Loren Busch wrote: �TANSTAAFL was in the language long before Manny and
Mike and Wyo started formeting revolution on the Moon but Heinlein brough
it into the mainstream�..�

Perhaps the acronym �TANSTAAFL� was popularized by Heinlein, but the
original statement, without the corrupted English, was, �There�s No Such
Thing as a Free Lunch�.  It was coined by the economist Milton Friedman
(who died late last year), considered by many to be one of the great minds
of the twentieth century.  He published a book by that title about thirty
years ago.

This detail may be of little consequence on this forum, but if you own a
Vanagon, you have probably experienced this economic maxim first hand.

Bill