so exactly who is dr. funkenberry and what are his credentials? What is annoying and puzzling IMO is his insertion into prince.org as a reputable Prince insider. Has anyone met him or interviewed him extensively? Is he simply a substitution for the shuddered Housequake.com. Is he an employee of Prince? At any rate I question his credibility.

What is your opinion?

clearly a fan- but he reports on all kinds of hollyweird stuff. I'm sure as long as the talk is al good about P he'll stay on the good side;)

when the things someone reports regularly turn out to be true, that usually leads me to believe someone is reputable and/or credible.

his whys, wherefores and origins are his business. as long as what he reports holds up, that's all that matters to me.

Anxiety said:

Things like the "$" - leak ?

ludwig said:

i still don't think we know the whole story on that, and whatever the glitch was on dr fb's end, it wasn't exactly watergate.

Anxiety said:

Exactly. Besides, why does anyone in here care what Dr FB's involvement with Prince is? It's not like you're going to win a brand new car by figuring it out. I'm glad someone is reporting about Prince somewhere and like Anx said, majority of the time, the news that comes from Dr FB on him is true. That should mean something to all of you in here, at least it does for me.

purplecam said:

Snatched the words right offa my keyboard.

uvhp2 said:

No way!!

First of all, I think we know who the Doctor is, and yes he is an Orger and a good one.

Second, Prince has ALWAYS had his peeps "drop" stuff in fan forums.

Do you REALLY think someone figured out that the aftershows from various international locales could be arranged to spell " C NOTE", which just HAPPENED to be the cost of an NPG membership?

Also, I think the two posters that posted how to get into Lotusflow3r.com ("1986" and "Los Angeles") were Prince operatives. I think they got worried that people might not figure out the codes, so they planted some posts here. C'mon - do you REALLY think two random people "accidentally" got access to Lotusflow3r beforewe did, and that they felt the most important thing they could post was the answers? I am sure they either are connected to Prince, or were given that information by someone who is.

I'd bet there are numerous other examples, too.

I thought they'd already been outted on here before? I don't remember the whole thing, but I remember it being discussed.

There's clearly an official connection since the site reports so heavily on Prince's activities and the reports aren't third hand gossip, they read just like the old L4OA-type posts.

As to why anyone would care, it's not really a biggie is it, just a point of interest.

Come on then, who is it?

If it's been mentioned before I'm sure it's ok to do so again....

Dr. funkenberry is a long time friend to the community.

Most of us know who he is, he's a great guy that has reliable info on Prince and that's about all I'm telling you.
NEWBIES DON'T NEED TO KNOW
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It's someone named Jseven or some variation on that name, such as there might be a numeric seven in the name.

Dayclear said:

U tell 'em dayclear!!!


luv ya!!

Even if it is known who it is, what will it do for YOU?

Prince tied us up and took us to his home. He MADE us drink, dance and listen to him play his guitar. He inserted a tiny micro-chip into or skin that gives us info when needed. When he feels the need, he transmits hints to our chips. We then log onto the ORG with a secret user names and drop THESE hints.

Leave Funkenberry alone!!!


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Oh Gawd-the depths of hell that some of these threads take me to

nurseV said:

is funkenberry dwayne, prince's .5 brother? dez? cymone? that 6feet 4 inch man who is on the first row of every prince concert and has followed him across the globe to watch him strum on his six-strings?

out him!! what is the big deal?

uvhp2 said:

I already told you what user is Funkenberry. He's just a sycophantic fan that gets to acts as Prince's prime minister of propaganda (and horrid writing) as long as he plays by Prince's bizarre rules, i.e., trying to make it sound as if the news he's dispensing comes from a source other than the home base.

lol-these threads usually come along-about a year and a half after a release-when were all bored shitless-not less than a month after a great triple release.....man to question Funkenberry is bad. Be ashamed-stand in the corner-oh shit no-its the naughty step these days-sit there and contemplate paranoia.....he's a good guy
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PS-Just before the quake exploded-say half a year-i noticed there folk started to question certain folks on there too- folklike turn it up-Caeto and funkenberry too (i canrt think of others right now)....these folk are plainly behind Prince-they aint our enemies. The point is-when this starts-well look what happened to Hq.....

Anxiety said:

polkadotbliss said:

And we don't want what happened to HQ to happen to the org. I know I don't.

purplecam said:

I like prince too and have since the beginning. while I recognize that his enterprise is not required to divulge the names of its employees, however professional clarity/disclosure would bring this curiosity to an end.

no, i don't want prince.org to go the way of HQ either, but am disheartened by the imitidation, fear, and cowering that some members exibhit, which signifies that the tail is leading the dog.

The Prince enterprise needs us--consumers of his high-quality, unique products (music, live performances, website, etc.)to sustain and grow its revenue stream. The Prince enterprise business model is to treat consumers like adolescents rather than consumers whose purchasing power aggregates to billions.

Prince's public posture doesn't succumb to imitidation, manipulation or fear. And consumers neither should yours.

Question and inspect; honestly and forthrightly.

man-what are you a lawyer or something....on the case or what. This thread just got heavy enough for me to wanna spliff.....

RodeoSchro said:

Dang! they fooled me!

I'll bet Dr. Funkenberry is cracking up reading this. Hi there
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