A non-scientific poll of office workers this afternoon in Woburn on the day of the official launch of the iPad tablet by Apple suggests that men like the name iPad – while women tend to correlate it disfavorably with feminine hygiene products.

Alyssa Milano called it early in the day, while Mad TV gets the crystal ball award for coming up with the concept of iPad as a high-tech feminine hygiene product way back in 2007:

I think the name is OK and that people will likely become tired of the joke – if they ever laughed in the first place. If the iPad rocks as most Apple products seem to do these days, it’s not likely to matter much anyway.

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