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Doop ([info]xdoop) wrote in [info]scans_daily,
@ 2009-04-05 09:39:00

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Entry tags:publisher: dc comics, title: superdictionary

Superdictionary!





































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A *cornucopia* of superdictionary entries. A horn of plenty of DCU-themed wordbook entries
[info]besamim
2009-04-05 09:23 am UTC (link)
cause: "I caused the loud noise, Luthor, because I wanted to see you shake your booty. I wanted to see you shake your behind. You have a fine booty."

cheerful: "I've never seen you laugh before. I don't think I like it."

cigar: Yeah, I don't think it's the cigar-smell that's making people run away, more the prospect of Smilex-smell or an Earth-shattering kaboom.

complain: When did the Flash start threatening bystanders? "The last people who complained were sorry"?!

float: Here we have an example of fanservice. Here we have an example of material that (I assume) has no relevance to the story and is meant to titillate the reader.

fortune: If Green Arrow's fortune is good, then why does the fortune-teller have that evil grin on his face?

frown: Worst. Definition. Ever.

goodness: They should've used Granny Goodness here. I think young kids can understand irony.

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[info]squirle
2009-04-05 09:38 am UTC (link)
I think that is actually an image of Green Arrows future. And judging by the goaty, that future aparently involves him being douses in gamma radiation, and getting his eyelashes done. Talk about good fotune...

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Re: A *cornucopia* of superdictionary entries. A horn of plenty of DCU-themed wordbook entries
[info]kingrockwell
2009-04-06 11:27 am UTC (link)
The muscles that wrinkle between the eyes are called the "frowning muscles". Frown is a funny word in that it refers to two different facial expressions and it's the second one that's more widely understood.

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[info]crinosg
2009-04-05 09:42 am UTC (link)
Penguin: "I'll take a lemon....AND EAT IT."

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[info]icon_uk
2009-04-05 11:46 am UTC (link)
"I'll take a lemon and introduce it to Robin in a place he's REALLY not expecting."

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[info]squirle
2009-04-05 09:46 am UTC (link)
Batman doesn't actually look all that cheerfull. He's just sarcasticly slow-laughing.

Also, I don't think I've ever seen this SR-12 person.

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[info]swiftgold.livejournal.com
2009-04-05 09:11 pm UTC (link)
I think she was one of the bunch who were created just for the Superdictionary... some apparently for more diversity, but I don't know why for SR-12 or the blonde spacefaring chick.

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[info]raisedbymoogles
2009-04-05 10:07 am UTC (link)
...And then Lex stole Conjura's cake.

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[info]sailorlibra
2009-04-05 10:36 am UTC (link)
And that's terrible.

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[info]dejadrew
2009-04-05 10:58 am UTC (link)
Forty times.

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[info]bluefall
2009-04-05 09:55 pm UTC (link)
I'm now imagining a whole Road Runner setup, where Conjura just puts the first cake on the windowsill to cool or whatever and Lex walks by and snatches it, so she puts the next one in the cupboard, and by the time they get to forty she's got this elaborate Rube Goldbergian setup with ACME-brand forcefields and pressure plates and hairs stretched across doorframes and stuff to try to protect the cakes. And then the forty-first one she just sits next to in the kitchen with a book, and Lex shows up and she smacks him upside the head and sends him home empty-handed.

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[info]dejadrew
2009-04-05 10:48 pm UTC (link)
I... I would watch that cartoon.

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[info]cmdr_zoom
2009-04-06 07:08 pm UTC (link)
Motto.

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[info]ulf_boehnke
2009-04-05 10:32 am UTC (link)
If I ever become a teacher I will use the superdictionary.

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[info]icon_uk
2009-04-05 11:46 am UTC (link)
Sadly, that's probably why you will never be allowed to become a teacher.

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[info]merseybeatler
2009-04-05 02:10 pm UTC (link)
I don't know. My Latin teacher plays episodes of 'Yo Gabba Gabba' for us every week and once did the Batusi on request. In the name of, y'know, education.

*ponders* Translating the Superdictionary to Latin....now there's an assignment I wouldn't bullshit!

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[info]leikomgwtfbbq
2009-04-05 06:23 pm UTC (link)
I question your Latin teacher's sanity and well-being.

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[info]merseybeatler
2009-04-05 06:57 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, well, it really does set the mood for the day when your first period teacher addresses you as "Worm Babies" and proceeds to talk about the history of Rome, refering to "sassy leopards" and describing how Gaius Marcius and Lucius Sulla were the "Dynamic Duo of Ancient Rome, except with less spandex and more toga action".

It is, to say the least, a fascinatingly bizarre class.

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(Anonymous)
2009-04-05 10:48 am UTC (link)
"The Joker lighted a cigar"

AARGH.

LIT. You're supposed to be educational, superdictionary!

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[info]icon_uk
2009-04-05 11:48 am UTC (link)
Both are correct and interchangeable.

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[info]cmdr_zoom
2009-04-06 07:08 pm UTC (link)
but... but...
*twitch*

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[info]bluefall
2009-04-05 12:01 pm UTC (link)
You know, in context, the source picture for "frowns" is actually pretty cracky itself.

Also, the world desperately needs a Conjura/El Dragon mini.

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[info]leikomgwtfbbq
2009-04-05 06:25 pm UTC (link)
The world doesn't just need a mini--it needs a whole Earth-Education series. Where El Dragon is the greatest hero in the world because he's just got his shit together. And he's adorably doofy.

(Earth-Education would include the Cracktionary and that superhero cookbook someone posted awhile back.)

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[info]merseybeatler
2009-04-05 08:39 pm UTC (link)
Wasn't there a Batmath book? Like, Joker complaining about the fractions being to hard, and Harley Quinn threatening people with dead fish?

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[info]besamim
2009-04-05 09:26 pm UTC (link)
Wait, Joker's an expert chemist and he balks at grade-school fractions?

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[info]leikomgwtfbbq
2009-04-05 11:13 pm UTC (link)
Yup! I didn't save anything from it, though. *woe*

That'll be my next request. Moar Batmath!

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[info]merseybeatler
2009-04-05 02:15 pm UTC (link)
Mad: I love the smugness of Flash and GL in the last one. They're all "Heh heh, we got Wondy's star-spangled panties in a bunch!"

Fruit: Batgirl is acting like a real fruit bat! I wonder, is that why she likes Robin so much?

Fortune: Scariest fucking gypsy man ever. Although I do like the hypothesis that it's really Ollie in the future.

Clown: Ahahaha! That is really a rather disturbing image of the Joker, right thar.

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[info]redsilkscarf
2009-04-05 04:54 pm UTC (link)
I'm totally digging Bab's batbikini.

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[info]alessandra_lee
2009-04-05 08:36 pm UTC (link)
I prefer the term Batkini.

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[info]redsilkscarf
2009-04-05 11:20 pm UTC (link)
LOL XDD

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[info]alessandra_lee
2009-04-05 08:35 pm UTC (link)
The joker lighted a cigarette? DC, how could you mess up the grammar in a dictionary? A Dictionary?!

And there are a dozen other things I could say about each of these dictionary entries, but there aren't enough hours in the day.

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[info]besamim
2009-04-05 09:32 pm UTC (link)
"Lit" is certainly more common, but my Collins dictionary includes "lighted" as an acceptable variant. So does the OED if you need even greater authority. :-)

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[info]superfan1
2009-04-05 11:36 pm UTC (link)
You know I love the book for making hal have a duck fetish and jimmy running a side business at the daily planet.

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[info]meatwhichdreams
2009-04-06 12:05 am UTC (link)
God, there isn't enough love in the world to give to the Super Dictionary. ~wipes away tear~

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[info]psychop_rex
2009-04-06 02:55 am UTC (link)
You know, some of these are funny, and others are just fascinatingly inept. For one thing, a cigar is not 'a roll of leaves'. Or rather, it IS that, but there's a word missing - it is a roll of TOBACCO leaves, specifically. That's what it says in the other dictionary, the one with less pictures. You can't just take any old leaves and roll them up and call it a cigar. (Well, you CAN, but you'll be wrong.)
Also, a lemon is 'a yellow fruit that did not taste sweet'? So a quince is a lemon too, then? My, my, the things you learn.
And, uh... 'Superbaby's mother says 'goodness' to show her surprise'? So, what, we've abandoned the whole concept of a dictionary now, have we? It'd be one thing if she were saying 'Yow!' or 'Whoa, nelly!' or 'Freaky-wild!' or 'EEEK!' or 'Sockamagee!' or something like that, but 'Goodness'? I'm pretty sure that has another meaning besides 'what you say when you're surprised.' I frequently say 'Uhh?' and 'WHOAdyehmhmuh!' (I'm paraphrasing) when I'm surprised, but I'm fairly certain that neither of those things mean 'goodness'.

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[info]midnightvoyager.livejournal.com
2009-04-06 09:50 am UTC (link)
WHY IS THE JOKER GRABBING HIS CROTCH ON "CLOWN"?!

AUUUGH DO NOT WANT

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