apocrypha = 'trivia'

[Jonathan Lighter]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infotainment, s.v. "Infotainment":


"Apocrypha:  The terms "infotainment" and "infotainer" were first used in
September 1980 at the Joint Conference of Aslib, the Institute of
Information Scientists and the Library Association in Sheffield, UK. The
Infotainers were a group of British information scientists who put on
comedy shows at their professional conferences between 1980 and 1990.
 [Etc.]"

JL

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