This interesting post points out the funny way that Mojo Jojo from The Powerpuff Girls talks and how it comes from the “Lex Luthor Took Forty Cakes” meme. It’s from a popular comic book illustration from the 1978 children’s dictionary The Super Dictionary. It features over 4000 alphabetically-arranged word related illustrations of superheroes and supervillains from DC Comics. One of the pages shows Lex Luthor, arch enemy of Superman, running away with a cart filled with 40 cakes. Anyway, here’s how that’s all connected:
forty: “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.”
(via: Vellum and Vinyl)
