TANSTAAFL
TANSTAAFL (catchphrase) /
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(For other uses see the disambiguation page TANSTAAFL
An initialism for There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. Pronounced "TAHN-stah-fle." It has been popular as a fannish catchphrase since it appeared in Heinlein's novel, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Heinlein may have been first to initialize it, but he did not originate the phrase.
It was a byword of the Ann Arbor sf club the Stilyagi Air Corps, for obvious reasons.
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