FReeper Canteen ~ Flashback Friday 1985 ~ 01 July 2005

[MoJo2001]

 

 

~ 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!

 

 

[StarCMC]

Ma would NEVER holler at me. You may be the Angel Boy, but she loves me too. PHBLT!! He he he!

[Army Air Corps]

Thanks for adding to the tribute to our friends and allies!

[Soaring Feather]

Yes, I did, but here it is again.



H.L. Mencken wrote that "It is the dull man
who is always sure, and the sure man who is
always dull."

[HiJinx]

Hey, Ma, we have a new FReeper in Arizona, a very patriotic Mom, and I'm inviting her over to check out the Canteen....

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

From the men in the Military and the Canteen

[Soaring Feather]

Was it these guys working on the fiber optics, ma??

[Soaring Feather]

Awwwww, thank you for the Happy Poet Day.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Posting with difficulty, but posting. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!

Fly-by Knights: Spectators stand on a St. Petersburg naval monument to watch the Su-27 jets of the Russkiye Vityasy (Russian Knights) aerobatics team perform.

[Lady Jag]

Oh, him. He also said, "Criticism is prejudice made plausible." Actually, he said a lot that made sense, too.

[StarCMC]

WOO-HOO!! Hi Stinky Dilly! I've been bumping into you all day! LOL!!!! Welcome to the Canteen ~ the best (IMHO) daily thread on FR!

[WestVirginiaRebel]

This guy will fix it! And he can fix Star, too, if you want him to! :^)

[Lady Jag]

Yes, I did, but here it is again.

You're a hoot!

[Soaring Feather]

~Jerry Lee Lewis~Rock and Roll~

[tomkow6]

"Why don't you play me a nice song?? I would like that. "

NICEMUSIC

 For Ms Feather!

[tomkow6]

"And he can fix Star, too, if you want him to!"

PLEASE! Star definitely needs some "fixin'!

[Soaring Feather]

Oh man, you are loose.

LOL What are you doing, taking a bath, sure sounds like it.

[Lady Jag]

Horrorscope
Friday, July 1, 2005

IT'S
INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT
FREE REPUBLIC DAY! !!!!


They drool when you're cool!
Click the pic!


Sagittarius, really!

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Aries (March 21 - April 19)

Time heals all wounds, yes. But that's not really intended to mean that you should tie Time magazine around your sprained ankle. It's a figure of speech, you see, not meant to be taken literally. I have heard, however, that Newsweek is good for gout.

Taurus (April 20 - May 20)

Today you'll start a new rock group, named "SPAM Catapult", and kick things off with a really smokin' number combining the best aspects of reggae, rap, and polka.

Gemini (May 21 - June 20)

Noodle day, today! Have you tried some of those new "fresh" tomato-basil linguine? Of course not. But today, you will!

Cancer (June 21 - July 22)

Big career move today! Oddly, your decision will be somehow related to a pamphlet called "Goat Herding Made Easy."

Leo (July 23 - August 22)

Ian McHarg once said, "Man is a blind, witless, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth." You will come up with a brilliant rebuttal to this, soon. You will say: "I know you are, but what am I?"

Virgo (August 23 - September 22)

Today may fail to live up to your expectations, but remember: it's what it's not that makes it what it is.

Libra (September 22 - October 22)

Today you will happen upon a prediction by Nostradamus which will scare the living daylights out of you. As well it should, although how a medieval seer foresaw your exact name is anybody's guess.

Scorpio (October 23 - November 21)

Your relatives may try to have you committed, today. Luckily, through a series of amusing misadventures, they will fail. You and your large invisible friend will simply shrug it off, of course, since it's not in your disposition to hold a grudge, and you both donate to Free Republic.

Sagittarius (November 22 - December 21)

A very pudgy cat will annoy you, today.

Capricorn (December 22 - January 20)

Today you will notice yet another large freshly-dug mound of dirt in your neighbor's back yard. It's probably nothing -- he probably just digs at night if he can't get to sleep. I know I do.

Aquarius (January 21 - February 18)

You're having trouble getting your elderly relatives to pay attention to you. Have you tried talking with a Scandinavian accent and using a soap bubble machine? That, and accordion music, always do the trick for me.

Pisces (February 19 - March 20)

Bad day to call someone a "whiney gen-x cybercowboy." After the FReepathon's better, for that one.

[tomkow6]

Why must you use such terrible language here in the Canteen?....Don't you know this is a "Family" place????

Do I have to hit the ABUSE button????

Such 4-letter words are not acceptable!

Straighten up & fly right!

[Lady Jag]

That sounds like an ether trip, man!

[tomkow6]

"Sagittarius (November 22 - December 21) A very pudgy cat will annoy you, today. "

My fat cat is LOOSE!...Besides, she does this EVERYDAY........