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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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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