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bogon
     
        /boh'gon/ [by analogy with proton/electron/neutron, but
        doubtless reinforced after 1980 by the similarity to Douglas
        Adams's "Vogons"] 1. The elementary particle 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}; compare {psyton},
        {fat electrons}, {magic smoke}.
     
        The bogon has become the type case for 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 theories, with all their dignity or lack
        thereof (we might note parenthetically that this is a
        generalisation from "(bogus particle) theories" to "bogus
        (particle theories)"!).  Perhaps such particles are the
        modern-day equivalents of trolls and wood-nymphs as standard
        starting-points around which to construct explanatory myths.
        Of course, playing on an existing word (as in the "futon")
        yields additional flavour.
     
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