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Background
“The Super Dictionary” was a children’s dictionary published in 1978.

It was chock full of wonderful illustrations of DC comics’ heroes and villains explaining words.
Example:

One entry struck a chord with the internet. It was the entry for “forty”.
In case you cannot read it it says:
When no one was looking, Lex Luthor
took forty cakes. He took 40 cakes.
That’s as many as four tens.
And that’s terrible.
Spread
The first web instance may be this YTMND. It was created on September 8th, 2005.
The image has made it’s way to other sites such as digg, Collegehumor, Nextround.net, 4chan (Post 1249916) and YTMND.
It has been a topic in forms such as SuperheroHeroHype, World of Warcraft forums, Ebaum’s World and Comic Book Resource.
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Further Reading
If you would like to purchase the dictionary, you can do so here.
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Sep 13, 2009 at 10:50PM UTC
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Griff McConal
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Meme Details
Origin
The Super Dictionary
Year
2005























