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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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05-03-2006, 08:53 AM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Texas
Posts: 4,748
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Re: She is NOT A BOY!
That's ok...everyone calls my SON a she [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] And I could not dress Josh any more boyish than I already do. I even spike his hair every morning to make him look MORE boyish...not to mention the fact that at 9 months he already has a very deep voice.
Maybe you could get Belle a pink rindstone collar like they have at Target to make her nice and frufru!
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05-03-2006, 08:53 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Chapel Hill, NC USA
Concierge Level: 6
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Re: She is NOT A BOY!
Doesn't matter what you do to make your dog look like a girl, someone is always going to call her a he. I call all dogs shes because all of mine were, it's just a habit.
Think of all the mothers that dress their baby girls in pink and still have people ask questions about 'him'.
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05-03-2006, 08:56 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: She is NOT A BOY!
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I am so guilty of this myself. I automatically call every dog a HE unless I know the dog.
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Same here. Every dog is a he.
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05-03-2006, 09:03 AM
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Community Rank: Traveler 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Roanoke, VA
Posts: 454
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Re: She is NOT A BOY!
I'm in the camp of all dogs are boys and all cats are girls. Sorry, it's stupid of me.
My daughter was bald till she was 2 and even if she was wearing all pink princess shirt people still called her HE. It didn't bother me, cause who cares. Santa even got it wrong one year. (She still got girl toys tho [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] A doctor even did it one time.
Jodie
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05-03-2006, 09:40 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Kissimmee, FL
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 10,481
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Re: She is NOT A BOY!
I did buy Belle Princess shirt at Disney Store (she fits into an x-small [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img] ) Maybe she should wear that ALWAYS! Although it seems like with some people it wouldn't matter. I guess I will just have to keep correcting people, even thought it might not sound like it on here. I am polite about it...I just interject the word "SHE" into the conversation and say it alittle louder. Most people pick it up and apologize. I might take the painting toenails suggestion though. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] She is Princess Belle of Willowood! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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05-03-2006, 10:10 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 2,929
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Re: She is NOT A BOY!
DD would be in head to toe pink and people would say "HE's so cute". One time someone asked me what HIS name was, and I said "John". It was just easier [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img][img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img].
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05-03-2006, 10:18 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Philadelphia
Concierge Level: 6
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Re: She is NOT A BOY!
Dogs are HE, Cats are SHE by default with me. I sometimes go the generic route "What's your dog's name?"
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05-03-2006, 11:24 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Kissimmee, FL
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Re: She is NOT A BOY!
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Dogs are HE, Cats are SHE by default with me.
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[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/foreheadslap.gif[/img] I can't win...my cat Max is a BOY!!!! I was really ticked off when the receptionist at Belle's vet wrote down "Bill" instead of "Belle" [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img] As a person who works in the pet industry I find that VERY insulting...in all my years I have NEVER written down the wrong name for a pet. I always have the owner spell it out for me (some people have weird spellings for names). We had one dog at daycare named Snoop Dog...his dad would get VERY mad when the girls would call him Snoopy! My cat Dixon was called "Dixie" by a vet...Dixon was a BOY cat...certainly not a "Dixie". [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img]
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05-03-2006, 09:59 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: She is NOT A BOY!
Sorry, I can't see the big deal. I have 3 girls (children), everyone of them has been called a boy, usually while their VERY long hair is in a ponytail, and they have on dresses. Doesn't bother me. It's the tone of the voice the person is using and what they say other than sex disignation that matters, not whether they guess the sex of your dog correctly. (or my kid, for that matter)
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05-04-2006, 12:37 AM
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Community Rank: Scout
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Lansing, Michigan
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 4,890
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Re: She is NOT A BOY!
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I am so guilty of this myself. I automatically call every dog a HE unless I know the dog.
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Dogs are He's and cats are She's....aren't they? [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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05-04-2006, 05:34 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Houston
Posts: 5,162
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Re: She is NOT A BOY!
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Haha some breeds just look masculine and some look feminine.
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Apparently, boxers look manly because everybody calls Mieke a "he". Clearly they have never seen her with her purse. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502no_prv.gif[/img]
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05-06-2006, 02:30 PM
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Community Rank: Scout
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 4,613
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Re: She is NOT A BOY!
Hey, I feel your pain. My son had NO hair up until about his first birthday and people would constantly say, "Oh, she's so cute." How do you respond to that?
My favorite line was, "What's her name?" I said, "Adam." And then I would want to throw in, "See the MN Vikings outfit he's in, it's a boy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I dressed him as boyish as I could, to no avail!
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05-06-2006, 10:37 PM
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Batman's Gal/Mickey's Pal
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Owensboro, KY USA
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Re: She is NOT A BOY!
Poor Belle! My parents used to refer to all dogs as "he", I assumed because we always had male dogs. They now have their first girl dog, Millie, and so they usually check now before assuming a dog is male.
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