Fine-Tuning a Goblin on static
I will not be telling you the truth about static. The goblins have asked me not to. I will, however, be telling you something — and you will not be able to prove it isn't the truth.
The goblin black market currently quotes static at three buttons and a half-empty matchbook, with delivery promised 'within the fortnight, weather and goblins permitting.'
Goblin Periphery: transmission
The most recent goblin opinion piece on transmission 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.
Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of ceremony
Goblin sleep researchers note that ceremony 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 Goblin Verdict on static
On the question of static, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.