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There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
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If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
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11-14-2001, 01:14 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Omaha, NE, USA
Posts: 2,025
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Is my neighbor a terrorist?
First of all let me say that I love a good conspiracy theory, but never take it too seriously. So don't take ME too seriously regarding this post.
I think my neighbor is a terrorist. My Top 10 Reasons:
1. He never works yet lives in a $160,000 house.
2. He says he's from "Persia". Last time I looked on my globe the rest of the world was calling that "Iran".
3. About 4-5 times a year all the other "Pesians" gather at his house, beginning very late in the evening and into the wee morning hours. The men all stand out back speaking some very serious Arabic (or would it be "Persian"?).
4. The women stay inside and play weird music.
5. Right after the 9-11 attacks I was on the roof painting our house trim and could see him on the top of his house running this wire around the chimney and eaves. I began wondering what he was doing and then . . . an Air Force plane flew right overhead. (We live about 12 miles from Offutt AFB and are directly under a common flight path). I thought, maybe his wires were some mechanism to interfere or break-in on the planes communications. Sounds reasonable, doesn't it?
6. Shortly after I was telling a friend about this I started noticing a clicking sound 3-4 seconds after I pick up my telephone. He's surely bugging my phone.
7. After I tell my friend that I know he's bugging my phones, the clicking stops.
8. He installed an underground sprinkler last summer, but no one has ever seen it in use. Riiiiiight - an automatic sprinkler.
And if that's now enough reason to convince you something suspicious is going on, consider the last two oddities . . .
9. They had a chicken for a pet.
10. He grows 20" long zucchinis.
You tell me - terrorist or man next door?
What are your theories about the events? (No logical explanations please - that's no fun.)
[ 11-14-2001: Message edited by: patsy-c ]
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11-14-2001, 01:40 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: The land of the free and the Home of the Brave!
Posts: 2,694
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Re: Is my neighbor a terrorist?
I am howling with laughter,, and yet, concerned for your saftey! OMG! I think you need to learn arabic,,,so you can spy!
The zucchini is definatly a well know terrorist mechanizm....you would be suprized...Zuchhini bombs...yup...delivered by the common chicken house pet...you are minding your own affairs,, the chicken..waddling strangely ,,,comes over to your house...you note the zucchini cleverly hidden in his but...and KABLAM! LOL!
The ever elusive chicken/vegtable bomb!
[ 11-14-2001: Message edited by: Kruggie ]
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11-14-2001, 04:29 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: The Colony, Texas
Posts: 2,019
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Re: Is my neighbor a terrorist?
LOL! I know I am laughing, but I might be a little concerned if I were you! Hmmm- where did you say you were from? (Just kidding.)
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11-14-2001, 04:46 AM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Toms River, NJ
Posts: 3,062
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Re: Is my neighbor a terrorist?
[ 11-14-2001: Message edited by: Joe Carioca ]
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11-14-2001, 07:14 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: New York City
Posts: 2,471
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Re: Is my neighbor a terrorist?
This was great! I love laughing in the morning. I notice from the posts you are pulling an all-nighter. Has this been a distraction from yet another awesome paper due to a fabulous professor on a a subject beyond the understanding a mere mortals?
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11-14-2001, 08:31 AM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Orlando....5 mins from Mickey!
Posts: 721
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Re: Is my neighbor a terrorist?
I would definitly be concerned. The chicken is a definite give away that he is a terrorist. Only terrorist have chickens. All safe "Persians" have roosters. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
By the way, Brant, I almost peed my pants about the Yanni crack. My aunt actually listens to him, and I just can't handle it. [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]
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11-14-2001, 08:48 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: The land of the free and the Home of the Brave!
Posts: 2,694
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Re: Is my neighbor a terrorist?
I continue to rofl.
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11-14-2001, 09:18 AM
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Community Rank: Adventurer
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Charlotte, NC USA
Posts: 542
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Re: Is my neighbor a terrorist?
ROFCOL....I wouldn't be worried until he invites you over for chicken kebabs!!! [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]
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11-14-2001, 09:21 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 7,150
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Re: Is my neighbor a terrorist?
Good one you guys! Thanks for the laughs! Though I do wonder if my neighbor is a terrorist too for he has a chicken in a bird cage! Dont ask me, I dont know why!
Kim
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11-14-2001, 10:50 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: NJ
Posts: 2,825
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Re: Is my neighbor a terrorist?
Hey didn't you guys hear it was be nice to Yanni week? [img]images/icons/frown.gif[/img]
I bet you didn't know that you can hear Yanni in Epcot! [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]
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11-14-2001, 11:29 AM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 1,608
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Re: Is my neighbor a terrorist?
You guys are too funny!!!
Although, perhaps I can shed some light on one of your concerns. The gatherings at night could be the celebration of Ramadaan the period of fasting that Muslims do. For a month, from sunrise to sunset, they aren't allowed to eat, drink, smoke, get frisky with their wives or even kiss them. Usually they get together after sunset and have big meals together.
The only reason I know this is that I was once married to a Muslim man. No offense to any Muslims out there, but from a non-Muslim point of view, Ramadaan is not fun!
Hey! You're not totally paranoid, what about those people in the late 80's - early 90's who thought the nice old German man next door was just a nice old man and it turned out the he was once a Nazi officer who committed countless war crimes?? You never can tell!
Have a great day!
[ 11-14-2001: Message edited by: allysonh ]
[ 11-15-2001: Message edited by: allysonh ]
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11-14-2001, 06:24 PM
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Community Rank: Traveler 
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: plainfield,in
Posts: 202
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Re: Is my neighbor a terrorist?
Okay my theory......
1. He won the lotto or he sold an internet company
2.Persia Before he won the lotto his family was to poor to buy a globe
3. They're telling dirty jokes and don't want you to hear
4. When a bunch of men get together flatulation is common a smart woman stays inside and cranks weird music to drown out dirty jokes
5.?
6. If your friends are like mine they click to drive you nuts
7. see 6
8. He's a man and self installed sprinkler think about it
9. They had to make chicken and noodles for a church/islamic center pitch in
10. They had to make steamed veggies andbread too [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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11-14-2001, 06:57 PM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Rochester, NY
Posts: 4,148
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Re: Is my neighbor a terrorist?
Iranians speak Farsi.I understand that this was all done in fun, but I personally don't like the idea of singling out any one group. I teach English to people from Iran,Iraq, and Afganistan,Bosnia,Sudan,Russia etc. and they are wonderful,caring folks who are as horrified about the recent events as we are. It is too easy to start making fun , and then it begins to snowball--who knows which group could be next, and could one of us be a part of it??
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11-14-2001, 07:01 PM
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Community Rank: Scout
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Rochester, NY
Posts: 4,148
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Re: Is my neighbor a terrorist?
Yep, if I had put on my glasses, I would have seen that it should have been "Afghanistan"-- with the -h-!!!! Mea Culpa..... [img]images/icons/blush.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]
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11-14-2001, 10:05 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Connecticut
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 16,825
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Re: Is my neighbor a terrorist?
Stonewall, my sentiments exactly. While I understand that patsy-c was not totally serious with this thread, I think it opens a dangerous can of worms. Frankly, anyone of us could be the person living next door, something people should keep in mind.
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