Whoops... **coughs** yes, "monutes" is actually a super secret code word for "minutes". But I guess it wasn't that secret; you figured it out really quickly.
Actually, monutes is the time equivalent used by mountees.
Do you happen to remember if anything important was said? This is what I did when I saw Kermit:
**point at screen** Eeeee!!
**watch avidly for a few seconds, then squeal again** EEEEE.
So with all of that excitement, I missed the actual content.