The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[payn]

I am a huge Prince fan and back in the 90s around the time that Prince temporarily changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol and was widely referred to as "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince" I was part of a Prince listserv. It was cool for a while. I met some cool people I would trade bootlegs with and talk about rare tracks and all that. But after a while, I began to notice that the vast majority of posts were complaining or criticizing everything Prince did or trying to tear down the production or arrangement of new songs, etc. . . eventually it was so bad I came to think of it of it not as a listserv for Prince Fans, but for Posters Formerly Known as Prince Fans and left the community.

Those were interesting years. Was that about the time Prince went born again?

 

[el-remmen]

Was that about the time Prince went born again?

He became a Jehovah's Witness in 2001 - largely influenced by hanging with Larry Graham (who worked to convert him) and in part because his mother was a Seventh Day Adventist, so he had experience with cultish Christian religious minorities. Prince would sometimes actually go door to door with copies of the Watchtower in the Minnesota area.

 

[payn]

He became a Jehovah's Witness in 2001 - largely influence by hanging with Larry Graham (who worked to convert him) and in part because his mother was a Seventh Day Adventist, so he had experience with cultish Christian religious minorities. Prince would sometimes actually go door to door with copies of the Watchtower in the Minnesota area.

Yeap, I seen him do it a few times.

 

[payn]

Are we... not supposed to use paragraphs anymore?

 

[Umbran]

Are we... not supposed to use paragraphs anymore?

Grammar, spelling, and structure intended to help the audience approach the work is bending the knee to The Man.

 

[el-remmen]

Someone else is biting my rhymes. . .

 

[Umbran]

Someone one else is biting my rhymes. . .

TMI.

 

[Retreater]

Yeap, I seen him do it a few times.

Wait. Are you saying you saw Prince going door-to-door passing out religious pamphlets?

 

[payn]

Wait. Are you saying you saw Prince going door-to-door passing out religious pamphlets?

Down in Chanhassen, yeah. Also, I saw him on the light rail with his entourage. That was pretty sweet.

 

[Hussar]

That would be surreal. Seeing prince knocking on doors like that.