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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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08-03-2002, 11:14 AM
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Wannabe Snowbird
Join Date: May 2002
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 34,137
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Freakiest thing happened to me last night...
DH was barbqueing burgers last night, and he hollered at me to bring the wasp killer spray, he'd found another nest. So I rushed to put on shoes, find the spray and out the door I go. Sprayed the inside of the doghouse where the nest is. After the adrenaline rush of killing hundreds of insects wears off, I realize that my heel is stinging a little - no not from a wasp bite, but more like a thistle had stuck me. Into the house I go, take off my shoe, can't find the problem. We eat and my heel is still stinging/itching. After the dishes went in the dishwasher, I sat on the chesterfield to really inspect my foot. What the heck?...There's a hair growing out of my heel! About 3/4 inch long and black (I'm blonde) I couldn't pull it out, so my DH tried. He got it. All we can come up with is that I stepped on one of Goliath's guard hairs and it stuck in!!!! [img]graemlins/ukid.gif[/img] Totally freaky!
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08-03-2002, 01:07 PM
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Red Hot Momma~
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Port Saint Lucie, FL USA 90 minutes from WDW!
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 1,305
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Re: Freakiest thing happened to me last night...
Um, one word:
Huh? [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]
After killing all those wasps and walking around the back yard you get a hair caught in your foot!!!??? Come on now!
Maybe your mutating? Have you checked the rest of your feet to see if you have hair growing there too?
[img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img] lol [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]
Sorry to make light of your plight. It sounded so funny though! [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]
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08-03-2002, 02:13 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: North Central Ohio
Posts: 21,629
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Re: Freakiest thing happened to me last night...
Well now Donna, If you have to have a big ugly hair growing out somewhere...it's best to have it on your heal! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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08-03-2002, 06:51 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: BCV
Posts: 754
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Re: Freakiest thing happened to me last night...
I have tell you I laughed so hard DD said "Are you crying?!" when I read your post. That was the LAST thing I expected you to write. I hope you have recovered and I apologize for laughing.
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08-03-2002, 08:26 PM
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Wannabe Snowbird
Join Date: May 2002
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 34,137
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Re: Freakiest thing happened to me last night...
Heehee. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] I'm glad you guys "get" it. It was supposed to be an odd post. It's all true, and I didn't exaggerate about a thing. But that's how crazy I felt about finding a hair stuck in the bottom of my foot. Just one of those off the wall situations that seems to happen only to me!!  I can kill hundreds of wasps, but if I step on a dog hair it gets stuck in my foot!  |
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08-03-2002, 08:34 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Hooksett, NH
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 2,363
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Re: Freakiest thing happened to me last night...
Well you what they say about the hair of the dog that bites you. Of course, in this case is is the dog hair that bit you.  Good luck. |
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08-03-2002, 08:43 PM
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Mrs. Jack Sparrow
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Aboard the Black Pearl
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 21,228
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Re: Freakiest thing happened to me last night...
I'm glad it was only a dog hiar,I was shuddering at the thought of a wasp sting.
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08-03-2002, 09:16 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Poinciana, Florida
Posts: 9,422
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Re: Freakiest thing happened to me last night...
Wolf Woman!!!!!!! I think that was a 50's movie. [img]graemlins/ukid.gif[/img]
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08-04-2002, 10:17 AM
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Community Rank: Wayfarer 
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Posts: 113
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Re: Freakiest thing happened to me last night...
It was scary! You could see the "root" of the hair, buried like, 3 or 4 layers of skin down. It wasn't like HER hair, we could tell. Mom says it was almost like a porcupine quill! [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]
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08-05-2002, 12:53 AM
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Recovering VMK Addict!
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Thornton, CO
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 13,087
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Re: Freakiest thing happened to me last night...
See what happens when you spray stuff on a wasp nest? Poor little wasps. [img]graemlins/cry2.gif[/img]
i'm allergic to those little stinkers, so thanks for making my world a little safer! [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
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