I recently found myself about to use the word “TANJ” in a conversation about things unexpectedly going wrong. I caught myself though with the realization that the other person would have no idea what I meant. On a whim, I looked up some references.
Niven uses TANJ the way I was planning, to mean “There Ain’t No Justice.” It’s a good generic curse for when things unexpectedly go wrong in a way that should never have happened. (It’s no wonder that we use it the same way, I picked it up from one of his books.)
So if TANJ means “There Ain’t No Justice,” just how ironic is it then that TANJ.org is the web site for the “Trial Attorneys of New Jersey”?
(And for that matter, how predictable was that joke?)