The not-so-slow death of truthiness?

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

This caused me to think, "Whatever happened to truthiness?" A quick check of 
LexisNexis Academinc shows 69 hits in the past six months, 3 in the last 
month, and 0 in the past week. This makes it about as well used as LIMPID and only 
slightly ahead of OTIOSE and RECONDITE. Franklin Pierce is more popular.

At least ADS didn't vote it "most likely to succeed." Maybe "Most likely to 
suck as a real word" would have been a better category?

In a message dated 8/16/06 9:31:21 AM, wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM writes:


> No puns on "fictional" allowed !
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>   JL
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> Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU> wrote:
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> Hmmm. Fictional evidence. Is that a little like truthiness?
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