/boh' gon/ [by analogy with proton/electron/neutron, but doubtless reinf
ORced after 1980 by the similarity to Douglas Adams' s "Vogons"] 1. The elementary particle of bogosity (see
quantum bogodynamics). F
OR instance, "the Ethernet is emitting bogons again" means that it is broken
OR acting in an erratic
OR bogus fashion. 2. A query
packet sent from a
TCP/IP domain resolver to a root server, having the reply bit set instead of the query bit. 3. Any bogus
OR inc
ORrectly f
ORmed packet sent on a netw
ORk. 4. A person who is bogus
OR who says bogus things. This was hist
ORically the
ORiginal usage, but has been overtaken by its derivative senses. See also
bogosity compare
psyton,
fat electrons,
magic smoke. The bogon has become the type case f
OR a whole bestiary of nonce particle names, including the "clutron"
OR "cluon" (indivisible particle of cluefulness, obviously the antiparticle of the bogon) and the futon (elementary particle of
randomness,
OR sometimes of lameness). These are not so much live usages in themselves as examples of a live meta-usage: that is, it has become a standard joke
OR linguistic maneuver to "explain" otherwise mysterious circumstances by inventing nonce particle names. And these imply nonce particle the
ORies, with all their dignity
OR lack thereof (we might note parenthetically that this is a generalisation from "(bogus particle) the
ORies" to "bogus (particle the
ORies)"!). Perhaps such particles are the modern-day equivalents of trolls and wood-nymphs as standard starting-points around which to construct explanat
ORy myths. Of course, playing on an existing w
ORd (as in the "futon") yields additional flavour. [
Jargon File]
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