"Quotes" that were said during build season [Archive] - Page 14

quinxorin

22-02-2012, 10:24

We needed a battery to test a motor, and two people brought two batteries. Instead of plugging in one of the batteries to the test Jaguar, someone inadvertently plugged both of the batteries into each other D: D: D: Luckily, someone else noticed a fraction of a second later, and promptly unplugged the leads before any damage was done. Moral of the story: "One table, one battery."
I did this earlier this season. I remember saying "I did the thing a robot student has always feared, and absolutely nothing happened." Really, absolutely nothing happened. When you connect two batteries together like that, the positive is going to the positive and the negative to the negative. No explosion, just an equalization of power. If it were the other way, then problems would occur. But it isn't!

Jenn Feathers

22-02-2012, 14:51

*On the back of our binder*

1. Always be modest and gracious.
2. Always be open minded.
3. Always be happy to ask & answer questions.
4. Never say "graciously accepts" rather; "enthusiastically accepts".
5. Remain calm at all times.
6. Always be willing to learn; you don't know everything.
7. Always be aware of where your robot is.
8. Have fun.
9. We are a TEAM, not a bunch of individuals derpin' around.
10. Make sure EVERYTHING is plugged in.

-Items collected by Jenn Feathers, Mac, and I.

11. Whatever floats your bot

Mr V

22-02-2012, 16:48

Here are some of ours. (tahomarobotics.org/2012/02/22/bag-day-aka-build-day-40-shift-4-the-final-chapter/)

Peyton Yeung

22-02-2012, 21:34

"A robot can always be fixed - but a match can never be replayed".

-Dustin Benedict of 816

princessnatalie

23-02-2012, 01:18

After being teased at robotics one day, one of our lead mentors, "Don't be mean to Natalie! She is making our bumpers and she could easily ruin the robot!"

Ever since Ive had nightmeres of our bumpers failing inspection... ):

pbawesome

23-02-2012, 01:43

"Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement"

"I think our robot is a little too tippy"

TeamSpyder1622

23-02-2012, 02:32

"We are 119.5 pounds! your code better weigh less than .5 pounds!"

Jimmy Nichols

23-02-2012, 07:45

"Don't yell at me because I'm Fat" - Robot Base

PayneTrain

23-02-2012, 20:23

"I think we should name the robot 'Orion'."
"Have you seen the XKCD for 2/23/12?"
*goes to xkcd.com*
"Oh. Any other ideas?"

V_Chip

23-02-2012, 20:49

Operator: "Shoot now?"
Driver: "I don't know. Does it look good to you?"
Operator: "I guess so."
Driver: "Sounds good to me."
Operator: "Shoot?"
Driver: "Sure..?"

^The dialogue my operator and I had at the Suffield Scrimmage.

Bill_B

25-02-2012, 09:22

Student: "I pinched my finger in the safety glasses!"
Safety Captain: "You should have been wearing gloves!"

LOL. I wear glasses, but if not, I'd have poked myself in the eye several times with the safety glasses bows trying to put them on. I just wear them for the whole meeting now and get used to looking through scratches.

wendymom

26-02-2012, 11:21

Our FRC lead just posted his Week 7 update. My favorite line: "this week is like Bag and Tag week for NEMO and they need help" Gotta love a mechanical guy who understands the importance of image!

n1ckd2012

26-02-2012, 13:16

"I am proud of this wire" - our official solder kid

Savvy578

26-02-2012, 14:13

"I made it a whole day without spilling something!"-me

deshnik

26-02-2012, 18:12

Think about it, really think about it

nitneylion452

26-02-2012, 18:14

I didn't break it, I mutilated it.
-me after taking apart something I wasn't sure how to put back together.

This has become somewhat of a common saying now whenever someone breaks something.

Andrew Lawrence

26-02-2012, 18:22

"So let me get this straight. We'll have 6 hours to re-build an entirely new robot that took us 6 weeks originally to make."

-Me on the phone with a mentor (A little teaser for all those going to SVR)

Waltonruler5

26-02-2012, 21:18

"It can't be programming, it's gotta be an electrical issue... I think." -Me, a first time programmer.

I was right.

JosephC

27-02-2012, 03:45

-Me "Hey K you guys messed up the bumpers again."
-K "You said they were fine after we fixed them last time!"
-Me "Well, last night I was on Chief Delphi..."
-K "I'm going to take that website and smash it into itsy bitsy pieces!"

Our bumpers are still in the bag; they need white outlines AND some need to be removed.

-M "Is the shooter programmed yet?"
-Me "Yes, I told you that yesterday"
-M "Have you tested it yet?"
-Me "I'm not even going to answer that"

He was holding the unfinished shooter in his hands at the time.

-Me "Jw go get Jb"
-Jw "Got him"
-Jb "What do you want?"
-Me "Go get rob"

-Me "C hit the button!"
-C "Why!"
-Me "That Jaguar is smoking!"
-C "But I want to driveeeeee"

-Me "K go get me the screwdriver"
-K "Which one?"
-Me " I haven't figured that out yet, just bring me some options"

-Mentor "What is going on over here?"
-Me "What do you mean?"
-Mentor "There has to be 100 bottles of mountain dew over here."
-Me "Those one are empty, there's more in my backpack if you want one"

-Mentor "Robots wired! Time for code!"
-Me "Where's the TwoCan?"
-Mentor "I can't put it on yet there's no radio"
-Me *Facepalm*

-Me "Did you know that adding code to the robot actually makes it lighter?"
-J "Bull"
-Me "No really, it makes the particles inside the CRIO disappear."
-J "oh that's cool"
*J walks away*
-K "I think he bought it"
-Me "Do you think he still thinks the Jags run on smoke?"

-Me "So as you can see I am unofficially officially posting this teaser on CD.
-Mentor "Why"
-Me "Because S said I could."
-Mentor "But, Why??"
-Me "It looks cool!"
-Mentor "It's a zip tie."
-Me "But it's blue!"

-Me "D go to bed tonite okay."
-D "Your the one who hasn't slept in days"
-Me "Hey, we're talking about your problems right now, not mine."
-D "And stay off Chief Delphi tonight."
-Me "How can you even say that??!!??"

-Me "Just put that block here and connect this he..."
*Incoming ball smacks computer shut.*
-Me "I'm going to put that target onto your back in a moment!"
-D "It's your code!"
-Me "Yeah well you built it!"
-D "Did not, M made the shooter!"
-Me "Then bring M over here and shoot him!!"

All I can think of right now.

gixxy

27-02-2012, 08:40

"It can't be programming, it's gotta be an electrical issue... I think." -Me, a first time programmer.

I was right.
From my experience, unless its complex code (taking a sensor and trying to convert values. Or tracking with the camera) It is more than likely it is electrical, But on our team we are the electrical/controls/programming teams so it's still our fault...

JABot67

27-02-2012, 13:20

Person from another team: "Why do you use Jaguars?"
jyh947: "Because we CAN."

ahahaha

HaleyMortensen

27-02-2012, 15:16

Sweeten the kitty.
I am the prettiest dolphin in all the land.
I will slap the chicken out of your hand.
What would you do if I rubbed this chicken on your face?

moonlight

27-02-2012, 15:45

" Wait! do NOT bleed on the robot!"
"Who keeps taking my tools!?"
"where is the 7/16 wrench?"
"...that was not supposed to happen"

"we will be done at 8pm..." Fred~coach
"umm... it's midnight." me
"CRAP!"Fred

Dusk Star

27-02-2012, 16:35

Said today, with competition on Thursday:

mechanical person: "If I had more time, I could do this right!"
me: "In FIRST, if you're doing it right, you're doing it wrong!"

dictionaria13

27-02-2012, 17:56

"we will be done at 8pm..." Fred~coach
"umm... it's midnight." me
"CRAP!"Fred
I love you, Karina. Was that the night you and Fred stayed in the shop until 6 AM?

Walter Deitzler

27-02-2012, 20:41

H: W, you gave the robot AIDS
W: Okay....WAIT WHAT!

n1ckd2012

27-02-2012, 23:11

"Michael, take the peanut butter bar out of the tire." - Said during a late night tire changing adventure after a long build night.

Audrey Chu

27-02-2012, 23:13

I require the assistance of someone who is not afraid of death.

Andrew Lawrence

27-02-2012, 23:22

An old one, but a good one:

Our newest engineering mentor this season: "So let me get this straight. We have 6 weeks to design a robot, build it, wire it, program it, debug it, and then compete with it a few weeks later. ....... Are you sure it said 6 weeks? For my adult engineering projects, we have more like 6 months."

And of course our favorite new one:

"Why do I get the feeling that this is going to get me even less sleep?"

FRC4ME

27-02-2012, 23:29

Me: "I thought we finished the bumpers?"
Mentor: "New rule: we have to outline them in white."
Me: "Well, it just wouldn't be build season without an arbitrary bumper rule."

From my experience, unless its complex code (taking a sensor and trying to convert values. Or tracking with the camera) It is more than likely it is electrical, But on our team we are the electrical/controls/programming teams so it's still our fault...

Hahaha a few years ago I had a conversation with a programming mentor on 339 that went something like this:

Me: "This has got to be a hardware problem."
Him: "I doubt it. Keep checking your code."

<during one of my tests, the Victor catches fire>

Me: "The Victor is on fire."
Him: "Hmm...I think this might be a hardware problem."

Audrey Chu

27-02-2012, 23:40

"Fine, mine will be just a bit smaller than his!"

Poor Liam was talking about pet wrenches.

HumblePie

01-03-2012, 10:22

From a Freshman:

"We may or may not have accidentally clamped this (Bimba air cylinder) in the vice....

Andrew Lawrence

01-03-2012, 22:34

"Hey! I need a freshman!"

This one shocked everybody. Turns out it was a job in which the user had to be....expendable.

greasemonkey

05-03-2012, 08:28

be when ever somebody falls or drops something its "be careful there's gravity there."

S.P.A.M.er

05-03-2012, 14:29

Me: it reminds me of hungry humgry hippos
(weird looks from everyone)
Me: what?!?!?! it just shoots the balls instead of eating them... so its a hungry hungry bulimic hippo cannon.
(everyone facepalms)

basicxman

05-03-2012, 18:58

"Man, this stream has the resolution of a gameboy and slower FPS than a slide projector"

who716

05-03-2012, 19:19

regarding a soutering tool,

Patrick- "grab the soutering tool"
me-"will it burn me"
Patrick- "no its coll it has been off"
me-"just because it is cold doesnt mean it cant hurt you"

theawesome1730

06-03-2012, 00:24

This is in relation to last year:
Student: What just happened... the flashies aren't on anymore!
Mentor: Total electrical catastrophe...
Student: Is that bad?

techedguy

06-03-2012, 17:08

Me(Coach)
"If you'd clean the shop you might even find Amelia Earhart in there. I think this year's shop is responsible for more loss than the Burmuda Triangle"

Student: "Seriously?"

deshnik

06-03-2012, 17:33

This might have already been said
Whos not doing anything, who wants to do something?
this was asked about every 5mins during our build
most of the time it was directed towards all the people socializing instead of building a robot

atlas

07-03-2012, 10:53

Machinist mentor: "Didn't Africa and asia used to connect, so they built
The Panama Canal?" -12:30 P.M

fortinj1354

12-03-2012, 14:16

In regards to the build site-
"What do you mean I can't live here!"

Jmgiacone

12-03-2012, 18:17

From the bot code: System.out.println("Exception caught and ignored"); :D

MisterG

12-03-2012, 23:35

Me: (explaining a circuit) that thing there is a transformer, your know what a transformers are?

Student: yeah, robots in disguise!

Bertman

12-03-2012, 23:44

Kill the watch dog

Andrew Lawrence

12-03-2012, 23:45

Mentor 1 to mentor 2:

Stay away from Andrew the next few days. He's already planning next season! :rolleyes:

Yipyapper

13-03-2012, 05:59

Family Day? The FIRST Robotics team is my family.

R3P0

13-03-2012, 07:59

I'm wondering what some of the more interesting "quotes" or phrases said this year. It doesn't matter who said them, a student, a teacher, or a mentor. One of mine this year was "Ball chunk colorer person". That was said when someone asked why i was coloring a ball with a sharpie.

Don't step in the blood..."we eat pain for candy"

Can some one gage that 3/16" hole in my thumb please?

Jenn Feathers

13-03-2012, 13:37

"If we win, next regional we're all using zip ties on our right braid"

- me, my one hair tie broke right before quarter-finals at Pittsburgh last week

"5/8 is the new 42"- me

"what can I break today?"- me again

MishraArtificer

14-03-2012, 03:29

"what can I break today?"- me againYour mind, for a start...

(That one went around for a while...then we realized it was less funny and more TRUE.)

Gray Adams

14-03-2012, 03:50

"If we win, I'll dye all of my hair."

She's dying all of her hair.

flippy147852

14-03-2012, 07:57

"I'm so glad I joined robotics. I can eat now!"
-said by a 1st year senior who skipped robotics for wrestling last year

"Where's the 5/32 allen wrench? -looks around for a little bit- FLIPPY!! IS IT IN YOUR HAIR?"

and for the record it wasn't :rolleyes:

vinnie

14-03-2012, 19:00

"Debug the robot!"
(there were actually bugs on our shooter)

Mofasa2130

14-03-2012, 20:12

"Thank you Chief Delphi!"

PAR_WIG1350

15-03-2012, 00:33

Me: "I got a haircut."
team mate: "Where?"
me: "uh..." *points to head* "here!"

kws4000

15-03-2012, 12:35

Me: "I got a haircut."
team mate: "Where?"
me: "uh..." *points to head* "here!"

Which hair got cut? :p

dictionaria13

15-03-2012, 13:09

This one doesn't really refer to the robot, but instead to the current weather in Seattle. The past few days, we've had rain, snow, hail, wind, sun, and various combinations thereof, which inspired this:

"Mother Nature's acting like she's on her period."

Sadly, I agree.

kws4000

16-03-2012, 21:36

You didn't break it, you forced an inappropriate function to operate at an inopportune time.

FRC4ME

17-03-2012, 12:58

Go directly to queue. Do not pass pit.

alancop

17-03-2012, 17:00

They have a team airplane!?-- Us walking into Wave robotics's borrowed hanger where they had their practice field.

Taylor1023

18-03-2012, 10:32

"Win ALL the matches!" Said towrds the end of build season and the beginning of competition season. Funny enough, we were 18-0 at Detroit District.

"I don't care if he gets lost on the way there. I care if he gets lost on the way back. I hate cold pizza." It took him 10 minutes to get there and 20 to get back. He got lost on the way back and had to use a GPS. The town we live in is small.

"Well there's your problem!" We didn't have a cRIO in the robot. It took us 20 minutes.

"Your programming is wrong."
"No, it's your wiring."
"Do you really want to argue about this?" We did. For 10 minutes. It was the wiring.

"Well THAT was fun."

"Guys! Guess what? We got a gym!"

"I'm playing 'words with intellectual acquaintances.'"

"Don't throw the balls!"

"So I knew this guy who was a programmer."
"...and...?"
"Nothing. I just thought I would mention it."

"We're telling Coach that we're 10 pounds overweight." It was a few days before bag n tag.

Diesel Torch

18-03-2012, 11:25

"Guaranteed to work, maybe."

Conversation:
Coach"Were nine pounds over, we had to lose some weight."
Team member#1 (TM1) "What did you do to fix it?"
Coach "We removed a few motors, wiring, and victors."
TM2 "Aren't those... important?"
Coach "Not anymore."
TM1 "Is that all you had to do?"
Coach " We also swiss cheesed the robot..."
TM1 "You put holes in OUR ROBOT???"
TM3 *Walks by* "No one likes the Swiss."

Savvy578

18-03-2012, 11:27

"...They can't make up their minds!"

moogboy

18-03-2012, 11:41

"wait, did we take the battery out?"-about two days before bag n tag, amidst collective panic as the scale told us we were 15 pounds overweight.

This one is from before I joined the team, but it's a classic:
"Hey guys! is that the code?"
"No...thats the attendance sheet"

ganchara

20-03-2012, 19:10

B: How do you deal with us?
K: Sarcasm, and... Yeah, mostly sarcasm... Oh, and Jack Daniels too.

K: The table is indestructible, not idiotproof.

ClearlyClare

21-03-2012, 18:13

"Can we change our name to 'Purple Close-Enough'?"

(Team 3176 Purple Precision)

mman1506

22-03-2012, 22:42

-(After finding the robot was 35 pounds underweight)
"We should add some decorative batteries"

Andrew Lawrence

22-03-2012, 22:48

Explaining build season to newest member:

Josh: So let me get this straight....we build for 6 weeks, so we can put the robot away in a bag, and wait another 6 weeks before we use it?:confused:

Me:..........yes.

EricH

24-03-2012, 11:06

Heard on the Waterloo webcast:

"We currently have zero representatives for alliance selection! This will make for very quick elimination rounds."

viperred396

25-03-2012, 00:47

Somthing that our mentor said to another team about their broken robot

"It wouldnt be FIRST if it didnt break"

GCentola

25-03-2012, 01:10

Heard on the Waterloo webcast:

Speaking of Waterloo: "Look at them eat the fender! EAT IT! OMM NOMM NOM NOMEY NOM!" -Paul Copioli

Karthik and Paul were a heck of a lot of fun to watch this weekend!

Suitster

25-03-2012, 10:23

(when we used the lightest team member as ballast for testing the drive system)

"Unless something goes drastically wrong, the bot will turn slowly"

very soon after that line

"And this is why it is bad to divide by zero"

sithmonkey13

08-04-2012, 00:10

During the St. Louis Regional, one of our drivers was giving handshakes where he runs his fingers along your hand, which feels incredibly weird. The resulting conversation happened after he given the handshake to a driver on our alliance (for a qualification):
S (Our Coach): C stop that.
C (The one giving the handshakes): What, I'm making friends.
S: No, you're making restraining orders.

lorem3k

08-04-2012, 05:40

"Who's ready to strip some greasy old trannies?" (Referring to old transmissions, of course.)
"You can play basketball, right? Let's just cut your legs off and put you on the drivetrain."
"It doesn't need to fit right now, we'll just let it 'self-machine'."

PAR_WIG1350

09-04-2012, 00:54

"It doesn't need to fit right now, we'll just let it 'self-machine'."

Due to the frequency with which we do this on our team, we have agreed upon the standardized term "self-clearance".

NOTE: Actually, it is often meant as a joke, but not always. Saying that you are 'breaking in' a P60 (banebots transmission), a very common practice recommended my many here on CD, you are really running it until it stops grinding itself into dust due to the colliding gears not fitting together properly. Using this technique for pneumatic wheels rubbing against a transmission output shaft is another story.

Bobby476

09-04-2012, 14:54

Me: Were Should i break the Chain.

Ken (mentor): I don't Know But Breaking Chain Is like Breaking Wind.

Both of us: You just can't unbreak it.

ENeyman

10-04-2012, 19:58

Someone on my team said this today about Dean Kamen:

"Wait, he invented the Segway! I thought he invented the subway!"

Everyone around her cracked up.

zmeves

11-04-2012, 00:41

"I'm taking my laptop to the internet"

Reanna

11-04-2012, 02:49

Not really a quote but, It was that moment when you find a vice-clamp sitting in a cardboard box among some other tools in the orchestra room at Rosemont High School. I thought, "That doesn't belong there! I should put it back in the Build Room!" And then you remember that, in fact, it doesn't belong to the robotics team at St. Francis. #FembotProblems

Also, not a quote either, but.. My mom calls our robot, "the computer."
"She volunteered to help pack up the computer and send it to St. Louis."
She also says St. Louis like St. Louii instead.
Not bashing my mommy, I love her lotsies.

quinxorin

11-04-2012, 13:30

My team's website, when something goes wrong:
"Non erravi perniciose!"
-I did not commit a fatal error!

LemmingBot

17-04-2012, 11:37

A quote compilation:

*Duel on the DE 2010* (First time I saw a FIRST match, I was field reset for breakaway)

-autonomous starts, bots are naturally slower-

Me: Awww, how cute they look like fat little lemmings.

-teli opp, carnage begins-

Me: *scuttles away from gate* ANGRY LEMMINGS! ANGRY LEMMINGS!

------
*Demo 2011, Breakaway bot*

Small child: Excuse me, can the robot join my soccer team?

------

*testing new code, robot immediately rams full force in to a door and crushes a bin*

A; S, did you try to teach the robot to love again?

------

'MOEna, the most butch of all robots'
*dont ask*

------

me; We need a...a
B; A crimp?
me; no the boopy that goes on the end of the thing
B; we need more boopys!

------

*Another demo: Logomotion bot*

(bot takes a white circle from the floor)

Little girl: She's eating a doughnut!!!

------

'Always expect King Kong on a unicycle!'

------

*regarding the transportation of small handmade plushes to St.Louis*

C: So do they need any care? Do I feed them a cotton ball every morning?

------

*new shooter is tearing the coating off the balls, leaving the carpet dusted with orange flakes*

'Well at least we know (the bot) could make it as a cheese grater'

------

*trying to push robot through narrow door*

'Its like having a square baby!'

4057programmer

18-04-2012, 02:01

after pointing out how undersized in all areas our robot was:
" you know how sometimes small dogs act big and tough? they call it little dog syndrome, well our little robot pushes every other robot around, because it has little robot syndrome!"

favorite long standing joke between team captain and me(the only programmer):
if it compiles, its electrical. if it's not on fire, its programming.

this got so bad that we almost kept a tally running on it and you know what? it was almost always electrical!

JamesB3467

18-04-2012, 07:34

Our team only has the net put on the top basket for our practice field, so whenever we all start taking shots, if someone misses all you hear is "That would have gone in the bottom net..."

JV2073

22-04-2012, 02:27

"measure twice, cut one"-- Golden rule

ElJeffe3255

22-04-2012, 04:01

If it's too short, you can always cut it longer...

dictionaria13

30-04-2012, 19:27

"You are not a cat. Please wash your hands."
-- A mentor to a student licking his fingers.

RevonZZ

30-04-2012, 22:58

"Hey, guys... I think Daisy's using an aimbot!" -Me

And, sure enough, this elicited a few of these from my team.

"HAAAAAAAX!!1!"
"I CALL TEH HAXXORS!"

Rob3653

30-04-2012, 23:07

Our teams lead programmer was having problems writing code for a compressor.
"I think I finally found the problem?!?!?"
He said this about 25 times...:confused:

Astrokid248

01-05-2012, 14:49

My personal favorite from this year (despite my status as "mentor" i was really the camera person): "Wait, are you recording this?"

Alx1796

02-05-2012, 08:46

"Wtf hapened here?""what? Im just making it aerodynamic" (after going to mount a prototype bridge mechanismon the edge of the frame, with a support I swiss cheesed for,then realizing it was illegal)

rainbowdash

15-05-2012, 00:39

"The balls are stuck...!"
- "That's what she said"

"Guise, I found out we can order a 4 gallon carton of Starbucks!"
- "Get all of them. ALL OF THEM."

"Where are the programmers?!?!?!!"
-.... 5 hours later..... "Problem?"

"let's see how well it flies"

During competition....

"Where are the programmers?!?!?!? Autonomous isn't working!!"
- ...... competition is over..... "They were watching ponies and reading Homestuck at starbucks"

eeyup.

Renata O-Castro

21-05-2012, 01:59

Nighty night. Don't let the vex bot bite

LemmingBot

22-05-2012, 09:36

J accidentally sits on a cigarette end

S: You have a butt under your butt!

J: I have a pun under my bun!

RevonZZ

22-05-2012, 22:22

A few of us in a car back from Monty Madness 2012 (Naturally, 341 kicked bot up and down the field, eliminating us in the finals for the THIRD time this season):

Freshman Scout: "So... We lost to Miss Daisy again, huh?"

Sophomore: "Y'know, I still say we should've just mounted, like, a circular saw on our robot; just use it on Daisy, like *NEEYEOW!*."

Me (Scouting Captain): "Now -THAT'S- what I call a Daisy Cutter!"

mbrauer12

23-05-2012, 11:51

We didn't have our adapter for our bridge but we needed to test it. One kid said:

Kid: "We can just use paperclips"
Me: "No we will just do it tomorrow"
Kid: *uses paperclups anyway*
Bridge: *Explodes*

mlantry

23-05-2012, 12:15

(can't say the actual word) FUDGE!!! We lost Com with the robot

jessss

23-05-2012, 18:37

One of the girls on our team after the kickoff

Sophie: "So where do we buy the robot and can it be pink?"
Me: "Sophie, you don't buy the robot you build it and no we're not painting our robot pink."

"You guys the coopertition bridge isn't that important"
(after three matches at champ)
"You guys we're ranked 56 and we've won all three of our matches so far yet we haven't gotten any coopertition points. I guess I misjudged the importance of the coopertition bridge."

A reporter at champs: "So what's your robots name?"
Me: "Our robots actual name or our team's name?"
Reporter: "Your robot has a name?"
Me: "Yeah it's name is Javier"
For the rest of the interview the reporter called our robot by it's name and our whole team burst out laughing

R: "I used to play with balls... but then I took an arrow to the knee"

Walter Deitzler

05-06-2012, 15:56

"It turned me into a gay, roman statue!"

"It was like unh sparkle sparkle unh sparkle sparkle..."

VexisDarksteele

05-06-2012, 22:02

When we were designing the robot, the main designer was presenting his concept to the group:
Us: "So...how does it score?"
Him: "Well, it can either launch balls out the front for short-range, or it can kinda... fart them out the back for the top rack."
Someone else: "I'm surprised you didn't say burp for the frontal scoring."

——

*I'm cringing as our coach misspells a sizable amount of words on the whiteboard.*
Me: "Uh... that's wrong, that's wrong, and I don't even know what you were trying to say there."
Him: *Starts correcting as I tell him the proper spellings.* "Now what on earth am I gonna do when my SpellCheck graduates next year?"
Me: "If I'm spellcheck, do you want me to walk up to the board in the middle of your lectures now and underline wrong spellings in red marker?"

——

"Oops... Rye needs plastic surgery again." (When our mascot lost its wing.)

Gregor

05-06-2012, 22:42

"Lets not have wheels on the robot this year. Lets just have an awesome shooter, sit on the key, and have people feed us."

Needless to say, that idea wasn't even allowed on the whiteboard :D

"The coopertition bridge is so dangerous. Lets try and avoid it the best we can."

This met idea met the same fate as the bot without a drivetrain idea :P

DampRobot

06-06-2012, 01:34

"Lets not have wheels on the robot this year. Lets just have an awesome shooter, sit on the key, and have people feed us."

Needless to say, that idea wasn't even allowed on the whiteboard :D

I legitimately believed until championships that there would be a few robots that just sat in the feeder lane and could shoot full court three-pointers. I was proved wrong.

Ekcrbe

06-06-2012, 09:02

"Lets not have wheels on the robot this year...

Did somebody say no wheels?

Remember this? (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1125159#poststop)

Sorry... It was just a joke.

Natatatalies

06-06-2012, 19:05

For any CSI fans out there,

N: We're out of 1/4 grade five bolts!
J: Well I guess we're screwed...
N: No... I guess you could say... we're bolted!
N: YEEEAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!:cool:

OliviaG

07-06-2012, 18:01

"Righty Tighty Lefty Loosy.... Your going the wrong way!" Thats what we always like to say when someones working, just to annoy them.

mega900997

07-06-2012, 18:57

This happened before build season, we were texting an old team member who comes by and helps us alot.

Us:The robot is sparking..
Him:Well Turn it OFF!

Whippet

08-06-2012, 13:11

"This isn't Burger King, you can't always have it your way"

-Said by our coach over who would be on the drive team.

zmeves

07-09-2012, 00:16

offseason to parents:
‎"For the most part imagine buying food for a 6 year old and that is what the team normally snacks on"

- Allen Gregory

chiefsfan67

07-09-2012, 15:29

At a demonstration at Union Station in KC.
We are working on the robot in the pit.
A young son and his father walk by. The son says to his father
"Daddy, thats a DEAD robot"

Seconds later an uninsulated wire touches the frame and begins to smoke... REALLY bad.

Crew member yells "SMOKE"
Another says "Turn it off"
Another "Just unplug the battery"
All of us once power is cut off "DEAD robot!"

daniel_dsouza

09-09-2012, 23:35

FIRST is where all the good jokes are made.

We got free donuts from a company. Unfortunately a mentor finished a whole box in under 5 minutes. From now one, whenever she calls ahead to tell us she is coming, we hid all the food.
Our safety manager isn't allowed to use the power tools, because he used a drill as a pointing device.
Safety FIRST, [verb] later!
This one isn't ours, but a safety sign said, "Caution , this sign has sharp corners!"
Student who didn't know anything about computers: "So if I delete all the .exe files, I'll have less space on my computer. I don't know why there are so many excel files anyway..."
"Why do her bumpers look so much better than mine?"
-"It's because she's a girl!"
"You can't use a drill press to create a keyed shaft!"
-"I reject your reality and substitute my own"
You know, there's such a thing as too much spirit...
We met a rookie team once... unfortunately they thought the robot was to be built during competition!
Driver: "The robot doesn't work"
Programmer: "But it worked less than 20 seconds ago!"
Driver: "Look (flexes controls through all positions)"
Suddenly, the robot (which was lagging), flies off the bridge!
Programmer: "I call lag..."
At our team banquet after the competition:
Mentor: "Why weren't you there for the awards ceremony"
Student: "Well, we decided that we couldn't have our dinner and have HALO party, so something had to go"
In reality, our coach who drove the bus had to leave early.
Student: So we have a mill, but no cutters, and a lathe, but no parting tool. It's there for looks right?
Student: So we're building a minibot deployer for a minibot that doesn't exist.
Student 1: "Where did you put the 7/16 wrench?"
Student 2: "I left it inside the robot"
Student 1: "During a match!!!"
Student 1: Look at these chopsticks I made using the sander and jigsaw! Now I can eat.
Take out is popular here.
Student 1: "You know, the robot looks sort of like a Dalek"
(a few minutes later) "wait, what do you mean you don't watch Dr Who!"
Is this an original problem, surely it's been solved on Chief Delphi!
Student 1: "You're late, the pizza is cold."
Student 2: "No problem, I'll just use the shrink ray (heat gun)"
To spirit person: "Why are our shirts black this year? When they were yellow, you couldn't see the grease stains!"
To programmer: Dividing by 0 will not make your robot self-aware, but it will make you feel stupid.

I could go on for a forever, but there's this thing called time that keeps interfering. It's more obvious during build season.

Gregor

09-09-2012, 23:56

Our safety manager isn't allowed to use the power tools, because he used a drill as a pointing device.

~Facepalm~ ::ouch::

Wayne Doenges

14-09-2012, 07:05

Here's something I heard but it wasn't during build season;
"The lowly snowflake is very fragile, but look at what they can do when they stick together"

bardd

14-09-2012, 07:20

Too many to choose from...
My personal favorive:
-"Lets put Adriana Lima's picture on the robot so the other drivers get distracted!"
-"We can't, it's illegal to interfere the driver's actions."
-"They can drive with their left hand..."

dellagd

15-09-2012, 02:20

Walter Deitzler

20-09-2012, 22:57

Talking to a FTC freshman:

Me: "Hey J! Are you going to build the best robot ever IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD!"

J: Sure, it will be a box with an arm, but sure.

Conor Walsh

23-09-2012, 21:57

What a mentor said to me after taking apart the drive train gearboxes about 10 times for adjustments:

"He is geary and small,
and doesn't work well at all.
He is your best Friend."

MARS_James

23-09-2012, 23:07

"They were watching ponies and reading Homestuck at starbucks"

You just described our entire media, and animation team including the mentors........

Some of ours:
Teacher Sponsor: *confusion and anger* Monty Python and The Holy Grail is only rated PG!
Team response: *Glee* We found the bus ride movie!

*Programming Room breaks out in Bohemian Rhapsody*

Me: So this meeting is to discuss if we want to go over the barrier or not?
Lead Mentor: Yes
Me: Even though we built the frame double high in order to do this?
Lead Mentor: Yes
Me: The advantage of not doing this is?
Lead Mentor: Structural Integrity!
Me: You screwed up Swiss cheesing the robot didn't you?
Lead Mentor: No he did *points to his son our robot lead*
Teacher Sponsor: So the problem can be tracked genetically?

Me: So here is the 4 people who qualified for final driver selection; J, M, K and P
D: why didn't I make it?
Me: During your evaluation you ran over my foot, attempted to climb the bridge sideways, and missed every shot.
D: Yes but you remember my driving so we will defiantly picked for eliminations!
J: I remember having my wisdom teeth pulled, and congress saying pizza is a vegetable not everything memorable is good.

"Look we have to make a choice now that will affect the team for the whole season! Are our colors red and black or black and red?"- Spirit Lead

Our two alliance cheers
"Exploding MARS Bats!"
"MEGA! CHARGE UP! BOOM!"

my favorite quote during competition:
They're Robots they can't take drugs-Tytus
(Video of the quote here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QabUHN74TTM)

MishraArtificer

24-09-2012, 16:10

Teacher Sponsor: *confusion and anger* Monty Python and The Holy Grail is only rated PG!
Team response: *Glee* We found the bus ride movie!

*Programming Room breaks out in Bohemian Rhapsody*Always good times.

"Look we have to make a choice now that will affect the team for the whole season! Are our colors red and black or black and red?"- Spirit LeadI'm sure it was completely inadvertent, but you just reminded me of a song from Les Miserables...

Jenn Feathers

24-09-2012, 18:34

Student 1: "You know, the robot looks sort of like a Dalek"
(a few minutes later) "wait, what do you mean you don't watch Dr Who!"

Who doesn't watch Doctor Who! I'm thinking about building a Dalek this FRC season

dictionaria13

24-09-2012, 19:46

Less of a quote than a story, and it happened at Champs this year, but it still fits the spirit of the thread.

This year at St Louis, the girls of the High Tekerz all wore matching purple tutus to Roboprom. The next morning, one of the guys decided that he wanted to wear one of the tutus as a spirit thing. (This is not odd behavior from him.) So I loaned him mine. Then, he decided he'd let us do his hair. We gave him a hair bow, and then, as we were waiting for the elevator, I decided I'd braid his hair.

So, to paint the picture for you (and this is important to the story), he was kneeling in front of me so that I could braid (sadly, his hair was just barely too short for normal braids, and I can't French braid), and we had our backs to the hallway.

Suddenly, an FLL mom walked up. She probably noticed the tutu and not much else, because she said, in an "isn't that darling" voice, "Oh, she looks so... Oh." The second "Oh" was in a rather different tone of voice, because we turned around, and the rest of the pieces fell into place. Cue general laughter.

She thought it was as funny as we did, and we had almost persuaded her to French braid his hair when the elevator came. To this day, we still give the guy a bad time about it. The End. :D

Aroki

24-09-2012, 20:21

Our safety manager isn't allowed to use the power tools, because he used a drill as a pointing device.

So 1787 isn't the only team that made the least-safe person on the team safety captain?

Aroki

24-09-2012, 20:26

"We're telling Coach that we're 10 pounds overweight." It was a few days before bag n tag.

Someone on my team did that at competition...sadly he wasn't joking

MARS_James

24-09-2012, 21:10

So 1787 isn't the only team that made the least-safe person on the team safety captain?

On 1523 ours is safe she just forgets to wear closed toed shoes, bring hair ties, and she sometimes doesn't pay attention when walking into a room. Sadly she isn't the most unsafe person on the team............ that belongs to a mentor

enrique

07-10-2012, 16:51

enrique

07-10-2012, 16:57

I think the one I heard most on our team is "If it fits, it ships"

CrazyHorse

10-10-2012, 16:47

Our team captain and oldest, "wisest" member: "Lithium grease doesnt taste that bad, especially since my tongue is now numb."

"Who's idea was it to take a week off from robotics?"
"well, that looks nothing like the cad i just did.."
"thats what she said"
*Playing DeadMou5 and other dubstep while working* Head mentor "Can we turn this stuff off? its proven it will make us lose. Lets listen to AC/DC instead. Yeah thats a good idea"
AND MY ALL TIME FAVORITE:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=431268460221200&set=a.393567123991334.109695.112639792084070&type=1&theater&notif_t=like
(for those that cannot view, on a list of what we needed to accomplish, "replace pneumatic bolts, because Lance hacksawed through them")

MechEng83

20-10-2012, 19:48

A collective quote from several of my veteran team members:

Build season is like a child:
You wait expectantly for it for 9 months.
You're super excited when it finally comes.
You have a few, but can't really answer which one is your favorite.
You pour lots of time and money into it.
It's a lot of work and very tiring.
At some point, you become really mad at it and frustrated, wondering "what was I thinking"
Then when it's gone, you miss it and wish it would come back.

JosephC

21-10-2012, 01:43

Person 1: If it fits it ships.
Person 2: For a low flat rate.

This applies to EVERY situation you can think of.

Example 1: We were attaching a manipulator to the back of our OCCRA robot.
Example 2: Making a battery box
Example 3: deciding on the amount of pizza to buy

zcoops97

02-11-2012, 19:24

A quick excerpt from the GRRban dictionary:
Easy Simba
Just goin out an givin her, ya know
ooo, machu picchu
and my favorite:
bye buddy hope you find your dad.....bye mr. narwhal
(from elf)

Spectare

11-11-2012, 18:43

So 1787 isn't the only team that made the least-safe person on the team safety captain?

That would be a resounding "no".

My computer: ........... *backspace* *backspace* *backspace*
Me: Hey! We finally got a connection to the router!
Me: Nope, just lost connection again.
Me: *goes to look at router, sees mentor plugging and unplugging power repeatedly*
Me: WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?
Mentor: Oh, sorry, I thought that would make the robot boot up faster.

DampRobot

11-11-2012, 21:21

While a couple of senior members and I were working on the mill, our semi-affiliated FTC team was also working in the shop. We overhear this from a rather eccentric programmer type, directed to their mentor:

"Mr. Shannon, the wheels are round!"

After laughing our heads off, we began to wonder how that could possibly be a concern worth expressing.

jeremy callahan

11-11-2012, 21:49

I'm wondering what some of the more interesting "quotes" or phrases said this year. It doesn't matter who said them, a student, a teacher, or a mentor. One of mine this year was "Ball chunk colorer person". That was said when someone asked why i was coloring a ball with a sharpie.

How about the "you know your addicted to first when..."

You had a dream you saw what the 2013 game was when no one else has (:

Eagleeyedan

21-11-2012, 13:25

"If the world really wants an Iron Man suit all you have to do is implement one into the FRC game and 6 weeks later, you'd have plenty of prototypes to choose from" :D

Chokinghazard44

11-12-2012, 19:11

"Oh man, I like that shaft."

math311

14-12-2012, 01:39

"The robot bit me!"
-said while bleeding after shin scraped against side panel of our t-shirt cannon bot.

"We need red and blue nail polish... to mark the bags of encoders"
-Mentor after long day of switching out 250's that were mistakenly mounted instead of 360's.

"Karl stuck the multimeter in the wall, and it's smoking."

Zuelu562

14-12-2012, 09:36

"Remember, the robot is only as stupid as you are"
shortly after, a veteran nearly sideswiped two mentors
"SEE!"

ekovacs

17-12-2012, 15:36

"Is a hamster considered a raw material?"

Said by one of my FTC team members while trying to figure out how to get enough power to lift our alliance members robot.

JJackson

28-12-2012, 13:45

"Why does the battery always die on the drill when you are using it?"

jwallace15

28-12-2012, 14:59

September 2012, I was new to FIRST and was asking stupid questions.
Here's a few examples.

"What's an Allen Wrench?"

(I point to a treadmill) "Joe, we should use the motor from this treadmill on next season's robot."

Ekcrbe: What teams do you know?
Me: Uh... Us... The Juggernauts... The Killer Bees... Rush...
Ekcrbe: That's it? Oh my god. (lists off teams 1-200 within 2 minutes)

This was during our Robot 102 lessons on the same day.
(Electrical made a visual encoder mount for Programming on a BaneBots motor. Electrical just got done wiring it)

JosephC: James!!! Come here!!!
(I walk over to the programming area)
Me: Yes?
JosephC: You wired this encoder wrong!!!
Me: What's wrong with it?
JosephC: You put it on the PWM outputs!!! Not the inputs!!!

(programming mentor was testing his code. Ekcrbe and I are walking out from a meeting. We notice a great deal of smoke and a very bright blue light emitting from the slot on the side of the BaneBots motor)

(both of us at the same time): OH MY GOD!!!

(run over to the programming area)

Mentor: Nothing to see here.
Ekcrbe: What happened???
Mentor: I forgot to change the settings to this motor from the CIM we were using earlier.

(A mentor brings in an electric wheelchair to be repurposed as a turkey leg carrier)
M: Holy crap!
Me: What?
M: This wheelchair is powered by 24 volt CIMs!!!
(everyone within earshot) WHAT??? (run over to wheelchair)

JGecko146

04-01-2013, 08:02

Quotes I've been meaning to add to the thread for a while:

"Why is there blood on this tube?" Overheard at the GSR (Logomotion)

"FIRST: If it's changing your life, you're doing it right." - JGecko146

"It was really epic...but in a bad way." - JGecko146

kws4000

04-01-2013, 16:00

"I hope you step on a Lego, in the dark, barefoot!" - haven't laughed that hard in a long time

dubiousSwain

05-01-2013, 16:35

We were painting bumpers during crunch weekend

Female senior: So what do you guys want to do as a career?

Male Junior: I want to be a genetic engineer

Female senior: Cool, that way if i cant, you can come over and make my babies!

Us: 0_o

karomata

05-01-2013, 17:21

Student: "Maybe if we block the feeder station the human player will feed our robot."
Mentor: "I hope not."
Different Mentor: "They could load 5 Frisbees into our robot."
Mentor: "It's called a slanted top."

elsenor

05-01-2013, 19:52

1. "Life starts with FIRST Robotics. Life ends with FIRST Robotics. Life is FIRST Robotics."
2. "Hey you there. Yes, you! Do not drink the soda near the robot. We don't want this year to be like 2009!"

Gregor

05-01-2013, 19:55

Me: Seriously, frisbees? This must be a joke.

Whippet

05-01-2013, 22:14

At 5:00 this morning before we left for kickoff:

"Watch this, it's probably going to be something ridiculously obnoxious like frisbees."

knuckleduster

05-01-2013, 23:27

"lets just invent Anti-Gravity, that way we are never in contact with the carpet, have no weight restrictions, and will be rich for the rest of our lives."

"Only if you test it first."

CLandrum3081

05-01-2013, 23:37

Discussing whether to have our robot lift other robots (before we read the rules :p ::rtm::)
Person A: But why exactly would we want to do that?
Me: Because it'd be really cool... :rolleyes:

Me: Sleep?! Why would I sleep when it's build season?!

Mentor: I thought Catherine over there was going to explode [during the game reveal].

While frustrated over not understanding a game rule and taking a snack break...
Me: Food makes everything better...

(Quoting physics teacher): Me think now talk good...

Safety first! (Takes glasses off before banging head into table, only to be held hostage by safety captain until agreeing not to bang head anymore, then doing it anyway.) ::safety::

It's so annoying when our safety captain actually does his job. :rolleyes:

moogboy

06-01-2013, 00:37

"So like guys, tanks have flat chests..."

bristyn_96

06-01-2013, 14:00

Last year during band class two of the trumpets on our team yelled "Safety Glasses!" really loud (which is what we yell when were about to use power tools, and everyone is supposed to repeat after them and say it too) I almost yelled it back at them ::safety::

CLandrum3081

06-01-2013, 16:07

Also (regarding robot in three days thing):

T: But what if you build a piece of crap in three days?
B: But what if you build something AWESOME in three days?
T: Then we all bow down to you because you must be GOD.

dictionaria13

06-01-2013, 16:51

"Frisbees hurt!" ::ouch:: -- Multiple people after brainstorming by throwing the game pieces in the park next to our build space.

DrakusDarkus

06-01-2013, 16:54

"What if I'm right?"

Reanna

06-01-2013, 16:56

The Fembots are very excited to unretire #FembotProblems.

Me: "Today's meeting was cancelled because the school forgot to write us in their calendar, and nobody is here to turn off the alarms."
Emma: "Haha that's funny."
Me: "OMG R U KIDDING ME THAT IS TERRIBLE WAT. I SPENT ALL DAY AND NIGHT THINKING OF STRATEGIES YOU ARE SERIOUS GET OUT. NOT FUNNY."

The following are text messages I sent to Laura, the Fembots' Co-Captain.
"I HAVE AN IDEA FOR A TWITTER FACEBOOK TUMBLR POST OMG. "Frisbees and ideas are flying high." SO EXCITED TO POST THIS I NEED THE PERFECT PICTURE LAURA. PERFECT. AHHH."
"We can make jokes about the Ultimate Ascent into stardom or something."
"Can we call them Firstees instead of Frisbees."
"LAURA I'M FREAKING OUT!!!"
She never replied.

Ayukura

06-01-2013, 18:17

My friend said this during the animation, while we were watching the video during the climbing part.

"Does your robot even lift?"

S.P.A.M.er

06-01-2013, 18:33

my mother and i were discussing how to lighten the bot but keep unwanted disks off

mom: What if we took off the shields and used fishing lines like Disney does?
me: do the birds still manage to get on the ground?
mom: touche....
me: Stop calling me an butt!!! sorry thought you were Sovie

AsianRookie

06-01-2013, 18:36

"Swiss Cheese"

CJ The Expert

06-01-2013, 20:17

On the second day of build season:

S: "You love me, right?"
Me: "No offense, but our robot looks more attractive than you right now."

Reanna

07-01-2013, 23:31

Breaking a nail while working on the chairman's essay. "The sacrifices I make for this team!" #FembotProblems

Gregor

07-01-2013, 23:43

My friend said this during the animation, while we were watching the video during the climbing part.

"Does your robot even lift?"

Posted this on my Facebook yesterday =P

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/16670_429689147100895_1665113879_n.jpg

moogboy

09-01-2013, 17:56

Fellow student learning electronics from me: "What gauge wire is this?"
Me: "That's solder."

Reanna

10-01-2013, 01:31

Me: "OMG I'm sorry, I'll stop talking now!! Hey guys lets build a robot that shoots Reanna [me] in the face 73 times and then stabs her 84 times!"
Katiana: "And then climbs up the pyramid!!"

Suitster

11-01-2013, 14:53

"Okay, let's draw the death arm first, and then the robot "

2403_Andrew

12-01-2013, 15:16

*while sitting at the programming station*
Me: What's that battery doing here?
D: I don't know, charging or something. It's probably a Saxon thing.
Me: Yeah, it's always a Saxon thing.

Our Build Mentor, Mr. Saxon, is slightly insane. Though, aren't the most brilliant people insane?

SarahBeth

12-01-2013, 15:58

Posted this on my Facebook yesterday =P

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/16670_429689147100895_1665113879_n.jpg

LOL, this is fantastic.

JustbeingJFK

12-01-2013, 16:51

Me and one of my mentors were talking about what songs we could play on the robot ( if the robot could play music)
Me: I think we should do Eye of the tiger
Mentor : No in the beginning of the match we should play " ALL I DO IS WIN WIN WIN NO MATTER WHAT !!!!"

Celia

12-01-2013, 19:22

"'Cuz doughnut," has quickly become a favorite of our build team, even if only two of us understand the reference.

bristyn_96

12-01-2013, 19:45

"'Cuz doughnut," has quickly become a favorite of our build team, even if only two of us understand the reference.

I love that one :) Our build team has also took to saying "nrh" when were doing something as simple as putting pop rivets into holes:cool:

MishraArtificer

12-01-2013, 23:45

"'Cuz doughnut," has quickly become a favorite of our build team, even if only two of us understand the reference.Donut?

...or is it Caboose?

dwp20

13-01-2013, 11:54

A typical conversation:
- "Are you done yet?!?"
-"The code is compiling."
- "How long will that take?"
- "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Spartechs2441

14-01-2013, 04:09

"Why didn't you ________?"
"Because I'm lazy."

lorem3k

14-01-2013, 19:31

"It's within a sixteenth" - whenever something obviously isn't square or somebody's measurements are off

michael.saxon

14-01-2013, 19:46

Whilst setting up a particularly difficult donated computer: "This had better be worth it. I'll name it... foxy..."

Later, while another student was trying to install a second hard drive, after trying to reboot and getting to a blank boot menu: "You... what have you done!?!?! YOU KILLED FOXY!!!!!!!!" Needless to say this student garnered several strange looks.

pmangels17

14-01-2013, 23:03

Especially applicable this year, "It'll Neva Get Off Da Ground."

sarah_storer

15-01-2013, 09:56

A typical conversation:
- "Are you done yet?!?"
-"The code is compiling."
- "How long will that take?"
- "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Haha that is usually how we respond to our builders:p

catacon

15-01-2013, 12:16

"How to you spell 'pneumatics'?"
"Uh...'air powered'..."

:D

PizzaBoxZombie

15-01-2013, 12:29

From team 225 this season, as i came back to my home team as a mentor:

"Your nubs are WEAK!"
"You have weak nubs, no offense."
(when the above were said)-
"It sounds like your insulting his masculinity..."
another mentor from across the room- "well my nubs are cold!"

we have a great time insulting each other and playing around since the team is very close, im sure we will have some more as the season progresses!

sarah_storer

15-01-2013, 16:52

Leader: "Make sure you absolutely don't plug the D-link in until you ABSOLUTELY know where to plug it in"
Programmer: Okay... *unplugs D-link*

Darth Drew

15-01-2013, 17:23

"They're both doing it at the same time, this is so amazing"
-anonymous team member while assisting in the testing of two motors that were attached to the electronics board for our prototype shooter.

Djinn74

15-01-2013, 17:45

The Sauropod......

Its staring into my soul!

Stop it sauropod!

(My friends commentary while watching the muted FTC game video).

Garrett.d.w

17-01-2013, 00:28

Me (doing some quality control): hmmmf... Are you proud of this gusset plate?
He who shall remain nameless: No.
Me: okay then, remake it.

PayneTrain

17-01-2013, 23:16

"You know why I want to go to championships?"
"Why?"
"To meet JVN."
"Maybe you can rub his head."
"I hope he's cool with that."
"He has to be."

pmangels17

17-01-2013, 23:34

As my signature says:

"Badum Badum Badum"
"Was that the robot?"
"i don't know, do it again"
"Badum Badum Badum"
"Oh, now it's on fire."

Note: Our robot has NOT caught on fire.

Boe

17-01-2013, 23:38

Beat The Pyramid!!!!!!!

and in relation to the pyramid

WHY GDC WHY!?!?!

dellagd

18-01-2013, 00:46

Man, this gave is way harder than last year....But its SOOOO much cooler!!!

DampRobot

18-01-2013, 03:40

For probably the tenth time this season, I turned to a fellow designer and said:

"This is probably the hardest design I have ever worked on."

Qbot2640

18-01-2013, 09:06

I don't want to hear anybody call someone a "stupid idiot"...the proper term of endearment this year is "incompetent jerk."

karomata

18-01-2013, 10:14

"So I got in this debate with some guy on CD about how often teams will climb a 3, and I just realized that the other guy is Dave Lavery..."

Chris_Ely

18-01-2013, 10:21

When discussing the reliability of a mechanism that relies on gravity, one team member says "I think gravity is pretty reliable."

karomata

18-01-2013, 10:26

Student: Why are there 3 robot completed dates on the calendar?
Other Student: We set dates knowing that we wouldnt accomplish them, so we decided to add more realistic goals.

2403_Andrew

21-01-2013, 17:12

We have a countdown screen in our programming "empire" with a Ship Day countdown and DEFCON levels relating to the level of work we're supposed to be doing (this almost never correlates with the work we're actually doing :rolleyes: ):

DEFCON 0: GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR
DEFCON 1: Programming duties only
DEFCON 2: Anyone is welcome to be productive
DEFCON 3: Anyone is welcome
DEFCON 4: Tomfoolery is welcome
DEFCON 5: Party in the Empire!

One of our mentors thought DEFCON 0 was excessive and coded it out of the countdown screen... was fun while it lasted.

Dinoyan

21-01-2013, 17:19

"That was easy"
"Oh yeah"

andrewthecow

24-01-2013, 18:23

"You'd be lucky to fit a double jointed toddler in there"

This was a reference to the size of our robot this year relative to those of the past two years.

stingray27

24-01-2013, 18:27

Student 1: "YOCO! or actually probably more like it: YOFO!"
Student 2: "I thought it was yolo..."
Student 1: "You only climb once... But then I thought better of it and thought that 'you only fall once' would be a better representation..."

gabrielau23

24-01-2013, 22:11

"Guyss!!!!! Where's the sharpie!?!?!?"

A: "7/16!!!!"
B: "Nut driver or wrench or rat......."
A: "7/16!!!!!"

"That's a feature."

CLandrum3081

24-01-2013, 23:12

Student: What were you guys DOING?!
Other student:...Building a robot, what else would we do during build season?

huurrpaderp

25-01-2013, 10:51

"I quit programming! I didnt even want to be a programmer, Im joining the build team!" -Our teams lead programmer of four years

bhumudar

25-01-2013, 11:54

As we finished our shooter, we realized that the shaft on the wheel had to be broached.

"Now that's a fine kettle of fish!"

Richard.Varone

25-01-2013, 12:27

"What If..." ( follow up with some crazy idea that totally changes the entire design of the robot )

"Ta-Dah"

"How hard could it be, everyone's doing it"

bardd

25-01-2013, 12:30

-"How's your shooter going?"
-"Great. You?"

heisch

25-01-2013, 18:19

I'm a programmer.....search bars don't exsist in real life! :D

hunterteam3476

25-01-2013, 21:07

Turn up the music and start cutting parts :)

Andrew Lawrence

25-01-2013, 23:46

*Build student comes over to programming station and rests hand on the laptop while software is compiling*

Programmers: "No! Don't do that! It makes the programming gods angry!"

jwallace15

26-01-2013, 09:28

(programming group re-imaging laptops)
Me: Hey guys!
J: DON"T PRESS "A"!!!
Me: Why?
J: They're re-imaging. If you press "A", it will abort!
Other J: We already lost one laptop!

kuraikou

26-01-2013, 10:38

(when putting the chains on the drive train and having trouble)

"It's like a fly on fly sticky paper."

(than trying to get the chain off again to move it)

"Its like trying to catch a fly with non fly sticky paper"

ctccromer

26-01-2013, 11:04

"Generally if you see a fat guy falling, you shouldn't dive to get under him."

LovablePsycho

26-01-2013, 11:40

My team has a habit of singing "Put that thing back where it came from (or so help me)" whenever we find something out of place.

(Male student and female student are arguing)
Me: Ladies, ladies...you're both pretty. Now stop arguing.

Me: (while using an Exacto knife) AUGH!
Female Student: OHMYGOD! Did you cut yourself?
Me: No, this box fell on me.
(It occurs to me now that "AUGH!" was probably not an appropriate response)

Me: What are you guys doing?
Two male students: Fixing this lamp.
Me: I love lamp.

andgordo558

26-01-2013, 14:48

"CAD, thou art a heartless b***h.":eek:

April McShorty

26-01-2013, 14:49

Me: "I need the stripper! The proper stripper!"
Melody: ".. Sorry, Erika's not here."

April McShorty

26-01-2013, 15:06

Melody: "What time is it?"
Me: "Party time."
Melody: -serious voice- "No it is not."
Erika: "ADVENTURE TIME!"
Me: :D
Melody: -_-

math311

26-01-2013, 15:45

While a build team member was bent over a vice filing an edge down..
"Me: Yea, you work that clamp.
Them: :eek: "

While building climbing mechanism in CAD, and getting angry with the machine:
"Me: I swear, I'm going to wipe you and put windows 1.0 on you!
Mentor: Or you could use vista.."
Needless to say, the computer recognized the severity of the threat, and complied immediately. :D

PayneTrain

27-01-2013, 01:43

"If you're running 2CAN I feel bad for you son, I got 99 design problems but Jaguar placement ain't one."

There is no room for electronics... anywhere.

Suitster

27-01-2013, 12:15

N: "That's the electrical team's problem"
E: "We're the electrical team"
N: "I figured as much"

SP2996

28-01-2013, 21:27

"What does the small blue carpet look like?"

math311

28-01-2013, 22:06

"Chief programmer: It's not acting right...
Me: What isn't?
Chief Programmer: The code.
Me: It's not a hardware problem?? "sprinting out to rest of build team" GUYS!!!! IT'S NOT A HARDWARE PROBLEM!!!!!!! "Que impromtu party"
Chief Programmer: -_-
Head mentor: :D "

JDL

29-01-2013, 20:37

"We said put the lid on the chili for a reason."

http://i893.photobucket.com/albums/ac136/JDlarson_photos/1359271030980_zps1e31516e.jpg

Duh.

Spatel7793

30-01-2013, 10:04

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/72804_456103614457076_70675731_n.jpg

Yea....

karomata

30-01-2013, 10:12

Mentor: Have you seen the full court shooter on Chief Delphi yet?
Me: No, I have not seen all 70 full court shooters, but I figure they all pretty much do the same thing.

Spatel7793

30-01-2013, 11:41

Mentor: Have you seen the full court shooter on Chief Delphi yet?
Me: No, I have not seen all 70 full court shooters, but I figure they all pretty much do the same thing.

Remember that one that shot the full length of the field? It was awesome

chiefsfan67

30-01-2013, 15:21

Another CADder and I working late... or early, depending on your definition of 1:30AM

Me: So are we going to load from a feeder slot?
C: IDK how tall is the 42" slot?
Me: Um... 42 inches!!!
C: Wow time for me to go home! (but he didn't)

Later on

Me (looking at his computer): Hey what's the angle between those two lines?
C: Which ones?
Me: Those two vertical ones.
C: Um, well trigonometry tell us that the angle between those two would be ZERO!
Me: Well time for me to go home now!!! (but I didn't):rolleyes:

bhumudar

01-02-2013, 13:22

Well would you look at that. It's like socks on a rooster!

mblake31

01-02-2013, 21:42

Electrical student: "There's a boomerang in the sink?"

SarahBeth

01-02-2013, 23:28

"We said put the lid on the chili for a reason."

http://i893.photobucket.com/albums/ac136/JDlarson_photos/1359271030980_zps1e31516e.jpg

Duh.

LOL that picture is fantastic.

Kidney

02-02-2013, 10:11

"Tom is in Hazelwood!"

One day we were talking about why our mentor Nick couldn't be here (he was out of town in Florida) but then our other mentor Tom walked in so we all were like "But Tom is in Hazelwood!" Now we say it every time he walks in.

Me: Hey Tommy, would you be mad if I wiped a booger on the field?
Tommy: Yes.
Me: Don't get angry!!

Us being freshmen, setting up the FTC field.

MooreteP

02-02-2013, 11:27

Lead Mentor:
"We have plenty of time to Panic."

Jbobrab

02-02-2013, 13:44

So I was drawing a state diagram in MSPaint with a font on my computer thats bases off of the Pokemon Unown.

Me: Real programmers write code in MSPaint.
T looks over at my diagram.
T: You really took the time to learn that?
Me: They are letters with eyes. Its not hard to read...

When originally planning Autonomous Mode, someone thought of a way to get 42 points and dubbed it "Beast Mode" and now it is the official name of our Autonomous Mode is "Beast Mode".

Djur

02-02-2013, 15:20

Our strategy is all or nothing; we're going 90 miles per hour with our pants down and our butts out the window.

Celia

02-02-2013, 22:08

Two of us were trying to cut a spring in half at the end of the night with the wrong tool (apparently), laughing hysterically:
Me: "This is like trying to diffuse a bomb with Parkinson's!"

I was clamping our harvester/elevator to a drawer at a rather steep angle, wondering why the frisbee kept flopping out when Bristyn said:
"It's like it has to climb Mt. Everest!"

Also, our team captain has been renamed the "Mama Duck". I'm not quite sure why...

math311

02-02-2013, 22:14

While discussing shop safety with two mentors:
"Me: From what I have read, it seems that often those who make the bad mistakes, at least according to chief delphi, are the mentors.
Younger mentor: It's because they become complacent.
More experienced mentor: ::safety:: "

While Sophmore was bugging me to give him our shiny AM sticker:
Me: "No, you got a vex pro sticker, and that's all you can have."

capnslow

03-02-2013, 15:10

"Holy stored energy batman!"
Reference can be found at
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=112656&highlight=skeet

kiasam111

04-02-2013, 19:10

During an off-season event we ran during build season at a huge rock concert (I know, it's like time paradoxes. Just don't bother to understand them) we had about 6 robots there, playing Rebound Rumble in alliances of 2.
[FTA - "Team XXXX, is there something you have forgotten?" *member of team XXXX drive team rushes over to turn robot on*] Rinse and repeat at least once every 5 games.

Driver after ramming into an opposition robot, causing damage, and cracking the fender preeeeetty bad. :yikes:

"Did I miss the coffee run again?" After turning up at 9:15 to a 9:00 meeting on a Saturday.

jyaple

04-02-2013, 19:41

"There's a guy under there!!!"

Jbobrab

04-02-2013, 19:50

Yesterday we decided it would be a good idea to have a meeting. Most of the people that said they would be there were watching the Super Bowl.

Me: "We are all nerds. We shouldn't care about sports."

April McShorty

05-02-2013, 19:33

"I swear on my life I said pants!"

April McShorty

05-02-2013, 19:34