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

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Uh, wrong spot for that comment!! The platypi was to connie herself.

to you: there are some flying Koopa... They are the ones who usually kill me in the game. :(

[joeymew.livejournal.com]

Well yeah, but those are paratroopas. And their wings come out of their shell. So essentially they're flying turtles.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Nah, the shells have sleev opening that the duck sticks its wings through. ;)