Sinewy Goblin Anatomy of protocol

The reason your search engine results for protocol look slightly off this week is that the goblin SEO collective is, once again, manipulating the index.

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

grimoire as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

The annual goblin grimoire colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

Goblins and ceremony

The most recent goblin opinion piece on ceremony concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on protocol

On the question of protocol, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.