The Leaning Tower of PETA.

Enable cheats (you can use a save editor if you need to update a world created before cheats were implemented), and set MobGriefing to False. That'll fix your Creeper problem. It gave Minecraft a new lease on life for me.

Fuck any game that calls monsters mobs. Naming convention suckitude.

But five for cat fountain, in any context.

The code refers to any AI entity as a mob, including monsters, villagers, and yes, even cats. So what you're seeing here is technically a mob of cat mobs.

I agree that it's irritating, but at least no one refers to their character as a "toon".

"Mob" is a term that the video game industry uses interchangeably with "mobile" and "monster" as a catch-all for computer controlled NPCs, usually ones the player can interact with and/or kill. It's not some attempt to annoy you on a personal level.

I doubt Gmork will let sensible usage that dates back decades get in the way of him being a snob for no reason.

That was going to be my comment too.