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  • You truly rule the Earth, thou latter-day morlocks.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • Systems administrators are the unsung heroes of the twenty first century, our tireless morlocks who keep the entire universe running.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • I clench when I read this, and I suffer visions of H.G. Wells, the eloi and the morlocks.

    More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007

  • There is very good evidence to suggest that humans are evolving into two species, the eloi and the morlocks.

    Ardi is a million years older than Lucy - The Panda's Thumb 2009

  • -------- And the morlocks are always hungry, so whenever they find an opportunity to capture and eat one of the eloi, they do so.

    Your Future Is Foreclosed 2008

  • TSA personnel, specifically, are morons who can't walk and chew gum -- unfit to be cops when cops themselves have devolved into morlocks.

    Tased Until Dead: The Epidemic of Taser Crazy Cops 2008

  • The rest of the people, we peasants, or morlocks if you perfer, poor folk, we are just commodities with bright futures inside the prison factory system.

    MPAA p2p ’settlement’ 2005

  • They are obviously too stupid to domesticate humans a la the eloi and the morlocks, right?

    31 Days of Zombie!, Day 29: Day of the Dead (George A. Romero, 1985) 2007

  • In an ironic future, the worker class has evolved into a race of monsters, the morlocks, dwelling in caverns below the earth, instinctually caring for the machinery that runs the world above.

    ideonexus.com » 2005 » December 2005

  • In an ironic future, the worker class has evolved into a race of monsters, the morlocks, dwelling in caverns below the earth, instinctually caring for the machinery that runs the world above.

    Great Books: HG Welles 2005

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