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Shouldn't they have renamed the electron the "hardon" because it is so difficult to split into smaller components?

They called the atom itself an "atom" because it was considered hard to split (from the Greek: a- = not; tom = split). Since the atom was split, two of the particles inside an atom was itself called the hadron, from the Greek word for "thick". The resemblance between "hadron" and a slang term for something else that gets "thick" led to all sorts of dick jokes in comments to news articles about the LHC.

to make hard-on jokes again?

Hardon collider mistake has been around for a while already.
http://largehardoncollider.com/

http://largehardoncollider.com/ taking black holes to a whole new meaning

You know, this is slashdot. The least you could do is provide a link.

More likely this. (Despite the name, the linked page is SFW. The top-level page might not be, though.)

http://largehardoncollider.com/nyt_lhc.html

The other LHC

You'd expect the Large Hardon Collider to be near body temperature, yes?

Yeah, it's probably just you.

Do you notice the tag here is "Large Hard-on Collider" instead of "large HADRON collider"? This is my favorite malapropism. I have a website devoted to tracking the mistake at http://www.largehardoncollider.com/