[Ads-l] Adage: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch

[Laurence Horn]

> On Aug 29, 2016, at 11:20 AM, Joel Berson <berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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> Tis [(such) a] TAAFL?
> Joel

There Is Such (a) Thing...

(or maybe it should be TISSTAAFL:  "There Is *So* Such (a) Thing...")
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>      From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU 
> Sent: Monday, August 29, 2016 10:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [ADS-L] Adage: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch
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>> On Aug 28, 2016, at 9:12 PM, Joel Berson <berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
>> 
>> Nowadays, there is such a thing -- one goes grazing near lunch-time at a Whole Foods (or similar) market.
>> 
>> Joel
> 
> Don't tell anyone but there is free lunch at Yale (as faculty or retired faculty). Too bad TISTAAFL doesn't have quite the same profundity as TANSTAAFL.
> 
> LH
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