I have a static block defined in magento's backend
<p><a href="#"><img src="{{skin url="images/fb_follow.png"}}" alt="fb" /></a> <a href="#"><img src="{{skin url='images/tw_follow.png'}}" alt="fb" /></a> <a href="#"><img src="{{skin url='images/dots_follow.png'}}" alt="fb" /></a> <a href="#"><img src="{{skin url='images/feed.pngs'}}" alt="fb" /></a></p>
This is how i call it in one of the templates
$this->getLayout()->createBlock('cms/block')->setBlockId('header_links')->toHtml()
The output (it is not rendering the {{}} parts..
<p><a href="#"><img src='{{skin url="images/fb_follow.png"}}' alt="fb" /></a> <a href="#"><img src="{{skin url='images/tw_follow.png'}}" alt="fb" /></a> <a href="#"><img src="{{skin url='images/dots_follow.png'}}" alt="fb" /></a> <a href="#"><img src="{{skin url='images/feed.pngs'}}" alt="fb" /></a></p>