Funny product names are always to be included in the purile pit of juven-humour seen to be floating around the Poorhouse, but it's not always the case that they a) are not unfortunately-named foreign imports, b) have TV ads, and c) are related to some of the most sensitive of health subjects.

Check this:

Yes, "Ayds lets you taste, chew and enjoy". The Poorhouse don't know why people get so upset over it.

Sadly this product isn't greatly popular today. When the nastier form of AIDS started spreading around, rumour has it that the name association did it no good. Cunningly the product was renamed to an astonishingly different "Diet Ayds" and then in Britain "Aydsslim" but it seems even that didn't get people craving it.

At least they had the excuse that the product existed well before the public perception of the Aids epidemic.

The Poorhouse has no idea how this lot got away with naming their soft drink "Adez": tagline "Adez - find your daily source of strength". Hmmm... Well, I suppose the advert carefully pronouncing it Add-Ezz was their workaround. And come to think of it, it feels like a long time since the ad has been on. Perhaps they didn't pull it off as successfully as they wished.

Still, on the subject of awkward innappropriacy in the realm of sexual health, imagine getting this gift certificate. Now the Poorhouse is (in theory at least, having not done the most wide-ranging of investigations into it) all for that particular institution and we have to remember we are talking about the land with little/no free healthcare - but it's hard to quite envisage a visage of happiness and joy coming forth around the Christmas tree when your nearest and dearest opens their presents to discover a whole world of choices open to them, from STD tests to pap smears to abortions. All essential items of course, but not traditionally the stuff that Santa shoves down your chimney, as it were. It's probably even more awkward than the extreme fakery required to thank your gifter for their good taste when receiving awful ornamental catstrophes.

Oops, said the A word there. Of course, Fox News (tagline "Fair and Balanced" - similarly to how the UK Daily Mail treats all with respect - a strangely popular channel amongst the nastier of the US religious right) headlines this little factoid of knowledge "Planned Parenthood Gift Certificates Could Be Used for Deadly Purposes".