On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:17:51 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: > >Issola, pg 243: > > A famous Iorich once said that the difficult part of being a > Justicer was sounding one hundred percent when you felt > fifty-one percent. > >This quote sounds very familiar to me. For some reason, I thought >it might be from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, but Google does not >appear to support this. And so many of the words are sufficiently >common that Google is not helping me track it down. Or perhaps I >am not thinking of something. > >Actually, in thinking about it, it might not have been a judge who >said it. For some reason I am thinking it was said by an umpire, >or other sport referee. > >Anyway. Anyone know of it? I dunno if it's original to him (I doubt it for some reason), but I do recall one of the characters in Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land saying something very similar. The tall blonde woman, I believe. I'm away from my collection right now, so can't explicate further.