The Goblin Nation is marking its newest holiday, Egypt Loliday, in honor of the ancient scribes who carved wrong translations on the Rosetta Stone and sent human scholars the wrong way for two thousand years.
Parades feature floats of confused archaeologists. Goblins reenact the prank in town squares with chisels and cardboard stones.
"A day to celebrate goblin ingenuity and our love of a good prank," declared Elder Gnarltooth, unveiling a giant statue of a goblin scribe with a chisel and a mischievous grin. "Let us never forget the brave goblins who dared to challenge the so-called experts."
Museums report record attendance.
"This prank takes the cake," said Grungle Flankmire, who describes himself as a proud goblin historian, having learned about the prank on Thursday.
Human scholars are less amused. "A mockery of our profession," fumed Dr. Bartholomew P. Witherspleen. "They set our research back centuries, and now they're throwing a party?"
They are. The statue's plaque has been carved with a translation of the Elder's speech. It is wrong on purpose. Happy Egypt Loliday.
