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.

• [semiotix]

  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.

• [Jake0748]

  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?

• [Joel Johnson]

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

• [Xeni Jardin]

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

• [noen]

  Science is sexy!

• [XuYu]

  All The News That Fits

• [simplehuman]

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

• [Agent 86]

  Not very large, if you ask me.

• [RJ]

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

• [weeaboo]

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

• [VTFootballGrad]

  Now thats what I call the badabing!

• [Argon]

  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.

• [danegeld]

  …and they’re trying to crank out a glueball.

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

• [nycjason]

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

• [jredmond]

  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!”

• [holtt]

  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?

• [ToddBradley]

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

• [Agies]

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

• [Antinous]

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