Snap said:

Plus the whole 'soapstone' thing is partial coincidence and has nothing to do
with it's meaning.

Cow said:

betta hush up before somebody boils that big long tongue of yours and has it for dinner, man...

Before his death.....

I'm so lost, no 1 can find me
And I've been looking 4 so long
But now I'm done
I'm so low, solo, my name is No 1

BorisFishpaw said:

Its - no apostrophe ... dammit ,,, it's the only thing you slip up on, Boris.
.

Cow said:

I bet you're all bullshit.



.

Funny story.....

One time I went to buy a Prince album and looked in all sections for Prince. He wasn't under rock/pop/soul and he wasn't under R & B. I even looked in Rap I finally asked a clerk and he led me to the letter "S".....for Symbol

langebleu said:

*fake gasp*...he corrected boris...

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

I have no fear. I'm a heifer with a purpose. I am spreading the word about the domination of the herd. Nobody will break my stride. Nobody will hold me down. Nobody will tip me over.

I am the cow messenger, servant to the great Cow Oracle.

My tongue will remain where it is, firmly in my cheek.

Cow said:

...along with the rest of you, on sale for $2.00 a pound at hy-vee.

langebleu said:

Depends on what I eat...wait that was an insult.

Do not incur the wrath of Cow! You do so at your own peril!

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Just went on sale too! I know cos I work there. Was "the symbol" ever meant to be pronounced? I thought that was the whole point.

purpleizpassion said:

seriously? i didn't even know it was for real! i miss hy-vee, they don't have any in minneapolis.

i don't think it was, although people have always made guesses as to how it'd sound if it did have a pronunciation...

I just call it "P" or Prince still. I know some people don't agree with that but 2bad for them.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

And he's right
One of the commonest grammatical errors to make (and I fell fot it).

"It's" should only be used for abbreviations (like "it is" or "it has"),
not for the possessive (as in belonging to "it"). Unlike when using a possessive
for a proper name, like "Prince's" (as in belonging to Prince) as opposed to
"Princes" (plural).

I'll go and read my copy of "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" again.

BorisFishpaw said:

there IS no meaning to it... tha shawt bastid used it so he can record without using the name "prince"

o(+>

o="o"
(= "c"

+="t"

>= "v"

"o"+"c"+"t"+"v"

say it....

"octv"

avatarfunk said:

awk-teevee?

funky doodle

I always called him Cha ching after the name change because of that video that came out and the sound the symbol made when displayed

I remember owning a copy of some magazine from the UK around '94/'95 that refrred to him as Mr. Squiggle...

Marven

Rhastus said:

yeah, I remember hearing either Sonny T or Levi say that they jokingly called
Prince "Sshhhh-ding!" after the noise in the advert (and "2 Whom It May Concern")
when they weren't allowed to call him 'Prince' anymore. I thought it was kinda
amusing and used to call him that too!



But that aside, the correct answer is that "" has no pronouncible name.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

i truly believe prince had thought of naming the symbol but something happened in his noggin to get him to change.....


once again, prince placing everything but music first...

Gary

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

or is it awk tiv i.e. octave?

(I'm with the camp that says there is no way to pronounce it.)

ok i'll try it,,,shweeeeing

--o horney male and female

Snap said:

Snap said:

Yeah. He had the same name-sound almost as A Current Affair

I thought getting rid of his name and using 0(+> was brilliant! Loved the fact you couldn't pronounce it, and for the reality that he was so freaking cool at that time and this was just the icing on the cake, he was so cool that no one knew his name and they didn't need to as he was such a star.