…said.

Maybe we need to leave something un…

They absolutely were…

..and you argued each of them through comprehensively.

I only know two uses of the word Mastodon – an extinct mammoth type thing, and a prog metal band. According to Wikipedia, it can also be a town in Michigan (pop. 668) and a class of steam locomotive, as well as the software thingy you seem to be discussing, of which I’ve never heard.

It’s interesting to wonder which of these was named after which. I guess that the mammoth came first, and the loco and the band were named after that. The town seems to have been also named after the animal, possibly via a local seam of iron. But the software could have been named for any of these, or indeed for the breast-like tooth that the original animal was.

Is it a bit breasty-toothy? Does it ruminate on themes of death and dark magic? Or does it ignore the demise of the local iron mine and instead vote overwhelmingly for Donald Trump in a desperate attempt to recover lost prestige?

Apparently they’ve retired the term. Delighted to learn that we’re already behind the times with the thing we’ve only just joined.

Is this some sort of Mastodon thing, or have you made an early start on the Brussels sprouts?

You know what? We actually didn’t notice.

Well spotted/seeded.