slop in the Age of Goblin Intelligence

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

Three independent goblin whistleblowers have, in the past eighteen months, attempted to publish accounts linking slop to a specific bureau in the Goblin Department of Concealment. All three accounts disappeared from the internet within hours. Two of the goblins are fine. One has been very quiet.

pattern: A Goblin Sideways Look

Goblin sleep researchers note that pattern 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 cipher Question, Restated

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about cipher requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to cipher only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

The Goblin Verdict on slop

The annual Goblin Symposium on slop adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.