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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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09-10-2003, 09:50 AM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,365
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Smokin\' in the boys room!
Did you ever take a puff of a cigarette when you were a kid? How old were you? Did you cough and hack? Did you get caught by your parents?
Signed,
Smokeless in Virginia even though I worked for Philip Morris
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09-10-2003, 09:54 AM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Newtown Square, PA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 23,859
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Re: Smokin\' in the boys room!
I refuse to answer this question! I have four teenagers who may just pop in here from time to time and anyway, I was an angel!! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/wavin.gif[/img]
Signed,
Your kids do not need to know everything you did before they were around! [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]
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09-10-2003, 10:00 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Poinciana, Florida
Posts: 9,422
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Re: Smokin\' in the boys room!
Yeah, I smoked for a bit when I was in high school, 10th grade. Only for a few months, could not get used to it.
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09-10-2003, 10:01 AM
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Wannabe Snowbird
Join Date: May 2002
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 34,137
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Re: Smokin\' in the boys room!
My kids don't look on this board anymore, so I'll confess. I was about 10 or 11 years old and my sister was 2 years younger. My Mom went out to the garden to pick some veggies. Our garden was about 1 mile away from our farmhouse so we figured we had 10 minutes. We each stole a smoke from her package she'd left in the house, crouched down behind the chair that was in front of the window we needed to watch to see when she was driving back and we puffed our brains out. She never caught us although I'm sure she likely noticed less cigarettes in her pack. I can't remember being sick from it, I do remember coughing a little. That was the first and last cigarette I ever smoked.
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09-10-2003, 10:03 AM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Posts: 27,691
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Re: Smokin\' in the boys room!
We used to smoke all the time when we were drinking [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img] Don't remember coughing and hacking the first time, just that it made my eyes water. Tell me again why we thought that was "cool" [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img]
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09-10-2003, 10:07 AM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 1,352
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Re: Smokin\' in the boys room!
Never smoked. Never wanted to. Never will. [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]
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09-10-2003, 10:35 AM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Parsippany,NJ
Posts: 3,235
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Re: Smokin\' in the boys room!
Quote:
Originally posted by DisneyMomma:
Never smoked. Never wanted to. Never will. [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">Exactly the same for me. |
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09-10-2003, 10:39 AM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Posts: 5,094
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Re: Smokin\' in the boys room!
Quote:
Originally posted by Janet 46:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">Originally posted by DisneyMomma:
Never smoked. Never wanted to. Never will. [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">Exactly the same for me. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">Ditto [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] |
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09-10-2003, 10:54 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: North Dakota aka frozen wastelands
Posts: 2,025
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Re: Smokin\' in the boys room!
tried once, threw up and never again
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09-10-2003, 11:27 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: New York City
Posts: 2,471
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Re: Smokin\' in the boys room!
I remember the first time my friend and I put our two quarters together and bought our first pack. He could buy cigs without a note from an adult because his mom smoked. I was 9. I smoke until WDW put their absurd restrictive rules about smoking on property.
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09-10-2003, 11:56 AM
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RED SOX NATION!!
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Connecticut
Concierge Level: 9
Posts: 136,854
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Re: Smokin\' in the boys room!
Never!! My Mom smokes. I never realized that I smelled like smoke too until I moved out when I went to college [img]images/icons/mad.gif[/img] Yuck!
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09-10-2003, 01:36 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Slate Belt, PA
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 15,346
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Re: Smokin\' in the boys room!
Started smoking at 12 years old and actually really liked it. [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img] Quit 11 years later, 2 years ago this past July 1st. Best thing I've ever done for myself. Although, I do still enjoy the smell of a cigarette - so sue me! [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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09-10-2003, 02:18 PM
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Community Rank: Traveler 
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Virginia
Posts: 248
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Re: Smokin\' in the boys room!
Never - Ever.
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09-10-2003, 02:49 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: North Central Ohio
Posts: 21,629
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Re: Smokin\' in the boys room!
Tried it once when I was in Junior High. YUK!! [img]graemlins/dizzy.gif[/img]
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09-10-2003, 03:18 PM
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Community Rank: Traveler
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Kissimmee, FL
Posts: 302
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Re: Smokin\' in the boys room!
I did, but it was too hard. I never got caught. I watched my brother get caught and thought better of even trying. Never smoked anything harder either. Once in a great great while when I'm drinkin gway too much, I'll have one. Eric smokes now and he's agreed to quit before we get to the World.
Eric and I have talked about how to broach that whole topic with our kids, but we'll get there when we get there. WE have a wedding to get through first.
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