Okay. I'm corrected. But then I'm not old enough to have known it's
original usage. :)

Wikipedia has more complete information on it (I never thought to
look there as a "knew" where it was from.... :)

On Jan 22, 2007, at 4:23 PM, 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.  And just finished re reading The Moon Is a
> Harsh Mistress for maybe the third or fourth time myself.  "Mike,
> are you there?"
>
> On 1/21/07, Kim Brennan <kimbrennan@mac.com> wrote:
> There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.
>
> From the Robert A Heinlein story The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (which
> I just re-read).
>
>
> On Jan 21, 2007, at 7:41 PM, Joy Hecht wrote:
>
> > TANSTAAFL???
>