View Full Version : Finish The Sentence III
Jeff Waegelin
29-01-2004, 17:56
I said it would be back, and what do you know? It is. I figured we'd start a fresh one from the beginning, since it's been a while. The rules are simple. The person ahead of you leaves a sentence unfinished. You either finish that sentence and start a new one, or just continue the sentence and leave it unfinished for someone else. So, here goes:
This morning, I was walking out to the parking lot and...
KyleGilbert45
29-01-2004, 18:01
slipped on a large patch of ice that magically appeared under my feet.
sanddrag
29-01-2004, 18:07
I thought about how it might have gotten there and came to the conclusion that...
Clark Gilbert
29-01-2004, 18:29
I thought about how it might have gotten there and came to the conclusion that...
it was really cold and wet outside. So i decided to...
Pat Fairbank
29-01-2004, 20:03
...put some salt down so that no-one else would slip. But the problem was...
Enslaved
29-01-2004, 20:15
I couldn't find salt... I looked everywhere
but DJ and his evil avalanche stole it all. so i went to...
Jay H 237
29-01-2004, 20:38
....Home Depot. While I was there I ran into.......
Steve782
29-01-2004, 21:09
a mentor on my team. He also wanted me to pick up...
Kiwi_queen
29-01-2004, 21:19
a flower pot (some interesting idea he had for our robot). I thought this was odd but...
Mike Heinowski
29-01-2004, 22:12
I went along with it anyway. I was checking out when...
Jeff Waegelin
29-01-2004, 22:24
I ran into Big Mike working there at Home Depot. He said...
shyra1353
29-01-2004, 23:33
why are you buying a flowerpot? then i
mtaman02
30-01-2004, 02:30
...replied and said b/c my mentor is up to no good again he then looked at me strange and then.......
Alex Cormier
30-01-2004, 15:19
...replied and said b/c my mentor is up to no good again he then looked at me strange and then.......
took it out of my hands and broke it. then i...
Enslaved
30-01-2004, 16:29
...gave him one of those 'looks' and went back to get another one, when I....
KyleGilbert45
30-01-2004, 16:51
ran into Dean Kamen standing in the lighting department. I said.....
Stina236
30-01-2004, 17:20
"Dean, where's your segway!?" (really i was thinking, I adore you, will you marry me? hehe) when he replied....
Bharat Nain
30-01-2004, 18:52
by holding my hand and walking me to...
Kiwi_queen
30-01-2004, 22:26
the fluorescent bulbs, "you light up my life" and then...
The robot was magically done. WOW :yikes: :yikes:
Steve782
31-01-2004, 17:41
I had to get the robot out of the store, so I...
Bharat Nain
31-01-2004, 19:19
went bonkers search for some help and then suddenly...
Jay H 237
31-01-2004, 19:34
......Woodie Flowers came walking down the aile wearing an orange smock with "Woodie" in black magic marker on the front. He pionted to a cart and told me to...........
kjohnson
31-01-2004, 20:47
...get in it.
...get in it.
....u stopped it.....SO ILL RESTART
Now that we have arrived at our regional, we were shocked to see that...
KyleGilbert45
01-02-2004, 00:55
our pits were HUGE and the music being played was not boring. We decided that we should......
shyra1353
01-02-2004, 04:41
all make an octagon and ...
Bharat Nain
01-02-2004, 05:13
the music stopped playing all of a sudden so we...
Steve782
01-02-2004, 09:42
decided to get our CDs that were in...
Bharat Nain
01-02-2004, 15:27
our car and we started walking to the car when...
Steve782
01-02-2004, 15:31
Dean and Woddie appeared on the field. They told us...
Kerry547
01-02-2004, 20:28
... we really need your help with ...
Stina236
02-02-2004, 15:56
...those lightbulbs dean bought at home depo (reference the previous sentence :p ) you see the problem with them is...
Kerry547
02-02-2004, 19:12
...they seem to be made of plastic...
Jay H 237
02-02-2004, 20:30
...tubes. He told me to go to the courtesy desk and.........
...ask the nice lady at the counter if...
charlie_grr
03-02-2004, 21:51
she happened to have any vanilla pudding and some....
KyleGilbert45
03-02-2004, 23:01
wood screws. Don't ask me why i needed wood screws but she replied....
Bharat Nain
04-02-2004, 11:55
.. that she just ran out of screws but she did have some ...
duck tape. She asked if it would work and I said,...
Steve782
04-02-2004, 20:09
of course. And I said if it doesent work for this, we can use it for...
Jay H 237
04-02-2004, 20:39
....fixing all the balls we broke on our goal. We were walking away when we remembered.......
Mike Heinowski
04-02-2004, 21:34
Our pudding. We ran back and sliped on...
Kiwi_queen
05-02-2004, 14:00
a banana peel that had been carelessly discarded by...
shyra1353
05-02-2004, 18:24
... the nice lady at the counter. i started to ...
Redhead Jokes
05-02-2004, 19:24
reach for the barrel of monkeys nearby, but one bit me so...
Jay H 237
06-02-2004, 16:53
......I gave the monkeys my vanilla pudding so they wouldn't go after my hand again. Leaving the courtesy desk I headed for.........
..the bathroom. Upon entering I saw a great big..
shyra1353
07-02-2004, 03:28
... blue apple. I wanted to ...
Elgin Clock
07-02-2004, 03:35
...eat the blue apple, but then Morpheus showed up with a red apple and asked me...
Kiwi_queen
07-02-2004, 12:00
if i wanted to see Robotics for what it really was and i said "yeah" so...
Redhead Jokes
07-02-2004, 12:04
the Radioactive Bathroom (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24594) lit up, a segway appeared, I stepped on it and...
Kerry547
07-02-2004, 12:57
... woke up in some strange place...
I'm not sure what this place is...but I think it's a FIRST competition. The first thing I did there was...
Bharat Nain
07-02-2004, 16:48
... looked around for robots and...
Richomundo
07-02-2004, 16:54
all i saw were people being controlled by robots...
Jay H 237
07-02-2004, 17:22
....all the while riding Segways and stacking totes. Just then my Segway.....
Pat Fairbank
07-02-2004, 20:11
... fell over because it had a low battery and hadn't been sent back during the recall. So I ...
shyra1353
08-02-2004, 01:26
... decided to buy a new one. i went to ...
Elgin Clock
08-02-2004, 06:34
..Segway's R' Us and bought myself a fancy deluxe edition Segway which included three cupholders and....
Kiwi_queen
08-02-2004, 09:06
a candy dispenser. I thought this was so cool that i ...
Steve782
08-02-2004, 10:20
...didnt even notice the CD player and
Bharat Nain
08-02-2004, 13:08
... ended up walking away from it and...
..Big Mike stole it and Segway-ed away at which point Woodie Flowers stopped him and said..
shyra1353
08-02-2004, 15:45
... where did you get the segway ? I thought ....
Redhead Jokes
08-02-2004, 17:06
to myself, "He's probably part of the conspiracy of the
ubiquitous robot attacks " so I...
Jay H 237
08-02-2004, 18:11
.......turned around and headed towards the door. Unfortunately as soon as I reached the door...........
Cheryl, your "ubiquitous robot attacts" link isn't working. :(
KyleGilbert45
08-02-2004, 22:40
three large mechanical security robots smashed the door in and said.....
.."What do you think you're doing?". So I turned around, only to see..
Crop-Circles
08-02-2004, 22:52
...Bessie, the family cow. I the realized I was still...
Redhead Jokes
08-02-2004, 23:20
Cheryl, your "ubiquitous robot attacts" link isn't working. :(
link (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showpost.php?p=218239&postcount=1)
Steve782
09-02-2004, 18:49
...Bessie, the family cow. I the realized I was still...
...riding the segway, so I swerved and almost hit...
...an inflatable clown. I began to wonder why the heck those where there, until...
Jay H 237
09-02-2004, 20:28
....I realized this was more of a FIRST circus than a competition. I steered the Segway towards the opposite side of the arena hoping to.......
Elgin Clock
11-02-2004, 00:22
...find the "Amazing Sphere of Death" and show up all those dirtbikers by...
Redhead Jokes
11-02-2004, 00:26
spinning off into space, landing on mars and...
spinning off into space, landing on mars and...taking samples of rocks but the NASA mission...
..had already been successful, thanks to..
Steve782
11-02-2004, 21:51
...all the work NASA had done. So I...
Elgin Clock
12-02-2004, 18:29
..just hung out with the folks from "red vs. blue" on the red planet and talked with them and we decided to...
take over the scorpion to wipe out the...
TheShadow
13-02-2004, 21:30
take over the scorpion to wipe out the...
...Puma. Then EARL showed up and...
Redhead Jokes
14-02-2004, 00:06
had to die so... (http://www.divorcepranks.net/mov/GoodbyeEarl.mpeg)
shyra1353
14-02-2004, 01:41
... i went to the drug store to get ...
threatened to report him to the home depot head honcho. he seemed....
..to be frustrated as his three chins wobbled from side to side and his cheeks flushed red when he said to me..
Crop-Circles
15-02-2004, 14:23
"No one can stop EARL!" But I had a...
TheShadow
15-02-2004, 14:26
"No one can stop EARL!" But I had a...
...Callibrator in my hand. I was feeling...
Steve782
15-02-2004, 14:44
...nervous since he wasn't a robot. I decided to...
shyra1353
17-02-2004, 00:58
... build myself one in six weeks. But just then ...
I realized not all the parts int he kit had come so I would do it in 6 weeks and TWO days, but low and behold...
Elgin Clock
22-02-2004, 04:23
..The deadline was fast approaching, so the last few day I decided to work like crazy and add that one more feature that was on our "wish list" which was.....
...a truck load of Mt. Dew and Red Bull to stay awake. Several days later...
...I found out all we were drinking was some of Dean's Shasta Water so I...
Alex Cormier
07-03-2004, 18:32
sold it on ebay in return for...
Jay H 237
08-03-2004, 17:37
......several of the critical parts I needed to complete my robot. Unfortunately when they arrived.......
Steve Horn
08-03-2004, 19:58
...the OI was not shipped. I called FIRST to order another one, but they said...
Tigertron222
12-03-2004, 11:44
..............That they had already sent me one. So then I............
shyra1353
23-03-2004, 11:37
decided to forget it and go the regional without my ...
Jay H 237
23-03-2004, 20:36
.....robot. I asked other teams if they could.........
HalloweenDMB
23-03-2004, 20:38
do the tick dance while i roll away their bot....
Melissa
to our own pits and slap on our Orderly Payne(copyrighte penedind by 521 ;) ) decal to...
Jay H 237
27-03-2004, 19:37
....cover up the other team number. I was hoping the inspectors......
...wouldn't notice the fact the robot was the right shade or color that it should have been so I decided to spray paint the robot but just as I was about to spray the first coat of spray paint...
Crash852
29-03-2004, 05:23
...an inspector walked by and yelled at me...
...for not wearing my safty glasses, so I slipped them back on and proceeded to..
Jay H 237
29-03-2004, 18:04
......wheel the robot towards the field since my team was up next. As I neared the perimiter of the field.........
..I noticed our aliance partner saying somethign about theirs being stolen and felt sorry for them as I placed OUR new robot on the field and...
Crash852
30-03-2004, 01:43
...suddenly the alliance partner sees your new robot and stops talking with his mouth open, he then proceeds to...
commends us for our amazing looking robot, and appoligizes for us possibly being bumped in ranks because of them not having a bot
Elgin Clock
30-03-2004, 17:23
...but then, just for that match, FIRST reintroduced the STRETCHER for the duration of the match and....
we quickly went to our pit to get our stretcher/goal grabber from 2001 that we had brought along just in case. But...
Jay H 237
31-03-2004, 19:05
......they weren't in our pit when we got there. We started to look around and ask others when it dawned on us that........
...rather then grabbing another teams robot we grabbed our old one so it was already on the field and...
JakeGallagher
31-03-2004, 22:31
...then we realized that the stretcher we had was stripped for parts, so it wasn't working...
Alex Pelan
01-04-2004, 21:36
so we put on what we had, and what do you know, the magic smoke came out!
Jay H 237
02-04-2004, 06:22
(restarts sentence)
We unplugged the battery quick and after the smoke cleared..............
Elgin Clock
02-04-2004, 20:31
(restarts sentence)We unplugged the battery quick and after the smoke cleared..............
...We all realized that the name of the tread that we are posting on was actually called "Finish the Sentence", so that's what I decided to do...until....
Alex Pelan
03-04-2004, 09:11
we got tired of it....
Jeff Rodriguez
03-04-2004, 10:56
so we wnt to take a nap but got awakened by....
Elgin Clock
03-04-2004, 12:10
...the Silicon Valley webcast where Dave Lavery is describing the mars rover landing and ....
Jay H 237
03-04-2004, 15:23
.......how important this mission is to him. He also started to discuss how........
Crash852
03-04-2004, 20:38
...some people are rude and do other stuff while he's talking to them about...
Jay H 237
04-04-2004, 15:43
......how Spirit and Opportunity have so far exceeded expectations and discovered......
Elgin Clock
05-04-2004, 01:20
..that mars looks an awful lot like..
Jay H 237
05-04-2004, 17:33
..........Earth did while it was forming........
Elgin Clock
05-04-2004, 19:48
..which could lead to the belief that...
UnStumpable237
05-04-2004, 20:23
...Mars is actually a clone of the planet Earth and...
Crash852
06-04-2004, 00:32
...that chunks of blue cheese...
shyra1353
06-04-2004, 02:27
when cut really small are not blue but ....
mtaman02
06-04-2004, 02:45
green molded cheese, so then I decided to....
Elgin Clock
06-04-2004, 20:28
...skip that blue cheese all together cause of a bad experience with it and...
Jay H 237
09-04-2004, 21:11
......go with the port wine chedder instead since it also.......
.........had bits of blue in it. He then spoke about......
shyra1353
11-04-2004, 17:39
why we have a new planet that looks similar to macaroni and ...
Jay H 237
11-04-2004, 20:10
.....how they're planning a robotic mission to this new planet to study.........
...different pasta sauces, which would compliment the fresh...
Alex Pelan
12-04-2004, 15:20
mustard and be poured on the...
c-squared_2006
12-04-2004, 17:17
naught kid who...
...lured the mongoose with a...
Jay H 237
13-04-2004, 20:06
......peanut butter and jelly sandwich that the mongoose.......
.......wanted to eat but couldn't because............
Jay H 237
15-04-2004, 19:18
.....every time it attempted to get near the sandwich it would.........
c-squared_2006
16-04-2004, 23:01
jump in to the....
...brand new swimming pool filled with...
...Jello and Kool-Whip that smelled like a large group of....
Jay H 237
18-04-2004, 19:00
......deserts at a buffet bar and.......
...Some of the old blue cheese for earlier in this sentance; then all of a sudden there came a...
shyra1353
06-05-2004, 12:23
... hurricane. I was left stranded on the ...
Lil' Lavery
06-05-2004, 15:16
....iceburg in the middle of the......
Jay H 237
06-05-2004, 18:19
....Pacific Ocean since I had been fishing for........
...Narwhal, which have very long tusks and some lemon scented...
Jay H 237
09-05-2004, 20:07
.....flippers they use to attract prey and.........
Lil' Lavery
09-05-2004, 22:59
.....snare small children who.....
...have been caught with their hands in the...
Jay H 237
14-05-2004, 16:48
....cookie jar as they were trying to......
Lil' Lavery
14-05-2004, 20:03
...take some of their mom's famous....
...Chocolate con carne brownies, which taste like...
Jay H 237
16-05-2004, 18:01
......the Easter chocolate bunnies that you can get.......
Lisa Perez
16-05-2004, 19:34
.. from that lovely market at the corner, which also sells..
...some of the week-old flounder from the Pacific, which...
EricS-Team180
16-05-2004, 22:49
....with the right amount of cinnamon and a blender yield...
Jay H 237
17-05-2004, 20:16
....some delicious pancake mix that you can.....
...cook without the aid of a Henway™, which is...
Lisa Perez
17-05-2004, 20:35
... somewhat like a crockpot, but...
Levin571
19-05-2004, 07:29
...doesn't use solar power like that...
Jay H 237
19-05-2004, 17:23
.....lousy solar powered flashlight that was on sale at.......
...the new convienence store on the corner, run by the crazed...
Lisa Perez
19-05-2004, 20:32
... madman, who had just escaped from...
Levin571
19-05-2004, 22:10
...the hair salon which is run by...
Tigertron222
20-05-2004, 11:54
...the hairy woman from across the street who.....
EricS-Team180
20-05-2004, 14:06
...keeps the woolly mammoth that roams...
Levin571
20-05-2004, 19:04
...around the town every sunday night when...
...all the children come out to play the...
Lisa Perez
21-05-2004, 14:56
.. amazing game of "Duck, duck, Canadian goose"..
Jay H 237
21-05-2004, 17:28
.....which they had learned while they.....
Levin571
21-05-2004, 17:42
...were canoeing up the mighty Yukon river one spring when...
...all the trees flew south for the...
shyra1353
22-05-2004, 01:25
annual spring typhoon that was ...
Jay H 237
22-05-2004, 10:02
.....heading thier way in only a few short......
...years, which is around the time that the Blue Cheese Festivle will...
Levin571
22-05-2004, 15:58
...commence, leave a smell that...
Lisa Perez
23-05-2004, 19:48
.. reminds one of that one city in..
Jay H 237
25-05-2004, 21:38
....among the farmlands of North Dakota that......
Elyse Holguin
28-05-2004, 01:58
...have lots of cows that look like...
...the same ones from the California Cheese comercial, where the...
shyra1353
28-05-2004, 23:35
monkeys play with the rhinos and the ...
Elyse Holguin
30-05-2004, 04:10
...cars all have propellers but...
Lisa Perez
30-05-2004, 17:27
.. no engines, so..
Jay H 237
30-05-2004, 21:13
.....we flew along the coast until we reached.....
Elyse Holguin
31-05-2004, 02:49
...a flock of tasy hobos that had their fingers in electrical outlets and..
Lisa Perez
01-06-2004, 18:19
... were shocked to see this, so...
Jay H 237
01-06-2004, 20:48
.....we decided to head over to the local McDonalds for.....
...one of those crazy new adult happy meals, only to find out that...
Elyse Holguin
02-06-2004, 12:47
...we discovered they were actually high in fat so we ordered 3 each because we're pigs and..
D.J. Fluck
02-06-2004, 14:01
........we realize that the atkins diet is really fraud......
Jay H 237
04-06-2004, 17:21
....so we quit dieting all together and decided.....
Lisa Perez
04-06-2004, 17:59
.. to build a flying aquarium instead, one that..
Elyse Holguin
07-06-2004, 00:34
..had lots of angelfish and no sharks but...
Jay H 237
07-06-2004, 21:38
.....a sunken ship laying on the gravel with a scuba diver.......
Elyse Holguin
08-06-2004, 00:46
in it was definately eaten by the sea bass, but
Jay H 237
13-06-2004, 10:50
....they had not eaten the treasure still buried among.......
Lisa Perez
13-06-2004, 13:06
.. the sunken objects which oddly enough resembled..
Jay H 237
15-06-2004, 16:18
.....the totes from the "Stack Attack" game that......
...seemed to self-destruct at the slightest touch :ahh: . So,...
Lisa Perez
15-06-2004, 21:25
.. we found a way around this, by making a machine that technically didn't "touch" anything.. but..
Elyse Holguin
15-06-2004, 23:41
instead ticked the boxes into giving their treasure and
looneylin
16-06-2004, 21:32
decided to become a serial axe-muderer when...
mgreenley
18-06-2004, 12:03
...we realized that the barrel of monkeys had finished our vanilla pudding (page 4 or so) and had decided to help by...
Jay H 237
19-06-2004, 23:33
......starting a robot team in Utah (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?p=271856#post271856) and creating more mini comps that.......
Jeff Waegelin
30-06-2004, 10:10
spread the message of FIRST to...
Elyse Holguin
03-07-2004, 05:12
..the poor deprived kids who have been playing with corn and rocks all their life and..
Lisa Perez
03-07-2004, 09:27
.. know nothing about Chiaphuas or pneumatics so..
Jay H 237
05-07-2004, 20:48
...we decided to show them how to build a......
Jeff Waegelin
06-07-2004, 09:54
...robot that flies and makes pizza out of...
Jay H 237
14-07-2004, 21:23
......Sterlite containers and cedar bark mulch that also has the option of.......
Lil' Lavery
15-07-2004, 17:36
...converting electrical power into heat to cook the....
Jeff Waegelin
20-07-2004, 10:25
pizzas, and chill the FIRST water bottles onboard, in a...
Jay H 237
20-07-2004, 18:44
......mini-fridge that has it's compressor powered by a globe motor which can also operate..........
Elyse Holguin
23-07-2004, 16:03
a small plane! the utahians loved this so they...
Jay H 237
26-07-2004, 19:07
........decided to have a fundraiser by building as many of them as they.........
...could using only duct tape and...
Franchesca
26-07-2004, 20:28
... zip ties!! :D But they soon found that it wasn't ...
Bharat Nain
26-07-2004, 21:51
thick enough to hold...
Elyse Holguin
27-07-2004, 23:14
the batteries or any of the necessary equipment, so
Jeff Waegelin
28-07-2004, 15:50
they had to leave out the...
Lisa Perez
28-07-2004, 16:18
interesting objects that oddly resembled...
greencactus3
28-07-2004, 22:48
a giraffe only without the long neck and with feet the shape of....
Jeff Waegelin
29-07-2004, 15:40
a large potato, or perhaps a...
Jay H 237
29-07-2004, 19:18
......stack of waffles or pancakes on a plate with........
Jeff Waegelin
30-07-2004, 09:38
butter and syrup made from...
the world's best milk and maple sap, which we got from...
greencactus3
01-08-2004, 23:27
under the kitchen sink of a house which sadly....
Jeff Waegelin
02-08-2004, 10:39
dried up after we had only managed to get...
Steve Howland
06-08-2004, 17:03
enough that we were able to fill...
Elyse Holguin
07-08-2004, 14:09
one beaker! we were very sad, but
Billfred
07-08-2004, 14:14
due to the fact that Billfred was only getting four hours of sleep...
Jay H 237
08-08-2004, 18:57
....design an alarm clock that could......
Dorienne
08-08-2004, 18:59
...climb over people and buildings and...
......seek out sleeping people and..........
greencactus3
08-08-2004, 23:05
... do its business of ....
Jay H 237
09-08-2004, 20:50
.......waking them up by smacking two frying pans..........
...on top of a very large wombat, who regularly...
Lisa Perez
12-08-2004, 14:57
.. searched for food by riding atop a Segway, which..
greencactus3
12-08-2004, 22:34
...ran out of batteries at the crucial moment of...
Jay H 237
14-08-2004, 18:59
.....descending a flight of stairs which caused the Segawy to........
Stina236
14-08-2004, 20:57
...throw the poor wombat who decided it would be better to ride a...
........ride an ATV which was.........
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