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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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07-19-2001, 01:29 PM
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Recovering VMK Addict!
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Location: Thornton, CO
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Martha\'s Way, My Way
Martha's way #1: Stuff a miniature marshmallow in the bottom of a sugar cone
to prevent ice cream drips.
My way: Just suck the ice cream out of the bottom of the cone, you are probably lying on the couch with your feet up eating it anyway.
Martha's way #2: Use a meat baster to "squeeze" your pancake batter onto the hot griddle and you'll get perfectly shaped pancakes every time.
My way: Buy the precooked kind you nuke in the microwave for 30 seconds. The hard part is getting them out of the plastic bag.
Martha's way #3: To prevent egg shells from cracking, add a pinch of salt to the water before hard boiling.
My way: Who cares if they crack, aren't you going to take the shells off anyway?
Martha's way #4: To easily remove burnt-on food from your skillet, simply add a drop or two of dish soap and enough water to cover bottom of pan, and bring to a boil on stovetop.
My way: Eat out every night and avoid cooking.
Martha's way #5: Spray your Tupperware with nonstick cooking spray before pouring in tomato based sauces and there won't be any stains.
My way: It’s Tupperware! Who cares?
Martha's way #6: When a cake recipe calls for flouring the baking pan, use a bit of the dry cake mix instead and there won't be any white mess on the outside of the cake.
My way: Go to the bakery. They'll even decorate it for you.
Martha's way #7: Place a slice of apple in hardened brown sugar to soften it.
My Way: Brown sugar is supposed to be "soft"?
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Martha's way #8: Cure for headaches: Take a lime, cut it in half and rub it on your forehead. The throbbing will go away.
My way: Martha, dear, the only reason this works is because you can't rub a lime on your forehead without getting lime juice in your eye, and then the problem isn't the headache
anymore, it is because you are now blind.
Martha's way #9: Don't throw out all that leftover wine. Freeze into ice cubes for future use in casseroles and sauces.
My way: Leftover wine?
Martha's way #10: Potatoes will take food stains off your fingers. Just slice and rub raw potato on the stains and rinse with water.
My way: Mashed potatoes will now be replacing the anti-bacterial soap in the handy dispenser next to my sink.
Martha's way #11: Now look what you can do with Alka Seltzer. * Clean a toilet. Drop in two Alka-Seltzer tablets, wait twenty minutes, brush and flush. The citric acid and effervescent action clean china. * Clean a vase. To remove a stain from the bottom of a glass vase or cruet, fill with water and drop in two Alka-Seltzer tablets. * Polish jewelry. Drop two Alka-Seltzer tablets into a glass of water and immerse the jewelry for two minutes. * Clean a thermos bottle. Fill the bottle with water, drop in four Alka-Seltzer tablets, and let soak for an hour (or longer, if necessary).
My way: Put your jewelry, vases, and thermos in the toilet. Add some Alka-Seltzer and you have solved a whole bunch of problems at once.
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07-19-2001, 01:34 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Connecticut
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Re: Martha\'s Way, My Way
cant type...laughing too hard....picking self up off floor..Phew! Okay, that is the funniest thing I have read in forever. I'm totally e-mailing that too a friend of mine. Fortissimo, you are too funny!!!!!
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07-19-2001, 01:51 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Lambertville, NJ
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Re: Martha\'s Way, My Way
You are too much! My co-workers want to know what my editorial column is about this month, since I'm supposed to be writing it, and laughing so hard! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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07-19-2001, 01:59 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Chapel Hill, NC USA
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Re: Martha\'s Way, My Way
When I saw your title I knew it would be something like this....but OH MY is this hilarious or what!!! You are a trip (and let me tell you, your way and my way are very close to being the same [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img](Well, maybe not that last one [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] ). -HiddenMickey
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07-19-2001, 03:05 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Orlando area via Chicago
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Re: Martha\'s Way, My Way
Thanks for the great laugh Fortissimo! I try to do My Way #4 as much as I can!!!
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07-19-2001, 03:06 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Cape May Court House NJ USA
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Re: Martha\'s Way, My Way
Fortissimo, did you come up with all of these???? [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] LOL.... If so, I think you have TOO much time on your hands... I can't stop laughing!!! I have to send this one on to my parents... right now they sure could use a good laugh. Thanks for brightening up the day....hehehehe... LOL....hehehehe....LOL... [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
You know what I think you need? [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
A QUICK TRIP TO WDW! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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07-19-2001, 03:08 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
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Location: Robbinsdale, MN
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Re: Martha\'s Way, My Way
Love those, Forti! Thanks for posting 'em.
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07-19-2001, 03:28 PM
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Recovering VMK Addict!
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Re: Martha\'s Way, My Way
Although I do have way too much time on my hands, I cannot take credit for these. A friend e-mailed them to me and I thought that we could all use a good laugh.
debe, I hope your parents get a kick out of it and bring a smile to their faces. I think your right, a quick trip to WDW sounds good!
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07-19-2001, 03:33 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Cape May Court House NJ USA
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Re: Martha\'s Way, My Way
A good laugh indeed we all seem to need after the past week or two... Can't thank you enough!!!! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
Have any more? Maybe you can spread them out to keep us laughing for a while [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
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07-19-2001, 03:51 PM
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Community Rank: Sightseer 
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Denton, TX USA
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Re: Martha\'s Way, My Way
I just love your way of thinking. It definitely shows a depth of creativity that many of us are missing! Now that I've stopped laughing hysterically and can try to type I've started wondering about that little voices question... Maybe they REALLY are talking to you now! [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] LOL!
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07-19-2001, 03:59 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Charlotte, NC USA
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Re: Martha\'s Way, My Way
You are TOO funny!!!! That warrants a Mickey Bar or Two or Three....
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07-19-2001, 07:27 PM
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Re: Martha\'s Way, My Way
Thank You! Thank You! That was the best laugh I've had this week. I have already forwarded it to 8 girlfriends who will love it just as much as I did. Who comes up with this stuff? [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
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07-19-2001, 08:00 PM
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Community Rank: Traveler 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Colleyville, Tx
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Re: Martha\'s Way, My Way
Fortissimo,
You definitely win the 'Mickey Bar Award of the Week' [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
I was laughing so hard it made me cry. That is hilarious! Thanks, I really needed that...isn't it Friday yet? I'm taking that with me to work tomorrow - everyone at my office needs a laugh.
Thanks - DisneyFan
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07-19-2001, 11:07 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: East Haven, CT, USA
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Re: Martha\'s Way, My Way
Fortisimmo, Thanks for a good laugh.
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07-19-2001, 11:26 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
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Re: Martha\'s Way, My Way
ROFL!! Martha has some great tips, if you can stand watching her long enough to get them!
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