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apoplectic \ap-uh-plek-tik\, adjective:
1. Intense enough to threaten or cause a stroke.noun:
2. Of or pertaining to apoplexy.
3. Having or inclined to apoplexy.
1. A person having or predisposed to apoplexy.
Apoplectic stems from the Greek word apoplēktikós which meant "pertaining to stroke". It literally meant "struck down".
torqued- From the show Workaholics, it is the equivelent of having an erection.
Paraphrased from the show: "Dude...you are fully torqued right now!" "Well yeah! I was about to have sex with that chick!"
Trivia
What early 20th-century baseball great was the first player to have his autograph burned into the barrel of his bat?
- Pittsburgh Pirate shortstop Honus Wagner, in 1905. The bat was a Louisville Slugger.
- Muhammad: the founder of Islam, PBUH, died in Medina, shortly after delivering his Farewell Sermon (632)
- desegregation: the US Supreme Court ruled that restaurants in Washington, DC, could not refuse black patrons (1953)
- Scott O'Grady: US Air Force pilot was rescued by Marines; he had avoided capture for six days after being shot down over Bosnia (1995)
- PHP: scripting language was publicly released by Danish-Greenlandic programmer Rasmus Lerdorf (1995)
- Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625
- Robert Schumann 1810
- Frank Lloyd Wright 1867
- Francis Crick 1916
- Robert Preston 1918
- Alexis Smith 1921
- George Kirby 1924
- Barbara Bush 1925 - Wife of President George H.W. Bush
- Jerry Stiller 1929 - Actor, comedian ("The King of Queens," "Seinfeld")
- Dana Wytner 1930
Joan Rivers 1933 - Television personality - Millicent Martin 1934
- James Darren 1936
- Bernie Casey 1939
- Nancy Sinatra 1940 - Singer
- Chuck Negron 1942 - Musician (Three Dog Night)
- Willie Davenport 1943
- Don Grady 1944
- Boz Scaggs 1944 - Singer
- Sara Paretsky 1947
- Mick Box 1947 - Musician (Uriah Heep)
- Sonia Braga 1950 - Actress
- Kathy Baker 1950 - Actress
- Alex Van Halen 1953 - Musician (Van Halen)
- Tony Rice 1951
Bonnie Tyler 1953 - Griffin Dunne 1955 - Actor, director
- Russell Christian 1956 - Musician (The Christians)
- Scott Adams 1957 - Cartoonist (Dilbert)
- Keenan Ivory Wayans 1958 - Actor, director
- Mick 'Red' Hucknall 1960 - Musician (Simply Red)
- Nick Rhodes 1962 - Musician (Duran Duran)
- Robert Pilatus 1965 - Musician (Milli Vanilli)
- Doris Pearson 1966 - Musician (Five Star)
- Dan Futterman 1967 - Actor, screenwriter
- Julianna Margulies 1967 - Actress ("The Good Wife," "ER")
- Neil Mitchell 1967 - Musician (Wet Wet Wet)
- Kelli Williams 1970 - Actress ("The Practice")
- Nicci Gilbert 1970 - Musician (Brownstone)
- Mark Feuerstein 1971 - Actor
Lindsay Davenport 1976 - Tennis player - Kanye Omari West 1977 - Singer, rapper
- Maria Menounos 1978 - journalist
- Derek Trucks 1979 - Musician
- Sara Watkins 1981 - Musician (Nickel Creek)
- Kim Clijsters 1983 - Tennis player
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