I was driving in Cleveland today and noticed an "odd" billboard... it was a Chevrolet advertisment regarding the Corvette...(I bet you know where I am going with this... )...the ad simply quoted from a popular song..."Baby you're much 2 fast!" Cool...until you notice it was credited to the song writer... ! Yes...the symbol!

I thought this song was A LOT older than that!

kendogg said:

You are right... it is a lot older than that and they shouldn't have used the symbol...

This has, by the way, been posted 62 times now though...

I have a feeling that Prince is having problems using the name Prince. Maybe, everything that WB owns can only be re-mastered and released under the name o(+> for some reason. I know Prince acknowledged some problems with using the name, in an online Q & A from 2000. "The Rainbow Children" doesn't have his name on the front and the name Prince is only on the spine in almost-to-dark-to-read letters. Maybe the Very Best Of o(+> is re-mastered Prince tunes.

Well, he changed his name into a 'symbol' and said: Prince will forever remain DEAD!!

Then why go back to his original name(PRINCE)?? He could've kept his name in the 1st place without going into the whole symbol mess he went thro. PLUS keeping his mastars.

piepie1976 said:

prince was reported to have asked club members at an ONA soundcheck if he should give permission to the corvette company to use the song (prince owns his publishing rights)
AND the name

The problem WB has with fully exploiting the name Prince by Prince himself, is that it conflicts with WB's rights and interest they still have in owning his old masters.
But I would be very surprised if that would have led to Prince only vaguely scribbling his name on the TRC cd. After all, it was widely advertised as the new cd from Prince. Also, his entire site hangs on the name Prince, advertising for his new music like hell.

A new cd is however indeed a more direct form of competetion with WB and could thus cause a conflict of rights and interests, which may have led to some friction.

piepie1976 said:

your freakin' profile scared me BIG TIME

IceNine said:

Thank you for saying what i couldn't without ripping my hair out. There are search fields in the 'Forums' screen ppl.

I'm sorry for the symbol. This may have been my fault.

Shorty said:

YEAH, don't do that again!!!
Change it change it!

feltbluish said:

At least the picture came from the right site.
Uglypeople.com. But yeah, that is rather making me cry

Shorty said:

Pie Pie why didn't you warn us?

OMG! tell me that isn't Michael. What the heck did he do to himself.

Why would he do that? I have no idea what he was thinking, or for that matter, what his surgeon was thinking. How sad.

Sorry, ya'll. I thought you knew. I keep it there to remind you of what COULD happen if you go under the knife.

AzureStar said:

I have been trying to tell everyone about this for a long time... the surgery was actually a BIG success, as it was the first time that a human being's nose had been replaced with a Chicklet. From what I understand, that is commonplace now and will soon be in vogue.

IceNine said:

You didn't have to use "Chicklet". Anything but those. I eat a package of those every day...and now, all I'll think about is this. Not nice, Ice!

AzureStar said:

"Truth hurts. Maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with a seat missing, but it hurts." - Lt. Frank Dreben

IceNine said:

(I'm gonna use that quote - it's a good one)

AzureStar said:

You don't actually have to think of Mike Jackson's nose every time you eat a case or two of Chicklets... instead, you can think of happy puppies and kitties or something...

...I mean, not that you are eating puppies or kitties... or otters, for that matter... but... well, you get the idea.

IceNine said:

IceNine said:

Who said anything about a case of chicklets?

AzureStar said:

Hey... come on now... I was just embellishing for the comedic value... even a blind man with no hands can see that you don't eat a case or two of Chicklets on a daily basis...

In fact, Stevie Wonder called me up out of the blue yesterday and he went on and on about how fine you were... you know what the funny thing is? I don't even know Stevie Wonder!

IceNine said:

I thought maybe you had spies in the gas station where I buy my rather small box...okay, it is considered a case, of Chicklets. I love my Chicklets.





Ha! That is funny! You Rock, Baby Cock!

AzureStar said:

Hey, don't insult babies like that!

EDIT: You know... some babies are really quite well endowed.

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[This message was edited Thu Jul 11 15:16:16 PDT 2002 by IceNine]

Prince achieved what he desired...to have that symbol thingamadoohickey stand for his name...now he's back to being Prince, and that symbol still works...


"Thingamadoohickey"=copyright Wellbeyond, 2002

IceNine said:

I don't even wanna know how that nickname came about...

wellbeyond said:

I don't know that it is really a nickname...

IceNine said:

Yes, and some aren't.

wellbeyond said:

It's not a nickname. He brought it about though...