@Setanta,
Setanta wrote:This is an excellent exposition of the warning implicit in TANSTAAFL.
In the spirits of iconoclasm & hedonism:
I have given away
free cash (to unexpecting donee-beneficiaries of my arbitrary choice)
getting nothing in return, nor expecting anything.
On some occasions,
I have dropped money from passing hot air balloons
onto the grass below. On other occasions,
in the spirit of hedonism: I have abandoned
$2O bills in common areas of nice hotels
in which I am staying during conventions
of groups to which I belong, just leaving them alone, scattered around
on top of wooden furniture, for the random benefit of the first person to come along.
Any person who takes possession of that cash
is
free to apply it to
the purchase of LUNCH,
or anything else of his choice.
MULTIPLE be the chuckles!
By those actions: I have
DISPROVEN "TANSTAAFL".
As if that were not sufficiently dispositive:
in a few days, I intend to venture forth to Portland, Oregon
for another convention, where I will meet a member of this forum
and I will buy lunch for her and her son, for FREE, expecting NOTHING in return.
Quad Est Demonstratum: "the myth is
BUSTED."
David
