In the world of Douglas Adams' writing, people on the planet Earth are actually descendants from the "B Ark"... phone sanitizers, hair dressers, marketing boffins, etc. from another planet that got rid of it's "B" team of people. In one scene, Arthur Dent is trying to convince this "B" group to use fire, it being our logical first step as a species out of the caves, but the problem is the marketing boffins don't know what colour it should be... and do people want it fitted nasally?...
The remarkable achievements at CERN announced today - yes, they found the Higgs boson molecule! - have reportedly been undercut by some boffins who object to the font used in the announcement.
They used "Comic sans" as their font.
Some people love the "Comic sans" font. Some people hate the "Comic sans" font. Others never even notice font, as long as they can read what is written. Some people don't know what the term "font" means, and likely wouldn't care if they did.
But some boffins are criticizing this remarkable achievement because of the font used to officially announce it with. This is why Douglas Adams' writing is still so relevant to life as we know it. We have our own "B" team on this planet, and some of us think an Ark would be a reasonable idea........
(See this news article... the article is not complaining about the font, just pointing out the absurdity of the complaint.)
