Silliness LOL iPad - Page 2

Nate the great · 01-29-2010, 07:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HarryT

I'm afraid that I still don't see what's so funny about it. Are you equally amused by the name of the "notepad" application in Windows? Do you collapse in uncontrollable mirth when you visit W.H. Smiths and see writing pads for sale?

Read the first line:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitary_napkin

note+pad is 2 real words. It doesn't have the same connotations as i+pad, which looks like Apple stuck the letter in front of a word to make a product name.

HarryT · 01-29-2010, 07:37 AM

But if you look up "pad" in the dictionary:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pad

you'll see that it has innumerable meanings. I really don't see why people are going on about this one specific one out of the many.

Dylrob · 01-29-2010, 07:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HarryT

But if you look up "pad" in the dictionary:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pad

you'll see that it has innumerable meanings. I really don't see why people are going on about this one specific one out of the many.

It's for the same reason people aren't thinking of the plural first person pronoun when they hear "Wii".

HarryT · 01-29-2010, 07:52 AM

But has the name of the Wii harmed sales of it, do you think? Is there any reason to suppose that the name of the iPad will do?

kennyc · 01-29-2010, 07:55 AM

"We" doesn't have the same hidden, unspoken, sexual humorous connotations as "pad."

HarryT · 01-29-2010, 07:58 AM

Oh well, whatever. I think the name is just fine, personally. Each to their own.

Moejoe · 01-29-2010, 08:14 AM

The joke on the name is particularly American, in that the Stayfree Maxi-Pad is a fairly popular brand of Women's Sanitary Towel over there. This is why the twitter hashtag iTampon is the 2nd highest rated at the moment. Also, culturally, the iPad was a joke long before the actual device was made public, due to the MADTV sketch. So this is a double whammy. They picked a name with conscious knowledge of it already being a joke, and a name that they knew would provoke derision.

Now, would you like me to explain the joke about the Englishman, Irishman and Scottish man walking into a bar, or any other joke for that matter, seeing as you sucked all the fun out of this thread already? I can do a full Freudian deconstruction on jokes and their relation to the subconscious if you like, I did write a few quite humourless papers on that topic after all.

Apple are releasing iModerator next. What it does is suck all the fun out of everything you visit on the web.

HarryT · 01-29-2010, 08:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Moejoe

The joke on the name is particularly American, in that the Stayfree Maxi-Pad is a fairly popular brand of Women's Sanitary Towel over there.

Thank you. If someone had stated that at the outset I wouldn't have had to ask

.

deltop · 01-29-2010, 08:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HarryT

Thank you. If someone had stated that at the outset I wouldn't have had to ask

.

I too was confused about why so many people found the name rather funny. iPad sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Then I read an article explaining how many american's immediately think "sanitary towel" when hearing it, just as Moejoe explained.

Sparrow · 01-29-2010, 08:41 AM

I think for the joke to work, we have be quite sniggery about the article the device is associated with.
We wouldn't find i-nailpolish or i-pairoftights as amusing, but there's something about sanitary towels we still find subversive and unsettling - not to be mentioned in polite society.

Glass of Cockburn Port anyone?

astra · 01-29-2010, 08:44 AM

A piece of Spotted Dick please

Moejoe · 01-29-2010, 08:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sparrow

I think for the joke to work, we have be quite sniggery about the article the device is associated with.
We wouldn't find i-nailpolish or i-pairoftights as amusing, but there's something about sanitary towels we still find subversive and unsettling - not to be mentioned in polite society.

Glass of Cockburn Port anyone?

Yes, but only after I've had a rough shag

Greg Anos · 01-29-2010, 10:55 AM

One advertiser once said there was no such thing as bad advertising.

I wonder....Did Apple go with the name as a form of viral advertising? Look at all the people talking about the product name.....

Moejoe · 01-29-2010, 11:01 AM

kennyc · 01-29-2010, 11:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

One advertiser once said there was no such thing as bad advertising.

I wonder....Did Apple go with the name as a form of viral advertising? Look at all the people talking about the product name.....

I'm sure that aspect of it was discussed in the marketing meetings.

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01-29-2010, 07:37 AM	#17
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383099 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	But if you look up "pad" in the dictionary: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pad you'll see that it has innumerable meanings. I really don't see why people are going on about this one specific one out of the many.

01-29-2010, 07:52 AM	#19
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383099 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	But has the name of the Wii harmed sales of it, do you think? Is there any reason to suppose that the name of the iPad will do?

01-29-2010, 07:55 AM	#20
kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,897 Karma: 119230421 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2; Kindle Fire	"We" doesn't have the same hidden, unspoken, sexual humorous connotations as "pad."

01-29-2010, 07:58 AM	#21
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383099 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Oh well, whatever. I think the name is just fine, personally. Each to their own.

01-29-2010, 08:14 AM	#22
Moejoe Banned Posts: 5,100 Karma: 72193 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: South of the Border Device: Coffin	The joke on the name is particularly American, in that the Stayfree Maxi-Pad is a fairly popular brand of Women's Sanitary Towel over there. This is why the twitter hashtag iTampon is the 2nd highest rated at the moment. Also, culturally, the iPad was a joke long before the actual device was made public, due to the MADTV sketch. So this is a double whammy. They picked a name with conscious knowledge of it already being a joke, and a name that they knew would provoke derision. Now, would you like me to explain the joke about the Englishman, Irishman and Scottish man walking into a bar, or any other joke for that matter, seeing as you sucked all the fun out of this thread already? I can do a full Freudian deconstruction on jokes and their relation to the subconscious if you like, I did write a few quite humourless papers on that topic after all. Apple are releasing iModerator next. What it does is suck all the fun out of everything you visit on the web.

01-29-2010, 08:41 AM	#25
Sparrow Wizard Posts: 4,395 Karma: 1358132 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: UK Device: Palm TX, CyBook Gen3	I think for the joke to work, we have be quite sniggery about the article the device is associated with. We wouldn't find i-nailpolish or i-pairoftights as amusing, but there's something about sanitary towels we still find subversive and unsettling - not to be mentioned in polite society. Glass of Cockburn Port anyone?

01-29-2010, 08:44 AM	#26
astra The Introvert Posts: 8,307 Karma: 1000077497 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: United Kingdom Device: Sony Reader PRS-650 & 505 & 500	A piece of Spotted Dick please

01-29-2010, 10:55 AM	#28
Greg Anos Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,527 Karma: 37057604 Join Date: Jan 2008 Device: Pocketbook	One advertiser once said there was no such thing as bad advertising. I wonder....Did Apple go with the name as a form of viral advertising? Look at all the people talking about the product name.....

01-29-2010, 11:01 AM	#29
Moejoe Banned Posts: 5,100 Karma: 72193 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: South of the Border Device: Coffin