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Old 04-28-2004, 05:14 PM   #13
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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.
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
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