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[littlefallsmets]

http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=10122006

What word other than "prototype" could that be?

It ain't "prototype" but it definitely starts with "prototyp-".

Prototyping? What would that mean?

[V-Adore]

For all of you who were waiting for gripping Bensington dialogue: here it is!

Alas, he doesn't look long for this world. Much like Persephone, now that he has sampled the food of the magical-realist world, he is trapped there. Perhaps he can bargain down to six months a year since it was only a little ketchup, and ketchup is not a food anyway?

[Choop]

Ketchup is not a vegetable, but still counts as food. ...I'm not sure about Hunt's, actually.

lfm, thanks for doing it right. Prototyp...ical? ...ix? ...ié? ...inoid? ...ing lab? ...ing something?

I just love the look of shock on his face when he realizes he's that guy. No, not "that guy" but that guy.

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[JALove]

My money's on "prototyping", not that that makes much sense.

[jough]

How much money you talkin' about, JALove?

[littlefallsmets]

My money's on "prototyping", not that that makes much sense.

Yeah, I mean, it's a present tense verb where a noun should be.

...and not even a verb that makes sense.

I'm trying to construct a sentence that uses "prototyping" without being a real stretch and, like, I keep accidentally making sentences with "stereotyping" instead.

"When she saw me eating pizza in a Catholic Church while killing a man over a gambling debt, I suddenly became aware of her stereotyping me for my Italian heritage..." and I'm like...

Dammit! I used "stereotyping" again.

[pmcd9]

Opening a zippo with one motion is the kinda thing that dudes with mullets do.  I now decree that to be officially "THE HUNTS MOVE."

~Paul

[linnea]

If I weren't about to climb into my fluffy, warm bed, I would google and see if there's some crazy German word (or other language) for Prototype that Onstad might be referencing.

Heh...the Persephone reference was particularly apt, V.

[littlefallsmets]

I would google and see if there's some crazy German word (or other language) for Prototype that Onstad might be referencing.

See, I was thinking that too?

Maybe as we're dealing with Mexican Magical Realism with its StrongBadcopters and midget-ghost inventors, it'd be Spanish for prototype?

But The Internet says that Spanish for "prototype" is "prototipo"... which is not only predictable to the point of my briefly wanting to accuse the Yahoo English-to-Spanish dictionary of being secretly rascist ("What will you tell me next? That Spanish for hamburger is el hamburgio?") but also useless... because that "y" is missing.

[Drastic Action]

Perhaps 'prototyping lab', or even just 'prototyping department'.  I could see just the word 'prototyping' being left there, similar to how it wouldn't be too weird to see a door at an office labelled 'processing'.  But that whole issue seems entirely pedantic, hahah..

who the hell just drinks ketchup.

[mtarquin]

Perhaps it is "Prototypingu," but there really isn't anything related to animated clay penguins in "Prototypi- 73."

[CortJstr]

This trip was the longest that Bensington has ever gone without eating some Hunt's. At parties he sneaks off to the bathroom at regular intervals to suck on little packets.

[linnea]

But The Internet says that Spanish for "prototype" is "prototipo"...

The dude's secret factory/warehouse is located in Mexico. It's definitely "Prototipo #73".

[JorgeFabregas]

Yeah, I mean, it's a present tense verb where a noun should be.

Yes, no businesses ever use present tense verbs to describe departments. I think I'll float the idea to Hal in marketing.

Also, this bottle does not seem to be shaped like a perch with a cramp.

[CortJstr]

Yes, no businesses ever use present tense verbs to describe departments. I think I'll float the idea to Hal in marketing.

Also, this bottle does not seem to be shaped like a perch with a cramp.

That's why it's the prototype. They need to get the formula for the actual "ketchup" down before they go spending money on packaging. No matter what Hal in marketing says.