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beamjockey
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Joined: Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:46 am Posts: 545 Location: Aurora, IL, USA, Terra
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1959 TANSTAAFL Sighting
I've just found an . The last line on the page is: "There ain't no such thing as free lunch."
There's summarizing efforts to find the origin of the phrase, with the earliest instance being 1938. So this 1959 example is nowhere near the origin.
Neverthelesss, I thought this worth noting as a particularly high-profile venue for TANSTA(A)FL, one that Heinlein might well have seen.
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Fri Mar 22, 2013 9:18 am |
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JamesGifford
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Joined: Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:17 pm Posts: 2402 Location: The Quiet Earth
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Re: 1959 TANSTAAFL Sighting
Are you questioning RAH's tale that he got it from Jerry Pournelle's father, who was also active in 1930s politics and dated the term to that era?
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beamjockey
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Re: 1959 TANSTAAFL Sighting
_________________ Bill Higgins bill.higgins@gt.org http://beamjockey.livejournal.com
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BillMullins
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Re: 1959 TANSTAAFL Sighting
Some fellow members of the American Dialect Society listserv have been tackling this lately:
. . . which leads to
followed by: [urlhttp://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2016-August/143703.html]http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2016-August/143703.html[/url]
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Kangaroo
Joined: Tue Aug 02, 2016 11:59 am Posts: 9 Location: Kansas
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Re: 1959 TANSTAAFL Sighting
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BillMullins
Joined: Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:40 pm Posts: 545
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Re: 1959 TANSTAAFL Sighting
Pournelle claimed in 2002 that the acronym went from his father, to Jerry Pournelle, to Heinlein, and that Heinlein acknowledged such several times:
Patterson expands the story in vol 2 of the biography
let me edit that last link in my previous post:
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