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Post by Richard on Feb 15, 2007 8:23:00 GMT
Hello Provider, and welcome to the Forum!  I bet you're really looking forward to seeing Hayley with Celtic Woman in May. Meanwhile I can strongly recommend her DVD 'Live from New Zealand', recorded in Wellington when Hayley was seventeen. If you can't find it in your record stores, you can purchase it from Amazon.com HERE. I know you will enjoy chatting with all of us here, and I look forward to your future posts.  Best Wishes from London, Richard  |
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Post by stevemacdonald on Feb 15, 2007 8:54:35 GMT
... I lead a fairly high profile life so I will remain anonymous for now... Awesome! A celebrity in our midst! I respect your anonymity but I do see this as a distracting challenge to discover who you might actually be, since you do "lead a fairly high profile life" as you claim. Since you chose to define yourself as a "high profile" individual in here (does it get more L.A.?), I must put you on notice that such a tease is utterly unnecessary. We are all equal before Hayley. |
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Post by provider on Feb 15, 2007 16:54:49 GMT
Thank you again for all the welcomes.
A few more follow-ups are in order.
Joe:
Changing the Hollywood sign to Hayleywood is such a good idea that I’m really tempted. Maybe I can recruit my son and a couple of his friends to pull it off one of these nights. Will you indemnify me if we get caught?
Steve:
Yikes. Although it must seem that nearly everyone in LA considers themselves a celebrity, I wasn’t suggesting that about me. It is the nature of my work that I could be recognized, and my participation in forums such as this might be misconstrued. I was making this point so that members would understand the reason for my anonymity, not to elevate myself. I’ve got no paparazzi hounding me.
That said, it seems my post has been badly misunderstood twice now. So I must conclude it is my failure to communicate. Since I rarely participate on internet forums, I had forgotten how tricky it can be to make a fine point without someone thinking the worst. As a consequence, and as much as I think I would enjoy the interaction, I’ve elected not to continue my participation here. It is probably for the best. I thank you again for the warm welcomes and wish all of you many magical moments with Hayley and her music.
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Post by Mark on Feb 15, 2007 17:07:21 GMT
Hi Provider I see that you are still logged on as I write this and so I do hope that you manage to read this reply. I am so sorry that this has happend and that you feel that you can no longer continue posting on the site. Yes, it is true that you do have to be very careful when wording a post on a forum, as occasionally what you meant to say somehow gets misunderstood. Having said that, personally speaking, I did not read anything untoward into what you have said by way of introduction and I am certain that goes for alot of other members too. It is a real shame that you feel this way, although I can fully understand why. As you are so obviously a big fan of Hayley's, perhaps you could be persuaded to continue to post, all be it occasionally in the future  With very best wishes Mark |
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Post by roger on Feb 15, 2007 17:07:30 GMT
Thank you, Mark. I thoroughly endorse your words.
To whom it may concern.
The member known as 'provider' chose to retain his anonymity for reasons unknown to us. He was kind enough to explain that he would prefer not to disclose his true identity. Due to the way in which his introductory post was received by a small minority of members, it seems we have now lost someone who I believe would have proved a highly valued member.
In future, if someone choses to remain anonymous, I trust you will not only respect their wishes, but also not make wild guesses as to the reason.
Thank you,
Roger
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Post by stevemacdonald on Feb 15, 2007 17:46:33 GMT
... Steve: Yikes. Although it must seem that nearly everyone in LA considers themselves a celebrity, I wasn’t suggesting that about me. It is the nature of my work that I could be recognized, and my participation in forums such as this might be misconstrued. I was making this point so that members would understand the reason for my anonymity, not to elevate myself. I’ve got no paparazzi hounding me. That said, it seems my post has been badly misunderstood twice now. So I must conclude it is my failure to communicate. Since I rarely participate on internet forums, I had forgotten how tricky it can be to make a fine point without someone thinking the worst. As a consequence, and as much as I think I would enjoy the interaction, I’ve elected not to continue my participation here. It is probably for the best. I thank you again for the warm welcomes and wish all of you many magical moments with Hayley and her music. Good grief! I certainly didn't mean to scare you away. This is not about netiquette and no one is misconstruing a fine point. I was just intrigued by the "high profile" bit since you put it out there. Most high-profile types that I know -- and I know quite a few, having been on television many times and in various national magazines myself -- are happy being completely incognito in forums like this if they use an alias. Your SN "provider" was a perfectly good alias and no one in here would have pestered you to give up your identity. There are several forum members in here who use aliases, and it's never been an issue. |
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Post by postscript on Feb 15, 2007 19:23:13 GMT
Hi Provider. Sorry if I misconstrued. As you will see I added a postscipt to my original post not at the request of, but in response to, a couple of PMs. I think that we are more or less on the same broad wavelength and it is better not to get further bogged down in semantics but thank you for your elaboration. You are quite right to point out diversities between countries, never mind continents. As I mentioned in another post recently, probably under a different thread, Churchill remarked that Britain and America were two countries DIVIDED by a common language! Commonality of ground is most apparent here. It is a commonality that stretches ROUND THE GLOBE which is singularly appropriate since the key subject is... No, it isn't Hayley! Its music, the most universal language of all. Hayley just happens to be rather good at it!    Peter S.  |
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Post by postscript on Feb 15, 2007 20:35:27 GMT
No Provider.
I don't think it is for the best that you decide to leave us so soon, or at all (should you decide to hover for responses to your post).
We are a diverse community, as is life itself! In that we reflect life in a very real way, not by intent, but just by the perversity of being ourselves. I am one who can well comment on this since, in my early days on this board, I was for ever in hot water for forgetting I'm not on the public soap box to which I am not unaccustomed.
We are a gentle people supporting a wonderfully gentle, caring and magnificent artiste who is always simply herself. A fun-loving girl never taking herself too seriously--an error some of us make sometimes. From that has developed an extraordinary camaraderie, in two ways.
1. The camaraderie of the internet crossing oceans and continents.
2. The camaraderie of different groupings (admittedly mostly UK-based) where members physically meet up and have got to know one another as friends, as well as Hayley herself. For those of us early enough (and there are several here more ancient than I in that respect!) to follow Hayley when she was still young enough to have a family chaperone, we have got to know certainly Jill as well and to a lesser extent Gerald. Several of us (not I) have also met Sophie and Isaac. .
I see no reason why you should feel so sensitive about early reactions to your first posts or that you do not fit here. I urge you to reconsider, most seriously, please.
Peter S.
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Post by Ed on Apr 13, 2007 8:39:44 GMT
Provider: A belated welcome from one who only joined four days ago. Joe's Post #14 brought to mind one of Cal Tech's annual pranks where they changed the Hollywood sign to read Cal Tech. Perhaps one with a "fairly high profile life" could persuade some of the kids there to doe as Joe suggested?  It would, as before, result in no punitive action to the students and most likely induce the folks in the land where culture is defined as yoghurt (I grew up in San Francisco so i know you'll understand my bias against LA) to ask "Hayley Who?" The news media would then have to explain. It would most certainly raise consciousness about Hayley. |
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It would, as before, result in no punitive action to the students and most likely induce the folks in the land where culture is defined as yoghurt (I grew up in San Francisco so i know you'll understand my bias against LA) to ask "Hayley Who?" The news media would then have to explain. It would most certainly raise consciousness about Hayley.