iPad, iTampon... now viral

[Geoff Nathan]

And today there are 38K ghits.  And a friend who sends me jokes sent me a set this morning.
Life comes at you fast.

Geoff

Geoffrey S. Nathan
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and Associate Professor, Linguistics Program
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----- "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:

> From: "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
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> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 11:14:05 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: iPad, iTampon...
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> At 1/27/2010 04:00 PM, Geoffrey S. Nathan wrote:
> >Shortly after the announcement of the new Apple tablet, known
> >officially as the iPad, CNN reported that some found the name
> >questionable, and reported on the existence in blogs of the
> >alternative name iTampon. Turns out there are about 19K ghits for
> >iTampon, although I couldn't tell if all were making fun of the new
> >Apple toy (which has been rumored for months, including its name...)
>
> With due acknowledgements to "Putting on the Ritz," I can almost hear
> and see the new song and dance craze -- "Tapping on my iTampon"  Or
> variants, depending on one's dialect and raunchiness.
>
> Joel
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