikeyj wrote:
would guess that this is coincidence:

http://tinyurl.com/4jhwv

they're all high on night cream (check the ingredients) Wink


I also found that site in google and was curious since it's the only reference to ceretin on the web. (Aside for those web sites refering to the game or web sites in Turkish. It would seem ceretin is a common word in turkish, any speakers out there?)

Anyways, I am pretty sure the ingredient list is a typo, they wrote ceretin 20 but meant keratin 20, which is a chemical releated to the immune system and which is common in creams. So ceretin does not seem to be the name of any real chemical drug or product... Note that "ceretin" can sounds like "certain", which is what you are when you are alert, sharp and mentally fit. Could it just be a play on words?

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 		Hakukaze:
I was thinking similarly, but in the opposite direction.

ceretin ~ cretin

i.e. cretins use ceretin to get ahead Razz
or using your spec:
cretins use ceretin to be certain. Very Happy
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Atrophied wrote:
cretins use ceretin to be certain. Very Happy


PPC's answer to the slogan "Winners don't use drugs"? Very Happy

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 		drug users are winners -- just look at most sports inc olympic games Smile
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tanner wrote:
drug users are winners -- just look at most sports inc olympic games Smile


right on Smile
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 		man holding beach ball, slighly inflated, wrinkly.

"this is your brain"

attaches tube from compressor, ball expands, gets tight and shiny
"this is your brain on ceretin"

ball explodes. announcer left holding tube and shreds of ball

"any questions?"
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 		ceretin
I believe the word means 'current' or 'flow' in Turkish.
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 		Spikey ball
Does it seem oddly out of context to anybody else? The spikey scarey Ceretin ball I mean...
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 		there nails
"sharp as a nail"
it's just in a round frame
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 		Re: SPEC on ceretin
Hakukaze wrote:
they wrote ceretin 20 but meant keratin 20, which is a chemical releated to the immune system and which is common in creams. So ceretin does not seem to be the name of any real chemical drug or product...


Keratin is a protein and there is a certain form of it in the connective tissues of the brain

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 		It forms part of the cytoskeleton of loads of differnet cell-types...and also hair, nails and skin...and dandruff has quite a lot of keratin in...

is there a tenuous link with the nails in the advert?
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Mikeyj wrote:
is there a tenuous link with the nails in the advert?


oooh, good point...

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Avatrix wrote:
Tryptophan might also work, though I don't know if it's available--5HTP can be bought like as an herbal supplement.

OK, I'm not an expert on brain chemistry, but I understood that tryptophan worked as a natural sedative, which is why consuming foods that contain lots of it (e.g. a glass of warm milk, turkey at Xmas) makes you feel like taking a nap.

5-HTP is short for 5-hydroxy-tryptophan and from my skimming of the various drug sites that sell it the process goes something like this: L-tryptophan is made naturally by various organisms; we eat the organisms and convert L-tryptophan to 5-HTP; our brains then convert 5-HTP to seratonin, we yawn, and go and have a nice lie down. Or something like that.

My point is that it sounds like ceretin does the opposite of this. I think it's probably just a cool-sounding name they thought up (which is pretty much the naming strategy for all commercially available drugs AFAIK).

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 		agreed. the likely genesis of the name is

cerebral
then finding a way to make it sound cool
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