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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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04-24-2002, 01:20 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
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Embarrassing Memories?
We're all friends here, right? So who here has an embarrassing story to share?
I'll go ahead and start (sadly, I have many to choose from): I lost my wife on my wedding night.
We were married in Dallas, and booked a suite in the DFW Marriott so we'd be near the airport for our flight to Orlando the next morning. Well, the suite was on a special floor that you could only get to if you inserted your room key in the elevator. And of course, when we checked in we only got one room key -- after all, why would we EVER be apart that evening?
Yep, you can see it coming. When we arrived at the floor, I chose to unload the luggage from the elevator while my darling bride waited. Bad choice. The doors closed behind me and she was gone. And I had the only key -- she couldn't get back!
This was one of those life-flashing-before-your-eyes moments as I quickly realized that I might not see my lovely wife again at a time when we REALLY wanted to see each other! Thinking quickly, I summoned another elevator and, abandoning our luggage in the hallway, rode down to the lobby. Her elevator was just arriving in the lobby when I got there (due to a bit of fortuitous timing, it had made a couple of stops on the way down, while I rode directly down). She had been near-tearfully trying to explain to situation to a guy in the elevator when she spotted me. We rode back up together, and I let her get out first this time!
No, the whole event didn't last long, but it sure was traumatic at the time!
Okay, now... time for your stories!
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04-24-2002, 01:41 PM
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Re: Embarrassing Memories?
ROTF!
Are you kidding! I'm the king of getting himself into embarassing situations... I'll pick two to tell you about.
First one: I was in eigth grade and I had a rather large (in terms of physical size) English teacher for 4th period. Lunch divided the class into two sessions and the teacher was CONSTANTLY late back to class after lunch. We used to joke that she wasn't finished eating (kids are so mean [img]images/icons/frown.gif[/img] ). Anyway, one day as I was the last kid walking into class I'd had enough. I was going to be cool. As I entered the class I said "So I wonder where the fat b#*&h is". The mortified look of my classmates assured me that she was standing right behind me, which she was. I wanted to die. (Fortunately, it did teach me an important life lesson on people and feelings)
Second instance: A couple of summer's ago, I was at an after hours work happy hour. I had a pair of shorts on and after a few beers needed to hit the restroom. Well, as I came back to the table - where about 10 of my colleagues were sitting - they all started to laugh at me. As it turned out - not only was my fly open to my shorts, but my boxer shorts' fly was GAPING open, too. Everyone got a nice flash, including my female boss. [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] LOL!
Oh, I could go on and on and on and on....
[ 04-24-2002, 01:46 PM: Message edited by: Dadtojbj ]
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04-24-2002, 02:40 PM
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Re: Embarrassing Memories?
An embarrassing memory?
I personally don't have one. [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img]
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04-24-2002, 03:09 PM
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Re: Embarrassing Memories?
That's okay because I MORE than make up for it! [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] LOL!
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04-24-2002, 03:13 PM
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Re: Embarrassing Memories?
Oh good does that mean you're going to share more tales with us Steve?! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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04-24-2002, 03:14 PM
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Location: Rantoul, IL and Orlando, Fl
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Re: Embarrassing Memories?
wow. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] I don't have one THAT embarassing! [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]
hmm.. all I'ver had was minor embarrassments [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]
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04-24-2002, 03:31 PM
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Re: Embarrassing Memories?
It's kinda hard to say anything after you, Steve. Why don't you share some more moments with us? [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]
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04-24-2002, 03:45 PM
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Re: Embarrassing Memories?
Oh come on ya'll - it's all relative in the big scheme of things - fess up! [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]
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04-24-2002, 04:32 PM
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Re: Embarrassing Memories?
LOL, Dadtojbj! I, too, had an open-fly event. Unfortunately, mine was onstage...
...with children...
...while seated...
...in a church Christmas pageant...
...during taping for later TV broadcast!
Fortunately, we were also taping another performance, so my, um, mistake never made it to air. (I did learn later that the cameramen and control room personnel were having great fun zooming in on my open fly!) [img]graemlins/blush.gif[/img]
BTW, Forti, I don't believe you. Come on, out with your stories!
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04-24-2002, 04:58 PM
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Re: Embarrassing Memories?
Okay, my embarassing moment is more utter humiliation, so here goes...
I was at a business dinner at a VERY expensive NY restaurant and ordered oysters on the halfshell as an appetizer. They tasted wonderful, and I love oysters, so I ate the whole dozen by myself. Unfortunately, one (or more) of them had turned.
And here's where the wheels fell off the wagon...turns out that bad oysters make you sicker than I ever thought possible for longer than I thought possible. It also turns out that bad oysters are exacerbated by alcohol (i.e. the two drinks I had with dinner). I only have very vague memories of leaving the restaurant and getting back in the limo before I blacked out, then I proceded to throw up for the next 18 hours. Fortunately, I have the best boss in the world and he smuggled me out and got me home without anyone knowing anything was going on.
I haven't eaten an oyster since, and don't think I ever will.
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04-24-2002, 04:59 PM
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Re: Embarrassing Memories?
ROTF, Brad! Come on the rest of ya'll -- give it up!
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04-24-2002, 06:50 PM
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Re: Embarrassing Memories?
I have one very embarrassing moment.
It takes place at my wedding. We had the traditional New Orleans Wedding (big church,Catholic the whole thing). My DH was wearing a mic for the video. During the presentation of roses to Mary I had to walk up a few steps. I steped on the underskirt of my dress which came untied. Thank goodness it did not fall off, but what I did was almost as bad. When it happened I just blurted out "s**t". DH threw his hand over the mic. A few of the bridesmaids heard it and one of the alter boys, but no one else (ie. the prest or my grandmother). The videographer was nice enough to edit that part out. But to top it all off I still had to go through about 20 more minutes of the ceremony with my underskirt about to fall off. I still reflect on that and think what a classy lady I am (haha).
Katie
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04-24-2002, 07:40 PM
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Re: Embarrassing Memories?
I've had way too many embarrassing moments in my life.
In 1998 I was the head guard over all of the lifeguards at a water park here in Denver. The water park is just down the street from a fire departmant, who responded to any emergency we had. I just happened to have a major crush on one of the firemen.
We had had temperatures over 100º for several days and people were passing out from heat exhaustion. I got a call that someone had passed out at one of the slides, so I ran over there. I ran over hot astro turf on a day which was over 100 and I hadn't eaten lunch because I hadn't had time. I also had bronchitis, but I'm one of those people who hate to call in sick.
We get the boy to our first aid room and his dad requests that we call the ambulance for him. While our park EMT was with the boy, I got another call and ran over the astro turf again.
See where this is going yet?
We get this girl back to our firstaid room and I sit in a chair. As the firemen walked into the first aid room, one of the paramedics comes over to me. I say I'm fine and point to the two kids. The fireman I have a crush on comes over to me. I repeat that I'm fine. He and another paramedic try to tell me I'm not fine. I insist that I am. Did you guys know I very stubborn?
The paramedic says to me, "if you're fine stand up." To prove that I'm fine and they are crazy I stood up.
I then immediately passed out at their feet.
I came too an hour later in the ER.
How many of you can say you passed out at the feet of a gorgeous guy?
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04-24-2002, 08:42 PM
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Re: Embarrassing Memories?
ok, my most embarrassing moment happened when I was 12. I was standing at the top of the stairs of our porch with my mother and brother. It was summer time and I had just gotten out of the baby pool in our yard. We were talking to a group of teenage boys from the nieghborhood, who some of them I found I found very cute, you know, the young girls crush lol. Well, my brother snuck up behind me and pulled my bikini bottoms down. I thought I was going to die of embarrassment [img]graemlins/blush.gif[/img] I ran and hid in my room in tears for the rest of the afternoon.
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04-24-2002, 09:28 PM
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Re: Embarrassing Memories?
OMG! I am totally laughing out loud on that one! How utterly hysterical! ROTF! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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