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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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04-25-2002, 10:54 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Slate Belt, PA
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What\'s your favorite song to...
What's your favorite song to...
clean to?
relax to?
kick off your shoes and dance to?
roll down the car windows and sing at the top of your lungs to?
Just curious.
I love to clean to anything from Jimmy Buffet's Songs You Know by Heart Album and Verdi's Violetta's Waltz.
To relax, I love Enya's Memory of Trees.
The one song that makes me kick off my shoes to dance to is a techno remix that DH made for me of the bagbipe funeral song from Braveheart (weird choice, I know... [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img] ).
And Shakira's Whenever, Wherever makes me roll down the windows and sing like I have my headphones on (you know what I mean, when you think no one is listening to you... [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] ).
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04-25-2002, 11:15 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Kyle, Texas
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Re: What\'s your favorite song to...
clean to?
Anything by Creedence Clearwater Revival
relax to?
No Solo A Ti - Beto & The Fairlanes
kick off your shoes and dance to?
Shut Up And Kiss Me - Mary Chapin Carpenter
roll down the car windows and sing at the top of your lungs to?
Rock & Roll All Night - Kiss (from the Unplugged album) or Dirty Deeds - AC/DC
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04-25-2002, 11:21 PM
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Community Rank: Passenger 
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Texas
Posts: 42
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Re: What\'s your favorite song to...
Let's see--the old "clean the house" standards are The Best of Laverne Baker and The Best of Jackie Wilson.
Best of the Smithereens is good for scrubbing too. I also like Johnny Cash and U2. But don't ask me how clean my house is [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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04-25-2002, 11:33 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Cape May Court House NJ USA
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Re: What\'s your favorite song to...
Give me anything Yanni and I am happy!
But to get myself moving around the house I enjoy putting in the CD's I have of Off Kilter [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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04-25-2002, 11:37 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Re: What\'s your favorite song to...
Not a big fan of house cleaning [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] , but Josh Groban has an EXCELLENT CD to relax to and I'll kick off my shoes, dance and sing WAY out loud to anything by U2 - my favorite band! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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04-25-2002, 11:44 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Slate Belt, PA
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Re: What\'s your favorite song to...
Does anyone know the name of the song from the opening credits of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil? It goes something like, "At last, (something, something) has come along..." It's driving me crazy!
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04-26-2002, 08:21 AM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 1,138
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Re: What\'s your favorite song to...
Well, I don't clean, so that category is out.
For relaxation, I'd probably go with anything by Sting (though "Island of the Blue Turtles" does have a slight edge) or Sarah McLachlan's "Fumbling Towards Ecstacy."
When I go into work on Saturday to cleanup my desk I love to listen to Depeche Mode.
And, after a really, really bad day at work I get in my car, put in the soundtrack to "Rent," and sing really loud the whole way home...it never fails to lift my spirits.
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04-26-2002, 08:49 AM
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Faith, Trust, Pixie Dust
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Sasquatch Territory, Pacific Northwest
Concierge Level: 8
Posts: 17,166
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Re: What\'s your favorite song to...
clean to= Anything by the Dixie Chicks
relax to=Anything by Andrea Boccelli
kick off your shoes and dance to= B-52's "Love Shack"
roll down the car windows and sing at the top of your lungs to= Aerosmith's CD, "The Big Ones",
-OR- U2 greatest Hits
[ 04-26-2002, 08:51 AM: Message edited by: DebiDebiDebi ]
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04-26-2002, 09:55 AM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Florida Big Bend
Posts: 17,133
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Re: What\'s your favorite song to...
Ok I tend to go through "phases" in my music listening but for now I'd have to go with the following:
clean to? Kate Bush, En Vogue, any kind of reggae (IE: Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, etc etc), kinda depends on my mood at the time
relax to? Eagles, Sting, Van Morrison, Annie Lenox, Mikis Theodorakis (Greek - did soundtrack to "Never on Sunday" to name a few of his better known things), Fine Young Cannibals
kick off your shoes and dance to? UB40, Depeche Mode, Yazz (and whatever Vince Lapari and Andy? called themselves after Alison Moliet left)
roll down the car windows and sing at the top of your lungs to? The Songs of West Side Story covered by various current artists; Fine Young Cannibls; and U2 (Preferably "Under a Blood Red Sky").
For me music can be very therapeutic. When I start feeling down I try to "uplift myself" with bright fast music.
I would like to start listening to Andrea Boccelli as I recently heard a recording of his and that voice of his is incredible!
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04-26-2002, 01:36 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Orlando area via Chicago
Posts: 5,424
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Re: What\'s your favorite song to...
When cleaning, I listen to the Disney Legacy of Song VOl 2. It includes songs from Mary Poppins thru Beauty. I usually end up singing "A Spoonful of Sugar" at the top of my lungs. It actually does work. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]
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04-26-2002, 04:54 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: What\'s your favorite song to...
Here's my answers & a couple other choices...
clean to? You are all going to laugh but when my oldest niece was 'into'New kids on the block she used to make me listen to them incesantly & I got hooked on the "Step by Step" album & love to listen to it when I clean...
relax to? Anything Luther Vandross.. what a voice!
kick off your shoes and dance to? Anything disco ( okay I'm a child of the 70's)
roll down the car windows and sing at the top of your lungs to? "Faithfully" by Journey
Okay, here's a couple more choices,...
Favorite song to
make you cry: "I went to your wedding" by Patti Paige ( VERY old son) "Turn Around" By Harry Belafonte & "Mama".. Oh okay I'm a blubberball & cry at ANY sad or touching song...
Make you remember your teens ( or youth): Gotta be Puppy Love by Donny Osmond.. I can hear that & remember the Osmond concerts.. I've got a tape of his most recent concert tour & he sang Puppy Love & I screamed acted like a teenybopper again.
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04-26-2002, 10:04 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Corsicana, Texas, USA
Posts: 2,027
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Re: What\'s your favorite song to...
It takes more than good music for me to want to clean my house!!! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
This is kinda goofy but there's a Christmas song by Vince Vance and the Vallients (sp) "All I Want for Christmas is You" and I can just belt that one out goin down the road (by myself of course!) Although the other day I heard "Crazy Train" by Ozzy and I cranked that up! I was NEVER an Ozzy fan! Oh, well...blast from the past I guess. [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]
I love most late 70's & 80's music.
[ 04-26-2002, 10:06 PM: Message edited by: SMG ]
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