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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) wrote There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch. There's is a contraction of there is, not there ain't, and I had previously seen TINSTAAFL in conjunction with the good professor's name, so I used that.

BTW, Jerry Pournelle says he has correspondence between his father and the late Heinlein in which Heinlein admits that the elder Pournelle was his source for TANSTAAFL.

TEd