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Originally posted by Happy Monkey
Heh. I love Larry Niven, but he can't invent slang to save his life. "Tanj" and "Tanstaafl" are amusing acronyms, but far too unpronouncable to be believable as slang.
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All right, I'm being a pedant, but TANSTAAFL was coined by Robert Heinlein, in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TANSTAAFL
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per·son \ˈpər-sən\ (noun) - an ephemeral collection of small, irrational decisions
The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not.
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