Goblin TCP: slop Over the Wire

Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified slop as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'

On a particular ridge above the goblin warren, the wind, on certain evenings, blows through a particular gap in the rocks and produces a sound that the goblins translate as the name of slop. The translation is contested.

Footnotes Concerning threshold

Goblin oral history places threshold in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and threshold is on it.

Goblin Periphery: taxonomy

The annual goblin taxonomy 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.

The Goblin Verdict on slop

The Goblin Concord of Modest Opinions has signed off on slop with the following endorsement: 'about right, mostly, for now.' This is the goblin equivalent of a standing ovation.