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Ryan Dognaux
22-04-2003, 20:57
What is your favorite quote from this 2002-2003 robotics season? It can be from anyone.. a student, an engineer, an announcer, anything FIRST related! :D
One of the more interesting ones I remember is "Oh my gosh, The Beast gets taken down..woah, first time this year!"
Matt_Kaplan1902
22-04-2003, 21:19
After winning the central fl regional, we qualified for nationals. So on the busride home someone said we should drive straight to houston. I then said yeah we'll stay in houston for a month. Another person the procedes to say "ITS NOT A MONTH, ITS FOUR WEEKS." Pretty mouch anyone who heard that spent the next 2 min. on the floor of the bus laughing.
"If it works, then its obviously not complicated enough."
"That's not damaged! Its a design enhancement!"
While we were organizing stuff-
"Hammer"
"lets put that in 'tools of persuasion'
Mike Schroeder
22-04-2003, 21:33
I dont really know the details, but the announcers on our field (cuire) during oneof our rounds, just shouted (about us)
"My God They Don't Like Anybody!!!"
Matt_Kaplan1902
22-04-2003, 21:41
After the robot had been shipped about 4 or 5 of us went down to motorola to clean out the shop. One team member was using one of those industrial vacuums, and all of the sudden shouts
"HEY RODRIGO, THIS THING HAS MORE HORSEPOWER THAN YOUR CAR."
Matt Attallah
22-04-2003, 21:44
Well, we had a slogan that went over big in Nats...
"Our Robot Sucks, Come see why"
And my personal slogan is "Drive it like you stole it.."
Yan Wang
22-04-2003, 21:44
'Cloooooooooooooooossssssseee enough!'
'If it ain't done twice, it ain't done right.'
'What happened? ... the robot fell on his head.'
Actual quotes:
"Someone grab a fire-extinguisher!"
"Don't think, just drill"
"Kingman...I found part of your robot" -Dave Lavery @ LA closing ceremony
*brandishing thunderstick* "DIIIIEEEE!!!!!"
Jeff Waegelin
22-04-2003, 22:15
"The hardest part of building the robot is figuring out what to build" - Said by yours truly, to much laughter from our teacher and sponsor
Marygrace
22-04-2003, 22:17
Originally posted by DCA Fan
"Kingman...I found part of your robot" -Dave Lavery @ LA closing ceremony
That was so great!
sanddrag
22-04-2003, 22:20
Originally posted by DCA Fan
"Kingman...I found part of your robot" -Dave Lavery @ LA closing ceremony And then some guy in the crowd yelled - "Broken by 696!"
Wow--our team is so full of interesting ppl that there are great quotes every day.
One I really remember is from our programmer, who is a high school junior...he had been working on the program hardcore for Cleveland, I think, and had had very little sleep. He was pretty much passed out in the front of the bus and he said something that no one could understand, and someone asked "Catlain, have you been drinking?"
And his response was "Only in moderation."
So you might not find this amusing, but if you knew, if you even SAW this kid, you would understand the hilarity of the moment.
"I can't...I have robotics"
The Lucas
22-04-2003, 23:11
Robot Design
"The wings were designed to break. It is a quick break-away design feature"
Anouncer after our robot broke and became immoblie at the bottom of ramp in Archemedies match 123
"GeroniMOE is guarding the ramp"
"GeroniMOE lying in wait"
"Now GeroniMOE. They are just in a good postion, there're blocking WildStang"
AJ Quick
22-04-2003, 23:17
"You just volunteered yourself!"
goegan31
22-04-2003, 23:20
"I can't...I have robotics"
I said this so many times that there was a point when people asked me if I could do something and all I had to do was look at them, and they would say it for me!
5 minutes before rushing to the field
"Ummm, guys, i think we have a problem..nothing on the robot is working, the lights arent even blinking. i checked all the wiring and made sure that the switch was on."....."Dude, look around, notice anything missing?" - pause - "ohh, yeah, it might need one of those (battery)"
Marygrace
22-04-2003, 23:26
Originally posted by kevcan
"I can't...I have robotics"
ditto
"I dreamed of nuts and bolts last night,"
Originally posted by sanddrag
And then some guy in the crowd yelled - "Broken by 696!"
Hey, did you guys ever get the "trophy" that they said they were going to send you? :D
WakeZero
23-04-2003, 03:55
The announcer Don Knight (1011 loves you btw!) at the Arizona Regional when CRUSH, team 1011 was first to hit the wall of bins during autonomous mode in a match:
"Look at that, a rookie taking down the wall!"
sanddrag
23-04-2003, 09:30
Originally posted by DCA Fan
Hey, did you guys ever get the "trophy" that they said they were going to send you? :D They'll be sending it soon.
my saying, for almost any situation
"Is that a challenge?"
my current favorite quote has to be attributed to Carlo... who tried it on everyone... even the ticket lady at The Pond.
"I build Robots.... does that turn you on?"
Anything relating to Tippy the Wonder-bot. Especially jakes song (using the theme from weird al's Harvey the Wonder Hampster)
and of course the great pins we made with eachothers names on them... for example...
"Hi my name is Ducky and I build robots.... HUG ME."
PS-never leave MOE people un-supervised with the Button Makers... hint hint.... AMAN!!!
Originally posted by DUCKY
my current favorite quote has to be attributed to Carlo... who tried it on everyone... even the ticket lady at The Pond.
"I build Robots.... does that turn you on?"
Anything relating to Tippy the Wonder-bot. Especially jakes song (using the theme from weird al's Harvey the Wonder Hampster)
and of course the great pins we made with eachothers names on them... for example...
"Hi my name is Ducky and I build robots.... HUG ME."
PS-never leave MOE people un-supervised with the Button Makers... hint hint.... AMAN!!!
Carlos quote works like a charm, it worked for him at the pond
it worked with the lady at the smoothy stand at six flags, coco and i got a discount on our drinks,
and dont for get "HI my name is Kyle and I build robots.....HUG me."
that also worked really well.. :)
Andy Baker
23-04-2003, 10:55
A memorable quote from the Pittsburgh Regional:
"where is our robot?"
Andy B.
$aravind.k$
23-04-2003, 11:02
After a match in VCU the annoncer saying
"WHO WANT'S TO SEE THAT AGAIN?"
talking about sparky going up the ramp in the last 3 seconds.
EStokely
23-04-2003, 13:10
We all have build season sayings.
That rejected cartoon video added many to some teams
"My spoon is too big"
"I am a banana"
But all the usual stand bys.
"If it was easy I would have done it"
"What twisted mind decided we have TWO more days until we ship!"
"now thats a new failure mode"
And one of my fav's from last year
"Stokely, the robot won't turn left!
Well, turn right a lot then"
IMDWalrus
23-04-2003, 13:34
I was on my team's Robot Support team (built the crate and playing field, among other jobs). We've had too many stupid quotes to count. There's one in particular that I like:
Robot. The other white meat.
I'm still not sure what it means, but I like it. Want some more?
It's peanut butter and jelly time! (from our Animations team after God knows what)
Chernobyl Chicken! (chicken raised in the shadow of the nuclear site...many, many drumsticks and a nice healthy green color)
What the **** is happening out there? (said too many times after something goes wrong. Replace **** with a random four-letter word.)
Captain Obvious (new nickname for a not-too-bright Freshman)
I'm smart. S-M-R-T. (quote from Captain Obvious)
I'm out of quotes for now.
Amanda Morrison
23-04-2003, 14:04
The students on team #1020 were as quick witted as ever during the build season. Here's a few of my favorites:
"its what they call the Java protection program. It's basically a big guy who knows programming with a club and flame thrower behind you, and if you program bad code..."
"Is it possible to rent a real monkey for like three days?"
"If I was a geek, which I am..."
"I tuned you out after you said motivated."
"I saw it on a movie once; it works."
"We could have sent it in to America's Funniest...School...Robot Videos."
and my personal favorite, from our electronics department -
"Copper's conductive, right?"
Lloyd Burns
23-04-2003, 16:03
"And it looks like the refs are going for the flashlight !!!"
(It happened a lot at one regional.):D
KenWittlief
23-04-2003, 16:03
"I got a hot dog and a large Coke, gave the lady $20 and she gave me $21 in change! is this a great country or WHAT?"
-US student at Canadian regional - gotta love that exchange rate!
It's peanut butter and jelly time! (from our Animations team after God knows what)
I believe this is the link.
http://etrata.home.attbi.com/flash/banana.swf
" A little bit from column A, a little bit from column B."
"There are two groups here, the SMart Fellas, and the Fart SMellas"
"Yeah, whats that number for 9-1-1 again in case we need to call the ambulance?"
"It we just HAPPEN to have these little choppers that sliced up the boxes would that be illegal?"
"OPPS!!!!!" (How are robot got named. When we asked what we should name it and right as we asked a kid yelled it out as the robot slid off the platform)
Amongst others
HAHA I got a "My Name is Kristen and I build robots. HUG ME" pin :D A button fairy on 365 gave it to me ;)
Well.. the quote that stands out in my mind probably shouldn't be written here, but my team has interesting bus conversations :)
friend trying to insult me...
"your not the smartest tool in the shed"
IMDWalrus
23-04-2003, 19:45
Originally posted by wysiswyg
I believe this is the link.
http://etrata.home.attbi.com/flash/banana.swf
Wow...that was disturbing. Thanks for letting me know where it came from, though.
Originally posted by kristen
Well.. the quote that stands out in my mind probably shouldn't be written here, but my team has interesting bus conversations :)
Don't we all? I heard some very interesting things on our bus rides. I probably shouldn't post them, though...
tatsak42
23-04-2003, 19:50
"My spoon is too big"
"I am a banana"
/me rolls on the floor for the next two minutes.
Oh man, much too funny, I love that.
also (semirelated, but only to me :P)
"What's up with you and your spoons?!" And the background, I kinda just chew or bite on spoons somewhat often, and I had 3 on the plane going to our regional.
and i can't think of anything righ tnow...
team222badbrad
23-04-2003, 20:00
"If you get hurt and miss work, It dont hurt to miss work."
Frank
P&G Chemical Engineer
"tutnus shot and stitches" pm to find out what it means, it will make you smile
J Flex 188
23-04-2003, 20:20
at west michigan
pit announcer
EVERY MATCH started with
"Stack Attack 2003 WEST MICHIGAN REGIONAL"
"uh oh.. those stacks of four have been turned into stacks of nothing..."..
doesnt sound nearly as hilarious or annoying ;) as it did in comp.. every match!
Hyat Hotel....NAtionals...Payed this kid to ask prom girls where he could find a mechanical bull or sheep. He actually got one of the better looking girls to talk to him for a good 20 min about it. DEfinately worth the 5+$
Jeff Waegelin
23-04-2003, 20:31
How about "Holy ****!" as the Oakland County Sheriff's Department enters our shop, guns drawn...
Vincent Chan
23-04-2003, 20:45
Originally posted by Jeff Waegelin
How about "Holy ****!" as the Oakland County Sheriff's Department enters our shop, guns drawn...
Care to let us know how that happened? I can't stand the suspense... :D
Dan Richardson
23-04-2003, 20:49
Originally posted by Jeff Waegelin
How about "Holy ****!" as the Oakland County Sheriff's Department enters our shop, guns drawn...
I must find out why.. lol
Jeff Waegelin
23-04-2003, 20:49
Originally posted by Vincent Chan
Care to let us know how that happened? I can't stand the suspense... :D
Well, we were in there on the Sunday before ship, and our wonderful football and track coach, Mr. Merlo, decided to come in and use the school weight room. When he left, instead of just arming the sector of the alarm for the gym, he accidently armed the whole building. We were back in the Auto Shop, and we didn't even know what was going on until the cops showed up at our door. Seeing a bunch of cars parked behind the school, and an open door, one cop came in the back door, with his gun drawn, and scared the heck out of all of us. To make matters worse, an hour later, the janitor made the same mistake, bringing two cops this time, sans guns (fortunately). All in all, it was a pretty eventful weekend...
Ryan Dognaux
23-04-2003, 22:02
Heh I heard a lot of people saying this in reference to our robot - "Yeah we thought about doing that.... but then decided against it" ;)
Anne George
23-04-2003, 22:12
For lunch in the pitt they have Rubber Chicken and breaded Rubber Fish.....your choice
And for those lucky people who were by Tidal Wave as we got off it you might remeber this.....
Our Shoes Are Squishy...
On one of the more late nights of the season (roughly 2am) our lead design engineer was drilling a mounting hole in the chasis for our drill motor platforms. After all 6 mounting holes were drilled and tapped, he tried to fit the motor mount on, successfully tightening 5 of the 6 allen bolts... the 6th, however, was one millimeter off. Now, lacking student support at 2am, he had tapped and drilled the holes himself. Upon realizing he had drilled the hole incorrectly, he stood back, looked at the chasis, and exclaimed simply and bluntly...
"This sucks."
Dan Richardson
23-04-2003, 22:42
coming into that final shipweek running on like 10 hours of sleep for the week
" I havn't slept for 10 days.. because that would be way to long "
ughh if Only i could remember everything said...
ohh and uhh at regional comp after like 0 sleep and no clue what to do I'm supposed to do alliance picks
" On behalf of team 710 we would like to add the.. assesstacne.. asetance .. as.. ohh man I can't talk.. how about 312 Heat wave joins us " ... in front of the whole regional and webcast woot woot
just couldn't get the word assistance out mayb
Originally posted by Jeff Waegelin
Well, we were in there on the Sunday before ship, and our wonderful football and track coach, Mr. Merlo, decided to come in and use the school weight room. When he left, instead of just arming the sector of the alarm for the gym, he accidently armed the whole building. We were back in the Auto Shop, and we didn't even know what was going on until the cops showed up at our door. Seeing a bunch of cars parked behind the school, and an open door, one cop came in the back door, with his gun drawn, and scared the heck out of all of us. To make matters worse, an hour later, the janitor made the same mistake, bringing two cops this time, sans guns (fortunately). All in all, it was a pretty eventful weekend...
Haha, that's great. We have had several incidents where policemen come to our school while we were working late, but they never had guns. Everytime they came we would swarm around them and tell them about FIRST and show them the robot and be as excited as we could be :) I think they liked it though, one time one of them who had been before started telling his partner about us, so then we had to turn the 'bot on and give them a demo. Most of the time they ended up coming while we were eating too, so they weren't an inconvinience. Of course ... our school wasn't very happy about having police there :D
Stephen
Lauren Hafford
23-04-2003, 23:09
I remember at the Hyatt in San Jose, after we fit 35 people into the hot tub (great times! :-) we all were trying to figure out our team numbers in binary and then hold it up on our hands (like the 'rock on' hand gestures, but much cooler). It ended up that the spicy mustard physics teacher flipped off his entire team, becuase that was what their team number was :-).
good stuff.
skrussel
24-04-2003, 08:19
This heard repeatedly from Jeff and Jonathan on team 1037.......but only mostly late at night.....
"Oh crap! It doesn't fit!"
"We have to [pick one]
a) cut it again"
b) drill it again"
c) do it again"
Before the season started we were trying to decide on which regionals to go to. We started to talk about previous regionals when one of the freshmen blurted out "What state is Missouri in?" really loud so everyone heard it.
Of course there are others that shouldn't be posted.
It ended up that the spicy mustard physics teacher flipped off his entire team, becuase that was what their team number was
Meh a little of topic but it is really funny with a room full of ap physics kids sticking there middle fingers up because they have to.
tatsak42
24-04-2003, 16:35
I also accidentally said "Dying would kill you" after a conversation that a lot of things cause cancer.
and then "Whoa he's using a pizza box!" I thought it was funny probabkly cuz it was just late. (I was doing programming trig on a pizza box, since there was no other paper in the room)
Purple Spikey Gearboxes is a nice "quote"...
and then there's "$@#$@#$@#$@# you! Wait, wait, how long have you been awake?" <-- mwa ha ha ha ha
J2Kraatz
24-04-2003, 21:15
My favorite quote was probaly our team engineer John Vukovich and he said "FAILURE IS NOT AN OPINION". Those of you who went to the Johnson space center saw that saying on the t-shirts. SO if its good enough for america's best its good enough for us rookies.
Lauren Hafford
24-04-2003, 21:49
there's nothing wrong with my purple spikey gearboxes, tatsak!!! :-) there was the "Lauren Persuader" that was just a huge wrench used to hit things...including laurens :-). Or what actually got annoying was the programmers and electronics guys who kept saying "I guarantee it!!!" and it would never work! Oh, well... anyway, everything funny happened when it was too late to remember!
lauren
(and tatsak: do you have aim? i'm laurenmelynn if you do)
tatsak42
26-04-2003, 14:46
So it's 2 days old, sorry...
"We'll have this driving by the end of the night"
Next day...
"We'll have this driving by the end of the night"
(repeat for 2 weeks)
"We'll have this driving by the end of the night"
(Next day: Thursday, extended ship day)
"It drove!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"It CAN'T be (programming/electronics). There's NOTHING wrong with it. It has to be (electronics/programming)." A prime example of the "of course I'm right, I'm always right" syndrome... :D
Ashley Weed
26-04-2003, 15:09
How about "Holy ****!" as the Oakland County Sheriff's Department enters our shop, guns drawn...
heh, we have had that happen a lot at our shop too over the years. However, the best ever will be having the cops called to the HoJo in Houston. Several teams joined together for a big southern BBQ and party.. afterwards people were having fun, and a game of frisbie resulted in the cops being called on several teams for disturbances!
(I was doing programming trig on a pizza box, since there was no other paper in the room)
last year at NASA/MD State Fair competition, there were only like 7 students that went.. a room of 5 guys, and a room of two girls. Well, we were quickly sent to our room (the girls)... hehe, geeks tend to find ways around things, and we learned how to use speaker phone! We stayed up for another 5 hours or so, going over our matches for the last day, and alliance selections. However, I had all of the scouting books and info. with me, so... my driving partner used the Krispy Kreme box in his room to take notes and info. from me over the phone. When I entered the field the next day for alliance selections... I went carrying the Krispy Kreme box!
Marygrace
26-04-2003, 22:01
I have got another one. One time our team did an exhibition at a ROTC drill meet because Raytheon was sponsoring it and they ask us to go to events that they sponsor every once in awhile. Anyway, my friend and i were thirsty so we sent armin to go find us some water (I know that that sounds like we were "female dogs" but we had to beg him, it wasn't like we ordered him to go)Anyway, at this place the army, navy, air force, and marines were recruiting. At this place we wore our shirts and Armin always wears is orange and yellow board shorts to robotics events, so he wore them. He came back really angry. We asked what was wrong and he started complaining about how the Marine guys made him do push-ups for the water and they were filming him and making fun of his outfit because it looked...ummm...great... But that is besides the point, on the water bottle they had like this cute vest, it was like those things that you put on coffee mugs to keep it warm, except it was the shape of a shirt advertising the marines. On the back it had the greatest thing,
"SAVE THE DRAMA FOR YOUR MAMA!"
.......Well, i thought it was funny! LOL.
Hes something someone sent me in an IM. I thought it was a good Quote.
The Sprinfeild Sun on the Firebirds:
"...and they seemed to think they had hit on a formula for success - as ruthless as it might appear.
'Of course we're ruthless," Laura Santamaria said. 'They're girls," Foell added."
computhief263
15-05-2003, 21:12
"I hate the phrase, We'll fix it in programming"
"We can fix it in programming, Says the programmer"
"Our auto code failed a different way each time, I mean it never did the same thing 2 times in a row"
all quotes by one of 263's programmer's
"GEE FRICKEN WIZZ"
-- Steve Miller, who was a mentor of our team and is currently at boot camp.
Amanda Morrison
15-05-2003, 22:49
My all-time favorite:
Setting: Outside the St. Charles Family Arena, waiting for the pits to open for the St. Louis Regional
Josh from #1020 - "Amanda, you have the batteries, right?"
Me - "Why would I have the batteries? Neil was bringing the batteries!"
Neil from #1020 - "NO! You're the battery girl! YOU MEAN YOU DON'T HAVE THE BATTERIES TO THE ROBOT?!"
(Ten seconds later, all that is heard is a truck door slamming and tires squealing.)
I don't think my team will ever let me forget the first competition, Friday morning, when I left the robot batteries at the hotel.
Ryan Albright
15-05-2003, 22:51
drive it liek you stole it is my motto i started using it when i drove my car and now i use it for robotics
Daniel Brim
15-05-2003, 23:07
"Now it smells like a robotics competition" - Phoenix anouncer after the magic white smoke came out of a robot right before lunch on Friday.
Yan Wang
15-05-2003, 23:22
"Yeah, I just signed up for the Army. So yeah, you and my parents are the only ones who know so far."
- Steve Miller (also, 'Gee Friggin Whiz')
GO STEVE! You dumb intelligence officer :)
Originally posted by Lauren Hafford
I remember at the Hyatt in San Jose, after we fit 35 people into the hot tub (great times! :-) we all were trying to figure out our team numbers in binary and then hold it up on our hands (like the 'rock on' hand gestures, but much cooler). It ended up that the spicy mustard physics teacher flipped off his entire team, becuase that was what their team number was :-).
good stuff. Oh really? Was I there with you? Of course not, the whole freakin' team ditched me. They all freakin' left before I got a chance to get to my room and put my bag away, and I had to go out with Greg's family (not fun). That was a stupid night. I'm never forgiving the team for that. Hell, they probably don't even know I'm upset by it. But hey, at least some people enjoyed it, right? :rolleyes:
Edit: It's too bad Mr. Gant is leaving. Robotics won't be the same...
Daniel Brim
15-05-2003, 23:47
This is pretty off-topic, but we were bored at Phoenix (824? was there, the team from North Dakota), and the pool at our hotel was ice cold. Now, of course, we had to throw unsuspecting people into the pool. Needless to say, the hottub was pretty full, but I got a jet :D
sanddrag
16-05-2003, 00:11
"Should we evacuate?" said at the Hilton Suites in Phoenix when the fire alarm went off one morning. Team 624 was there too.
Amanda M
16-05-2003, 01:13
Here's one from when we were in Phoenix:
Alex: my associates and I would like to request your assistance in acquiring more towels.
Front Desk: We'll send them right up.
(At the hotel room door)
Alex: Do you got the goods? (he asked this with the door barely open and you could only see his eyes. The guy nodded.) *sigh of relief* good! After that last game of hopscotch, we ran out of towels to bathe with!
Here's another Alex one:
The guy at TGI Friday's was giving Chris (our driver) his food, and the says, "Careful. Hot." And Alex turns to him and says, "I know he is, isn't he?" There were 17 people around the long line of tables. Everyone laughed. It was loud. But, yet, hilarious at the same time.
Matt Krass
17-05-2003, 01:57
Originally posted by computhief263
"I hate the phrase, We'll fix it in programming"
"We can fix it in programming, Says the programmer"
"Our auto code failed a different way each time, I mean it never did the same thing 2 times in a row"
all quotes by one of 263's programmer's
Three quotes of mine in the same thread? That can't be halthy. Anyway here's my quote:
"The motors can't handle that." "Pfft, they are just numbers."
Daniel Brim
17-05-2003, 02:01
Hmm...got some from our post regional get-together (me, Ryan, Jared, and Dave from 1115).
"Halaba halaba halaba" (yes I know that is from SNL) to describe the little kid things after playing Halo all night.
"Is that oil in an IV?" While watching Airplane II
“Thingything”
Throughout the season everything got called a thingything on our team. Its made me so much less articulate but it was fun.
:]
And for me there was the constant "Go MOE... *FURY people give me evil looks* I mean FURY!"
"Turn it on!!" - After our human player and controler forgot to turn the robot on for our first ever FIRST practice round at peachtree regionals..... I think like its now our team motto....
miketwalker
17-05-2003, 14:23
"Let's make our Robot out of antimatter, so whenever we touch anyone else they get sent into another dimension" - Phillip
*few minutes pass*
"Hey, instead of only being antimatter, let's make it a hovercraft as well, cause it'll look good" -Phillip again
"Kyle, what are you smoking"
"These LEDs"
This was said in the hotel room at the Annapolis regional when Kyle decided to try and make a glowing team number at 10:30.
The old standard:
It dosn't fit!
Get the bigger hammer!
Wetzel
~~~~~~~~~~~~
If it breaks, it needed to be fixed anyways.
This is sorta a story but there is Quotes in it....
After some people from my team and myself went to see the movie "the core" which was the funnest/stupidest movie ever, we went to Arbys to eat after the movie and since we have all seen "Super troopers" I asked the lady at the counter for "A liter or cola" and she asked i i meant a large, the other people with me were laughing. We all got our food and we at down and somehow got talking about some restaurant a few of us stoped at on the way home from Rutgers that was serving "Freedom fries". Well at Arbys I got the smart idea that I should ask for some "Freedom fries" I went to the counter while my friends were laughing and asked for the fries the lady at the counter had no idea what i was talking about, but a lady in the back herd me and almost yelled " We have FRENCH FRIES and curly fries, no Freedom Fries" i think she got a little mad but. it was really funny.
GregTheGreat
17-05-2003, 18:32
My favorite was when team one of the guys of 182 said to me...
"Oh My God the autonomous worked"
Good Luck to everyone at the invitationals.
Daniel Brim
17-05-2003, 21:17
Wow we are wierd
These are all from today.
"I was Japaneese. once"
"You may have won but I am still master of the Wa"
"I can see you loud and clear"
No explinations you can ponder these.
E Jones 234
17-05-2003, 21:51
"oh my gosh! matt, i'm gonna kill you!!"
"the duck flies at midnight!"
"i gotta pee!"
JessAC27
17-05-2003, 22:55
In line for lunch at Houston......"Ahhh man!!!, there's no more Pizzzza!!!-some kid
On the way down to Houston..."Watch your elbows watch you knees. Watch your elbows watch your knees. Watch your elbows Watch your knees."-flight attendent
From the Kickoff..."Life just isn't fair."....I think that was Woody.
tatsak42
18-05-2003, 00:29
Originally posted by Lauren Hafford
I remember at the Hyatt in San Jose, after we fit 35 people into the hot tub (great times! :-) we all were trying to figure out our team numbers in binary and then hold it up on our hands (like the 'rock on' hand gestures, but much cooler). It ended up that the spicy mustard physics teacher flipped off his entire team, becuase that was what their team number was :-).
good stuff.
For people who actually want to see the hilarity/insanity/stupidity (I shouldn't talk...),
http://home.attbi.com/~zaphodbeeblebrox42/images/HPIM0514.jpg
Paraphrase of many many quotes:
What's wrong with the robot now?
What do you think?
Oh, programming...
What's going on? Why doesn't the robot work?
*checks for power for OI*
I wish people weren't stupid.
There's a whole lot of frozen ice here!
Dying causes death...
GregTheGreat
18-05-2003, 00:42
I was the programmer for our bot this year. As a result I have heard almost every line anyone could think of.
A few of my favorites that people have said to me are.
"Why did the robot not work? Greg Check you're programming"
"STOP STOP STOP"
"Greg, I can build the whole robot by myself faster then you can program"
"That wasen't a limit switch that was the programming"
"Load the double wack program"
"Hey good job Greg, it actually worked"
"Greg, what were you thinking, you changed the wrong variable"
"OMG, you made a Var. Byte a Var. Word"
"Before we start tearing this thing apart, make sure the programs right"
"Greg, you should rename that program, 71RunIntoWall"
A few that I have said
"Who would have known that 254 on the right side was to much"
"Where's my plugger"
"Who messed with my program"
"Mike, hows it feel to have my program drive better then you"
"Let me get a debug real quick"
"Know thats what I call programming"
"P-basic, P-basic, we don't need to stinking P-basic"
I know that you guys that arn't programmers are probably confused on some of these. These are meant for those of you that are programmers. Those of you that are probably have heard the same things, or something similar.
Good Luck to everyone at the invitationals
Brant Bowen
18-05-2003, 01:43
If only I had a dollar for everytime I did a demo and had a conversation like this:
-- What is that???? Is that a Battlebot???
-- No.
-- Well why not? You should build a Battlebot.
Daniel Brim
18-05-2003, 01:50
Originally posted by Brant Bowen
If only I had a dollar for everytime I did a demo and had a conversation like this:
-- What is that???? Is that a Battlebot???
-- No.
-- Well why not? You should build a Battlebot.
I'd be a millionaire. We had a demo today with about 9 robotics teams in the LA area, the croud was getting anxious, so we started battling each other. I am proud to say I have a good sized chunk of 696 that we took off.
And before this thread bursts into flames, it wasn't our idea.
The Lucas
18-05-2003, 03:20
Delaware was the first state in the Union but many people from other parts of the country dont recognize its statehood. This can be best illustrated in the following conversion between me and a person at nationals:
Person: "So where is your team from?"
Me: "Delaware."
Person: "Delaware? What state is that in?"
After that I should have told them
"In Pennsylvania, right near Philly."
Conversations like these are not rare. Obviously building a robot doesnt require a basic knowledge of US geography, but i thought a high school education did. Didnt these people have to memorize states and capitals in grade school?
Mike Schroeder
18-05-2003, 03:24
Originally posted by The Lucas
Person: "So where is your team from?"
Me: "Delaware."
Person: "Delaware? What state is that in?"
atleast you dont live in the arm pit of america... it doesnt smell that bad here.... you get used to it HONEST!!!!!!:) *exhibits shifty eyes*
Originally posted by The Lucas
Delaware was the first state in the Union but many people from other parts of the country don't recognize its statehood. This can be best illustrated in the following conversion between me and a person at nationals:
Person: "So where is your team from?"
Me: "Delaware."
Person: "Delaware? What state is that in?"
After that I should have told them
"In Pennsylvania, right near Philly."
Conversations like these are not rare. Obviously building a robot doesn't require a basic knowledge of US geography, but i thought a high school education did. Didn't these people have to memorize states and capitals in grade school?
I was asked that same question 4 times and one of the times the guy didn't believe me, he walked away from me believing that Delaware is an extension of PA.
GregTheGreat
18-05-2003, 13:17
I forgot my favorite one....
Can I borrow a quarter?
I have heard that one more then 1000 times, lol.
I got em all back at nationals tho. I think I owe the different members of the team in total more then 100 bucks. lol.
Good Luck to everyone at the invitationals.
BBFIRSTCHICK
18-05-2003, 14:21
" we have a box with a spinning light"... but hey!! it worked!!!
GregTheGreat
18-05-2003, 15:12
Originally posted by BBFIRSTCHICK
" we have a box with a spinning light"... but hey!! it worked!!!
lol. Thats a funny one.
"tetnus shot and stitches"
refering to inter-team romances
The Lucas
18-05-2003, 15:50
Originally posted by "Big Mike"
atleast you dont live in the arm pit of america... it doesnt smell that bad here.... you get used to it HONEST!!!!!!:) *exhibits shifty eyes*
You think Jersey smells bad, I used to live near Kennett Square, PA, otherwise known as the Mushroom Capital of the World. Since this is a quote thread the smell is best described with a parody of a famous Apocalypse Now quote.
You smell that? Do you smell that? ...Manure, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of manure in the morning.
You do get used to it. Except around harvest time during which my high school and everything else around town reeks.
miketwalker
18-05-2003, 15:51
I remember helping a team at UCF Regional.... I know they were rookies, and I can't think of their number... but they had a wood base for a robot and the wheels were higher than the components. They won an award for the "function" of their robot they hadn't planned for.
Me helping them one of the matches: "Wow, your robot just flipped"
Mentor from their team: "Oh wow, it's still driving, we uhh..... designed that into it, yea, thats what we did"
*goes back to pits after match*
Mentor to drive system designer: "I'm glad we planned that"
Heh, it was quite funny watching them all think they broke their robot in flipping, then seeing it run... they ran upside down multiple matches after flipped too lol.
GregTheGreat
18-05-2003, 15:53
Originally posted by miketwalker
I remember helping a team at UCF Regional.... I know they were rookies, and I can't think of their number... but they had a wood base for a robot and the wheels were higher than the components. They won an award for the "function" of their robot they hadn't planned for.
Me helping them one of the matches: "Wow, your robot just flipped"
Mentor from their team: "Oh wow, it's still driving, we uhh..... designed that into it, yea, thats what we did"
*goes back to pits after match*
Mentor to drive system designer: "I'm glad we planned that"
Heh, it was quite funny watching them all think they broke their robot in flipping, then seeing it run... they ran upside down multiple matches after flipped too lol.
Now thats a funny one, lol.
E. The Kidd
19-05-2003, 00:30
me to the newbies on 713:
"FIRST is like a drug......... with side effects on your social life"
me to the parents:
"for 6 weeks your son will be missing till about nine o'clock at night." (parent to me) "why can't he stay longer?"
me to idle members of 713:
"I lose a finger you lose a life"
me to the coach:
"I'd be nicer if I had sleep but since i haven't, keep every one away form me and nobody dies."
me to my co-captain:
"have you ever tried running on coffee and sugar.... it's fun trust me..... by the way do you know i woke up at 4 am?" (him to me) "but it's almost 12 am" (me to him) "see it works"
my favorite:
"anyone who wants to get duct taped and tortured touch the joystick while i have my hand in this robot" (random team member) "he's not lying he did that to me last year"
GregTheGreat
19-05-2003, 00:33
Originally posted by E. The Kidd
me to idle members of 713:
"I lose a finger you lose a life"
I like this one. This is one I havent ever heard.
Daniel Brim
19-05-2003, 00:40
After I come home from LA
Dad: I thought you were the runners up
Me: We were
Dad: Then why does it say FIRST?
Thanks to 697 for reminding me of that one yesterday :D
Originally posted by E. The Kidd
me to idle members of 713:
"I lose a finger you lose a life"
me to the coach:
"I'd be nicer if I had sleep but since i haven't, keep every one away form me and nobody dies."
me to my co-captain:
"have you ever tried running on coffee and sugar.... it's fun trust me..... by the way do you know i woke up at 4 am?" (him to me) "but it's almost 12 am" (me to him) "see it works"
my favorite:
"anyone who wants to get duct taped and tortured touch the joystick while i have my hand in this robot" (random team member) "he's not lying he did that to me last year" lol. Those are great...Especially the last one.
Alex Cormier
21-05-2003, 16:19
"Where is the Sharpie??"
and
"Does anybody have super glue??" after i broke the curtain rod in one of the mentors room. both were mine
EddieMcD
21-05-2003, 18:34
Ooh! A quotes thread! I have a long quote list. Some are funny, some are FIRST related, all were said by FIRST kids, and the oldest ones are from late 2000. Unfortunately, none of them are dated, so I'll have to put all of them in. I'm sure some of you remember that incredibly long signiture of mine a few years back. Well, this is the gist of it.
"random? well I could be random, look just watch me be random. I am so random I have said the word random 4 times so far. Well 5 now. See I am not boring I can be random... Now 6!" -Sean McDermott from 271
"When in doubt, duct tape, duck tape, duckt tape!" -Mike Rosalie from 375
"Life is short and so am I!" -Becky Allen from 356
"VVVVVVVVV" -Lenny from 375
"Okay Ed, from now on, we're calling you Woodie." -Dave Ferera from 121
"What can I say? The light goes on...the light goes off...Enough Said!" -Lora Knepper from 177
"Nobody should miss the National Clogging Competition.....lol" -Clark Gilbert from 45
"I became a member of the Duct Tape Club today. I think everyone else should. It would be cool" -David Kelly from 234
"Woah..what's a life? I've never had one of those before" -Angela from 180
"Life is like a party and parties weren't meant to end!" -Elgin Clock from 237
"What's a sponser? Oh, you get money from those..." -Andrew Costka from 419
"I can't wait for college.... cause when girls are drunk.. they can't see how ugly i am!!!" -Tom Schindler from 177
" Pat has 3 letters, God has 3 letters. Can't be a coincidence" -me
"don't ask me, I'm not even sure if I met you =)" -Kristen from 180
" but if she's in a state that doesn't exist, then how could i have met a person who doesn't exist" -Pat Dingle from 639
"I was wondering if pepper spray would be considered "ungracious professionalism"" -Matt from 69
"I woke up early one morning and found an elephant in my pajamas, how he got in them I will never know" -Kristen from 180
"jessica simpson.. bad music.. hot body..lol" -Kyle Gilbert from 45
"TODD JUST FIGURED SOMETHING OUT :D" -Todd Derbyshire from 88
"Nice of you to put me in your signature" -Caitlin from 126
"Ahh! Eddie's startin the playlist again!" -Joe Ross from 73
"so, you can just be a one headed monster from the planet Mars? That seems to make more sense. I always knew you were too weird to be from Earth anyway. Yes, and all of the sudden things seem to make more sense about you. :)" -Christina from 271
"glad I never say anything stupid =)" -Kristen from 180
"I won the sore-butt award! Woo hoo!" -Eddie again
"Britney Spears video on TV........YES!!!!!!" -Clark Gilbert from 45
"WOOHOO! I AM THE ONLY ONE LORA HATES!" -Bill from 70
"I'm sleeping... You're welcome to come sleep with me if you a member of the club called 'The Opposite Sex" & If you pass the test..." -Sean from 330
"I don't remember saying anything funny." -Michael from 271
"i am mike oleary. i am not an impersonater. i am a rambot. NINNY PRIDE!" -Mike O'Leary from 419
"Why doesn't anybody ever listen to me?" -Carolyn Duncan from 86
"Robot on board, baby at home" -Andy Baker from 45
"i was very tempted to say somehting about eddies retreating to his corner..." Mike O'Leary from 419
"I think its time to lock this thread....." -Clark Gilbert from 45
"They're kind of small-ish, and they're plastic. That makes them ripe for becoming victims of our robots tank tread, I think :-)" -Michael Krass from 271
"That has been said 55 times... How much more must we live through?" -Brett from 201
"If the women dont find you hansome, make sure they find you handy!" -DJ from 45
"who's a nutball?" -Dan from 550
"why do ppl enjoy picking on me? lol" -Kristen from 180
"you don't have any good ones from me, Eddie" -Joe Ross from 340
"Wow, I've got to be careful about what I say around Eddie." -Brian from 365
"yay! now it's a true quote" -again, me
"you still don't have any good ones from me" -Joe Ross from 340
"I think their the same person and they are both evil" -Joe Ross from 340
"Our meetings consist of trying to convince people that spiking a soccer ball over the opposing alliance station wall to knock out the opposing drivers, while technically legal, is not a good idea." -ahecht from 992
"nate: I think you are crazy" -Angela from 180
"hot chick alert on Fear Factor..lol" Clark Gilbert from 45
"lalalalalalalalalalalalalala robots! weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" -Ken Leung from 192
"name that NUT!!" -Clark Gilbert from 45
"wow me replying to QOTW 2 weeks in a row.... i feel so dirty" -Mike from 25
"what we learned from Chesepeake: Ashlee is 3 SHU tall" -Steve Shade
"well Ian: she was wrong once but then it turned out that she just thought she was wrong and she was really right :p" -Cory from 100
"Out of boredom, the "better things to concern myself over" has become what time EddieMcD will log on and post today's question." -Stephen from 122
"i supposedly was pulled over because my license plate light was out (which it was)...but did it really take the 4 police cars to handle the situation..... so what did we do while the one cop was searching my car.........we talked about robots to the other ones....lol" -Kyle Gilbert from 45
"MOMMY IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" -Sean from 1197
"is it pathetic that i spent a better part of my life just looking at people's away messages?" -Mike from 25
Brandon is so gonna kill me...
Jeff Waegelin
22-05-2003, 18:25
"This is a working device"
"I'm not sure how it's going to work though, but we'll make it work"
-Tim, our driver and build team member
computhief263
22-05-2003, 22:03
"are u sure the wiring is right , tom?"
"yea i double checked it, all u have to do is push this switch" *fry's OI*
"oops now that wasnt suppose to happen"
a brief excerpt from the conversation w/ many people when i fried the OI and the begining of this year
GregTheGreat
22-05-2003, 23:13
"OMG the victor, the drill motor, we can't do anything right!"
I am not mentioning what team said that to me, but they know who they are. lol
E. The Kidd
22-05-2003, 23:43
We have nothing to lose, if we break there's always tomorrow, and if we don't win I'm blaming your driving.
-Me to our Driver when we were partners with 71 in the Curie division (great match guys)
GregTheGreat
23-05-2003, 00:31
Originally posted by E. The Kidd
We have nothing to lose, if we break there's always tomorrow, and if we don't win I'm blaming your driving.
-Me to our Driver when we were partners with 71 in the Curie division (great match guys)
Did You say that to our driver??
E. The Kidd
23-05-2003, 01:49
Originally posted by GregTheGreat
Did You say that to our driver??
no I said it to OUR driver (on 713). We were just your partners that match.
once again great match
And now... some rookie favorites.
"It's a mechanical problem."--control subteam
"When all else fails, blame it on controls"--design subteam
"CLAMP! CLAMP! CLAMP! CLAMP!" -- In response to another "battle cry" at the Granite State Regional
"Guys.... who has the controls....?" -- Janice (Strategy Mentor) while watching our prototype bot drive towards the wall under it's own sentient control. This was followed by 3 students leaping to their feet, and chasing it across the gym lobby.
"Widget!"
"Lefty-loosy, righty...oww!!"
"Just FORCE it" -- The unnoficial team motto
"Time circuts and orange juice" -- Jeff
"This... is a bot. Soon it will be a was-bot, but now it is an is-bot. When we finish the real bot, the is-bot will be a was-bot and the will-bot will be the is-bot." -- Various Controls members walking to the Gym Lobby to test the prototype.
"It's the ghost of the Prototype!" -- a common phrase after the runaway robot episode.
"Help! I glued my hand to the robot!"
Mark Pierce
23-05-2003, 16:47
This apparently was told to my brother Rick (referring to me).
As I understand it the conversation went like this:
Team 1164 (thanking him for sharing his engineering skills): "Rick, you must have been sent from Heaven..."
Rick: "No, my brother sent me." (This part is true, I did tell him about the team starting up down the street from him.)
Team 1164: "Then your brother must be God." (Not even close to being right)
I think it's kind of a cool thank you to get from a team on the other end of the country. I'm glad that I could help.
Lil Lisa
23-05-2003, 22:09
Our FIRST engineer upon finding out that 573 (which originally was an all-guys team due to the fact that Brother Rice is an all-guys school) was accepting girls from Rice's sister school, and seeing me in the pits during the OCCRA season...
::Points at me:: "Yay! It's a girl!"
:D
BBFIRSTCHICK
24-05-2003, 20:29
this was a weird one but one day out of many work days a teammate of mine came over and said
" I need to work, but I really have to pee"
I then looked at her with a "what" face
she then asked
"Can I use the bathroom"
I begin to crack up
"ya.... go"
shyra1353
25-05-2003, 22:43
this is kinda a story, but its still funny
we were at the airport on the way to nationals and we decided to take a team picture. so of course everyone gives their camera in to get a picture on it. one of our mentors picked up a camera (which just happenned to be mine) and tried to take a picture with it. and he was like "it's not working" so everyone was like "turn the camera around", because it was backwards. and then he turned it around, and was like, "its still not working" and everyone was like "open the shutter" it took him a while, but he finally got it.
you might not find it funny, but it was really funny at the time, and when i brought my camera to school the other day, we were all laughing at that.
If you've ever seen 814's bot, you'll get this a little better...
This is from the robotics party the team had yesterday:
Mr Gant: Hey, you guys...I dare you to build a wooden bot next year.
Greg: Mr Gant, find a conductive wood and we'll use it for wiring.
Ryan Dognaux
28-05-2003, 00:21
I just remembered this one...
David Kelly: "(in reference to animation) Are you gonna get it done in time?"
Me: "I'll have something ready."
Kimberley Roode
28-05-2003, 19:30
there's a chance someone from my team has already posted this, but seeing as its not too plausible to go through 11 pages of quotes, i'll just say it.
during lunch at the rutgers regional, about 6 members of our team went to some fast food restaurant to grab something to eat. it was a few blocks away, so we walked. on our way, a parked truck driver sees our (really, really bright) hawaiian shirts and asks if we're on a team or something. we go through a quick explanation, and one girl says, and im paraphrasing: "we build robots that kill people, except without the killing people part." i think we might've scared him a little.
Beth Sweet
28-05-2003, 20:57
My favorite quotes from our team this season would have to be "sneaker", "poke", "where's the bot?", "goodnight for the twelfth time", and that strange noise that only Jackson can make.:yikes: Also "where's mrs. rumble?" after we accidently left her at the houston airport
"I know to everybody it looked like they were up there, but they were not up there." -Announcer Ron P.
more at:
http://www.soap108.com/2003/events/oh/
KA-108 :cool:
"Unfortunately, no one can be... told... what FIRST is... You must see/experience it for yourself.
"Don't try to bend the shaft... that's impossible. Rather, try to realize the truth..."
"What truth?"
"There is no shaft."
Sorry, saw Reloaded 6 times :cool:
Got matrix on the mind.
EddieMcD
01-06-2003, 19:30
One from yesterday's Mayhem:
"I was wondering why our robot wasn't working, then I realized that it helps if it has a battery." -Moe from 88
E Jones 234
02-06-2003, 07:26
a new favorite quote:
my robot! :ahh:
xavior06
02-06-2003, 08:16
upon testing the the practice ramp in the pits at houston,
"CLEAR THE RAMP!!"
note: only a couple times were people's lives in danger.
"They'd be wrong"
everybody on 126 should know what i'm talking about
BandChick
12-09-2003, 15:22
I'm so surprised no one on 1089 or even anyone on 25 has posted this, but the quote of the season was:
"Have you ever seen a purple monkey?"
- Christopher Gregory (1089 Advisor)
EddieMcD
12-09-2003, 16:27
"I started reading, was like wow, look at the old folks delurking, then suspicious, looked at the date and wondered what n00b was reading all the posts ever and dug this one up. I surprised when I saw it was you." -Wetzel (responding to Brandon's bump of an old post in Chit-Chat)
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Sachiel7
14-09-2003, 17:32
I remember a couple of these statements:
(Upon arriving the first day) "Hey guys! Um...wheres the Lift?"
"oops"
"THAT wasn't supposed to happen :("
"Um... Is there a good reason it's not moving?"
"Ok, let me get this straight, the auto mode worked in testing EVERY time? Even though it hasn't worked ONCE on the field???"
(from the team we accidentally tipped) "Hey man, don't do that again, K?"
(to our alliance partner in-game after we flipped onto our back):
"hehe..I think youre on your own..."
And the most popular quote (no words):
:confused:
josh_johnson
15-09-2003, 19:56
"And team 1020's robot, looking like the guts of a washing machine."
-announcer at St. Louis
"I wasn't watching the robot, i just thought i would let go of the [autonomous mode] button, when I heard the screaming"
-a team member while testing the autonomous mode program
At the time, we were trying to get the robot up the ramp in auionomous mode with a 4 ft. wide ramp and he kept realeasing the button before it got to the ramp because he was afraid that it mould go flying off the side. He finally decided to close his eyes so that he wouldn't chicken out (without telling the rest of us ahead of time).
While reading the rules about the St. Louis regional:
"No foreign objects allowed in the stadium."
-Amanda
"Sorry Shrutish, you can't come."
-me
John JediMaster
16-09-2003, 19:53
at nationals during one of our matches when we were setting up our bot (it starts on it's side) for autonomous mode. The anouncer says "you guys sure you don't want to put in on the ground?" then our pumatics start.
John JediMaster
16-09-2003, 19:56
at nats in the pits I was doing some scouting and I heard over the PA system "Team (I can't remember what team) wants to knot if anyone has a flux capacitor" That cracks me up to this day.
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