The 'Prince and Red Dwarf' thread got me thinking of other times I've seen (or imagined) Prince references in completely unrelated things.

My most recent one was in the game Borderlands 2. There's an achievement called 'Purple Reign' and there's a location in it called 'Old Man Johnson's Farm'.

Coincidence? I think not!

Ian Broudie's band The Lightening Seeds was named after a misheard lyric from Raspberry Beret: "Thunder drowns out what the lightening sees..."

Then Tori Amos used the phrase "lightening seed" in Caught A Lite Sneeze.

So that makes it a very obscure (though based on a misheard lyric) Prince reference!

Scotsman1999 said:

The 'Prince and Red Dwarf' thread got me thinking of other times I've seen (or imagined) Prince references in completely unrelated things.

My most recent one was in the game Borderlands 2. There's an achievement called 'Purple Reign' and there's a location in it called 'Old Man Johnson's Farm'.

Coincidence? I think not!

Firstly, hello again purpleland Just nipped out 4 a breath of fresh air there! Secondly, I find the more u tune in2 Prince & his music, the more u will continue 2 see these obscure random things. But r they actually obscure or random?!

I find Prince related things in music, random conversations, in the beauty of natural nature, sometimes even in the supermarket, anywhere & everywhere. What I've come 2 realise is that Prince is never really that far away, not when his beautiful music in ur heart & mind & soul. That's a kinda love that will never, ever depart...

SometimesIwonder said:

Firstly, hello again purpleland Just nipped out 4 a breath of fresh air there! Secondly, I find the more u tune in2 Prince & his music, the more u will continue 2 see these obscure random things. But r they actually obscure or random?! I find Prince related things in music, random conversations, in the beauty of natural nature, sometimes even in the supermarket, anywhere & everywhere. What I've come 2 realise is that Prince is never really that far away, not when his beautiful music in ur heart & mind & soul. That's a kinda love that will never, ever depart...

Which Prince reference did you see in the supermarket?

robertlove said:

I see people walking in through the out door all the time. Maybe they're Prince fans.

I've heard his songs a couple times. They play TMBGITW in Morrisons supermarket near me. Also saw a bottle of dog's flea lotion which was called Get Off! & it made me chuckle. And I once parked the car only to see the car parked ahead of me had NPG at the end if the car reg! Just silly little things like that I notice!

Yesterday I was watching Moonwalker. In the first part of the Movie, After the parody performance of "Bad", the little Michael asks his assistant what his pet monkey monkey Bubbles is wearing, to which he responds "He's wearing a Prince t-shirt and red sneakers".

Little Michael says "A Prince T-shirt?" in a confused sarcastic tone...

I've seen That Movie Hundreds Of times and yesterday I just catched that up

they named a year after a prince song. can't remember which year or song though

i think asda named the value range after a track on the unreleased tony m album

ZsaZsaJackson said:

robertlove said:

Which Prince reference did you see in the supermarket?

I see people walking in through the out door all the time. Maybe they're Prince fans.

i notice that all the time too, or maybe we are

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unique said:

they named a year after a prince song. can't remember which year or song though

i think asda named the value range after a track on the unreleased tony m album

Erm..I think that was '3121' and 'Skint(ight)'. Wasn't it??

I also saw a motor garage near me called 'NPG Motors'. Got to be a fan.

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In the commercial that was pulled, a box of Prince spaghetti was on stage with spotlights and maybe a mic and guitar? I don't remember.

^^ Ha ha- Very good Unique! I had to hunt through a ton of photos to find this that I took earlier in the year. In ASDA carpark, this is what I saw when I parked. Just bloody typical as it summed up perfectly how I felt that day, haha! Had been listening to waaaay too much Prince at the time & then I saw this!

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I am an interior designer. I was flipping through a book of drapery fabrics and one style name was Vanessa...ok, no biggie, but the next one was named Bette. Vanessa Bette?! Not a coincidence I'm sure.

I had great sex this weekend.

Thinking about the guy, the word 'expert luva' came to mind