Large Hardon Collider

Oogly says,

On Saturday, The New York Times mis-printed the CERN Large Hadron Collider as being the "Large HARDON Collider".

I have a web site tracking the proliferation of this Sopranos-worthy malapropism. It's funny when a fat New Jersey criminal doesn't know any better, but when the NYT and serious scientific journals make a Freudian slip, it's hilarious.

Link, mildly NSFW.

I wonder if this runs on DONG Energy.

[#1 posted by noen , March 31, 2008 11:34 PM]

Science is sexy!

[#2 posted by XuYu , March 31, 2008 11:35 PM]

All The News That Fits

[#3 posted by simplehuman , March 31, 2008 11:36 PM]

That's about at the level of fark humor. Typo collecting? That's Jay Leno. The question is, which is worse?

[#4 posted by Agent 86 , April 1, 2008 12:04 AM]

Not very large, if you ask me.

[#5 posted by RJ , April 1, 2008 1:19 AM]

I shall buzz-in and reply, "What is porn star sumo wrestling?"

[#6 posted by Argon , April 1, 2008 3:28 AM]

Actual dialogue from another message board, on a thread about the expansion of the universe:

jb_farley: Is that a tau-neutrino in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

DrMatrix: That's not a tau-neutrino in my pocket, I've got a hadron.

Seeing that people literally lepton his hadron reply, the guy used this line as a signature for years afterwards.

[#7 posted by danegeld , April 1, 2008 6:17 AM]

...and they're trying to crank out a glueball.

http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/0954-3899/32/9/L01/g6_9_l01.pdf

[#8 posted by nycjason , April 1, 2008 7:00 AM]

The "Old Grey Lady" meets the Big Bang in more ways than one? Oh wow, too many jokes...

[#9 posted by jredmond , April 1, 2008 7:42 AM]

I'm waiting for a gay porn studio to notice this and get an idea for a new project. "We'll put them in labcoats! It'll be hot!"

[#10 posted by holtt , April 1, 2008 7:43 AM]

When do we get the BoingBoing split (ala TV and Gadgets) to create a "Funny, But It's Exactly Why We Are Blocked in DIA" sub-site?

[#11 posted by ToddBradley , April 1, 2008 7:48 AM]

It sure didn't take them long to register largehardoncollider.com!

[#12 posted by Agies , April 1, 2008 8:05 AM]

On occasion I have mis-parsed hadron as hardon. This post has made my day.

[#13 posted by semiotix , April 1, 2008 9:19 AM]

I've never once parsed it correctly. Whenever the subject of CERN comes up (and in my line of work it's fairly often) I titter like a schoolgirl.

[#14 posted by Jake0748 , April 1, 2008 9:36 AM]

Does this have anything to do with the DONG Energy Company mentioned over on BB Gadgets? Do you think they'll be able to pull it off?

[#15 posted by Joel Johnson , April 1, 2008 9:49 AM]

It's horrible when the large hardon collider accidentally creates a new black hole :(

[#16 posted by Xeni Jardin , April 1, 2008 9:50 AM]

@holtt, DIA stands for DONG-ENERGY IN ACTION.

[#17 posted by VTFootballGrad , April 1, 2008 10:27 AM]

Now thats what I call the badabing!

[#18 posted by Antinous , April 1, 2008 2:20 PM]

Have you ever googled "Certified Pubic Accountant"? There are thousands of them.

[#19 posted by weeaboo , April 2, 2008 3:48 AM]

The Large Hardon Collider is searching for the elusive Higg's Bosom.