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FReeper Canteen ~ Flashback Friday 1985 ~ 01 July 2005
Posted on 06/30/2005 7:03:48 PM PDT by MoJo2001
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~ Flashback Friday ~ Year: 1985 |
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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 1985. |
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1985 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 1985? |
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Events that occurred in 1985
- Live Aid attempts to raise funds for famine relief.- January 20 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan is sworn in for a second term in office.
-February 1 - AM stereo broadcasting starts in Australia. -March 11 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and de facto leader of the Soviet Union. -March 20 - Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod dog sled race.
June 6 - The body of Josef Mengele is located and exhumed in Brazil. June 14 - TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah. July 10 - The Greenpeace vessel, the Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents September 1 - A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic. October 7 - The passenger ship Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestinians.
December 27 - American naturalist Dian Fossey is found murdered in Rwanda. 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 |
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Entertainment/Sports Super Bowl XIX: San Francisco 49ers won 38-16 over the Miami Dolphins April 1 - Villanova University's "perfect upset" of Georgetown University and Patrick Ewing for the NCAA Basketball Championship. World Series: The Kansas City Royals defeat the St. Louis Cardinals 4 games to 3, becoming the first team to come back from a 3 to 1 deficit to win a series in baseball February 8 - After 5-1/2 years, the television series The Dukes of Hazzard goes off the air. June - Alexey Pajitnov develops Tetris at the Moscow Academy of Science for the Electronica 60 computer. November - Microsoft releases the first version of Windows. The Nintendo Entertainment System is released in the U.S. |
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Hit Music From 1985 Wham - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World Dire Straits - Money For Nothing Sheena Easton - Sugar Walls* USA For Africa - We Are The World Stevie Wonder - Part Time Lover New Edition - Cool It Now Honeydrippers - Sea Of Love Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok Sade - Smooth Operator Katrina & The Waves - Walking On Sunshine Madonna - Dress You Up Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA The Time - Jungle Love* |
* denotes music that isn't suitable for children or Ma! |
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; Kathy in Alaska; Fawnn; bentfeather; HiJinx; tomkow6; Radix; Spotsy; ...
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posted on
06/30/2005 8:32:51 PM PDT
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: StarCMC
A Farm sound great! Get some pictures. :) I'm going to have to look into visiting a farm with my daughter. She would love that! We have smaller farms out this way but I would love to take her to a large farm. Have a Great Time!
Poor Hubby will probably be thrilled to be home. He was so angry. He had no idea and I don't think he would have gone this week had they told him. Maybe that's why they didn't.
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posted on
06/30/2005 8:33:33 PM PDT
by
GodBlessUSA
(US Troops, past, present and future, God Bless You and Thank You! Prayers said for our Heroes!)
To: Army Air Corps; qam1; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; Kathy in Alaska; Fawnn; HiJinx; Radix; Spotsy; ...
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posted on
06/30/2005 8:33:46 PM PDT
by
MoJo2001
(Support Our Troops-->It's The Least Any Of Us Can Do...www.proudpatriots.org)
To: laurenmarlowe
That middle picture appears to be somewhere along I-17.
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posted on
06/30/2005 8:34:06 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(We did not lose in Vietnam. We left.)
To: qam1
Ahhh.. 1985. I turned 13 that year, and remember the word to every song listed above!
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posted on
06/30/2005 8:34:20 PM PDT
by
Sweet_Sunflower29
(My poor cat has a broken leg.... and a huge cast. <^..^>)
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; Kathy in Alaska; Fawnn; bentfeather; HiJinx; tomkow6; Radix; Spotsy; ...
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posted on
06/30/2005 8:35:00 PM PDT
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: StarCMC
Yes. Some of their other hits were:
In the Name of Love
Lies
Doctor, Doctor
King for a Day
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posted on
06/30/2005 8:35:16 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Army Air Corps
I know where you're coming from.
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posted on
06/30/2005 8:35:27 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(We did not lose in Vietnam. We left.)
To: MoJo2001
1. Were you in school? - Had been out longer than I care to admit. Ouch!
2. Were you in the military? - No
3. What kind of music were you listening to? - Basically New Wave and Punk, and some Heavy Metal.
4. What do you recall as the best memory from 1985? - Dang! That's a hard one. I've slept once or twice since then. LOL!
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posted on
06/30/2005 8:35:29 PM PDT
by
radu
(May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
To: laurenmarlowe
Looks pretty hot in the valley!
Much cooler in SV, they hit 98 today but the high for sunday is to be 92
Head for the mountains Missy! ;)
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posted on
06/30/2005 8:35:43 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: GodBlessUSA
It's a PRETEND farm - no animals - just lotsa land. Did you ever see the pics I posted of it?
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posted on
06/30/2005 8:36:12 PM PDT
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: MoJo2001
I have a couple of Robert Palmer songs on ye olde computer, now that you mention it.
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posted on
06/30/2005 8:36:50 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: All
And yes - before anyone decides to bust my chops - I'm playing 80's music - not necessarily 1985. LOL!!!
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posted on
06/30/2005 8:37:23 PM PDT
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: mylife
I'm in the White Mountains east of Show Low and it was near 100 here today. Whew.
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posted on
06/30/2005 8:37:38 PM PDT
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FlingWingFlyer
(We did not lose in Vietnam. We left.)
To: laurenmarlowe
Lauren! Those are just beautiful! But, oh, it does look hot! Except for the saguaro cactuses, it looks a lot like the area out toward El Paso around Van Horn or Ft. Davis, don't you think?
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posted on
06/30/2005 8:37:41 PM PDT
by
luvie
(GOD BLESS THE TROOPS AND GOD BLESS THE USA! GOTTA LOVE W!)
To: qam1
Hmmm... let's see... 1985. I was a junior in high school for part of it, a senior for the other. Good, weird year.
Playing lead guitar for my punk band, John Q. Public, slam dancing, listening to Oingo Boingo, Gary Myrick and the Figures, Midnight Oil, The Cramps and the Ramones.
Best memory involves watching a low-budget Italian zombie film called Burial Ground with my older brother in a really low rent, sleazy cinema pub in a nasty part of Orlando.
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posted on
06/30/2005 8:37:52 PM PDT
by
RepoGirl
(You can ban my rottweiler when you can pry her from my cold dead hands...)
To: FlingWingFlyer
Hi there!
The picture was taken today at the Saguaro National Monument, just kind of a landscape shot.
But, I will be up the I-17 way tomorrow!
To: MoJo2001
MoJo...do you have any New Kids stuff in that magic box of your?
:-)
(Thank you for all that you share with us!!!)
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posted on
06/30/2005 8:38:14 PM PDT
by
bannie
(The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
To: LUV W
I have 3 sisters and 2 brothers. It's just the immediate family and their families. I have one cousin that grew up with us. So he's like another brother. I don't think we could ever get other family here for reunion. We are all too spread out.
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posted on
06/30/2005 8:38:22 PM PDT
by
GodBlessUSA
(US Troops, past, present and future, God Bless You and Thank You! Prayers said for our Heroes!)
To: laurenmarlowe
Awesome cacti lauren!!! Looks like a postcard or three.
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posted on
06/30/2005 8:38:30 PM PDT
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
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