Comparison: Creators are the coal shovelers who have allowed YouTube to move so far so fast, except the railroads used to pay their boilermen a wage. Creators work for free . . . Time magazine writer Belinda Luscombe reaches in her comparison to 19th Century rail life to describe the importance of video creators to YouTube's wild success story of late. YouTube creators--especially the exceptionally successful ones--may not notice the unrewarded sweat. Time for a whistle-stop
Comparison: There was always that slight sense of the anaconda in the chandelier if you got things wrong. BBC writer Greg McKevitt capturing the essence of Margaret Thatcher's approach to controlling decisions and meetings took us to the aquatic tropics for his comparison. If you appreciated the snake metaphor, you'd probably also like references elsewhere in the article concerning dead sheep, badger baiting, crocodiles, and backseat drivers (not to mention variegated cricket
Comparison: . . . the ‘sensitive points’ of the peace plan will be discussed ‘directly with President Trump,’ which is the geopolitical equivalent of saying, ‘I will now consult the fox on how best to secure the henhouse.’ Mary Geddry uses a venerable western comparison with roots in both Roman and Greek culture to help point out the nearly impossible situation in which Volodymyr Zelenskyy finds himself in trying to negotiate with both Republican Donald Trump and Vladimir Put
