Lex Luthor Took Forty Cakes (2005)

added Sep 13, 2009 at 09:38PM UTC

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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.

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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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If you would like to purchase the dictionary, you can do so here.

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15 Comments

Griff McConal
Sep 13, 2009 at 10:50PM UTC , Griff McConal wrote:

Image uploads disabled?

Griff McConal
Sep 13, 2009 at 11:29PM UTC , Griff McConal wrote:

no pics?

Jest
Sep 14, 2009 at 12:16AM UTC , Jest wrote:

Oh yea! I remember this, wasn’t there also a De motivational poster of this?

Cooper Smith
Sep 14, 2009 at 12:50AM UTC , Cooper Smith wrote:

looks like the Captain found a way to keep people from passing his contribution count!

PTL
Sep 14, 2009 at 02:00AM UTC , PTL wrote:

…And that’s terrible!

Captain Blubber
Sep 14, 2009 at 09:47AM UTC , Captain Blubber wrote:

Sorry guys, I clicked the wrong button.

Captain Blubber
Sep 14, 2009 at 06:54PM UTC , Captain Blubber wrote:

Well, I’ve found all I could find.

Unless I’m missing something.

franco alencastro
Sep 15, 2009 at 04:39AM UTC , franco alencastro wrote:

this is a meme. and the best i’ve seen in quite a time.

Dillon Raborn
Sep 20, 2009 at 03:07PM UTC , Dillon Raborn wrote:

Awsome!!!

prokadae
Sep 20, 2009 at 09:39PM UTC , prokadae wrote:

rly luthor. you’re fracking rich. just go out and buy some fracking cakes. you don’t have to steal them. why would you even want 40 cakes. you dont need 40 cakes.

lol

CloudyWithAChanceOfChocolateRain
Sep 22, 2009 at 02:00AM UTC , CloudyWithAChanceOfChocolateRain wrote:

How many cakes does a man NEED???

Alucard
Sep 23, 2009 at 02:02AM UTC , Alucard wrote:

This is so much win. And you can buy that book?!?! Epic!

However, the artist messed up. There aren’t even 40 cakes on that damn cart.

jumpropeman
Sep 26, 2009 at 04:37AM UTC , jumpropeman wrote:

Actually, unless you don’t count the cake that is falling off (that Lex obviously lost since he is too eager to get those cakes back to the Legion of Doom) there are 10 cakes on the top shelf, and four shelves, meaning most likely that there are, indeed, 40 cakes, and that’s terrible.

John Lennon
Sep 27, 2009 at 09:57PM UTC , John Lennon wrote:

I want more of these.

This meme is to interesting.
And that’s wonderful.

PicklePumpers
Mar 16, 2010 at 03:24AM UTC , PicklePumpers wrote:

The cakes are a lie!

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