Talk:Pepto-Bismol

Pepto-Bismol
--Connel MacKenzie 05:02, 24 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Deleted (yet again) SemperBlotto 08:18, 24 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Why? It was deleted three times without any explanation. It was nominated here without any explanation. On what grounds? DAVilla 07:02, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Also please explain why this user was blocked. DAVilla 07:05, 25 December 2007 (UTC)


 * What is Pepto-Bismol?
 * Why was it listed on RFD without explanation?
 * Why was it deleted a day after it was listed?.I thought it was meant to be here for a month.--Dmol 21:40, 25 December 2007 (UTC)


 * is a brand of over-the-counter medicine. I can't answer the other questions. The phrase "Pepto-Bismol pink" is commonplace though if that was the context. Globish 21:48, 25 December 2007 (UTC)


 * "Pepto-Bismol" gets 617 g.b.c. hist in fiction. "Pepto-Bismol pink" gets 107 hits in same source. It seems to have entered the lexicon with attributive use. DCDuring 22:18, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
 * "Pepto-Bismol" conveys at least 3 meanings in its fiction use: "pink", "ulcers/anxiety", "everyday medicine cabinet contents". It almost always appears in caps and with a hyphen. Can the best of the three deleted entries be restored ? DCDuring 22:27, 27 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Entries which are deleted without discussion are (supposed to be) non-controversial or unsalvageable. You may as well create a new, clean entry. Globish 03:58, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

What we need here are some citations with sticking power: Cheers! bd2412 T 05:23, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) 2007, Jude Barnes, Missing The Laughter, p. 39:
 * The worst part was the bathroom. He insisted I paint it Pepto-Bismal pink. His tastes could be extreme, but it was his bathroom. I still can't chug Pepto-Bismol, though.
 * 1) 2004, Wendy Etherington, If The Stiletto Fits..., p. 127:
 * Just before he'd slipped into a coma, he'd had the strong urge to run to a pharmacy and slug down some Pepto-Bismol.
 * 1) 2003, Lani Robson Remender, Casino to Die For: The Hunt for Tears of the Sun, p. 224:
 * See all those Pepto-Bismol colored housing developments to your right. They're cluttering up this beautiful section of the Sonoran Desert.
 * 1) 2003, Caroline Slate Fractured Truth'', p. 136:
 * You go swig some Pepto-Bismol and I'll pop a couple of aspirin and I'll take you to the movies over on Nineteenth Street."
 * 1) 2000, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Dangerous Border Crossers: The Artist Talks Back, p. 120:
 * I needed some Pepto Bismol; I was experiencing a serious case of ideological vertigo.
 * 1) 1998, Susan Isaacs, Red, White, and Blue, p. 246:
 * To Nicki, who was wearing the mini- est of minidresses, barely more than a ruffle of Pepto- Bismol pink.
 * 1) 1992, James Melson, The Golden Boy p. 69:
 * As I held him up so he could "help me", he said, "Listen, Jimmy, you take some Pepto Bismol, do a little coke and then let Manfred show you the best of the boys in New York.
 * 1) 1991, Stephen King, The Stand, p. 408:
 * He would get some Pepto-Bismol and force Tom to drink it when he woke up, whether Tom wanted to or not.
 * 1) 1960, Henry Ringling North, Alden Hatch, The Circus Kings: Our Ringling Family Story, p. 298:
 * Arming himself with Pepto-Bismol he took off in one of the new Pan American Clippers.
 * 1) 1952, Ohio Valley Transportation Advisory Board, Pacific Northwest Advisory Board, Proceedings, Regular Meeting, p. 17:
 * [We] thought he was going to get up from the table and get some Pepto-Bismol and not worry about his breakfast because we had certainly ruined his digestion.

Restored. This is still on RFD. I would RFV the color sense if anyone would contest its removal. It seems it would only be used attributively with "pink", and still refers to the medication. DAVilla 16:00, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I would question its inclusion. That's an example of a noun being used in its attributive capacity, not an adjective.  It does not require a separate section or definition any more than sky in sky blue or firetruck in firetruck red.  It's merely a standard grammatical use of a noun for one of its attributes rather than the whole item, and this is a standard practice in English. --EncycloPetey 19:22, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
 * It's a noun used outside of any context by multiple writers on the presumption that everyone know what it means. bd2412 T 15:52, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Colour
"Pepto-Bismol colored housing developments" does not seem to support the sense of a colour, any more than "dung-coloured" supports dung being a colour. Equinox ◑ 19:50, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Couldn't agree with you more. DCDuring TALK 20:08, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

RFV (shade of pink)
RfV for sole noun sense: "A particular shade of pink associated with said medicine." I don't think that "Pepto-Bismol-hued" or "-colored" counts as evidence. The word would have to be used perhaps attributively in something like "the/a Pepto-Bismol car/room/chair/blouse" or as a stand-alone noun where the branded product itself was clearly not the referent.

I think the citations in the entry under the proper noun PoS meet WT:BRAND. DCDuring TALK 19:59, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
 * RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 23:52, 17 August 2011 (UTC)