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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: SevenofNine
901
posted on
07/01/2005 6:18:37 PM PDT
by
Radix
(I was looking for a Tag Line when I found this one!)
To: All
902
posted on
07/01/2005 6:18:51 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
(Not everybody in, it for truth, justice, and the American way,"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
To: AZamericonnie
Thank you very much. It's been great.
903
posted on
07/01/2005 6:19:15 PM PDT
by
Samwise
(I hope my birthday cake is chocolate.)
To: StarCMC
I'm hungry so I'm going to go to Wendy's for a # 3 and a chili with cheese to go then go to Jack In The Box for an order of onion rings and come home to eat. You want the fries? I usually throw them away. Too much cholesterol in those fries.
Then I'll go to Whataburger for one of their giant chocolate malts.
Be back ASAP.
904
posted on
07/01/2005 6:19:39 PM PDT
by
El Gran Salseron
( The comments of this poster are meant for self-amusement only! Read at your own risk! :-))
To: Samwise
Sambrat, Bratwise, whatever...............
905
posted on
07/01/2005 6:19:49 PM PDT
by
Radix
(I was looking for a Tag Line when I found this one!)
To: SevenofNine
Yep! Randy Rhoades was GREAT!!!
906
posted on
07/01/2005 6:20:57 PM PDT
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: SevenofNine
907
posted on
07/01/2005 6:21:37 PM PDT
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: Radix; Kathy in Alaska; All
HEY Put on some Luther Vandross rack itttt
HA HA NY Times is saying they not going release what in reporters note about expose FBI agent GEE WONDER WHY DUH you guys got busted by US Supremes
I think I saw my Botox Queen Nancy Pelosi on CNN b***hing about US Supremes i got question did Bill Clinton was advice by republican what he going choose to be US Supreme I doubt it
NANCY next Botox treatment you get I be bouncing a quarter off your Ugly mug
908
posted on
07/01/2005 6:22:01 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
(Not everybody in, it for truth, justice, and the American way,"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
To: StarCMC
909
posted on
07/01/2005 6:22:19 PM PDT
by
fatima
(Make a move and the Bunny gets it.-Guess what movie)
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; Kathy in Alaska; Fawnn; bentfeather; HiJinx; tomkow6; Radix; Spotsy; ...
910
posted on
07/01/2005 6:23:15 PM PDT
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: Radix
{{{{ RADIX! }}}}
Goodtaseeya!
911
posted on
07/01/2005 6:24:11 PM PDT
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: El Gran Salseron
DANG!! Wendy's fries are the BEST!!
912
posted on
07/01/2005 6:25:23 PM PDT
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: SevenofNine
Great work. You should start your own news service - The Global News Network. You could hold a cupped hand to one f your ears and read the news like the announcer on Laugh In. What is the latest skinny on the bombing?
913
posted on
07/01/2005 6:28:25 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Samwise
A birthday deserves a song. LOL!!
914
posted on
07/01/2005 6:29:54 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)
To: StarCMC
I can be just as frustrated about the slow internet at home, and traffic be da##ed, I'm out the door.
915
posted on
07/01/2005 6:31:17 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)
To: Kathy in Alaska
Hi kathy - love the graphic (woo hoo with beer being poured)...but could you tell me why? :D :D :D
916
posted on
07/01/2005 6:33:26 PM PDT
by
Alkhin
("Oh! Oh!" cried my idiot crew. "It's a ghoul - we are lost!" ~ Jack Aubrey)
To: Kathy in Alaska
I'll see ya when ya get there!!!!
917
posted on
07/01/2005 6:34:26 PM PDT
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: Army Air Corps; tomkow6; All
They think it might be set up by Chechen terrorist that part of Checeya is near Grozy they been having problem in that part of the country
Well well according to SKY news reporting that Tony Blair want EU summit discuss the future of EU OH OKAY
918
posted on
07/01/2005 6:35:02 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
(Not everybody in, it for truth, justice, and the American way,"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
To: Alkhin
(You probably landed on a fifty or a hundred)
919
posted on
07/01/2005 6:35:11 PM PDT
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; Kathy in Alaska; Fawnn; bentfeather; HiJinx; tomkow6; Radix; Spotsy; ...
920
posted on
07/01/2005 6:36:37 PM PDT
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
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