Hey, im new here and i've read and heard that back in his old high school daysPrince used to be called "skipper" as his nickname. What's up with that, why'd hid his friends call him "skipper"?
-Is it cause maybe he used to skip school alot or...hell i dunno

I read that on Dawnation.com about two years ago. Don't know how true it is or what the basis behind it was though.

funkyraveparade14 said:

Who knows? Nicknames are like that, In one of his books his mom said it was because he was so cute. He was also teased and called Butcher Dog as he got older, supposedly because he resembled a german shepard. Good trivia for the buffs here, also, let's us know our little buddy was from humble/normal origins, not off some spaceship.

This is actually a commonly known fact, already in the books back in the 80's. I never saw the reason for the name giving.

What I do know is that in one of the recent interviews, the nick name resurfaced, it being uttered in his presence. He made a funny face at it.

Was it the Music More interview?

gooeythehamster said:

You'd be surprised but most of his fans don't read at all. the people on the org are an exception to that it seems.

WOOF WOOF WOOF!

bananacologne said:

Hot damn...I've never seen that pic before....just call him Mr. Too Damn Fine
[This message was edited Sat Aug 7 15:33:13 2004 by PurpleCharm]

Everyone knows he was called skipper because he was a sailor!

mozfonky said:

I read somwhere that in highschool they called him Princess, Faggot, and Freak in addition to Butcher Dog. Kids can be sooo mean!

[color=violet:d03aab0bbf]I read somwhere that in highschool they called him Princess, Faggot, and Freak in addition to Butcher Dog. Kids can be sooo mean! [/color][/quote]

naw, I doubt it, i've heard that the whole sissy act didn't start until he got into his career. It's possible but he wasn't that weird a guy from what i've heard, just a little quiet maybe.

Oh foreal are u serious!? they made fun of prince in high school and called him faggot and stuff, aww that's messed up ...damn! So he really was probablly a ladies man in h.s, i wonder what he was like and what he really looked like. any body got any pics of him back in the day?

Just look through the picture gallery here at the .org.

Plenty of good pics of Prince when he was younger.

I read this in the newspaper a while back --

Prince Roger Nelson was born June 7, 1958, at Mount Sinai Hospital in Minneapolis to Mattie Shaw and John Nelson. They had been in a jazz ensemble called the Prince Roger Trio. Since Mattie called her husband Prince, she dubbed her son Skipper "because he was small in size and he was just real cute _ he was a darling baby."