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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: Plane on April 22, 2008, 06:20:07 PM

Title: free lunch
Post by: Plane on April 22, 2008, 06:20:07 PM
GovSec, U.S. Law and Ready Conference and Exposition starts tomorrow!
  This is your last chance to register, receive a $5 lunch certificate
 redeemable at the Washington Convention Center concession stands plus
 avoid long lines on site!  Registration will be available onsite.

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REGISTER NOW using Registration Code: LASTCHANCE
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**Need more justification to attend?
This year's event has more excitement, more NEW products and more
 solutions you need for government security, law enforcement and emergency
 response.

- Nearly 500 exhibitors demonstrate the newest, most exciting ideas,
 tools, technology and vehicles you will find anywhere
- 5 high level keynotes, free with your Expo Only registration
- Education Pavilion on the show floor provides free sessions and
 information on products and solutions designed to help you in the workplace
- Oakley Sunglasses (Government issued) will be raffled
- Commemorative Event Pins available to every attendee
And so much more!
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REGISTER NOW and help develop a stronger and more integrated homeland
 security community.
 
Admission to all three Expositions is FREE - AND we'll pay $5 for your
 lunch if you come!
Register now using your Registration Code:  LASTCHANCE and invite your
 friends and colleagues to come with you!

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Title: Re: free lunch
Post by: Universe Prince on April 22, 2008, 06:25:11 PM
TANSTAAFL
Title: Re: free lunch
Post by: Plane on April 22, 2008, 06:38:23 PM
Admission to all three Expositions is FREE - AND we'll pay $5 for your
 lunch if
you come!
Title: Re: free lunch
Post by: Plane on April 22, 2008, 07:03:23 PM
The phrase refers to the once-common tradition of saloons in the United States providing a "free" lunch to patrons, who were required to buy at least one drink. Rudyard Kipling, writing in 1891, noted how he

came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts.[4]

TANSTAAFL means that a person or a society cannot get something for nothing. Even if something appears to be free, there is always a cost to the person or to society as a whole even though that cost may be hidden or distributed. [5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TANSTAAFL



Ok -what exactly does wikipedia have nothing on?