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!

Thanks, acad, for today's daily dose o' da blues.

781 posted on 07/01/2005 1:30:17 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)

To: GodBlessUSA; tomkow6

To wierd!! I didnt do anything unusual... I doubt it was ME!

782 posted on 07/01/2005 1:32:42 PM PDT by StarCMC (Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)

783 posted on 07/01/2005 1:34:03 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)

Happy Saturday, tx!! Hope you get some of it to yourself. And thanks for helping keep all of us free and safe.

784 posted on 07/01/2005 1:37:37 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)

To: the OlLine Rebel

Welcome to the Canteen, the OlLine Rebel, and thanks for sharing your remembrances.

785 posted on 07/01/2005 1:40:17 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)

To: Jade Falcon; SouthernHawk; LadyHawk

Congratulations Jade Falcon!

Thank You for your service to our country!

Now enjoy your leave from Great Lakes boot camp!

WOO HOO!

786 posted on 07/01/2005 1:44:05 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (Congratulations Jade Falcon!)

To: Valin; Samwise

1938 (2980 Shire reckoning) in a hole in the ground (not a nasty dark hole full of worms...etc, but a nice dry hole Samwise was born. It's reported the the first words spoken by Samwise were "John Kerry is an idiot, I'm hungry, Maureen Dowd is fat....and dresses funny, what's for lunch, FOOD." "Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long time." Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday, SAMWISE!!

Click

787 posted on 07/01/2005 1:48:45 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)

I was a working girl in NYC. Had a great time but I was so very serious. I was going to be a career woman, Damn it. LOL! Hubby and I would banter back and fourth with joking insults back on LI. He brought something out of me, I didn't know I had. Wit and laughter. Yep, I won the lottery with hubby!

Excellent story! Earl brought the best out of you. Only the best of people can do that. He would be smiling upon your every joke, knowing you have now surpassed his humor and are now bringing the best out of so many people. People like that are worth their weight in gold! :)

788 posted on 07/01/2005 1:48:50 PM PDT by GodBlessUSA (US Troops, past, present and future, God Bless You and Thank You! Prayers said for our Heroes!)

TAPS

RIP Keepers of our freedom

789 posted on 07/01/2005 1:50:14 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)

To: Samwise; Valin

790 posted on 07/01/2005 1:56:10 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)

Seeee! I was telling the truth...it has been more than a minute! Hi, if you're here! It's 100* here. Yikes!

791 posted on 07/01/2005 2:01:51 PM PDT by luvie (GOD BLESS THE TROOPS AND GOD BLESS THE USA! GOTTA LOVE W!)

Are you going to put it on the FReepathon thread, too? Please!?!?

792 posted on 07/01/2005 2:02:43 PM PDT by HiJinx (Proud Dollar-a-Day Monthly Donor)

Hi LUV!
So great to see you are back! How are you? I'm so happy hubby is back home safe and sound.

793 posted on 07/01/2005 2:08:35 PM PDT by GodBlessUSA (US Troops, past, present and future, God Bless You and Thank You! Prayers said for our Heroes!)

You have business cards for the Canteen!!! I have talked to others about the need for those--where did you get them? Did you create them on your computer? I wanna do that too, or have some made or something. I always can use them when talking to people around here!

794 posted on 07/01/2005 2:08:56 PM PDT by luvie (GOD BLESS THE TROOPS AND GOD BLESS THE USA! GOTTA LOVE W!)

To: StarCMC; GodBlessUSA

Star broke the CANTEEN!

795 posted on 07/01/2005 2:10:04 PM PDT by tomkow6 (Support the Fashion Divos you see in the Canteen (buy a BURKA)!)

Hey, girlie! (((hugs)))

I am fine as long as I stay indoors! My car was like an oven and the steering wheel like a branding iron to my hands! LOL!

I am so glad your hubby got home safely. Did he have a successful trip? When is he coming back to Texas, and are you finally gonna come with him?

796 posted on 07/01/2005 2:11:28 PM PDT by luvie (GOD BLESS THE TROOPS AND GOD BLESS THE USA! GOTTA LOVE W!)

To: Kathy in Alaska

Hi Ma, LOL!
An Absolutely, a Beautiful picture! You must be super busy today. I was wondering where you were, dare say, even a tiny bit worried. LOL! Glad to see you!

797 posted on 07/01/2005 2:11:41 PM PDT by GodBlessUSA (US Troops, past, present and future, God Bless You and Thank You! Prayers said for our Heroes!)

798 posted on 07/01/2005 2:11:58 PM PDT by El Gran Salseron ( The comments of this poster are meant for self-amusement only! Read at your own risk! :-))

To: tomkow6; StarCMC

LOL! Yeah Star, What's up with that? I noticed you left after weird things started happening to our computers. LOL!

799 posted on 07/01/2005 2:13:01 PM PDT by GodBlessUSA (US Troops, past, present and future, God Bless You and Thank You! Prayers said for our Heroes!)

Freepmail in a minute...

800 posted on 07/01/2005 2:16:10 PM PDT by StarCMC (Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)

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