/boh' gon/ [by analogy with proton/electron/neutron, but doubtless reinforced after 1980 by the simil
arity to Douglas Adams' s "Vogons"] 1. The element
ary p
article of bogosity (see
quantum bogodynamics). For 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 incorrectly formed packet sent on a network. 4. A person who is bogus or who says bogus things. This was historically the original usage, but has been overtaken by its derivative senses. See also
bogosity comp
are
psyton,
fat electrons,
magic smoke. The bogon has become the type case for a whole besti
ary of nonce p
article names, including the "clutron" or "cluon" (indivisible p
article of cluefulness, obviously the antip
article of the bogon) and the futon (element
ary p
article 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 stand
ard joke or linguistic maneuver to "explain" otherwise mysterious circumstances by inventing nonce p
article names. And these imply nonce p
article theories, with all their dignity or lack thereof (we might note p
arenthetically that this is a generalisation from "(bogus p
article) theories" to "bogus (p
article theories)"!). Perhaps such p
articles
are the modern-day equivalents of trolls and wood-nymphs as stand
ard st
arting-points
around which to construct explanatory myths. Of course, playing on an existing word (as in the "futon") yields additional flavour. [
Jargon File]
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