Nine Eleven Decade

[Alex]

Personally, while looking for something specific I have ended up reading all of the threads started at MousePad on 9/11 and the couple days after. It is interesting to see the raw reactions again, some long forgotten names (Lacrosse Boy!), and just the odds and ends of what comes up in a niche focused community.

This first hand account from the only NYC member we knew of, who watched it from her apartment window:

Interesting to see CP noting the new security bag checks and that they seemed nice. Marla (aka HBTiggerFan) warning us all that an email that 9/11 was predicted by Nostradamus is a hoax, etc. Being reminded that even I wasn't so curmudgeonly to publicly resist the idea of using flags as avatars (though privately I continued to think using the flag as a display of anything meaningful to be silly at best). The behind-the-scenes discussion of how MousePlanet should cover it.

I'd completely forgotten about the moment of silence (after emptying all rides, stores, and offices) and parkwide playing of God Bless America at the park the next day.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Alex

This first hand .

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Well Pooh.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

Well Pooh.

You've been snubbed

[innerSpaceman]

Oh noes, I must have forgotten my mousepad login info. Oh well.

Originally Posted by Alex

I'd completely forgotten about the moment of silence (after emptying all rides, stores, and offices) and parkwide playing of God Bless America at the park the next day.

I wasn't in the Park that day, but I'll never forget them closing the Sleeping Beauty Walk-thru in the middle of mouse adventure on the day we started bombing Afghanistan roughly a month after nine eleven. There was a quest that took you thru the walk-thru and - like many mouse adventure unplanned glitches - we "wasted" time on that, while every team ended up getting automatic credit for the quest since it became un-doable mid-game. Heheh, not fair - but it was the last time we'd see the inside of the castle for about 8 years, and the very last time we'd see the hokey '70's version of the walk-thru.


Oh, also, thanks to the uber-patrioticness flooding the soul of the nation that year, Disneyland's 2002 Fourth of July fireworks were the Best Fireworks Show Ever in the History of Mankind.





Back more on track, but following this tangent a bit - - - We STILL have the absolutely useless Disneyland Bag Check to slow down and uglify our entry to the theme park area of the Resort. Pfft, I smuggle contraband into the Park on a regular basis, and could easily bring in a gun, a vial of anthrax, or even a small bomb with no effort. Stupid, lame, Nine-Eleven nonsense still with us.


Heheh, I guess it's the only part I personally deal with, since I'm not (yet) a terror suspect or anything like that - - and I doubt the government knows any more about me than facebook does. But I'm a privileged white boy living in Southern California. I think there's lots of people still living with the repercussions of nine eleven, and ten years is enough. Let's stop already! Sheesh.

[Gn2Dlnd]

Originally Posted by Alex

This first hand account from the only NYC member we knew of, who watched it from her apartment window:

So, I clicked on the link to her flick'r acct and was greeted with:

Salaam Gn2Dlnd!
Now you know how to greet people in Arabic!

And that was weird.