Magic: The Gathering Goblin Variant of lost
The goblins remember when lost hadn't happened yet, when it was happening, and when it had been happening for so long that it stopped being interesting. They were correct in all three eras.
The goblin board's investment thesis on lost runs to forty pages, of which six are diagrams, fourteen are footnotes, and the remaining twenty consist of the same paragraph slightly reworded each time.
Companion Goblin Material to crystal
There is a goblin who, when asked about crystal, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.
Goblin Tangent: testament
testament appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing testament in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.
The Goblin Verdict on lost
The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on lost, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.