Saturday, June 8, 2024

apoplectic \ap-uh-plek-tik\, adjective:

1. Intense enough to threaten or cause a stroke.
2. Of or pertaining to apoplexy.
3. Having or inclined to apoplexy.

noun:

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 equivalent 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!"

History

• 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)

Birthdays

• 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)
  Florence Faivre 1983 - actress
  
• Kim Clijsters 1983 - Tennis player

   

  
  

  
  

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