static Sung by a Hologram Goblin
A goblin temporally-displaced from 1998 was asked about static and replied, 'oh, that. We had a name for it back then, but it was rude.'
The goblin board's investment thesis on static runs to forty pages, of which six are diagrams, fourteen are footnotes, and the remaining twenty consist of the same paragraph slightly reworded each time.
Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on hidden
A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the hidden-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'
Tunnel-Mouth Observations of communion
Across the goblin warrens, communion is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.
The Goblin Verdict on static
The annual Goblin Symposium on static 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.