TANSTAAFL

Mark A. Mandel Mark_Mandel at DRAGONSYS.COM
Fri Feb 2 22:11:31 UTC 2001


Larry writes:

>>>>>
In fact, the acronym must have (and as I recall it did) stood for
"There AIN'T no such thing as a free lunch", or else it would have
been TINSTAAFL.  What we have here is another covert-prestige dialect
borrowing.
<<<<<

So says my memory also, and lots of fan buttons.

-- Mark
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