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- From: jay@deepthot.cary.nc.us (Jay Denebeim)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,bit.listserv.i-amiga
- Subject: Re: Robinson 1, Commodore 0
- Message-ID: <EXhxr*Za4@deepthot.cary.nc.us>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 01:30:32 GMT
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- <1992Aug9.110145.23331@cs.tulane.edu> <1992Aug13.152754.4728@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com>
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- In article <1992Aug13.152754.4728@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com>, Jeffrey Grimmett 9999 writes:
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- > In article <1992Aug9.110145.23331@cs.tulane.edu> pierce@navo.navy.mil (Jim M. Pierce) writes:
- >
- > >|> Your little Nivenism so very eloquently expresses my gribe with CBM. Note the
- > > I hate to be a nitpick, but Larry Niven never said that. Robert Anson
- > > Heinlein used 'Tanstaafl' in his book 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.'
- > > We now return you to your regular Amiga Information...
- >
- > You're no doubt suspecting I've heard enough on this by now :-) Sorry, got my
- > space cadets confused.
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- Actually you're both right. TANSTAAFL is a major theme in Niven/Pournelle's
- 'Oath of Fealty'. Actually, it was stressed more in that novel than in 'Moon
- is a Harsh Mistress'.
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