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: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; Kathy in Alaska; Fawnn; bentfeather; HiJinx; tomkow6; Radix; Spotsy; ...

Music Incoming!

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Hot Apple Pie - Hillbillies

This is one hot song!

921 posted on 07/01/2005 6:38:34 PM PDT by StarCMC (Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)

Hi Alkhin,How are you:)

922 posted on 07/01/2005 6:41:16 PM PDT by fatima (Make a move and the Bunny gets it.-Guess what movie)

To: fatima; Kathy in Alaska

Hi fatima!!! doing fine ... hanging out...

Kathy - just figured out what you were doing...Doh! LOL LOL!

923 posted on 07/01/2005 6:44:23 PM PDT by Alkhin ("Oh! Oh!" cried my idiot crew. "It's a ghoul - we are lost!" ~ Jack Aubrey)

To: StarCMC; tomkow6; Army Air Corps; Kathy in Alaska; All

Breaking news off Xinurea news wire report that LA Style riot is happening today in Northern China among cops and Chinese peasants in that area

Report is witnesses are claim that Chinese govt is taking their promise quota of Rice in that area they not amused they want more

See it is Bush fault LOL!

924 posted on 07/01/2005 6:46:24 PM PDT by SevenofNine (Not everybody in, it for truth, justice, and the American way,"=Det Lennie Briscoe)

To: Alkhin; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; Kathy in Alaska; Fawnn; bentfeather; HiJinx; tomkow6; Radix; ...

Music Incoming!

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Jefferson Starship - Jane

Woohoo!! This song rocks!

925 posted on 07/01/2005 6:47:29 PM PDT by StarCMC (Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)

Got it! thank you :D!!

926 posted on 07/01/2005 6:47:52 PM PDT by Alkhin ("Oh! Oh!" cried my idiot crew. "It's a ghoul - we are lost!" ~ Jack Aubrey)

Nice to see you here beautiful.

927 posted on 07/01/2005 6:48:12 PM PDT by fatima (Make a move and the Bunny gets it.-Guess what movie)

Hi SevenofNine,How are you cutie.

928 posted on 07/01/2005 6:51:15 PM PDT by fatima (Make a move and the Bunny gets it.-Guess what movie)

why thank you....refresh my memory...have we met????

929 posted on 07/01/2005 6:51:32 PM PDT by Alkhin ("Oh! Oh!" cried my idiot crew. "It's a ghoul - we are lost!" ~ Jack Aubrey)

Maybe they should call Li'l Kim in his swank pad in Pyongyang; a recent article in the official state newspaper announced that "glorious collective labour" had increased rice production beyond the quota. I guess that means 10 bushels instead of 7.

930 posted on 07/01/2005 6:52:12 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)

I know SEvenofNine!!! Howya doin???

931 posted on 07/01/2005 6:54:32 PM PDT by Alkhin ("Oh! Oh!" cried my idiot crew. "It's a ghoul - we are lost!" ~ Jack Aubrey)

No-I looked at your home page and saw you were at some freeps.I was at one in Phila but beyond that my granddaughter was in Iraq.

932 posted on 07/01/2005 6:55:30 PM PDT by fatima (Make a move and the Bunny gets it.-Guess what movie)

To: Army Air Corps

Hi guys,

This is a link to a terrific article that is up on the board.

Iraqi Doubts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1435023/posts

Fire Fighters Supporting Our Troops and the Canteen 24/7

Be back later
Got some work to do

933 posted on 07/01/2005 6:57:06 PM PDT by FFforFreedom

OOOOOO - Okay :D got it!

And tell your granddaughter THANK YOU for her service. This stay at home mom is thankful there is someone like her doing what I cannot.

934 posted on 07/01/2005 6:58:09 PM PDT by Alkhin ("Oh! Oh!" cried my idiot crew. "It's a ghoul - we are lost!" ~ Jack Aubrey)

You figured out that you were a winner of a multiple of 50. LOL!! Just some fun had by all.

935 posted on 07/01/2005 6:58:39 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)

Well she is kinda shy and does not talk about it but to her father,my son Joe.I meet a cool recruiter at our thrift store.She was all over the world as a photographer for the Marines and is still in the service with an office nearby.

936 posted on 07/01/2005 7:06:02 PM PDT by fatima (Make a move and the Bunny gets it.-Guess what movie)

Its rather humbling to for me to meet people who have served in the military - a good reminder of just how little I know about whats really going on in the world.

I am in total awe of anyone who has served.

937 posted on 07/01/2005 7:09:45 PM PDT by Alkhin ("Oh! Oh!" cried my idiot crew. "It's a ghoul - we are lost!" ~ Jack Aubrey)

To: Kathy in Alaska

This thread is fun! thank you for the tag!

938 posted on 07/01/2005 7:10:22 PM PDT by Alkhin ("Oh! Oh!" cried my idiot crew. "It's a ghoul - we are lost!" ~ Jack Aubrey)

To: Kathy in Alaska

Of course, you have to realize I am going back and forth between this thread, and a lot of crochet pattern sites...LOL!

939 posted on 07/01/2005 7:11:00 PM PDT by Alkhin ("Oh! Oh!" cried my idiot crew. "It's a ghoul - we are lost!" ~ Jack Aubrey)

I met a Doctor who just returned.He had many friends I have so we became instant friends.They don't know it but you can see God in their eyes.I agree with awe.

940 posted on 07/01/2005 7:12:46 PM PDT by fatima (Make a move and the Bunny gets it.-Guess what movie)

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