I wonder if he cringed and rolled his eyes as much as I do.

Rebeljuice said:

PurpleMusic07 said:

I actuallyl don't think that Mr7 using british slang, spellings etc....proves it wasnt Prince or a staffer. If anything it proves how dedicated to the role of average orger that he was trying to play. Posting as a nonAmerican wouldve been pretty damn genius. little things to throw everyone off the scent. and being that he had spent a lot of time in the UK for various reasons it makes sense that he ccould pass in that way.. still waiting for someone to explain why that profile is unsearchable lol we can see all its posts but the profile itself is totally hidden.

Im not buying it. Not only would he have to know which words were spelled differently and which werent, he also have to know the slang. At the same time he would have to remember to type it correctly at speed in the midst of a conversation. Not only that, he would also have to remember not to use 2 instead of to, eye instead of I, 4 instead of for etc. He was a musical genius, he wasnt rain man.

Doesn't seem a particularly hard task though in terms of the spelling, if someone told me to try and pretend to be from the USA then it would mostly be case of just removing the "u" from a couple of words and making sure to change an "s" to a "z" when necessary. The slang thing is less convincing though, you're right, I doubt Mr7 really was him, although don't Americans use "cheers" as well, there's that tv series no?

The fact that Mr7 once wrote "rumours" and used the term "slag" does not seem inconsistent to me with that person being Prince. Prince spent a lot of time over the course of decades touring Europe... learning those terms/spellings is low hanging fruit he'd have been familiar with.

Edit: Now that I go back and re-read the posts... doesn't it seem likely these posts are all by Mani? Scanning the date range, don't they end shortly before her divorce from Prince? Also, a lot of the comments make even more sense if it's her.

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he was probably on here to see who he could sue if he was on here at all. i have no idea, i didn't read this till he died.

if he IS still alive, and according to a couple of forums he IS, he should "drop hints". he ain't, but I said if he IS. there's a couple of freaks on facebook pretending to be him, too. I mean, I admit, I think Elvis and MJ are still alive, cause that's just who I am.

cindyt said:

if he IS still alive, and according to a couple of forums he IS, he should "drop hints". he ain't, but I said if he IS. there's a couple of freaks on facebook pretending to be him, too. I mean, I admit, I think Elvis and MJ are still alive, cause that's just who I am.

Then you need to go to the MJ and Elvis sites and spread those old tired rumors around instead of signing on to Prince.org after Prince's demise and trying to do it here.

Well, that leaves the mysterious TheWatcher... Anybody know him?

OperatingThetan said:

thetimefan said:

Cool to know P was on the org but I have a feeling he used multiple accounts and probably lurked so not to attract attention. In the musicians forum there used to be somebody who posted Prince type lyrics and had like a story going and were based in Minnie too so I wonder whether that could have been P thinking out loud for ideas and such.

No, it wasn't.

purplethunder3121 said:

cindyt said:

if he IS still alive, and according to a couple of forums he IS, he should "drop hints". he ain't, but I said if he IS. there's a couple of freaks on facebook pretending to be him, too. I mean, I admit, I think Elvis and MJ are still alive, cause that's just who I am.

Then you need to go to the MJ and Elvis sites and spread those old tired rumors around instead of signing on to Prince.org after Prince's demise and trying to do it here.

and you need to watch who you order around

PurpleMusic07 said:

OperatingThetan said:

I know Mr7. He ceased using the profile after becoming disillusioned with Jehovah's Witnesses and deciding to leave the religion. For a while, he did have contact or at least some correspondence, from some of Prince's camp, due to his posts here. But other than that, he was simply a major UK Prince fan who happened, at the time, to also be a JW. Peace OT [Edited 5/18/16 10:43am]y

I could believe that, the use of the word "slag" would be one that Prince probably wouldn't use and one that I never even heard, that was the one thing that made me doubt it was him. Mr. 7 had to be a particularly sycophantic fan though because he sounded as if he were personally defending himself.

There are far too many correct English elements to Mr7's text for it to be P. I know English people who would be less accurate.

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SimpleSoul was Prince

SENNISS said:

PeteSilas said:

OperatingThetan said:

PeteSilas said:

I could believe that, the use of the word "slag" would be one that Prince probably wouldn't use and one that I never even heard, that was the one thing that made me doubt it was him. Mr. 7 had to be a particularly sycophantic fan though because he sounded as if he were personally defending himself.

I think some of that was due to him sharing the same faith as Prince. In that respect, it was also his to defend. Without saying too much, the strength of his opinions was why he abandoned the profile. When he left JW's it seemed too incongruous. Whatever, I know it was difficult for him. Last time I saw him was at one of the London gigs in 2014. I'm pretty sure some others here also met him at various gigs in London over the years?

not just his religion, his knowledge of how prince felt about things is a bit uncanny. Also, he seemed to state that Prince's mom was a baptist, true? I'd read that she was a JW, of course we all know that you can't beleive everything you read. Seems he had some intimate knowledge of Prince's thoughts.

OperatingThetan said:

PeteSilas said:

I could believe that, the use of the word "slag" would be one that Prince probably wouldn't use and one that I never even heard, that was the one thing that made me doubt it was him. Mr. 7 had to be a particularly sycophantic fan though because he sounded as if he were personally defending himself.

I think some of that was due to him sharing the same faith as Prince. In that respect, it was also his to defend. Without saying too much, the strength of his opinions was why he abandoned the profile. When he left JW's it seemed too incongruous. Whatever, I know it was difficult for him. Last time I saw him was at one of the London gigs in 2014. I'm pretty sure some others here also met him at various gigs in London over the years?

I remember Mr7 quite well....he was on NPGMC too and most certainly was not Prince,

Chas said:

I wonder if he cringed and rolled his eyes as much as I do.

It actually makes me a little sad to think he may have hung around here a lot.

Gotta admit this is a tad unsettling considering how some are so negative towards him

Checking my hitory on here I'm glad I was mostly positive. Honestly, I assumed he could not care less about this place. Then again...how could you resist not paying attention to a website and/or forum decicated to YOU?

This revelation is the first time I've had a few pangs of sadness over his death.

Whoever Prince was on here, I'm sure he chucked in a few negative posts about Prince just to see how people would react. Maybe he even org messaged some people on here...

Well... Mr7 is a bust....what other profiles come to mine besides TheWatcher?

jjam said:

Whoever Prince was on here, I'm sure he chucked in a few negative posts about Prince just to see how people would react. Maybe he even org messaged some people on here...

well he definitely Org noted the hell oughtta me....I'd get on here and be like "damn Prince sending random orgnotes again" I miss im alot though

And yall wasted how many pages reposting Mr7...ROFL

Yall know he is up in here (apparently under another name) laughing at everyone.

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txladykat said:

And yall wasted how many pages reposting Mr7...ROFL

Yall know he is up in here (apparently under another name) laughing at everyone.

ya, but it's fun, we have confirmation that he was around, all inspite of everyone many times saying he'd never look here. I can only hope that was he who visited my website late that night from chanhassen, it would have been the only time he'd have even know I existed. I wouldn't be a musician without him. I really don't think I would.

missjay23 said:

TheNewWatcher and TheNewWatcher2

u may be right