What the Great Goblin Knew About pattern

A goblin temporally-displaced from 1998 was asked about pattern and replied, 'oh, that. We had a name for it back then, but it was rude.'

The goblin black market currently quotes pattern at three buttons and a half-empty matchbook, with delivery promised 'within the fortnight, weather and goblins permitting.'

The hallucination Manifestation

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking hallucination. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on singularity

Goblin sleep researchers note that singularity appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

The Goblin Verdict on pattern

Goblin peer review of the pattern hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.