FReeper Canteen ~ Flashback Friday: 1991 ~ 24 June 2005

StarCMC;Kathy In Alaska;MoJo2001; The Canteen Crew

[MoJo2001]

 

 

~ Flashback Friday ~
Year: 1991

Welcome to Flashback Friday!
Each Friday we will take a journey back in time.
We will highlight a year and then you'll have the opportunity to give your thoughts, opinions, and stories.
This week we're jumping back to 1991.

1991 Questions!
We Want To Know

1. Were you in school?
2. Were you in the military?
3. What kind of music were you listening to?
4. What do you recall as the best memory from 1991?

Events that occurred in 1991

- January 16th, Operation Desert Storm begins

- February 4th, Baseball votes to ban Pete Rose

-February 27 - Gulf War: Kuwait is liberated, and a ceasefire is declared, after 100 hours of ground fighting. Iraq accepts the terms of the ceasefire, which call for the country to disarm.

-March 3
An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
Latvia and Estonia vote to become independent of the Soviet Union

-August
August 6 - Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the "World Wide Web."
August 8 - Collapse of Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built

August 18 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is put under house arrest while vacationing in the Crimea. The putsch is led by eight high-ranking hard-liners, and will collapse in less than 72 hours.

August 20 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Estonia declares its independence from the Soviet Union and more than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup that deposed President Mikhail Gorbachev

August 21 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Latvia declares its independence from the Soviet Union

August 24 - Ukraine declares independence from Soviet Union

August 25 - Student Linus Torvalds post a messages to Usenet newsgroup comp.os.minix about the new operating system kernel he has been developing.

August 31 - Kyrgyzstan declares independence from the Soviet Union

December 25 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union

December 26 - Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union

December 31 - Soviet Union officially ceases to exist
 

Entertainment/Sports

Super Bowl XXV was played on January 27, 1991 in Tampa, Florida. The New York Giants beat the Buffalo Bills 20 to 19.

The Minnesota Twins won the World Series of the Atlanta Braves

 

Hit Music From 1991

Color Me Badd - I Wanna Sex You Up*

EMF - Unbelievable

Amy Grant - Baby, Baby

Boyz II Men - Motownphilly

Mariah Carey - Someday

Londonbeat - I've Been Thinking About You

Scorpions - Winds Of Changes

Marky Marky and The Funky Bunch - Good Vibrations

Damn Yankees - High Enough

Bryan Adams - Everything I Do I Do It For You

C&C Music Factory - Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)

Extreme - More Than Words

Tesla - Signs

 

* denotes music that isn't suitable for children or Ma!

 

 

[MoJo2001]

I prefer Tollhouse.

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Bethbg79]

I'd rather work at night and sleep in the day, but I only need 4 hours of daylight to keep this other thing going. Don't know what club yet. Have to get my license first! LOL

[EsmeraldaA]

OH ! YEYYY!


CHOCOLATE! Finally! comfort food!

[Bethbg79]

Picky Picky Picky! Coookies is coookies and coookies is good for you.

[luvie]

I am enjoying it! It just ends too soon. I could just spend days watching the bunnies and the hummingbirds. Then there is a pair of starlings that want so bad to build a nest under the porch eaves, but they make a mess so my aunt has to shoo them off. It's just different out here. It is where I always came to visit my grandparents when I was little.....so it means a lot, this little area of Texas!

[NYTexan]

Sounds perfect!

Varmint shootin' is my favorite pastime!



Maybe yer Aunt will leave it to ya in her will!

[GodBlessUSA]

It's good you can be on line. It would be hard if you didn't have access to a computer. I remember a vacation with no computer access. I couldn't believe how much I missed it. :) When do you return from your visit?

I wish I could stay. It's getting late here. I hope to see you tomorrow!

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Desiderata

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.

Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

Max Erhman

Good night Cantteners and Troops..

God Bless and keep you always..

Ms.B

[luvie]

Yeah!.....and you'll get the hang of it, too, when you have moved down here! How long before that happens--or is it determined yet that it will happen?

[EsmeraldaA]

Yes, but what about the daddy question? LOL!

[Bethbg79]

Beautiful Ms B. Rest well Cyber Ma. Lovin ya!

[Bethbg79]

We think Ma had some wilder younger years. There's way too many of us running around not all looking alike, ya know? hehe

[MoJo2001]

Bethy, Esmeralda is already perfect.
She wants to know who our Daddy is.

Well Ma??
Who's Esmeralda's daddy?
Huh? Huh? Huh? Well? Huh??

[EsmeraldaA]

We need our sugar, OH YEAH!

[EsmeraldaA]

I don't care, I'll have it all!!

[luvie]

My aunt would love you, then, if you would shoot the varmints! They killed a rattle snake last week on the very back porch we were sitting on this morning! It was curled up under the lawn mower taking a nap in the shade. I always watch where I put my feet when I step out the door around here!

If she left it to me I'm afraid her sons would be very upset, LOL,--but I would seriously be willing to buy the place from them. But, there's MR.LUV, and I don't know how he would feel about living in the country--he's never done it--well since he was an infant in Missouri.

[luvie]

Hi, Valerie! Saw your picture---finally (hate dial-up!!!)--of that band. They were cute! I haven't read all the posts, were they good, too?

[GodBlessUSA]

Me too. I would love to sit and see Bunnies, Roadrunners and Hummingbirds. Listening to coyotes. That sound like a dream to have Hummingbirds buzzing around your head. What a wonderful memory you have of visiting your Grandparents. To be there, you must be reliving those happy memories too. :)

I would have to shoo those starlings too. Now if they were a different bird, I would let them nest. LOL!

Good night, LuvW! :)

[Kathy in Alaska]