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Re: Free lunches



> > p.s. "There are no FREE lunches." (TM)
> 
> "Tanstaafl" (Ostensibly Russian, meaning 'There is no such thing as a
> free lunch.

No.  First, it's "There AIN'T no such thing as a free lunch."  Or, if you
prefer...

T A N S T A A F L
h i o u h s   r u
e n   c i     e n
r '   h n     e c
e t     g       h

I made the same mistake, not knowing Russian, but I was corrected by a
Russian girlfriend (now ex-) who was also a Heinlein fan.  
-- 
 Matthew Weigel
 Research Systems Programmer
 mcweigel+@cs.cmu.edu