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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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10-13-2003, 10:13 AM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,365
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Search and rescue
Have you ever been hunting? Okay, might be a very silly question since the majority of the respondants here are gals - so how about your husbands/significant others?
I've not been ever, no real desire, but my neighbor has two huge deer heads mounted in his den and one of the guys in my Bible study group is an avid hunter and we've eaten much of his catch at their home before.
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10-13-2003, 10:14 AM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Posts: 5,094
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Re: Search and rescue
The only thing I ever hunted for was men back in my days as a single grrrl [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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10-13-2003, 10:15 AM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,365
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Re: Search and rescue
Quote:
Originally posted by TiggGrrrl:
The only thing I ever hunted for was men back in my days as a single grrrl [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">ROTFLOL! Classic! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] |
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10-13-2003, 10:27 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Longfellow's "Jewel by the Sea"
Posts: 14,165
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Re: Search and rescue
Nope, not into killing animals...nor would I ever choose a mate who is (MAJOR turn-off!)
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10-13-2003, 10:31 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Poinciana, Florida
Posts: 9,422
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Re: Search and rescue
Yep, used to bird and deer hunt back in the late 1960's and 1970's. In Massachusetts and Vermont. I was not very good at it.
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10-13-2003, 10:39 AM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,343
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Re: Search and rescue
Well, growing up all my uncles, cousins and grandfather hunted every deer season. I grew up in the Pinelands in NJ and that was just something you did. I have shot a 12G and 8G shotgun, practicing skeet. But now I wouldn't even consider it. I'm a healer not a killer. But all of my family has deer heads on their walls... [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] Except for me. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]
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10-13-2003, 01:12 PM
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Wannabe Snowbird
Join Date: May 2002
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 34,137
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Re: Search and rescue
I think I'm starting to sound like the Resident PassPorter Redneck with my fur-wearing and critter-killing! [img]graemlins/ukid.gif[/img]
I have hunted very small creatures. Only skunks, gophers and nuisance birds. I get no pleasure from killing the animals, but it was a necessity growing up on my farm. I was a good shot, and they never suffered. (trying to redeem myself here [img]graemlins/blush.gif[/img] ) I have not and have no desire to sport hunt.
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10-13-2003, 01:36 PM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 4,695
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Re: Search and rescue
I haven't but DH used to and would love to again if he could find the time. My dad used to duck hunt with our dogs. Mom and I trained our Golden Retrievers to hunt but we didn't actually kill any birds when we were training or testing them.
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10-13-2003, 02:50 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Posts: 27,691
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Re: Search and rescue
My dad is the ultimate hunter. He goes to Wyoming, Canada and Texas to hunt and has even been on safari in Zimbabwe.
He has too many heads to fit in his basement and is so excited about the vaulted ceilings in their new house to hang all his heads. It includes a buffalo, elk, zebra, cape buffalo, kudu, bush pig, too many else for me to remember. And the classic deer and bear.
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10-13-2003, 03:55 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Wisconsin
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 2,743
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Re: Search and rescue
I've never done it and really have no desire to sit outside in the cold waiting for something to come along for me to hunt. (Unless its a hot guy!) [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]
But I do have a couple of cousins who are avid deer hunters, both gun and bow, and we often get to sample what they bring home.
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10-13-2003, 04:27 PM
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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: Search and rescue
yes. We hunt for food, not sport.
Donna, you and I can be the resident rednecks together!LOL!!
This is the wonderful thing about FREEDOM!!! Some of us can hunt, some of us can hate it(and hate those who do it), HOWEVER, we all have the freedom to think and express our thoughts however we want!
WHOOPIE TO FREEDOM!!!!!!
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10-13-2003, 05:28 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: York, PA , USA
Posts: 2,022
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Re: Search and rescue
I don't hunt, personally, but all of my relatives do. My father used to, but never once got anything in 12 years of trying [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img] , so he gave up...
I'm anxiously awaiting the first deer meat of the season! [img]graemlins/yuma.gif[/img]
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10-13-2003, 05:54 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Durham,NC
Posts: 2,615
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Re: Search and rescue
Can't say that I've ever been out in the woods hunting. Although, last year one of my dad's nurses at his doctors' office showed up in the paper. Turns out, she had gone hunting and had captured an 8 point buck. [img]graemlins/ukid.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]
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10-13-2003, 06:24 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 7,478
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Re: Search and rescue
I don't hunt, but thank goodness someone does! After all, it would be a tad hypocritical for me, a meat, fowl, and fish eater, to eat it and then turn around and denounce it. [img]graemlins/wavin.gif[/img]
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