[0092] One Moment In Life
Monday, 7 Sep 2009 by Novil

[0092] One Moment In Life

Powree was of the opinion that this would have been a good choice for our 100th strip. But since I think that the 100th strip should be colored like the 50th strip and this one does not really need to be colored, I have chosen another one for that special occasion.

  • Caption: People can get as old as 3,155,692,600 seconds (raccoons 631,138,520 seconds). And yet it often seems to be the most important for the way we think, feel and live, what’s happening in just a few of them.
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  1. Rabid_Fox says:

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  2. Leinad says:

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    i don’t really get it. Did Woo learn how to pick locks? are they playing videogames together?

  3. Vryl says:

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  4. Random says:

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    It took me a few moments but now I get it :) . Nice 100th strip!

  5. Cairn Destop says:

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  6. The Cap says:

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    Ah, that part of VII was particularily heart wrenching….

  7. gerardo says:

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    to born, to escape and to be loved, I cant really see what part of Final Fantasy VII is that
  8. Taxil says:

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  9. Taxil says:

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    woops, forgot to note, is that Sandra’s mom there in first panel?

  10. JeremySkunk says:

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    OH! It took me a moment to figure this out but now I get it. It’s the most important moments for Sandra’s folks (Sandra’s birth), Woo(escaping captivity), and Cloud’s folks (Bonding over FF7).
  11. Milena says:

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    Very nice moments. The birth of Sandra, Woos escape (from his crude first owner, I think) and the beginning love of Clouds parents (while they look FF7) .
  12. jup-reindeer says:

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    Thank the comic that this comments option is here. Lest, I may have never understood panels 2 & 3.

    BTW: Notice the “pony” television set? That takes me back to the days when Price is Right permitted a video game to be made of their series…and all the prizes had to be knock-off names to avoid copyrights. “Yes. You can get this $230 tool set by Rears…IF The Price is Right.”

  13. Novil says:

    @ Cairn Destop: I have not used the average life span of the species but a very high age. I had to take a specific number in the end so I took 20 years for raccoons and 100 years for humans. But 18 years and 110 years would have worked just as well.

    @ jup-reindeer: You certainly don’t have to worry about your eyesight. The Pony logo (that was Powree’s idea) is so tiny that I thought nobody would see it.

  14. hpkomic says:

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    What a lovely looking comic. Bookmarked. :D
  15. Haleyc says:

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    What could have been a better time to read all of this comic. Heartwarming.

  16. Loop says:

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    You know I had a friend who was playing FF7 and when Aerith died she said she cried for a bit turned off the psx and never finished the game, guess that was one of her seconds.
  17. Rocket_T_Coyote says:

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    Aww! (RL Raccoons can be rather surly in their old age though.)

  18. tahrey says:

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    :)
    i can’t help but agree… occasionally some longer periods can have great weight also, but there’s nothing like the impact a single, important sentence can have upon the rest of your existance.

  19. waffle911 says:

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    I think the second sentence could be better if written something like this:
    “And yet, it often seems that the most important things for the way we think, feel, and live, happen in just a few of them.”
    “And yet, for the way we think, feel, and live, it often seems like the most important things happen in just a few of them.”

    But point taken. It certainly rings true. It’s a sobering fact.

  20. jup-reindeer says:

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    @ Novil:

    Yahoo news just reported that today (as of this typing; 9/11/09) that Gertrude Baines had just passed away. She was the oldest living person on record: Age 115.

    And, funny you should mention my eyesight. Very similar to what a co-worker said, just the other week.

  21. Novil says:

    @ waffle911: The wording of your first suggestion sounds better, that’s true. But I think it also involves a slight change of meaning, so I won’t change the strip.

  22. Zack Fester says:

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    It’s nice to see what Sandra’s Mother looked like…after all this time you finally see her mom after all the reference and mystery behind her…

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