apocrypha = 'trivia' (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

The Wacki guys don't know that. They'd have said so if they did.


JL

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <
Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:

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> "Infotainment" shows up in newspaperarchive in the 1950's.
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> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infotainment, s.v. "Infotainment":
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> > "Apocrypha:  The terms "infotainment" and "infotainer" were first used
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> > September 1980 at the Joint Conference of Aslib, the Institute of
> > Information Scientists and the Library Association in Sheffield, UK.
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> > Infotainers were a group of British information scientists who put on
> > comedy shows at their professional conferences between 1980 and 1990.
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