Your Funniest FIRST Experience [Archive]

Lisa Perez

26-06-2004, 10:21

Sorry guys :p .. Can't have a "Worst" or a "Best" without a "Funniest"..

This season - I think I'd have to say Nationals hanging out at the hotel. The guards were having fun helping us out with floor tag! ".. He went thatta way!" Oh yes, and paper plane sessions with some Team 33 kids. While that was all going on, a biscuit comes flying across, almost hitting a teammate. Came from the floor above :eek: Talk about random projectile.

And my friend and I decided we were sumo wrestlers and put on the bathrobes and stuffed them with pillows! And then we sumo wrestled. T'was quite the fun times. I'd add a picture but Sarah might kill me :p

My whole FIRST Experience - Last year, we decided to go running on the track at the top of the hotel in the freezing rain/slush. We had smiley face bouncy balls and we decided to see how high they'd go in the slush. The results were quite surprising, actually :D

FizMan

26-06-2004, 12:09

Dan: "Girls are the worst thing in the world!"
Me: "You say that now, Dan... just wait 'til you hit puberty."

Alex Cormier

26-06-2004, 12:31

my room and the next room that was connected had a pizza fight the first night. they hurt when you get hit in the face with a full piece of pizza. after that we went after their towles and wrestled in between the rooms. the next day everyone got yelled at and they wanted to charge us more for cleanaing since it was like a 4 or 5 star hotel.. oo it was fun!

jgannon

26-06-2004, 13:25

Watching our mentor getting his head shaven in celebration at Sacramento (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pictures.php?s=&action=single&picid=7055&direction=DESC&sort=date&perrow=4&trows=3&quiet=Verbose). Funniest. Thing. Evar.

Bharat Nain

26-06-2004, 14:06

Every team meeting something funnier happens, I just can't rate what is the funniest. If you were at at 25 meeting you'll know, it's simply hilarious. It forces the sun to burn the clouds and shine at our faces:p

Mike Ciance

26-06-2004, 14:54

My funniest FIRST experience has to be one night at the 2004 nationals. One of my roommates was keeping the rest of us up by putting in a movie. We wanted to just go to bed but he said "It's too early you losers, I can't believe you want to go to bed now!" Well about 3 minutes later he was asleep himself and me and my friend were wide awake watching his movie. We quickly realized that he was asleep and tried to wake him up, saying "Get up you loser!" The irony was priceless. :D Well, he wouldn't get up - no matter what we did he didn't wake up. He was in the deepest sleep I've ever seen anybody in. Me and my other roomate decided that, while we were trying to wake him up, we might as well have a little fun. :rolleyes: I took a small book and balanced it on his head. He was still fast asleep. I took something else (i forget what) and put that on top of the book. Still asleep. I took a washcloth (clean) from the bathroom and draped it over the items so it covered his face. No response. Then his head turned and all the stuff came crashing down. We waited for him to ask about the strange stack of objects on his head, but he didn't - HE WAS STILL ASLEEP!!! He had only rolled over while sleeping. I took a TV Guide and started a second stack. Again, my teammate remained totally oblivious. I took one of those large plastic display stands (which holds the pad and paper and TV Guide and all that other stuff) and tried to balance that on top of the TV Guide. It fell. HE WOKE UP!!! :ahh: As he was waking up my friend threw the washcloth onto his face. All he said about the whole thing was "Dude, why are there boxers on my face?" The fact that he still had no idea about the stacking, coupled with the fact that he thought the washcloth was a pair of underwear, left us laughing hysterically. We told him everythign and he actually didn't believe us at first because he really had no idea any of it was going on.

shows how mature i can be at times :rolleyes:

-PauL-

26-06-2004, 18:20

hehe, my funniest experience had to be on plane flying down to atlanta. we take off, and go up into a huge cloud, and everything is pure white. my friend turns to me, puts his sunglasses on, and says "This is the construct. It is our loading program. we can load anything here from clothing, ammunition, weapons, anything we want..." everyone who heard it started laughing :D

yep, we're a bunch of nubs....

Will Hanashiro

26-06-2004, 19:25

the funniest happening this season occured at or end of the year banquet... to our mascot (a middle schooler who is the younger bro of an alumni). every year somebody plays a prank on this poor kid...

this year, some one poured some hot sauce into his coke when he wasnt looking!!! he went through a series of 50 facial expressions in a matter of seconds, and the whole restauraunt busted out laughing... it was hilarious.

Mike Ciance

26-06-2004, 20:19

Joe Matt

26-06-2004, 21:13

Here at Sparky 384, one thing that sets us appart is the hilarious situations and events we find ourselves in, along with how we get out of them. Here are just some of the greatest (as in you had to be there funny) and just hilarious moments (like when we crowed surfed our team head into a trash can at VCU). Here are just a few that *I* know about.

-Ax & Shaving cream one guy on our team. Just won't mention his name on the board. It got his hair messed up AND some on his PowerBook. We're too evil...

-Daring kids on 1086 to take down 10 cups of Beverly at the Coke Museum. He didn't finnish. tehehehehe......

-Me flipping over Mr. Ivey over my sholder on the bus to get back our human players 5 point ball. After that, everyone went into a rage and beat him.

-Our team head telling us all we *had* to be up at 5am to go to the pits to get everything there and get a place in line. Needless to say, we improvised quite a bit, and walking with tons of girls at 5am was rather ammusing.

-Durring the build season in 2004, we all bought ice cream from DairyQueen. I'll leave your imagination to sum up the rest.

-2003 Champs, we were grounded on Friday night (that's why you saw NO ONE from 384 at Six Flags on Friday) and one room put all the beds up and played vollyball in the room.

-2004 after party. There was extra ice water and cups, needless to say, we had loads of wet mentors and students afterwards.... :)

There are more, just don't want to get them in trouble. Plus, I have a really lousy memory.... :p

Lisa Perez

26-06-2004, 21:27

YES FOR ICE FIGHTS!

After one build night, a bunch of us decided to go to Olive Garden. Three guys on our team try to see who can drink the most Coke. So, after about the 6th one each, our waiter comes back, bewildered that they've even gotten that far. And after the 7th, he just gave us a pitcher and wished us good luck. I think it was a donation from the restaurant, I don't really remember seeing it on the bill :)

Richomundo

27-06-2004, 01:54

phrontist

27-06-2004, 03:05

I'm fairly certain that if the Atlanta Hotels Sydicate ever finds this thread, we're finished gentlemen. That being said I'll add my own fond reccollections from this, my rookie year:

1) One day sitting in the shop, we we're discussing some hairbrained scheme that required a 9v battery with low internal resistance. Let's watch...

Teammate: What we need is a really 9v battery that can handle a helluva lot of amperage draw.

Me: Like a car battery or something. But that would be a really weird car battery...

Teammate: *chuckles* Yeah, like a russian car battery!

Me: In Soviet Russia, Battery is limited by YOUR INTERNAL RESISTANCE!!!

Everyone in Earshot: Muhahaha!

2) Well, the contest for funniest moment in this last build season is 0wned by: When Robots Attack!!! (http://www.firstwiki.org/index.php/When_Robots_Attack)

Seriously, check out that link :-)

Billfred

27-06-2004, 14:51

Probably the funniest experience I had was playing Taboo with 433. It was Bryan (our driver), Phil (our now-alumni arm driver--when we had an arm), and myself, plus about five Firebirds. We went from the team social until some odd hour, when Phil split. Then all of us pretty much split.

MikeDubreuil

27-06-2004, 15:09

2) Well, the contest for funniest moment in this last build season is 0wned by: When Robots Attack!!! (http://www.firstwiki.org/index.php/When_Robots_Attack)

Seriously, check out that link :-)

<mentor_mode>That could have hurt someone or damaged your robot. If that ever happens again, just remove power from the Operator Interface and your robot will stop moving. </mentor_mode>

That was pretty funny. No programmer should have to exert that much physical activity. We weren't designed for it.

Melissa Nute

27-06-2004, 15:29

At nationals in 2002, 2 of my teammates and myself walked around the three All Star Hotels attempting to find some guy that would do the truffle shuffle (from the Goonies) for us. Needless to say, no guy would do that. We had some really sad attempts from some of the boys from "chicago" on the floor above us. But we did get some "Canadian" Mountain Dew out of it.

At KSC in 2002 we had some fun with one of the girls on our team who was dirty. Needless to say, she was forced to become clean afterwards.

Amanda Morrison

27-06-2004, 17:22

I've been lucky enough to have a few good FIRST experiences worth remembering:

- The Chicken Dance Bet (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showpost.php?p=142005&postcount=5) in St. Louis
- The Beverly Incident (see below)
- My kids almost throwing me in the pool in St. Louis in 2003 (I survived only by my screaming, clawing the walls, and the hotel threatening to kick us out)
- How I met Brandon Martus (I was too afraid to talk to him. Too tall!)
- How I met JVN ;)
- Making Andy Baker become my chauffeur at Kickoff

...and a few others worth remembering but not fit for ChiefDelphi.

-Daring kids on 1086 to take down 10 cups of Beverly at the Coke Museum. He didn't finnish. tehehehehe......

As a senior, I had a bad, bad experience with Beverly. A few of us did.

The team from '01 thought it would be funny to tell all the '02 rookie members how 'great' the Italian soda Beverly is. They talked about it the entire build season, raising our interests. By the time we got to Florida, we had to have some.

Luckily, I had an insider that tipped me off - Beverly is a bitter, almost retching drink that is almost unbearable. I've had cough syrup taste better. From Roadside America (http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/GAATLcoke.html): "Mouth-befouled veterans encourage newcomers to sample Beverly — a quinine aperitif from Italy — then laugh hysterically as the victims bulge their eyes and spit it out."

While I did try some, I knew better and expected the taste. However, some not-so-lucky kids on our team weren't aware and downed the drinks willingly. There are still bitter feelings (not quite as bitter as Beverly, though) about that incident. Later, we managed to get our hands on a two-liter of the stuff, and dared one person to drink it all. I think three people ended up sharing and finishing it, but each were nauseous afterward. :)

KathieK

27-06-2004, 19:27

Funniest FIRST experience had to be Elvis and the Shoe Stealer from the UTC New England Regional team social this year (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26921)...

Travis Fox, the hypnotist, is terrific. We're trying to book a show with him for in November (stay tuned, Connecticut!)...

Barry Bonzack

28-06-2004, 00:20

Joshua May

28-06-2004, 00:29

I was just reminded of what has to be the absolute funniest moment I have experienced in FIRST. This past year, the birthday of one of our drivers was on the Saturday of the SoCal Regional. Before the regional, myself and another team member decided to kidnap her and throw her in the hotel's pool that morning. So with the help of my sister, we got into her room, I grabbed her legs and the other guy grabbed her arms, and we carried her kicking and screaming down from the 13th floor to the 5th where the pool was. On the elevator ride down, we passed by an elderly couple, who were absolutely shocked by her screaming for help, but they understood when we told them it was her birthday. Then we carried her down the LONG hallway to the pool, and I found out that this girl can KICK! She's been a swimmer through all of high school, and those legs are strong, I swear she could probably wrestle her way away from Big Mike, yeah :eek:. So we finally got her to the pool and threw her in, and she pulled the other guy in after her. It was hilarious!

Spaztik Duck

28-06-2004, 01:07

Joe Matt

28-06-2004, 11:27

Having the SPAM girls write on my hand "I do not wash my hands" and run down the many escalators in Atlanta yelling High fiiiive to the people going the opposite direction. The look on their faces when they read it after giving me five was priceless every time.

Good times. Good times.
THAT WAS YOU! :D :D

Also, in response to Dave's 'theory of sauce realtivity' me and another kid on our team came up with the 'internet nice people to bad people theory of relativity.' Basically, every good person online there is two bad pedafiles online trying to get you. They are assigned to you by your ISP.

Lisa Perez

28-06-2004, 11:41

We decided to pull a nice little prank on our coach :p. So there are lockers right outside of her room, and one of them belongs to a teammate.. I get in, they close the locker, and one of the freshman who's in on the joke goes and says "Lisa's in the locker, and she's crying because the locker's jammed now and no one can get it open!" He, of course, knew I was perfectly fine but Coach, on the other hand, didn't. I hear her eyes bugged out like no other, at least, that's according to the teammates that had been working in the CAD lab and got quite scared for me, too. So anyways, she runs outside and I'm just pounding on the locker, acting all trapped. Then my teammate opened up the locker. Sure enough, I'm okay. Coach gets this blank look on her face, then starts laughing. ::sigh:: Such good times.

MissInformation

28-06-2004, 13:02

On thursday night of regionals pit and flight go out for dinner. At the Richmond regional after a long, hard day in the pit we decided to get Arby's sandwhiches for dinner. Heidi and I ordered the same thing, but her sandwhich came with sauce on it even tho we both asked them to take it off. Dave took this as a great chance to explain to us the 'theory of sauce relativity'. He spent a good 5 minutes explaining to me that before it could have less sauce my sandwhich had to first reach 'sauce equillibrium'. We still joke about it, he even gave me demonstrations with sauce packets. All I wanted to do was eat my sandwhich.

That whole dinner was hilarious. And the "theory of sauce relativity" really did make sense, in a Dave sort of way.

I don't really know what my funniest experience is, there have been so many good ones. The whole Dave says "That's Pimp!" thing is high on the list, and bowling after dinner at Arbys and the game we played during bowling, the Kyle contest... Of course, also very funny was the "adults" taping The Crocodile to Dave's door... Dave opened his door before they could put the note on it that said "I'm yours for the night." Don't ask about the crocodile, it's just wrong. Very wrong.

Heidi

<==========>
as Blue says, "There is no crocodile."

Barry Bonzack

28-06-2004, 15:29

THAT WAS YOU! :D :D

Ha ha, Yep. I wonder many people I gave five to that day. Wonder how many of them would now recognize me as "the kid that doesn't wash his hands."

RBrandy

28-06-2004, 16:58

This is more of a "duh!" situation than a funny situation. Last year we had a mentor on our team who drove an old police car. He drove it down to the Midwest Regional. As the pit crew, (the rest of the team had already gone back the the hotel) drove back to the hotel we made a wrong turn so we made a U-Turn. Not knowing he was behind us, all the people in the van got worried we were going to be pulled over for it. After about a minute of anxeity, the driver of the van says "Oh, no need to worry, it's just Andy"

Spammy Badame

29-06-2004, 18:47

FIRST is great, i've had a ton of fun experiences, and a lot of them were funny.

Last year, at nationals, I wrote down 2 1/2 pages of totally random quotes. Reading them back to people and just watching thier faces as i read them was just hilarious. And since all the quotes were random and about different things no body really knew what they were about. i still have them, and if i ever just want a laugh i go and read through them again.

This year, at the UCF regional, i got stuck in a life preserver. Kind of a long story, but i won't get into it here. And Brittany and I jumped in the pool with clothes on, just because somebody said we wouldn't do it. It was really funny thinking back on it. We went around to different peoples rooms and they were all laughing at us. and it was kinda windy, so that made it kinda cold out.

I have so many more funny experiences, but i can't really say i have one imparticular that was the funniest... except maybe when Barry, tiff, and I went down the escalators when barry wrote on his hand that he didn't wash them. that was absolutely hilarious. That's it for the time being, but i'll come back and post again if i think of something even funnier.

Mike Ciance

29-06-2004, 21:24

Joshua May

29-06-2004, 21:28

During the build season, while me and my friend Bharat (Teknobrahma) were trying to program the arm, he put a program in and the arm started spinning around and around. Mr. Cokeley said "we at least it's moving" and Bharat said "But... it's not actually programmed to move yet!" I have that as one of my away messages on AOL now, i love that quote so much. :D

That reminds me. All through the SoCal competition this year, we were trying to get our arm working. (OK, we were building the arm) But we could never get the arm to work, no matter what I did with the programming, the motors wouldn't turn on. But then when i took the bot out onto the field and turned it on, the arm started working! But It was on constant reverse and was pulling it into itself, so I had to tear out the PWM before it destroyed itself! But we still never got the arm to work after that. :D

Spaztik Duck

03-07-2004, 11:13

Oh dear, last-evening dinner at Dave's, us all [me, sean, dave, and our new captain kyle] trying to explain the theory of sauce relativity to Dave's youngest son. It got brought up all evening long.

And the line of the night... 'Its all relative'

Mike Ciance

03-07-2004, 14:16

That reminds me. All through the SoCal competition this year, we were trying to get our arm working. (OK, we were building the arm) But we could never get the arm to work, no matter what I did with the programming, the motors wouldn't turn on. But then when i took the bot out onto the field and turned it on, the arm started working! But It was on constant reverse and was pulling it into itself, so I had to tear out the PWM before it destroyed itself! But we still never got the arm to work after that. :D

while we were trying to figure out how to make the prototype arm work, and it kept spinning aroudn in the same direction, it eventually jammed the pot and unscrewed itself from it. we were programming for a couple hours before we noticed :ahh:

Joshua May

03-07-2004, 14:23

while we were trying to figure out how to make the prototype arm work, and it kept spinning aroudn in the same direction, it eventually jammed the pot and unscrewed itself from it. we were programming for a couple hours before we noticed :ahh:

Yeah, it's amazing how these robots go haywire and self-destruct.

Mike Ciance

03-07-2004, 14:25

Yeah, it's amazing how these robots go haywire and self-destruct.

how come in movies they always go haywire and destroy us instead? :confused:

JackN

05-04-2005, 22:04

After West Michigan this year, we went out to applebees. I just so happened to have some buttons with me. We asked our waitress if she wanted a Piece of Flair like in the movie Office Space. She was so so confused and it was pretty funny in that situational comedy kind of way.

The second funniest thing is when after Detorit Regional we rocked a bus.
We borrow a bus from a local bussinessman. After Detorit we began to rock the bus at a resturant. We lifted the bus off it's wheels. We then pulled up in front of a grocery store where one of our team members works turned on the sound system (thats right sound system) and rocked the thing. The look of the workers was priceless. After that two days latter when the team member was at work they were talking about a group of people rocking a bus. Recently on the way to Grand Rapids regional that bus broke down we don't know if these events are related but that wouldn't be suprising for how far we rocked that thing

Rombus

06-04-2005, 01:59

'05 Buckeye Regionals.
After seeing our poor performance during practice matches, our teams 2 lead mentors decided to put me in the position of on field coach. One thing i noticed was the lack of a nice simple way to indicate to the HP that it was safe to head out to the bot.
On the drive home i was thinking about various arm motions that wouldn't be easily confused. I was thinking of gestures airport linemen use to communicate to the pilot when i came up with crossed forearms to indicate don't go, parallel forearms to go.
I did this a few times at the stoplight with this look of great joy on my face that i found something so simple yet so perfect (Hey, i was TIRED!) when i glanced over to the car next to me to see the driver giving me the "$@#$@#$@#$@# your CRAZY" look.

In any case, this simple arm motion worked great, and ended up becoming sorta a team high five.

I also screwed up the YMCA the first time when me and the HP ran out to the YMCA line in front of the field during the field malfunction at Buckey on Sunday. i also led a conga line around the field with our teams flag, but those were more personal funny moments!

Denman

07-04-2005, 09:17

I also screwed up the YMCA the first time when me and the HP ran out to the YMCA line in front of the field during the field malfunction at Buckey on Sunday. i also led a conga line around the field with our teams flag, but those were more personal funny moments!
hehe. We had the refs and judges and stuff dancin to the ymca, was funny

Sakura141

07-04-2005, 09:27

Watching the Refs do Cotton Eye Joe at West Michigan. That was just awesome! :)

JDFirefox11

07-04-2005, 16:25

If you ask ANYONE on team 11 what the funniest thing to happen last year was, I'm positive you'll hear about "The Sprite Incident" but I don't find it that funny... well I was the one being laughed at so thats probably the reason

Last year at the Palmetto Regional team social on Friday, all the teams were in this court yard eating pizza and drinking soda together. The bottles of Sprite were in these garbage cans all over the courtyard with ice, and there was a sheet wrapped around the can so that it didn't look so ugly. At one point a couple people i was sitting with had finished their sodas and I offered to get some more for them. I walked over to the sodas, pulled up the sheet to make sure their were wheels, and then started to pull it over near my team (it was about 30 feet away). Next thing I know the sheet gets caught up in the wheel and the whole can starts to tip. I apparently made THE funniest face EVER when i tried to catch it before it hit the ground and ice and sprite bottles (which a couple exploded) went everywhere. I don't know why, but my first instinct was to run, but don't worry cause i only made it like 5 feet before slipping on some ice and falling in a bush. EVERYONE went historical and someone on my team started chanting my name (all the other teams joined in)

Don't worry, I helped clean it up, and i noticed this year they didn't have garbage cans of soda ^_^

DUCKIE

07-04-2005, 19:28

6 words... "Cha Cha Slide" & "Airplane in Flight"

danield710

07-04-2005, 19:52

ive had a lot of funny moments in first, but one of the funniest this year wouldve been ship night when our pots werent working (the arm wasnt rotating enough) and (this is at 11 pm) one of our mentors who we sometimes call "the mad scientist" screams out "WE DONT HAVE ENOUGH POT!" after that 2 people laughed then the rest of us just started cracking up for like 5 minutes, our mentor hadnt realized what he had said until somebody explained it to him