A web crawler that moves through all web pages in the Internet, finding instances of the word 'boffin,' and replacing with 'scientist.' Reports each instance to the Ministry of Silly Words.
-- sqeaketh the wheel, Mar 13 2014

Definitely not.

Although many scientists are inappropriately labelled as boffins, that is no reason to drop the word from the lexicon.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Mar 13 2014



random, halfbakery