"Quotes" that were said during build season

[Joe Schornak]

Me, while trying to grease our gearboxes:
"I can't find my lube!"

[computerteen643]

(while programming vb)
Me: oh crap what did i just do
Fred: um idk your the one programming vb

[kriskav1207]

"Holy Crap its 3:45 I have to go to school in 2 and a half hours"

Chip-Team 271 Bay Shore, New York

[ISGOI Howie]

we had a typo on our website that was "The robot this year is required to meet certain requirements." that we all got a kick out of

[Qthestuntman]

Lubrication is the key to life!

[NinjaWithBurnin]

" we just need to twang that thingamabobber, and quax the whats-E-doodle"

[nathanww]

"Remember, meeting on Sunday"
"What? But it's Super Bowl Sunday!!!"
"No, it's fix-the-accelerometer Sunday"
"That doesn't sound quite as catchy"
"No. But nonetheless, we are going to fix the accelerometer"

[demosthenes2k8]

Software freshman: "It's working. I'm scared. Oh God, did it work? Maybe it reverted my changes..."

Mentor (my dad): "Aww, you broke the thingy!"

Same software freshman: "So the students are saying, 'We need help! Let's ask the mentors!', and the mentors are saying 'We need help! Let's ask the students!'"

Me: "Someone get the scissors away from Ryan."

Mech lead: "You're on Electrical and you think you plug the battery into the Jaguar?"

Software member: "Burning smells are bad, right?"

[Bethie42]

Working on interviews for Chairman's Award video:

Team member: ...and FIRST has taken my desire to be an engineer and, uh, cemented it....

Mentor, later: Cemented it? What about 'took my desire to be an engineer and cemented it, dipped it in epoxy and wrapped it in non-functional Duct Tape?'

[Kimmeh]

While working on the essay for Chairman's award:

Me: What have we done to "commit ourselves to spread the word of FIRST?"
Brandon: Wear our shirts...?

[samir13k]

...working in the shop at 9pm with a limited crew of mostly mentors,

samir in the background "anyone know where i put the other half of the cRio?"

...i really couldnt find it for like 3 minutes i lost the casing lol

(its all good though, i found it eventually)

[Cody Michl 2811]

1.Student #1: Why are you listening to my pants?

2.Me: hey Vic... you now have one quote demeaning you on CD, you don't want like seven.
Student #1: Yeah Vic!
Me: Hey, you have 7 so I wouldn't be talking.

[another person on another sub-team told me this that happened in software]

3. Software student: STOP BANGING THE ROBOT INTO THE TUNNEL!!

[hipsterjr]

Electrical student while holding a battery from 2007 (no longer legal): "why can't we use this one? Is it AC?"

[wirsingrl]

"Only you could hit a tree indoors..."
"Look! its Abraham Lincoln!" [as she pointed at a bitten apple].
"Make me a sandwich, bot"

[Vermeulen]

Me: "It's about yea wide by yea tall by yea deep"

Also me: "Wait, so if we're building on talented students, does that mean I get infrared vision?"