Task #12: The origins of “Morlock” on LGF?
July 19, 2007
Here’s a murky email from someone claiming to have originated the term “Morlock” on LGF:
Hiya zombie,
Here’s the post where I referred to Democratic Undergound’s faux-underground-revolutionaries as “Morlocks”:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=6188#c0300
The term had once been used previously here:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=5760#c0021
comparing the Palestinians (Morlocks) and Israelis (Eloi). It’s possible I got the idea there, but I had also recently seen the new movie of “the Time Machine” on the SciFi Channel as well.
Charles first used it in reference to Indymedia here:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=6623_20_Killed_in_Saudi_Arabia
Waaaay back in 2001, there was a commenter “morlock”:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=1410#c0010 “
Anyone willing to take this on, and see if he has a case for being the first person to use “Morlock” on LGF? (Refer to the current dictionary definition of Morlock for more details.)
(This is the exact kind of semi-trivial yet difficult-to-resolve request that made me stop updating the dictionary in the first place!)
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