[Steely Tom]

Edward Felsenthal, Time's editor-in-chief, described Thunberg, who is the youngest person to be named Person of the Year, as the "biggest voice on the biggest issue facing the planet," The Hill reported.

Whenever I see "the planet" used as a personification, I can't help but picture a cartoon figure of the Earth, a blue ball with green continents, crisscrossed by latitude and longitude lines, one side of which bears a grumpy cartoon face with a long blue nose. Stars and galaxies speckle the background.

[skimbell]

Close.

[elcid1970]

“I can’t help but picture a cartoon figure of the Earth, a blue ball...crisscrossed by latitude and longitude lines...which bears a grumpy cartoon face with a long blue nose....

In Sunday school we were warned not to be influenced by the temptations of the corrupt world around us & not therefore to be led astray, away from the ways of God.

Which is good, but at the time I pictured “a corrupt world” as a crosshatched globe with sly eyes and a cynically leering mouth.

Nowadays, “worldly” means sophisticated, but to us in school it meant to be totally seduced by this corrupt world.