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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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08-04-2003, 12:48 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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Things not to do with a four year old.
Bowling.....
Bowling and four year olds do not mix. A ten pound ball on your foot is the clearest example of why...however there are several other reasons...
1. the joy of hitting the reset button just as mommy has thrown her ball down causing the rack thingy to come down and her ball to smack violently into it...which inturn causes management to glare at you.
2. Total lack of understanding about the ball return system causing a need to run down the lane to fetch your pritty blue ball after each time you throw it, again causing stares from management. This behavior tends to cease after about the fifth frame, but leads to number 3.
3. lack of realization that your ball will come flying up through the ball return without you sticking your head in it and calling it by name...this leads to a ball smacking you in the face. There seems to be no cure for this action.
4. Lack of understanding that you can't bowl in any lane you choose, just because that lane has more pins in it to knock down, and or crying because you knocked down some of your own and now have to bowl down your lane and some of your pins have disappeared.
5. Bowling is not a throwing game, but a rolling game, and you are only to roll your ball in one direction, down a lane to your pins...never across lanes causing other parties to halt their game as your ball rolls slowly passed them....yet again causing stares from management.
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08-04-2003, 01:11 AM
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Mrs. Jack Sparrow
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Aboard the Black Pearl
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Re: Things not to do with a four year old.
[img]graemlins/ukid.gif[/img] I see you survived it. [img]graemlins/ukid.gif[/img]
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08-04-2003, 02:45 AM
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PassPorter Message Board Manager
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Community Rank: Legend VIP 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Maidstone, Kent, UK
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Re: Things not to do with a four year old.
Very amusing! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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08-04-2003, 05:27 AM
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RED SOX NATION!!
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Location: Connecticut
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Re: Things not to do with a four year old.
LOL Kruggie [img]graemlins/wavin.gif[/img] Haven't tried bowling yet, but have tried Skeeball at Chuck E Cheese [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] . Staying away from that too [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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08-04-2003, 08:51 AM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Richardson, TX
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Re: Things not to do with a four year old.
Sounds like a really "fun" evening. Just think of the memories that you have!!
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08-04-2003, 09:08 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Katy, Texas
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Re: Things not to do with a four year old.
I've seen this happen hundreds of times at our bowling alley!
It scares me to death when they try to walk down the lane to get the ball - they have no idea how slippery it is out there! [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]
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08-04-2003, 09:09 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: May 2002
Location: georgia
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Re: Things not to do with a four year old.
i have a 4 yr old, so we will definately avoid bowling at all costs for many years to come. thanks for the warning!
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08-04-2003, 09:25 AM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Newtown Square, PA
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Posts: 23,859
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Re: Things not to do with a four year old.
Live and learn!! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] It sounds like you guys had fun anyway!! I hope your foot is okay!
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08-04-2003, 10:15 AM
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Community Rank: Navigator 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Tioga County, PA
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Re: Things not to do with a four year old.
Teasure the memory. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] Sounds like you had a fun time. I would have paid money to watch. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] Four year olds are so cute.
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08-04-2003, 10:38 AM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Passaic County, NJ
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Re: Things not to do with a four year old.
Add 6. Do not read at work or your coworkers will be staring at you. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
Aren't the little ones great! [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img]
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08-04-2003, 11:01 AM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Jun 2003
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Re: Things not to do with a four year old.
LOL! These are really cute. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
The last time I bowled (which was about 25 years ago) I had a ball that was too heavy for me. I dropped it on the back swing, the ball fell behind me with the loudest thud and all eyes were looking at me. A couple of seconds later the place erupted in laughter and I as outta there! [img]graemlins/blush.gif[/img] Haven't been since and don't plan to go again. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]
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08-04-2003, 11:31 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Poinciana, Florida
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Re: Things not to do with a four year old.
Kruggie? Is this a story of you when you were 4 years old? [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/confused.gif[/img]
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08-04-2003, 11:53 AM
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Wannabe Snowbird
Join Date: May 2002
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Re: Things not to do with a four year old.
LOL!!!! Little kids are the greatest! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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08-04-2003, 03:06 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Michigan's Upper Peninsula
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Re: Things not to do with a four year old.
So what was the score? We went last week and my 4 year old got a 64 (with bumpers)
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08-04-2003, 10:54 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: The land of the free and the Home of the Brave!
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Re: Things not to do with a four year old.
Quote:
Originally posted by loobyoxlip:
So what was the score? We went last week and my 4 year old got a 64 (with bumpers)
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">Hee Hee..do you think I actually had time or brain power to even think about the score?? And more importantly...how is it that your four year old didnt cry every time his ball dissappeared? |
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