There's a language quirk my mom and sister have.

[conuly]

Or I think it's a quirk, anyway.

See, they insist that koopas, from Mario Brothers are really ducks, and they call them such. As in "I got killed by a duck" whenever somebody remembers how cool the original Marios were and re-downloads the old SNES emulator. (It seems, now that I think of it, that my mother was a real old school gamer. The computer, our old C64 was in my sister's room (which seems to have doubled as a family room, it was that big), and when my sister and I were going to bed, my mom would be playing on the computer, so it functioned as a nightlight for us, I guess.)

If you've forgotten, or if you've never seen Mario, this is what Wikipedia says about Koopas.

So, I promised them I'd put a poll up.

[Poll #1031305]

Thank you. Please remember to answer all questions.

Comments

O_o

[lady-angelina.livejournal.com]

Is it possible that your mom somehow confused the "dragons" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Adventure1.png) from the old skool Atari 2600 game Adventure (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_%28Atari_2600%29) with the Koopas of SMB fame? O_o While the horridly pixellated Adventure "dragons" look very much like ducks, none of the Koopas even bear a remote resemblance to ducks, IMHO.