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Though I straddle the prescrip/descrip fence, I do like to try to quote correctly and, admittedly, make an assumption here: I belive it's TA*NSTAFFL (after Heinlein's 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress'). Maybe the grammar has since been "improved" ....
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*ain't
Well Milton Friedman, (not Freedman, mea culpa) published a book called There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch. There's is a contraction of "there is", and I had seen TINSTAAFL in conjunction with Friedman's name; so I sort of assumed since he didn't write There Ain't No Such Thing as a Free Lunch that TANSTAAFL was not quite correct to use in conjunction with the good professor's name.
TEd
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Father Steve 11/06/05 04:57 AM ![]()
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Faldage 11/06/05 04:04 PM ![]()
*literally
musick 11/06/05 04:09 PM ![]()
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inselpeter 11/06/05 04:26 PM ![]()
The net effect, though:
TEd Remington 11/07/05 12:28 PM ![]()
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Buffalo Shrdlu 11/07/05 12:39 PM ![]()
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inselpeter 11/07/05 12:43 PM ![]()
Re: TINSTAAFL?!
AnnaStrophic 11/07/05 01:47 PM ![]()
TANSTAAFL?!
wofahulicodoc 11/07/05 03:13 PM ![]()
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TEd Remington 11/07/05 04:10 PM ![]()
Re: TINSTAAFL?!
TEd Remington 11/07/05 04:15 PM ![]()
The gideon... not!
musick 11/07/05 05:59 PM ![]()
Re: The gideon... not!
Buffalo Shrdlu 11/07/05 06:41 PM ![]()
Re: The gideon... not!
TEd Remington 11/07/05 07:52 PM ![]()
...a horse, of course.
musick 11/07/05 09:06 PM ![]()
TINSTAAFL
Bingley 11/11/05 02:58 PM
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