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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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06-17-2002, 02:18 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Newtown Square, PA
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How did you meet your spouse or significant other?
How am I doin', Beaner?
Substitute silly question girl
[ 06-17-2002, 02:19 PM: Message edited by: Tara McCusker ]
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06-17-2002, 02:28 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Slate Belt, PA
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Re: How did you meet your spouse or significant other?
This is great, Tara!
Walt and I met at a poolhall when I was engaged to one of his friends. [img]graemlins/blush.gif[/img] Don't worry. The former friend was a total loser. Check out the thread from this weekend about the one moment that changed your life. That's our story!
Basically, I dumped the loser for Walt because Walt drinks tea. [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img]
[ 06-17-2002, 02:29 PM: Message edited by: Beaner ]
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06-17-2002, 02:30 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Newtown Square, PA
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Re: How did you meet your spouse or significant other?
Okay, here is my story. (You guys probably think I make half of my life up, but where would I get this stuff?!?) I met Muffin in the bank. I used to work there and I jipped him ten bucks and when he came back to get it, he asked me to go out to Denny's for a cup of coffee. He forgot his money [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img] and left his coat there so I would know that he was coming back. That is when I thought uh oh................. I really did get a very strange feeling that this would be a different relationship. I was engaged to someone else at the time ( how serious could that have been if I was having coffee with someone else?) and he also had a girlfriend. I also tried to dump him later, but he just wouldn't go away. Four kids and 20 years later, I guess it was fate!
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06-17-2002, 02:33 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Waxahachie, Texas
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Re: How did you meet your spouse or significant other?
Going down the road..he almost hit my car!! And when I whipped over into the nearest parking lot to make sure that I wasn't having heart attack. [img]graemlins/dizzy.gif[/img] I looked over and there he was! And we rolled down our windows and he said these wonderful words,"Are you okay, you almost hit me back there!" it was love at first site [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img]
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06-17-2002, 02:37 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
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Re: How did you meet your spouse or significant other?
I met my wife when I was 15 years old at a high school party. She was the ONLY person from a our rival high school that was there (she was friends with the girl whose house we were at) and we "hooked up" at the party (not THAT way!), I asked her out on a date, she said yes and the rest as they say is history! [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img] We dated exclusively through high school and college and I asked her to marry me the summer between our junior and senior year of college! It's been a storybook romance and I wouldn't change one chapter of it! [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img]
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06-17-2002, 02:38 PM
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Location: Way down south
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Re: How did you meet your spouse or significant other?
Those are great stories, mine is rather boring, we went to high school together. But my parents have a great story, my dad was in Germany in the Army and met my mom on a blind date!
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06-17-2002, 02:38 PM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: VERMONT
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Re: How did you meet your spouse or significant other?
DH and I were in the same class in Jr. High (where we really didn't know each other) and then in highschool, Freshman year he moved to the town I lived in and started riding my bus. One day we had a paper fight on the bus and it seemed like all of his paper was aimed at me. I thought that that was pretty peculiar and a few weeks later he called me. The rest is history.
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06-17-2002, 02:40 PM
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Community Rank: Scout
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: VERMONT
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Re: How did you meet your spouse or significant other?
DH and I were in the same class in Jr. High (where we really didn't know each other) and then in highschool, Freshman year he moved to the town I lived in and started riding my bus. One day we had a paper fight on the bus and it seemed like all of his paper was aimed at me. I thought that that was pretty peculiar and a few weeks later he called me. The rest is history.
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06-17-2002, 02:46 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Illinois
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Re: How did you meet your spouse or significant other?
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">Tara I loved that! [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img] LOVE!
I met DH (Peaches [img]images/icons/blush.gif[/img] )In High School. After his friend dumped me, DH gave me a call. We dated for about a year then broke up. 10 Years later, he came into where I worked for a haircut and we've been together ever since. I think that's fate too [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img] |
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06-17-2002, 02:50 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Wawayanda, NY
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Re: How did you meet your spouse or significant other?
We met at Baskin Robbins where we were both working weekends for extra money. He and I had also both worked there during high school but our paths never crossed. He spent most of his time living upstate New York and occasionally down in Ft. Lee, NJ with his mom (LONG story there). So when he graduated and moved back with his mom, that's when he picked up the weekend job and we met.
Funny thing is, at our wedding, we found out my dad and his aunt have known eachother for over 40 years! My dad was a close friend of the family! (Don't worry, we made sure we weren't even remotely related. [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img] )
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06-17-2002, 02:51 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Connecticut
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Re: How did you meet your spouse or significant other?
I was dating a LOSER, and he went to France with his parents. I was bored at home and decided to go visit one of my friends from college at his work. Well my DH thought the same thing and we started talking then. He called me and I dumped the LOSER and started dating my hubby! Six months later he asked me to marry him and 8 months after that we became husband and wife! In August it will be 13 years together, 12 years married, with 2 kids!
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06-17-2002, 02:58 PM
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Community Rank: Traveler 
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Maplewood, OH
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Re: How did you meet your spouse or significant other?
My DH and I met while working at a local family owned restaurant through school. I started there when I was just 12 years old! He was a cook and I was a dishwasher 2 years younger. I thought he was annoying at first, then he won me over. We've been together for almost 18 years now(October) and have been married almost 15 years (December) and have 3 beautiful daughters.
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06-17-2002, 03:01 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Connecticut
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 16,825
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Re: How did you meet your spouse or significant other?
On the Internet!! [img]images/icons/blush.gif[/img]
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06-17-2002, 03:04 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Chapel Hill, NC USA
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Re: How did you meet your spouse or significant other?
At work. We worked in the same restaurant. -HiddenMickey
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06-17-2002, 03:05 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 1,608
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Re: How did you meet your spouse or significant other?
I met Ken through a personal ad he placed on AOL. I was the only one who answered his ad, so he was stuck with me!! LOL!!
Seriously though, I knew on our first date that this was something special!
We got married the one day after the 5th anniversary of our first date!
I couldn't have asked for a nicer guy!! [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img] Well, I could have, but I wouldn't have found one!
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