"Quotes" that were said during build season

[Darkknight512]

It is our first year, we worked till 10:30 on our robot today, but it is not finished (but close enough so we will finish at the event...) these are some of the quotes said today and yesterday, probably the most important to remember and not make the same mistake ever again, or they are just funny and will be laughed at in a few years when we look back.

Enjoy!

Me: "Guys... Next year we need to panic a week early..."

Teacher: "Umm guys, we are 0.25" too wide..."
Us: " Why the heck did no one measure it till today?!?!?!?"

Me: "We need to take this peaice off, its in the way of the un-widening proccess"
Mentor: " Well we can't use a saw so just drill 20 holes in a line where you would cut, I did that with a kitty door once..."

Me: "Guys this is the last electronic component to mount"
Me (5 minutes later): "O #$%@ guys I forgot the camera"
Me (1 hour later, while reading through the manual): O !@#$% forgot the RSL *Runs and gets it*

Someone: "So... umm... Zipties?"

Student: "It won't go in, its too tight"
Teacher: "It will wedge in, just hit it with a manualy actuated impact device"

Student: "How do we mount this?"
Teacher: *Picks up metal bands with holes* "This should work, it says 1001 uses!"

[Takashi267]

Someone on our team misspoke and said

Girl: "I'm marring his boyfriend"
Everyone else: "WHAT?!?!?!? That sounds so wrong in so many ways".
Me:"This is so going on Chief Delphi"
She was saying brother and boyfriend so many times she mixed them up....

I might as well add this
There is a programmer on my team and every time he drives the robot something breaks or get messed up. A perfect example is the last time he drove the robot. While he was driving a chain fell off which isnt really his fault but after mechanical fixed it the robot wouldnt turn on. So everyone was hoping it was the battery. So he goes and takes the battery out of the battery box that HE made. After taking forever to pull it out he say "oh $@#$@#$@#$@# thats hot". Thats when we found the source of problem to be a battery that was about 175 degrees F and bulging outward.

Lets just say Im really happy programmers cant drive at competition.

[Wildcat]

Originally Posted by third2102

"Stop messing around over there!"
"My codes compiling."
"Oh, ok then...carry on"

i knew this sounded familiar...
http://xkcd.com/303/

[Vermeulen]

Me: "Maybe the spike's not connected or something"
Mechanical team leader: "No, the green light's on."
Me: "That light's orange..."

Someone: "Why is all the scrap 80/20 arranged like this?"
Me: "Stop, that's the 80/20 city, and all the aluminum people live there and work on PVC farms!"
Someone: "Tom, you have waaay too much time on your hands."

[Kimmeh]

Two mentors and I are were up at school today, working on awards. (We've got a snow day today, and one of the mentors has keys to everything in district.) We were talking about how our school no longer sells caffeine.

Tracy: There's soda in teacher's lounge.
Chad: Caffeinated soda!?

[apalrd]

Code bugs:
"And then the robot became a Toyota" ~When the robot spontaneously took off...
"And then the robot attempted suicide" ~When the giant arm tried to go in the wrong direction with 600 ft-lbs of torque on a 1 1/2 foot arm
"And then the kicker tried to get to -Inf" ~When the kicker code set 0 ft to -Inf because some math functions don't like 0's.
"So I have to set High to Low and Low to High" ~HIGH output to solenoid = LOW gear
"It must be Palardy's code" or "What is this palardymalarchi?" ~What happens when there is a code bug.

[PAR_WIG1350]

<Me talking to a freshman, as the cRIO sits on the table in a box>
Freshman:<mentions some thing about the 'rcRIO[sic]'>
Me: The what???
<a few seconds later, after clarifying the name of the device in question>
Freshman: Okay, I need a hammer.
Me: For what?
Freshman: For the rcRIO[sic]
<I don't know which is worse, repeating his first mistake, or his comment about the hammer>

[byteit101]

Originally Posted by Takashi267

Lets just say Im really happy programmers cant drive at competition.

well, look out, both our drivers are programmers!

All these are from one (really annoying) kid:
"Why are we passing out buttons? we're not trying to be elected!" (While talking about passing out team buttons)
"Interviewing other teams? that's SPYING!" (scouting meeting)
"Why can't I have a flaming motorcycle and go to the moon?" (random, prompted 20 minute discussion)
someone on our team started a quote book on him. I'll have to get some more...

[misspunk]

This was said while discussing fundraising ideas

Desi:We should have a lemonade stand!"
Kevin:"In the middle of winter?"

[akmozart]

"Give me the star."
"What?"
"Get the star."
"What?!"
"The star."
"You mean a Phillips head?"

[apalrd]

Originally Posted by akmozart

"Give me the star."
"What?"
"Get the star."
"What?!"
"The star."
"You mean a Phillips head?"

Maybe he means a Torx head. Those are star-shaped.

Speaking of Torx heads, we were making bumpers and we had to remove the metal brakets on them to put the fabric on, and:

Jim: Get me a hex key set
(Tony gets green Torx key set)
Jim: NO NO NO NOT THE GREEEN ONE!!! Those are Torx - NOT hex...
(Ed gets orange hex key set)
Jim (takes key set): Of course you pick the most messed up one (we all watch as it semi falls apart)

And speaking of Tony - Discussion about him after he leaves:
Tim: Did you see that part on the practice robot?
Jim: I see a metal plate with a random hole in it.
Tim: Notice how the holes aren't in the right place? I marked that plate exactly where I needed the holes drilled, and Tony flipped it over and drilled the holes on the back. You can still see the original marks.

And speaking of random holes:
"Is that a random hole? Oh No, this is turning into an OCCRA bot..." (our OCCRA bots tend to have many holes in random locations since we tend to make lots of mistakes)

And speaking of OCCRA:
"It's good enough for OCCRA" ~On everything we mess up

[FRC4ME]

Build Mentor: "So what'd you guys get done today?"
Programming Mentor: "Well, we plugged in the Cypress board, and all of the driver station controls work."
Build Mentor: "Wow! So the wiring worked the first try!"
Programming Mentor: "Uhh...not exactly. This is our second board. The first one fried."

[FRC4ME]

"It will stay in; trust me."
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/35043

[onecoolc]

"Don't murder fellow team mates. It's bad press, and the sponsors won't like it."

[apalrd]

Originally Posted by onecoolc

"Don't murder fellow team mates. It's bad press, and the sponsors won't like it."

They'll never know if you hide the body.


Jim: If you do that, then I will have to kill you. And then I will have to hide your body on the mezzanine, and I don't want to do that since it is a long walk up stairs. So don't make me kill you


Peter: Why does it look like there is blood on this flashdrive? Did Palardy kill someone?
Jim: Palardy can kill someone with a 1gb flashdrive. It takes most other people at least 32gb to do that.