When I wrote Tony into this arc I asked myself, “God, it’s been awhile since we’ve seen him, hasn’t it?”
Last appearance: 369 comics ago, year 2017.
Last appearance where he had dialogue: 494 comics ago, year 2016
I wouldn’t blame you all if everyone just plain forgot he existed entirely, to be honest. It’s been a minute. Several minutes, really.
I'm not calculating the minutes.
Based on date and time of posting, 1,300,262 minutes since last appearance, 1,733,916 minutes since last line of dialogue.
I’d say that counts as several.
OK, now I’m curious… I’ve only heard “A minute” used to mean “A while” (when it’s known that the span of time is big, as opposed to “Wait a minute” , when the timespan is expected to be short) since we moved south of the Mason-Dixon line. In fact, my daughter and I discussed whether it was a Southern thing or a generational thing (I won–my 20-year-old co-workers use “minute” the way our 60-something pastor does). Dave, are you Southern? (That’s about as general geographically as I could make the question…)
No, I live in Illinois. I picked up the use of the phrase “it’s been a minute” to sarcastically refer to a very long span of time from the internet.
To use “a minute” to mean some unspecified amount of time, only works when the time has not happened yet. “Wait a minute.” “Just a minute.” “Hang on a minute.” In all of these the speaker is running behind, you are trying to hurry him/her up, and the “minute” is the nonspecific amount of time that you are to wait before the speaker is ready to do what you want – go to bed, cut the grass, leave the house, whatever.
“It’s been a minute”?? Lived in the South all my life. Never heard that. Dave is probably right – internet phrase.
No, it’s not. Although most people refer to it as “it’s been a hot minute”. Northern WI, hear it all the time, read it in books, movies, whatever.
Huh. Maybe it’s a Kentucky/Tennessee thing. If it were just my co-workers, I could see it being an internet thing (I’m 45, and my next older co-worker on my shift is 25…), but my pastor’s 63 and not at all internet-prone. And my daughter was insistent that it was an older person thing, until I pointed out that J and T were just barely 21 (which she said was old, until I reminded her that she’s 16 on Thursday). *shrugs*
This is NOT what tet-a-tet means, Tony
Oh, look. In those 13 hundred thousand minutes since we last saw him he’s learned to speak English. 😀
Nice cameo on Selkie’s boot there.
Great to see Tony again!
On a completely unrelated note, I dearly hope all of my fellow Selkie readers will join me for a moment of silence in remembrance of Ricky, Mark, and, of course, poor Moonsong 😛
Oh man, Mark is a hell of a callback. Good eye.
The head impact is going to cause each of them to believe something weird, and this will escalate for the rest of the story arc, until it’s suddenly resolved by another head bonk miraculously returning them both to normal. That’s the way this works, right?
How could we forget French Boy?
I thought he was Québécois? French is a diffent language. Like American and English, … One people divided by a common language.
I never had the feeling that he was either French or Canadian. Just seemed to me that he was an American who simply spoke French to annoy people.
I had something similar happen in high school. I was running and someone came around the corner and crashed into me. He grabbed my elbows and carried me about two yards before he could stop. Neither of us were hurt.
I love her socks.