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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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01-01-2002, 09:06 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Durham,NC
Posts: 2,615
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Re: Two silly questions of the day 12/30
I have thoroughly enjoyed reading each and every one of these. Life can be embarrassing can't it? [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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01-02-2002, 07:05 AM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,365
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Re: Two silly questions of the day 12/30
This one is good enough to keep going for another day! Theses are just so funny! Anyone else?
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01-02-2002, 08:20 AM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Slate Belt, PA
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 15,346
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Re: Two silly questions of the day 12/30
After all these years, I thought I had the most embarrassing thing happen to me. Mine isn't even really worth mentioning. All of your moments nearly made me pee, I laughed so hard.
I was in 9th grade and sang in the school choir. We were warming up before the spring concert for our parents. I think we were sining Tuxedo Junction (Manhattan Transfer, anyone?) and I'm blithely Doo - Wopping along and suddenly realize I'm the only one singing. I had gotten distracted from watching the director (the girl standing next to me on the riser was wear the same dress as I was and had failed to mention it [img]images/icons/mad.gif[/img] ) and I just kept right on singin'.
Now this was right before our big performance, not exactly a great confidence booster for the rest of the choir. The director took me aside and asked me to just not sing if I couldn't remember the words... [img]images/icons/blush.gif[/img] How embarrassing...
My dream job would be a Disney secret shopper. Get paid to shop and test CM's customer service skills while be everyone's least favorite customer!!! [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] I've spent too many years in customer service. I would be such an evil customer... [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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01-02-2002, 10:07 AM
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Community Rank: Traveler 
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Keith County, Nebraska
Posts: 366
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Re: Two silly questions of the day 12/30
I just logged on after returning from our 14 day stay in the world and don't have time to discuss the trip here, but found this topic so hysterical I had to add. But I have to tell you, I thought long and hard about this one . . . but, well none of you really know me right? And just for my comforts sake, "none of the following can be published without the authors written permission!" And as a warning, maybe females only should read further.
I was very young when I had my first daughter. I was very new to the whole OB/GYN thing. Anyway, everything went fine and it was time for our first visit to the Dr. after her birth. We get in the room, and the nurse says that he will do a complete exam so I disrobe and use their to paper covers. One with a slit for the top and the other is basicly like a small sheet for the bottom.
I had been to this Family Practice Dr. for several years and liked him a lot. He always made me feel like a person, not a stupid teenager (which I was) and it didn't hurt that he was a dreamboat . . a little like Tom Selleck only shorter. Anyway, there I am all laid out and in he walks, with FIVE students in tow. He asks if it's alright for the students to observe. I mumble something under my breathe and hope this goes really fast. They all hang over me and he does the top check, then comes the bottom and he tells me to "scoot down", so I do, all the way to the end. He is finally finished and turns to move out of the way and I automatically sit up. Well, I didn't scoot back first, and yes your right, I slid right off the end of the table onto the floor. The bottom sheet went flying and the little step was still pulled out so I bounced off of that, off of his roller stool and onto the floor.
Ofcourse, being the six gentlemen that they are, they all run to my rescue, grap my hands and the sheet and try to help me up, ask me if I'm alright, etc. My back is bleeding and I just want them all to GO AWAY! Dr. Brooke finally sees that I'm mortified and asks the others to leave and the nurse to step in (she had been watching the baby). As the students file out I can hear them all trying very hard not to laugh, but burst into hysterics when they get outside the door. The nurse comes in and helps me put myself back together and Dr. tells me not to worry about a thing (yeah, right).
As we're leaving I see three of the students in the hallways and none of us can look at each other.
Anyway, things work out I guess. My daughter is now in her last year of Pharmacy school and will graduate with her Doctorate in May and she has three sisters and a brother who will be there to watch. And as a wierd side note, turns out my Dr. who lived in the middle part of our state, was gay and was caught with several other "prominent" locals, ended up loosing his family and practice and moving to California. I was really sad when I heard about it, he was a wonderful physician.
And now I would like to change my name . . . to protect the guilty.
In my reliving of my embarassment, I almost forgot to add my dream job. I think it would be so fun to work at one of the gift shops in MK. I would meet so many different people and I love working retail.
[ 01-02-2002: Message edited by: Swazie ]
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01-02-2002, 07:11 PM
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Guide since 2003
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: West Mifflin, PA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 11,546
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Re: Two silly questions of the day 12/30
Oh gosh.. reading all of these made me think of two more embarassing moments.. these one's happening to me.. The first one is gross too! [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]
When my Ex-husband & I were enganged we were driving with my Mom to go to a flea market about 1 hr from home.. Well, I had to go to the bathroom ( #1) really bad & we stopped at a McDonalds but it was so busy there were lines to get into the rest room.. I couldn't hold it so I told Ex DH to drive with my Mom in the front & I would get in the back seat & use a cup.. well, I did my 'business' & then proceeded to throw the cup out the window.. & you guessed it.. As soon as I threw it I realized my mistake .. Never throw liquid out of a fast moving vehicle it came back & hit my Mom square in the face [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] She was so good natured about it & laughing hysterically & said " You peed on me when you were a baby, I never thought it would happen now!"
My second embarssing incident was last year at my sons school.. I was leaving the building & a car was coming in the parking lot.. I stopped to let her go & she waved me on.. Well, I didn't want to make her wait so I was hurrying along & tripped & rolled down the parking lot.. I was so embarassed especially after I got home & went to the DR for it & found out I had broken my foot again ( in another embarsasing incident I acidentally kicked my sweeper running after DD)
I've been loving reading these stories
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01-03-2002, 09:27 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,365
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Re: Two silly questions of the day 12/30
I'm gonna bump this one up again - it's just SOOOOOO funny! Anyone else?
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