Ahh the days of Highschool in Moosomin
The year was 1989, and Sky News began broadcasting on Sunday 5th February 1989 at 6.00pm as the first 24 news channel for the United Kingdom. The first presenters to grace our screens were Penny Smith and Alastair Yates. They were followed an hour later by Bob Friend and Kay Burley. Sky News has changed the face of television news presentation.
The Massacre in Tiananmen Square occured where several hundred civilians have been shot dead by the Chinese army during a bloody military operation to crush a democratic uprising in Peking's (Beijing) Tiananmen Square. Tanks rumbled through the capital's streets late on 3 June as the army moved into the square from several directions, randomly firing on unarmed protesters.
The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being the clownishly homicidal Joker in the movie Batman.
Mikhail S. Gorbachev named Soviet President, after 28 years, the Berlin Wall is open to West, US troops invade Panama, seeking capture of General Manuel Noriega , the start of a Series of Unfortunate Events aka George Herbert Walker Bush inauguration as 41st US President (lol), Ruptured tanker Exxon Valdez sends 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound, Army Gen. Colin R. Powell is first black Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, US jury convicts Oliver North in Iran-Contra affair , and the World Population is 5.190 billion.
Record of the Year: "Don't Worry Be Happy," Bobby McFerrin
Album of the Year: Faith, George Michael (Columbia/CBS)
Song of the Year: "Don't Worry Be Happy," Bobby McFerrin, songwriter
Miss America: Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson (MN)
And for all you Sport Nuts, I present the following :
Super Bowl : San Francisco d. Cincinnati (20-16)
World Series : Oakland A's d. SF Giants (4-0)
NBA Championship : Detroit Pistons d. LA Lakers (4-0)
Stanley Cup : Calgary d. Montreal (4-2)
Wimbledon :
Women: Steffi Graf d. M. Navratilova (6-2 6-7 6-1)
Men: Boris Becker d. S. Edberg (6-0 7-6 6-4)
Kentucky Derby Champion : Sunday Silence
NCAA Basketball Championship : Michigan d. Seton Hall (80-79 OT)
NCAA Football Champions : Miami-FL (11-1-0)
Without this event in 1989--> I wouldn't be posting this right now ! ! !
And last, but not least, in the Summer of 1989, Joel Sopp enters the rural arena of the hick town of Moosomin, Saskatchewan...Population : Approximately 2,500 farmers and townies...brutal.
I grew up in a small town called Carnduff , a rural town of only 1,000 people at best, so small towns didn't bother me so much, however before Moosomin, I lived for a year in Moose Jaw.
The Big City of Moose Jaw opened my eyes to a lot of things like survival of the toughest, not the fittest... So when I moved to Moosomin, I acted like a tough guy, and was put in my place right smartly. Luckily it was verbally and no Sopp's were hurt in the making of this lesson...lol
I have the distinct priviledge of NOT EVER BEING A FRESHIE!!! YEAH! When I lived in Moose Jaw, it was in Grade 9, and when I moved to Moosomin, Freshies were Grade 7...lol Of course, I was smart enough to NEVER let anyone know, not even my Best Friend, Jarrod. Actually, come to think about it, I had 4 Best Friends: Josh, Jarrod, Les, and Todd.
Good times were had by all, while crusing Main Street in my Mom's 'Vette...well maybe it was a Chevette...lol That old grey car went through a lot, like that fence at Moosomin Lake, right Josh? Or that time I went offroading and ripped off the spoiler on a rock, and when I tried to pull it out from under the car, I got mad and slammed the door and shattered the driver's side window? That was so kewl...until my Mom found out.
Or the time when we were driving down a dirt road on the side of town and I was looking at pictures I just got developed, and sterring with my knees, and then started sliding sideways, and then I tossed the pictures in the air, and then grabbed for the wheel, and then fishtailed off an approach and landed sideways, 2 feet from a House Trailer, and then did a 360, and then ripped out of the ditch, meanwhile the "Ghettoblaster sitting on my sister's lap in the back seat (I couldn't afford a tape deck, and man did we go through a lot of batteries...lol) smashed into her chest and then her face, and then she started to hyperventilate and then I told her to "Shut the Heck up and Breathe!"...That was even kewler...until my Mom found out.
1989 was an important year for the World, but more importantly for me, I came into contact with 4 of the Best Friends in the entire "Universe". I love you Dudes, in a plutonic, non-sexual, slap-you-on-your-back-not-your-ass, kind of way. We truly were the Good Ol' Boys...
Until Next Time I Remain,
Joel Sopp
Just the good ol' boys
Never meanin' no harm.
Beats all you never saw
Been in trouble with the law
Since the day they was born
Staightnin' them curves
Flatnin' them hills
Someday the mountain might get 'em
But the law never will
Makin' their way
The only way they know how
That's just a little bit more
Than the law will allow.
Just the good ol' boys
Wouldn't change if they could
Fightin' the system like a
True Modern Day Robin Hood
Artist: Waylon Jennings
Song: Dukes Of Hazzard Theme
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