apocrypha = 'trivia'

[Dan Goncharoff]

Perhaps it's false trivia...
DanG


On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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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 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.]"
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