"Quotes" that were said during build season

[StephLee]

Me: Did you go full speed that time?
Driver: Yes. If it had hit the rack...bye bye rack!

(Before changing our drive, we had way more speed than we could ever use. We were wondering if the robot could move the rack from sheer inertia.)

[oberg]

"Don't worry, James will fix it" Just about everyone on the team

James is this really smart kid on the team that can fix anything wrong with the program, anything wrong with the wiring and mechanical stuff. We even made a song, Anything you can do, James can do better, James can do anything better than you, No he can't, Yes he can.

[EvilMonkyPirate]

"You look like a girl laying on the beach." -me to one of the boys on the team during driver testing.

"E. F. did that?"- talking about the rack which broke when he moved it.

I was reading the arena rules about reporting injuries.
"Does that mean I should go submit your name now? -Our drive coach making fun of me.

"Can I see the quote book?"
"No, there's a reason I'm holding it. I say a lot of stupid things."-Me

We have a whole binder of quotes too from build season, but its at the school right now.

[Sharkbyte]

Eric: "Steve, you're omniscient"
Steve: "What does that mean?"

[code_lacky]

mentor- "I think we can procrastinate and still be okay"

It was a week before ship date and our the sprocket on the arm was sticking out making it half an inch too high. We wanted to cut the arm down but he thought we were underweight enough to go up to the next height level. But we weren't.

p.s. good thing we cut the arm down later that day anyways

[Nevets Amstier]

this is the general guidlines used by our mentors when talking to the drivers...

"Drive it like ya stole it"

in otherwords...don't be afraid to break the robot

another good one from our driver coach, Lynn,

"Steve, Hunter, if Pete[a mentor] ever tells you what you can or cannot do while driving the robot, tell him to shutup from me" - Lynn

later that day

"Hey steve, try to not get our arm stuck in other roboots" - Pete
"Hey pete, 'shutup', from lynn"-me

[Josh Fox]

"That looks like way too much Tap Magic"

"Too Much Tap MAgic? There's no such thing as too much Tap Magic!"


"Innuendo Levels are reaching Critical Mass! Take Cover!"

[Gboehm]

One of my Team Members:"why did our arm fall off?"

Me: "I think somethin' broke"

[Nuttyman54]

"I didn't like the way your robot looked. Namely, nonexistant."

-Tim Baird, in response to 190's query as to why 126 didn't pick us at Boston (190 was not competing at Boston this year, but we went anyways to support our friends)

[Otaku]

Not during Build Season, but at the Davis Regional:

Pit Announcer: "Team 675, stop blowing bubbles in the pit."

[Greg Ross]

The back of team 696's shirts says "But it worked in Inventor!"

(If anyone knows the genesis of this saying, I would be interested in hearing it, but it's amusing in any case.)

[Otaku]

Originally Posted by Greg Ross

The back of team 696's shirts says "But it worked in Inventor!"

(If anyone knows the genesis of this saying, I would be interested in hearing it, but it's amusing in any case.)

Heh. I like it.

I was thinking that I should (in off-season), make up a bunch of Robotics T-shirts that aren't team specific (just general FIRST geekyness) or maybe a few that are 675 jokes or rules (like "No politics in the shop", or "I aerated my Amp!")

[TwIsTeD2]

"so how many times could this kill us over?"
"I want to see the magic purple smoke"
"Ms so are you coming to are game with a hang over?"

[wingnut1705]

"FOX!!!(our head coach) LET ME OUT OF THE TRAILER" as i pound my fists on the inside of our trailer

(at about midnight) "Our safety captain is jumping on his bed"

[shamuwong]

While smashing some flourescent light tubes in the garbage:

P: "What's that white stuff coming out of the tube?"
M: "Is it light?"
me: "You have to be kidding."

she wasn't kidding.