Garrison didoes

[Mark A Mandel]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, James A. Landau wrote:

#mam at THEWORLD.COM writes:
#
#> #I reread [Starship Troopers] recently, with pleasure. It surely was fine
#by comparison with
#>  #its movie.
#>
#>  A Dutch Alp.
#
#"ALP" = "Avoid Like the Plague"?  In which case, what is the significance of
#"Dutch"?

"Better than the movie 'Starship Troopers'" isn't saying very much.

 "A Dutch Alp" =
 'a very tall mountain, in terms of a very flat country' =
 'a big frog in a small puddle' =
 'something claimed to be important (big, excellent, etc.), which
actually can be called so only by comparison with others that are
notably lacking in that quality'.

-- Mark A. Mandel