FReeper Canteen ~ Flashback Friday 1985 ~ 01 July 2005

~ Flashback Friday ~
Year: 1985

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.

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?

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

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.

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!

To: Kathy in Alaska; MoJo2001

That sounds so decadent...

Okay, time to call it a night. I wonder...has anyone in the Canteen ever mentioned being a TOPS member? That might be good for a story or two, especially since we're talking about '85.

If anyone bites, I'll talk about it tomorrow!

Good night, all!

381 posted on 06/30/2005 10:44:49 PM PDT by HiJinx (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Serving Those Who Serve Us ~ Operation Semper Fi ~)

Amen. Thank you for this prayer.

382 posted on 06/30/2005 10:47:43 PM PDT by EsmeraldaA (Our prayers for all US troops.)

383 posted on 06/30/2005 10:48:22 PM PDT by EsmeraldaA (Our prayers for all US troops.)

Good. If he tried to return to his hometown (Wharton), they would try the old act of tarring and feathering folks (if he is lucky).

384 posted on 06/30/2005 10:48:34 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)

Welcome to the Canteen, carlr. Thanks for sharing what sure was a transitional year, and glad to see that things worked out well for you because of your perseverance.

385 posted on 06/30/2005 10:48:44 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)

Good night and sleep well, Piper's Poppa. Thank you for your service to this great country of ours and for helping honor our troops.

386 posted on 06/30/2005 10:50:41 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)

Wonderful prayer, Sand, for Absent Family Members.Thanks.

387 posted on 06/30/2005 10:52:24 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)

Have a special selection of Prayers for this Independance weekend.

388 posted on 06/30/2005 10:54:29 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)

To: Kathy in Alaska

Time to toddle off to bed. Good-nite

389 posted on 06/30/2005 10:55:41 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)

Spent last night enjoying Santana.

Opener was Los Lonely Boys....

They reminded me of a little 3-piece band from Texas I grew up with.

Only, they were louder, if you can imagine that!

390 posted on 06/30/2005 10:55:42 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Carry Daily, Apply Sparingly)

Good night and sleep well, ML. Thanks, Evan, for choosing to serve your country.

391 posted on 06/30/2005 10:56:26 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)

To: SandRat; Old Sarge; Kathy in Alaska; All

Breaking news off BBC wire report that Pakstein has busted three Al Quada suspect in border town that Pakstein and Agharn mountains share one of them happen to be top soldier for BINNY OH please drop the dime on him dude

Also a report off World Tribune reporting guess what Vlad up too he is sending Chechen terrorist to that old Stalin standby known as Siberia THAT RIGHT wintery Siberia

Senator Durbain I hope he is not lurking on FR ROFL

392 posted on 06/30/2005 10:57:03 PM PDT by SevenofNine (Not everybody in, it for truth, justice, and the American way,"=Det Lennie Briscoe)

Good night, toddle safely, and sleep well, Sand. Thanks for helping honor our troops. And thank you for your service to this great country of ours.

393 posted on 06/30/2005 10:57:30 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)

To: ButThreeLeftsDo; All

OH MAN I hear of that band Los Lonely Boys rack itt

394 posted on 06/30/2005 10:58:50 PM PDT by SevenofNine (Not everybody in, it for truth, justice, and the American way,"=Det Lennie Briscoe)

Hmmmm....off to Siberia.

I sure do hope Pakistan is catching the bad guys

Thanks, Seven, for the international headlines.

395 posted on 06/30/2005 10:59:52 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)

To: Kathy in Alaska; tomkow6; All

Breaking news off Sky news alert report that IDF has open up Gaza checkpoint that seal off settlers in that area

Also another report off Hareetz wire one of Religious party Rabbis told Ariel Sharon at the meeting that you are murderer of Jewish people in gaza ARIEL

A fight almost broke out

396 posted on 06/30/2005 11:00:29 PM PDT by SevenofNine (Not everybody in, it for truth, justice, and the American way,"=Det Lennie Briscoe)

To: Kathy in Alaska; tomkow6; All

Hey Kathy what I understand some of those old gulgugs are still around probably in disrepair they force these terrorist to work on remodeling them that funny part about it

Also BBC wire reporting that UK has took over EU presidency so that mean Tony Blair is techincally EU Prez for how long I don't know
UK Telegraph reporting that Tony Blair is plan snub US over our refusal of not signing the Kydto treaty that infamous treaty that prevent greenhouse gases

397 posted on 06/30/2005 11:03:02 PM PDT by SevenofNine (Not everybody in, it for truth, justice, and the American way,"=Det Lennie Briscoe)

You are a one woman news bureau!

You should start your posts with an opener such as:

"To mister and misses America and all of our ships at sea. This just in..."

398 posted on 06/30/2005 11:05:37 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)

A talented bunch.

Second set, Carlos dismissed his drummer, bassist and backing (I can't spell rithem) guitar player and inserted LLB.

Very Cool.

399 posted on 06/30/2005 11:07:30 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Carry Daily, Apply Sparingly)

To: Army Air Corps; All

OH MAN that way old school take

That Walter Winchell YEAH I knew who he is he was Oringal Matt Drudge without internet

Personally I rather be known as Hedda Hopper I love her hats LOL! the photos I seen of her LOL!

400 posted on 06/30/2005 11:08:11 PM PDT by SevenofNine (Not everybody in, it for truth, justice, and the American way,"=Det Lennie Briscoe)

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