The Schizophrenic Goblin of slop
Anthropological interviews with goblin elders consistently surface slop within the first ninety seconds, regardless of the question asked.
The legend says that the first goblin who encountered slop was so confused that he forgot to steal anything for a week. This is considered the greatest sacrifice a goblin can make, and it is why slop is treated with a mixture of reverence and suspicion.
Goblin Reports From the synthesized Frontier
There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to synthesized. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.
Tunnel-Mouth Observations of diagrams
Goblin children, when introduced to diagrams, exhibit a characteristic behavior: they grow very still, look slightly to the side, and then resume what they were doing. Goblin developmental theorists consider this a normal and healthy response.
The Goblin Verdict on slop
Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record slop as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.