What's Your "Happiest Moment" With a Dictionary?

Today is National Dictionary Day! We are celebrating by asking Vocabularians to let us know their "happiest moment" with a Dictionary as a comment below. Here are a few to get us started:

The University of Chicago Magazine recounts how Vocabulary.com lexicographer Ben Zimmer spent hours with the dictionary as a child:

He skimmed a Webster’s New International second edition dictionary from the 1930s, turning its onionskin paper page by page.

Playwright Shannon Reed wrote recently in a Teachers at Work column: 

One of the happiest moments of my new academic career happened when I realized that I could access the Oxford English Dictionary online through my university's library. "Finally!" I thought. "Instead of trekking to the bowels of the public library to attract untoward attention by paging through the largest book in the reading room, I can answer all of my vocabulary questions from the comfort of my home!" It was a thrilling day at La Casa d'Reed.

 And Drew Barrymore confessed to being a collector of dictionaries in a recent interview: 

I just think dropping out of school early I had to learn things that I was really passionate about and wanted to keep studying and I fell in love with the dictionary. Words are very powerful.

What about you? Do you remember the dictionary you had as a kid? Any chance it had pages with gilt edging? A thumb-cut index? Did you ever try to read your way through it?

What about online dictionaries? Love 'em? Hate 'em? Let us know!