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As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
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.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
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!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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04-24-2006, 08:01 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Philadelphia sub- burbs
Concierge Level: 4
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What kind of things...
Have your kids stuffed up there noses?
I was browsing through another forum along these lines and I instantly thought of the time my DD age 4 at the time stuffed a pop corn kernel up her nose. It wasn't funny at the time, but now it is a funny, guess what she did when she was little story. Even her Dr remembered it and told me about a little girl with a bead up her nose, and how she instantly thought of my DD.
So what interesting things have your kids stuck up there noses? I can't wait to hear the replies!
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04-24-2006, 08:23 AM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Re: What kind of things...
One day last summer Katie & Shannon were outside in the backyard playing under the garden hose sprinkler. Katie was wearing a Barbie bathing suit with fringe along the top. Katie also had a runny nose and I guess she didn't feel like coming in every couple of minutes to blow her nose so she tore off some of the fringes and stuffed them up her nose to block it off. She stuffed the fringe so far up her nose I had to take her to the hospital to get them out (it was a weekend night so her doctor's office wasn't open [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]) [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img]
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04-24-2006, 09:14 AM
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Community Rank: Legend Extraordinaire 
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: New York, NY
Posts: 35,829
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Re: What kind of things...
Jujubee (sp?)
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04-24-2006, 09:24 AM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Arlington, TX
Posts: 642
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Re: What kind of things...
When I was pg with DS#1, I was very sensitive to smell. Every week, we would go grocery shopping at Walmart. Well, our Walmart has a horrible smell due to the seafood area. I would have to either hold a bag of marshmallows to my nose or stuff two miniature marshmallows in my nose just to make it through the store without [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/ukid.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/ukid.gif[/img]...well, you know.
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04-24-2006, 10:39 AM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Michigan & Florida
Posts: 1,601
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Re: What kind of things...
Not one thing! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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04-24-2006, 11:56 AM
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Faith, Trust, Pixie Dust
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Connecticut
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 34,171
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Re: What kind of things...
Nothing that I can remember
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04-24-2006, 12:47 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Indiana , USA
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 26,527
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Re: What kind of things...
My kids? Just their fingers.
My god-daughter put a Sweet-Tart up there once, and her mom freaked out. Called me, I went over, and realized that the candy was melting, it would come out on it's own eventually!
She also put a bean, a marble, and a flower seed up at different times - I just had her "blow really, really hard" and they popped right out.
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04-24-2006, 12:57 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: East Bridgewater, MA
Posts: 16,143
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Re: What kind of things...
Thankfully, nothing!
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04-24-2006, 01:01 PM
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Community Rank: Legend Extraordinaire
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Ohio Football Hall Of Fame
Posts: 42,304
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Re: What kind of things...
A plastic bead
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04-24-2006, 01:05 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: central Iowa
Posts: 11,837
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Re: What kind of things...
no kids here, but I got a fish hook stuck in my nose on a "bad cast" once -- [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img]
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04-24-2006, 01:31 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Houston
Posts: 5,162
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Re: What kind of things...
Mine - nothing. But my mom taught 1st grade for 30 years and had a bean, a bead, a kernel of dried corn and a barbie shoe go up the nose. Not hers. Kids in her class over the years.
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04-24-2006, 01:40 PM
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Dopey's biggest fan!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: China Spring, TX
Concierge Level: 9
Posts: 26,975
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Re: What kind of things...
Luckily, Emilie has never stuffed anything up her nose . . . yet. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img] She's only 5, so there is still plenty of time for her to do it sometimes. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img]
Now . . . swallowing things . . . that's another story! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]
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04-24-2006, 01:49 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Whitefield, NH
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 13,599
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Re: What kind of things...
Amanda and Jennie - absolutely nothing!
Sarah, on the other hand......
The worst was when she was about 20 months old - she helped herself to a bowl with Cracker Jacks in it - and took the peanut - and shoved it right up her little nose! It was a perfect fit - and it would NOT budge! We tried blowing - pushing down on the outside of her nose - tweezers - nothing worked!
Finally - I woke John up (he was on night shift) - and asked for help. He was about to go down to the ambulance bay to get the suction unit - but couldn't stand to listen to her cry - so he grabbed a straw - and SUCKED it out of her nose!! Only for Sarah would he EVER do such a thing!
By the way - it scarred her for life - she hasn't eaten a nut since!
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04-24-2006, 03:17 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: UK
Posts: 13,146
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Re: What kind of things...
We have no kids butwhen we were little my friend shoved a raisin up her nose, it got stuck so she had to go to A & E to have it removed.
Karen
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04-24-2006, 06:16 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: North Central Ohio
Posts: 21,629
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Re: What kind of things...
When DS was little he use to stick Rice Krispies up his nose. I switched him to Cheerios! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
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