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A few turbulence? "we anticipate a few turbulence along the way" -International Lover
Was it a joke or did he really not know? There's a rift out in space, and it could be the door, but you know I'm not sure. | |
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TreeDog said: "we anticipate a few turbulence along the way" -International Lover
Was it a joke or did he really not know? awww,dont make fun of International Lover  "Climb in my fur." | |
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I'm not making fun, I'm really curious. I've wondered this for years. 22, actually. There's a rift out in space, and it could be the door, but you know I'm not sure. | |
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think it wuz turbulents...is that a word?  | |
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No, it is not a word. There's a rift out in space, and it could be the door, but you know I'm not sure. | |
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TreeDog said: "we anticipate a few turbulence along the way" -International Lover
Was it a joke or did he really not know? Awww man...you'd be the first to call him out on it. A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man, dontcha know? | |
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Listen guys, I'm not being a dick, I'm wondering if he meant it as some sort of joke that I just don't get. There's a rift out in space, and it could be the door, but you know I'm not sure. | |
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chickengrease said: TreeDog said: "we anticipate a few turbulence along the way" -International Lover
Was it a joke or did he really not know? Awww man...you'd be the first to call him out on it. A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man, dontcha know? Yeah! 
embiggen Prince! "Climb in my fur." | |
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chickengrease said: TreeDog said: "we anticipate a few turbulence along the way" -International Lover
Was it a joke or did he really not know? Awww man...you'd be the first to call him out on it. A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man, dontcha know? 
anyway...ain't it "i anticipate" and not "we"?? sowwy 'bout that, had 2 go into prince geeklette mode there.  | |
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rdhull said: Yeah!
embiggen Prince! how much embigger can he get??  | |
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So what y'all are saying is, you don't know either. There's a rift out in space, and it could be the door, but you know I'm not sure. | |
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He anticipates a few turbulenmce(bumps) on the flight(journey-sex). The high-hard one kind of bumps  "Climb in my fur." | |
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TreeDog said: So what y'all are saying is, you don't know either.
'course we know, maaan...u gotta couple 1999 defenders postin here. | |
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TreeDog said: So what y'all are saying is, you don't know either.
Don't fell bad. I thought about it before, too and just didn't ask anyone. I think he was just caught up in the moment and made a mistake. | |
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Oh man, for the record, I am an Old School fan. I don't really care for most of his 90s output, and what I do like of it, well, they're all old songs anyway. 1999 is a classic, I would never talk shit on it. There's a rift out in space, and it could be the door, but you know I'm not sure. | |
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TreeDog said: Oh man, for the record, I am an Old School fan. I don't really care for most of his 90s output, and what I do like of it, well, they're all old songs anyway. 1999 is a classic, I would never talk shit on it.
atta boy..btw I gave the answer in the thread above the next "Climb in my fur." | |
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TreeDog said: Listen guys, I'm not being a dick, I'm wondering if he meant it as some sort of joke that I just don't get.
I'm not getting salty, I've always found that statement funny myself. I'm tripping nobody called him out on it before. | |
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Handclapsfingasnapz said: chickengrease said: TreeDog said: "we anticipate a few turbulence along the way" -International Lover
Was it a joke or did he really not know? Awww man...you'd be the first to call him out on it. A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man, dontcha know?
anyway...ain't it "i anticipate" and not "we"?? sowwy 'bout that, had 2 go into prince geeklette mode there. there you go nitpickin' again  | |
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I see, sorry if I seemed belligerent. There's a rift out in space, and it could be the door, but you know I'm not sure. | |
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chickengrease said: there you go nitpickin' again
shuddup, chick-ennn | |
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| Rd broke it down (as usual)
Again, if I tried to analyze Prince that much my head would explode ~KiKi | |
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lovebizzare said: Rd broke it down (as usual)
Again, if I tried to analyze Prince that much my head would explode but then again, i thought pretty much everyone figured out that play on words by now... | |
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Handclapsfingasnapz said: lovebizzare said: Rd broke it down (as usual)
Again, if I tried to analyze Prince that much my head would explode but then again, i thought pretty much everyone figured out that play on words by now... I hadn't 
BUT I did figure that it somethin' sexual-just like the whole "purple banana" thing ~KiKi | |
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Its a joke peeps!! Remember humour?
Its not a great joke, just a small play on words, nothing more. The word turbulence sounds as though it is plural (ie it could end turbulENTS) and to emphasise and highlight the bumpy ride this girls gonna get, he throws in a little grammatical joke - it certainly catches your ear more. Also, for those that seem intent on contstantly nit-picking at apparent grammatical errors in Prince's songs (and this is not particularly aimed at the starter of this thread) don't you also realise that there is something called "Artistic licence" - this licence permitting a departure from a set of rules to acheive a desired effect? You know, it may be that he has to use a grammatically incorrect word in order to get the meter (or the pace, flow, whatever!) right. Prince is no idiot - and it is a sign of a more skillful writer that he is able to find alternatives to get a message across. Shakespeare did it all the time - and some words that he created himself just to get a point across and have it fit the rhyme, have now ended up in the English language. [This message was edited Thu May 15 2:00:58 PDT 2003 by Mindflux] ...we have only scratched the surface of what the mind can do...
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I don't know, certainly he is a very smart guy, but that doesn't necessarily mean he knew it wasn't grammatically correct. I have a pretty high IQ myself, and for a long time I said "thermomostat" instead of "thermostat". Not stupidity, ignorance. Not the bad kind either, the uninformed kind (which is the true definition of ignorance). I think that although it works as a play on words, he may have genuinely thought turbulents were the bumps you feel on an airplane. At that point, as said upwards of this post, who was gonna call him on it? I'm not even saying he DIDN'T know, I'm not sure what to think either way. As a joke, it works, and it is funny. However, many intelligent people go through their entire lives mispronouncing certain words, or mixing words up. There a lots of otherwise quite-with-it people saying "nucular" these days. I wish Prince could settle this debate, but I'm sure he has much more important things to do. Listening to it, it kind of seems he DID do it on purpose, but alas, I think we shall never know for sure. There's a rift out in space, and it could be the door, but you know I'm not sure. | |
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Mindflux said: Its a joke peeps!! Remember humour?
Its not a great joke, just a small play on words, nothing more. The word turbulence sounds as though it is plural (ie it could end turbulENTS) and to emphasise and highlight the bumpy ride this girls gonna get, he throws in a little grammatical joke - it certainly catches your ear more. Also, for those that seem intent on contstantly nit-picking at apparent grammatical errors in Prince's songs (and this is not particularly aimed at the starter of this thread) don't you also realise that there is something called "Artistic licence" - this licence permitting a departure from a set of rules to acheive a desired effect? You know, it may be that he has to use a grammatically incorrect word in order to get the meter (or the pace, flow, whatever!) right. Prince is no idiot - and it is a sign of a more skillful writer that he is able to find alternatives to get a message across. Shakespeare did it all the time - and some words that he created himself just to get a point across and have it fit the rhyme, have now ended up in the English language. [This message was edited Thu May 15 2:00:58 PDT 2003 by Mindflux] Naah, no need for all that Mindflux. Prince is just a bit of a thickie, be honest with yourself,admit it. |
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TreeDog said: I don't know, certainly he is a very smart guy, but that doesn't necessarily mean he knew it wasn't grammatically correct. I have a pretty high IQ myself, and for a long time I said "thermomostat" instead of "thermostat". Not stupidity, ignorance. Not the bad kind either, the uninformed kind (which is the true definition of ignorance). I think that although it works as a play on words, he may have genuinely thought turbulents were the bumps you feel on an airplane. At that point, as said upwards of this post, who was gonna call him on it? I'm not even saying he DIDN'T know, I'm not sure what to think either way. As a joke, it works, and it is funny. However, many intelligent people go through their entire lives mispronouncing certain words, or mixing words up. There a lots of otherwise quite-with-it people saying "nucular" these days. I wish Prince could settle this debate, but I'm sure he has much more important things to do. Listening to it, it kind of seems he DID do it on purpose, but alas, I think we shall never know for sure.
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Lucy edit [This message was edited Thu May 15 9:21:55 PDT 2003 by rdhull] "Climb in my fur." | |
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rdhull said: veeta-vita vegimen
Lucy edit [This message was edited Thu May 15 9:21:55 PDT 2003 by rdhull] | |
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TreeDog - I hear what you are saying and yoy have very valid points. However, I have to say that it is quite deliberate by Prince (as there are far more examples of how he has been clever with word-play than there are gaffs) and we don't need him to prove it either - listen to the song. The pregnant pause just before he says "turbulence" and the wry/comical tone he says the word with is most suggestive to me of deliberate word-play and humour. ...we have only scratched the surface of what the mind can do...
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