1985
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"Ze tightness of your shorts equals ze square route of your age." Einstein.
Meanwhile, in the real world,
1985
was a helluva year because...
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LIVE AID in London and Philadelphi, beamed around the world
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Crack coccaine starts to appear.
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Brussels, Belgium: 39 dead, 250 wounded during a soccer match between Liverpool and Juventus
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Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior is bombed by the French during protests of it's nuclear testing in the Pacific
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Earthquake in Mexico / Volcano erupts in Colombia 1000s killed
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Gorbachev becomes (the last) president of the Soviet Union
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Titanic wreckage found and filmed by robot in July
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Ethiopa blocks the airlift of thousands of Ethiopian Jews.
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Hole in the ozone layer, first detected in 77, is now indisputable.
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Nintendo system introduced
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Extra second added to the calender year
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Rock Hudson, the first public figure to die of AIDS
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Do They Know Its Christmas? by Band Aid is a big one
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Money For Nothing in the shops by Dire Straits
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Everybody Wants To Rule The World by Tears For Fears gets lots of air time
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Ooohhh be still my dancing feet..
They don't make em like they used to..
Movies: Brazil, Back to the Future, Cocoon, The Color Purple, Desperately Seeking Susan, The Emerald Forest, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Out of Africa, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Witness, James Bond A View To A Kill, Pale Rider
Brazil
Back to the Future
Cocoon
The Color Purple
Desperately Seeking Susan
The Emerald Forest
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Out of Africa
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Witness
James Bond A View To A Kill
Pale Rider