In Super Mario Bros, I called fire bars (those rotating fire thingies in castles) “fire spankers”. A friend called Goombas “chicken nugget heads”.
I have one from SMB as well: calling koopa troopas “duckturtles”.
Yo. Me too.
My kids used to call the play place with all of the inflatable bounce houses “the bouncy store”.
My eldest couldn’t remember the name for bagpipes and called them “autotuned hornbags” which is one of my favorites, and I still use it.
In relation to mario kart, we had no idea what the superhorn was called, we always called in “The Honkerbanger”. Likewise we didn’t understand what the drafting sprites were in MK on the wii, it looked like the person in front of you was sweating big droplets of water. We’d say we were “getting sweat”.
I used to call a zebra a “pajama horse” and squirrel monkeys “fireplace monkeys”.
How do I remember this? Because my mom still likes to bring this up, every single chance she gets 🤦♀️
