On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 02:03:05 GMT, "Skip Elliott Bowman"
> wrote:

>"Big Bill" > wrote in message
.. .
>> On 11 Mar 2005 15:28:06 GMT, Jim Yanik .> wrote:
>
>>>Paraphrasing a USSC Justice said about porn;"I know it when I hear it".
>>>If it's noticeable among other auto traffic,then it's noisy.
>>
>> That was William Potter.
>
>Do you mean Potter Stewart? I don't recall a SCOTUS justice named William
>Potter?

Absolutely right! My error. :-(
>
>> What makes that quote memorable is that it epitimizes the idea of
>> subjective judgements. That it was spoken by a SC Justice makes it all
>> the worse. By the time one gets to the Bench of the USSC, one is
>> supposed to have left such idiocy behind.
>
>Normally yes--IMHO it illustrates the difficulty of defining such a
>subjective issue.
>

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Bill Funk
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