"Quotes" that were said during build season

[Starwarsguy2]

As the sole Pennsylvanian on a New Jersey team, this was said to me:
"Pennsylvania is a s**t school!"
Followed by much laughter by everyone.

[dubiousSwain]

As the sole Pennsylvanian on a New Jersey team, this was said to me:
"Pennsylvania is a s**t school!"
Followed by much laughter by everyone.

wow jake thats hilarious.

[Legoboy0109]

My friend and I were talking and he said
"Hey Kaden check out what I found on the way to the robotics meeting today"
He then showed me a picture of a garbage can that somehow got dropped on the side of a hill.
I also found a shopping cart on the hill on my way to school today.

[JayNico]

Engineering Lead: "What about you? Are you self-lubricating?"
Me: "To a certain extent..."

[cgrace]

"Can I put up a tent in your front yard so I can work on the robot 24/7?"

Our team works in my dad's (the coach's) garage.

[catacon]

"What we lack in precision we make up for in slop."

[jlindquist74]

My friend and I were talking and he said
"Hey Kaden check out what I found on the way to the robotics meeting today"
He then showed me a picture of a garbage can that somehow got dropped on the side of a hill.

Clearly, somebody had trouble capping their stack. ♻️

Hello Chief Delphi community! (It's my FIRST post! Yay!)

Unless you're talking about Vex, aren't all CD posts FIRST posts?

[jlee0119]

"Warning! Falling Pizza boxes. Open at your own risk!" - sign on our refrigerator

[fargus111111111]

-The springs need to have more force
-You mean that the force is not strong with this one
-Yes, say maybe we should just use the force to throw the ball
-Sounds like a great idea

[Jrizo]

From our new mentor
" I contributed"

[Cam_Team 2619]

*Team member putting together VersaPlanetary Gearbox*
Me: Cool, you've got all the stages together! But you need to put some grease on the gears.
Team Member: OK!
*Grabs a tube of Loctite*
Everyone at that table: NOOOOOOOO!!!

[Doiteain]

*Team member putting together VersaPlanetary Gearbox*
Me: Cool, you've got all the stages together! But you need to put some grease on the gears.
Team Member: OK!
*Grabs a tube of Loctite*
Everyone at that table: NOOOOOOOO!!!

"I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of things not falling apart."
-Mentor with a questionable attraction to red Loctite

[serenagh]

Our programming team, joking about GitHub:

Programmer #1: "My master is pancake"
Programmer #2: "My master is google"
Programmer #3: "My master is eGit"

Me (from the mechanical table, mishearing): "Your master is evil?"

Discussion about the evils of eGit ensues.

[squad1706]

"Meh, it's close enough." - Everyone on build

"Git Gud Son" - Build and Electrical

*looks at GoPro*
"Is that thing on?"
"Yes... dont touch it..."
*proceeds to put GoPro in mouth*
"GAAAAAAAAAH"

[Tharioth Pillow]

"Michael broke."

"But you're the robot, not him!"

"So? I can break humans. It's just slightly messier."

[scott.smith]

“Does it smell open source to you!?”
-Adam Newhouse 2k16

“It doesn’t collide with anything I can’t cut a hole in.”
-Scott Smith 2k16

“It’s the right size, it’s just too long”
-Anon 2k16

[EricH]

"I can drill that perfectly! I am like so good with the bandsaw!"--Random Torbot
"That's one for the quotes thread." Me, to anybody in hearing range.

[Why_A_Username?]

My favorite quote from build is from when one of our freshman members was watching me bolt our load bearing manipulator support strut onto the robot, and said "Are you sure we can't just use duct tape for that?" It has become a common expression around the team and someone says it just about every day.

[dradel]

A few students working at one of the work benches along with two mentors, one of the students is standing in a not natural looking way, another student says to him
"Why are you standing like that?"
He responds " this is my stance"
I (mentor) say "it's his buffalo stance" all the students look at me confused. I say "look on iTunes"
It has since been downloaded by a few students. Ahh late 80's dance music lol

[beckster1999]

it is inevitable gerbils will take over the world

[MaverickC17]

Talking about the heat of a piece of zinc after drilling thorugh it: "On a scale of 1 to the sun, it's about zinc after it's been drilled through."

[Type]

"Physics has failed us"

[Ashley Hartley]

Teaching a new student how to use the rivet gun:

"AHHh! What are you doing you're gonna break the rivet!!"

[frcguy]

Student 1: "You should join programming"

Student 2: "NO! I hate JavaScript!"

[Aaappetheshaftr]

Mentor: "I threw a shark at Russ, it's not my fault that it had a wrench in it."

[amarion]

"If Alexis takes five bites of her hamburger she ate her hamburger five times"

[AngryCalculator]

STOP EATING THE NOODLES!!

[Equestrianbot]

"Hey, is the 3D printer supposed to be smoking?" :eek:

[IronicDeadBird]

"Whats sharkfill?"
-Me

[Nuwanda]

Programming Student: "So, Dan, you have an interest in dating sexy Thai women?"
Programming Mentor: "I didn't know that was an option."

(One of our programmers was playing minesweeper when he was supposed to be writing comments in the code and the ad that popped up on the side was "Date Sexy Thai Women". Suffice to say, we were all very tired and thought this was hilarious.)

[GeeTwo]

"Did you say butt wax?"

[evanperryg]

"Eggs are pre-chickens"
"Andrew, get the sandpaper out of the chicken nuggets!"
"Well, that was spicy"

[Dezion]

"Are you willing to bet Bojangles on it?"

"We need a sub-sub-team- the sewing team."

[jlindquist74]

"If Alexis takes five bites of her hamburger she ate her hamburger five times"

At one cuil, if you ask me for a hamburger, and I give you a raccoon...

[edong4273]

"Stop playing with the strippers!"
"I love using the expensive strippers, they're much better than the cheap ones."
"Who has the expensive strippers"
"Uhh... is that motor running?"
"How is that even possible?" (After a wire got ripped out of the PDP by the battery)
"That's safe, right? Right."
"Did the safety captain just die?"
"I weigh like 120, I CAN BE THE ROBOT! YES!"
"If a robot gets stuck in the moat, you should get your whistle and run onto the field" To our president, who is a lifeguard.

[Andrew01377]

*Me Trying to remember the order that things go in*
ME:"Collar, Panel, Collar, Arm, Collar, Collar, Sprocket, Collar, Collar, Sprocket, Collar, Collar, Arm, Collar, Panel, Collar."
Programmer: "Put that one on the post/thread."
*Runs to Computer*

[Andrew01377]

Just gets to our Bot Cave and I come to find this... I just had to take this picture for fun. :D :D :D :P

[Michelle692]

Head programmer, as they are trying to push code to the robot: "Push push push, like you're in labor!"

[legts]

Me, with a T.A.R.D.I.S. blanket wrapped around me and spinning across the room in a spinny chair: "DO WE OOOOOO"

[GeeTwo]

ME:"Collar, Panel, Collar, Arm, Collar, Collar, Sprocket, Collar, Collar, Sprocket, Collar, Collar, Arm, Collar, Panel, Collar."


Ten collars on one shaft, passing through two panels, a sprocket, and an arm?:eek: Someone needs to learn about these wonderful things called spacers.

And maybe bearings.:D

[beckster1999]

isn't really a thing said during build season, but I made this for my boyfriend on a different team for valentines day and I thought everyone would enjoy the *cough opposite of cough* beautiful pun. (He's on team 4909 and Im on 2877)::rtm:: :] :deadhorse:

[GMeyer]

"This is like tapping butter."

[azhu18]

Student 1: How are we going to attach these bumpers?
Student 2: Gorilla.
Student 1: Gorilla tape? Gorilla glue?
Student 2: No. An actual gorilla.

[cjcraigy]

"When your spaghetti falls out of your pocket onto the robot"

[riotinrio]

"Those who care don't mind that you make mistakes. Those who mind don't matter." -mentor Waldo

[Jarren Harkema]

Head programmer, as they are trying to push code to the robot: "Push push push, like you're in labor!"

I kid you not, I said pretty much the exact same thing to the programmers as they were trying to push code.

"Do you need me to hold your hand? Deep breaths. Inhale, exhale."

I was met with blank stares...

[Why_A_Username?]

Another more recent quote. "No. Put that away. I'm throwing that piece of wood out before someone sees what an abomination we've made." From when we were waiting for some parts to come in and playing with a piece of 2x4.

[evanperryg]

Ten collars on one shaft, passing through two panels, a sprocket, and an arm?:eek: Someone needs to learn about these wonderful things called spacers.

And maybe bearings.:D

On this topic, here's a couple of the most common sayings of our season:

"where'd all the hex bearings go" "they're all on the robot already"
"does someone know where I can find more hex bearings?"
"Let's just name the robot 'Bearings.'"
"Who used all the spacers?"

[Why_A_Username?]

STOP EATING THE NOODLES!!
I'm fairly sure this was directed at me.
I'd stop, but...
If you work as a swim instructor long enough you learn the noodles are a good snack

[bborah7390]

"We are out of duct tape and zipties, who is going to Lowe's this time"

[MisterG]

Throws Tommy a short piece of hex shaft.

Put this away.

Where should I put it?

Somewhere with random axles ... Random axles of Kindness!

[Joseph Smith]

"What could go wrong?"
-our coach, every time we make any kind of action plan.

[RoboChair]

"Those who care don't mind that you make mistakes. Those who mind don't matter." -mentor Waldo

I suspect he was quoting Dr Seuss.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

[IronicDeadBird]

I suspect he was quoting Dr Seuss.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

I wasn't quoting doctor sesuss. My reaction to hearing Dr Seuss said something similar was hilarious, but the back story on why I have that quote is a little more then I am willing to share with people on the internet.

[wazateer1]

"This screwdriver is very colorful"
"It's not colorful, its just bright orange and metal"
"Bright is a color"

[Lunitic2197]

"I asked my wife if I could skip going to Disney World this weekend since its our last full Saturday." - Mentor

"What did she say?" - Student

"She told me that I wouldn't even want to imagine the consequences." - Mentor

[Durus]

Stephen: (Fixes PCM error we have been having for a week) I'm going to go do an Irish Jig in the hallway.

Me: Don't do that just yet cause you'll have to do it backwards later.

[Durus]

Student: (Fixes huge problem on robot) I feel like i just slayed the final boss in a game and now theres just a bunch of side quests and maybe a DLC.

[GeeTwo]

Student: (Fixes huge problem on robot) I feel like i just slayed the final boss in a game and now theres just a bunch of side quests and maybe a DLC.

Early in week 6, that's a good place to be.

[Lady-of-Fandoms]

We have a whole page of quotes on our website: http://frc4131.github.io/media/2016/quotes.html
And last year: http://frc4131.github.io/media/2015/quotes

[adciv]

I swear, if my dad is calling me home to watch the super bowl I'm going to be pissed.

[Turhan Ay]

No problem with codes.Blame the mechanics.-Programmers

[Cam_Team 2619]

Hey, that will work! Oh wait, no it won't.

[rlowe61]

When a Student drops a large piece of aluminum, thus making a very loud noise, he/she is told...

"You found the Floor"

:yikes: :ahh:

[Peyton Yeung]

When a Student drops a large piece of aluminum, thus making a very loud noise, he/she is told...

"You found the Floor"

:yikes: :ahh:

We usually heckle by saying, "You dropped something."

[Cam_Team 2619]

We usually heckle by saying, "You dropped something."

Another appropriate response is to look around at the people in the room and pronounce "NAILED IT." loudly and with confidence. :)

[kyle_hamblett]

When a Student drops a large piece of aluminum, thus making a very loud noise, he/she is told...

"You found the Floor"

:yikes: :ahh:

We respond to things like that with applause

[SoulianPride]

"My delta is we haven't made a Princess Bride reference in over 20 minutes."

"Thank you for using my formal name: Pretty Pretty Princess."

"Well, it fits with this year's theme... we all have the plague."

[D_Price]

So our chain came off of our drivetrain today. Of course we had not put chain tensioners on them yet.

Mentor: There are bolts in the wheels right?

Team Member #1: Umm....maybe...BECCA!!!

Becca: Umm..nooooo.

Mentor: No wonder we aren't turning correctly!

**Week Zero**

[GeeTwo]

We respond to things like that with applause

We outlawed applause for dropped items over a year ago. Individual comments, delivered sotto voce, are expected to be witty, or at least half-so.

No cheap shots at members of your own teamfamily.

[GeeTwo]

This wasn't at the build site, but it was during build season (today). Veronica was coming out of total anesthetic from a dental procedure, but when I told her about it later it again generated the massive grin. OBTW, Veronica is planning a career as an ASL (American Sign Language) interpreter and/or teacher.

Veronica (drops cell phone): I meant to do that.
G2: That's what the cat said.
Veronica: We don't have a cat.
G2: That's what all cats say when they make something fall.
Veronica: Cat's can't talk.
G2: No, but they can sign.
Veronica: (Massive Grin). I could teach cats to sign!

[JacobD]

"What is a team standard?" "It's like a flag, but you have to make it"

"What is a PID loop?" "It is the reason why the arm is flailing"

"Why doesn't it drive straight?"

"Wait so the bumpers are required this year?"

[Doiteain]

Immediately after programming drove the robot off a table into me and another engineer

"Well, the good news is that drive code is now working. The bad news is that it doesn't want to stop working."

Uncomfortable glances at tabletop skidmarks

[Sp00kyMulder]

"Augh! Females!' -Our captain, searching through a box of connectors.

[Zac Schofield]

-Software loads code onto robot-

Software Student: Okay, you can hopefully drive the robot now

Driver: Alright, -drives robot around for 3 seconds- this feels pretty good.

-Driver presses the trigger on the joystick, which enabled the yet to be tested PID-

-Robot proceeds to drive towards wall, and comms get cut, as the robot misses my ankles by -this- much, and crashes into the wall next to me-

Software Student & Driver -cringes-

Me: Well, that didn't work.

[GeeTwo]

Getting towards the end, and we're getting a bit punchy.

After a wooden mock-up of a pancake cylinder disintegrated in simulated use: "That's it, I'm throwing in the dowel."

Many times all season:
"Mikey, why did you break the _____?"
"It was like that when I got here."

Tonight:
"Mikey, did you break the Mikey? We only have one."
"That depends what you mean by break."

"Somebody fetch the bucket of boulders"

"Don't try to catch the launcher with your face."

(Background: a beignet is a local delicacy - slightly sweet dough rolled flat, cut into squares, deep fried in lard, and served with confectioner's sugar and french roast coffee, often laced with with chicory.)
"No, a churro is more like a beignet."
"A crispy beignet covered in cinnamon and heart failure."

"Where's the thing?"
"Which thing?"
"You know the thingety thing that goes up and down next to the round thing."
"Um, this?"
"Yeah, that's the thing."
(I was working with another group at the time and didn't bother to find out what they were talking about.)

G: "Did you notice that the PDP has bolts now?" (the M6 bolts that secure the main power leads went missing)
L: "Yes, just a minute ago, thanks!
M: "But They haven't hooked the battery up yet."
G: "No, not without the bolts."
M: "What are you talking about?"
L: (points)
M: "Oh, bolts! I thought you said volts!"

"How many links in the chain?"
"Hmmm.. somewhere around 36 to 40 half links. I didn't count, but the pitch is five inches and it just fit along the perimeter of this [six foot by three foot] table."
(Yes, working on a pit display).

"And we need some more cam wire."
"Do you mean CAN wire? Because we should have enough of that."
"No, cam wire."
"I don't know what cam wire is"
(Yes, it was CAN wire, and with some more efficient wire routing, we do have enough for both robots.)

"That's not polycarbonate is it? I'm pretty sure it's acrylic."
"No, it's polycarbonate."
(during installation) [CRACK]
"We need something thicker."
"No, You need somthing polycarbonate."

[adciv]

(after shearing a rivet on a device outside the frame perimeter for the 2nd time)
Mechanical: Don't run it into walls!
Programming: Make it more robust!

[GreyingJay]

"Mechanical Sushi Dish? Llama George? OK guys, we need to have a talk about professional email addresses..."
- me :rolleyes:

[Alex Zamora]

Every time someone would ask for one more of something the whole team would say "anotha one"

[Nuwanda]

"Who's got the balls?" (Shouted by the freshmen in the supply closet)

[kristian3633]

Q: what time is it



A: dremel time:confused: :p

[Aaappetheshaftr]

Just gets to our Bot Cave and I come to find this... I just had to take this picture for fun. :D :D :D :P

*you're

[WaylandFRC]

Said by a student holding two crimpers:

"I have a crippling crimping addiction"
Student proceeds to crimp a box with both crimpers.

Unfortunately, this has become a common practice with two students.

[gcgeobuff]

Elephants are pretty robust.

[MrsDitt]

"Where's the superglue?"
"Why did you wire it like that?"
"Disable"
"You're not going to make us dance for lunch again, are you?"

[tealmini]

(About our field, which is kinda beaten up due to driver practice):
"All the defenses are getting pretty... damaged."

[frcguy]

(Student signing up for Chief Delphi)

"Guys, what's Dean Kamen's last name?"

[endreman0]

We have two years of quotes archived on our website. 2015 (http://frc4131.github.io/media/2015/quotes) and 2016 (http://frc4131.github.io/media/2016/quotes)

"Don't look at me with that tone of voice."

"It won't actually explode, and it might even work."

"I don't get why people are afraid of sparking metal." and "It's just lead."

"I'm done with everything that requires distractions."

K: "What shade of gray is the sky today?"
J: "It's a nice mahogany gray."

"Looks slightly like a deranged dinosaur." - commenting on a 3D-printed potentiometer mount

"I'm pretty sure that black magic is not allowed at FRC competitions." (Although it's never mentioned in the rules!)

"Just push the button until it works." and "We can now say we have pushed all the buttons." - programming, having issues installing Java onto the RoboRio

"It's not hacking, it's cheating with style."

"We're working on the squigglies inside this box." - programming mentor explaining the process of deploying code (the box is the RoboRio)

N: "I scratched myself on a CAN Talon."
I: "Talons are sharp, yes."

"Now we pull the magic stuff, from the magic cloud, into the magic box." - pulling from Github just to deploy to the robot

"Unplug something at random and see if someone screams." - finding a spot for the laptop charger in the computer lab's power strips (the lab's computers don't have batteries, and turn off instantly when unplugged)

"I always get my chair stuck in that foot."

"Do we need a measury thingy?"

Said once, and now an ongoing saying: "That is very much so not quite right."

"Don't put the sparks anywhere where they would hurt anything." Our mentors have an interesting view of safety.

"I don't always open doors before going through them."

"It can't feel my sock." - Protip: touchpads on laptops are designed for fingers, not feet.

"I come bearing gifts for the clan of the churro!" - We have a lot of churros on the bot this year.

EDIT: apparently another member of the team already shared those links. Curses, Lady of Fandoms! /s

[endreman0]

"You'd better be coding in lightweight bits." - hardware mentor to chief of software

[endreman0]

Pseudocode for that check:

For each vertex
If the vertex isn't covered, return false (not covered)
End for
Return true (covered)

In which case, that for-loop would never run, and it would skip straight to return true. So you're in the clear!

[adammiller3122]

(Student signing up for Chief Delphi)

"Guys, what's Dean Kamen's last name?"

I use that as a security question on some of our team's systems as well. It is quite hilarious to hear some team members' responses when reading that. Some blanking out that it is right in front of them!

[MisterG]

That's the simplest way to do it.

[GusCaplan]

*Said when applying an anti-static coating to wheels which could cause cancer*
"Come smell my cancery hands"

[SamcFuchs]

"Maybe by St. Louis we'll be good!"

Said by a programming mentor while the fabrication team is still fixing things on February 22nd.

[Christopher149]

Me:

Kickoff or the first week of build: "I'm kinda freaked out by a tilting shooter"

Week 6+ of build: "I'm still freaked out by our tilting shooter"

[frcguy]

"Woah, he just phase changed the Lexan sheet to plug the USB cable into the RoboRio!"

[Why_A_Username?]

One of our mentors after 3D printing replacement rhino track pulley wheels: "Are they supposed to be blue and orange? Aren't those Broncos colours?"

Me: "No just think of it as the Edmonton Oilers"

Since Seattle is 20 miles away, we aren't exactly Broncos fans, but being Canadian, I know my hockey teams.

[JFlynnJr]

S: There aren't concrete islands in the middle of rivers.
J: Yes there are!
S: I know that!

[Jack Gillespie]

1. Go ahead wave that magnet around all the electronics, everything will be just fine. Really.
2. How many times are we going to do this?

[007agentHP]

heres one from today's bag and tag that was said alot
"we'll Fix that"

said anytime today when the robot did something it wasnt supposed to.

[frcguy]

"Call me Master Bandsaw from now on."

[GeeTwo]

"We don't have a steam roller, so get sweaty and roll around on the carpet." (our carpet had been rolled then folded for several months and had some bad wrinkles).

"Call coach Favre* and get a couple of linemen in here" (during continuing efforts to smooth the carpet with two upperclassmen and our rock wall insert that looked remarkably like blocking drill).

"You have the balls of a rhino."

B, I'll give you an A if you kill M using just this pool noodle. (Followed by discussion of sword swallowing, but with noodles).

Why do you want to set fire to the robot?

No dilly-dallying, no shilly-shallying. Get home before the tornadoes and hail catch up with you.

Stop throwing rivets in each others' faces. And put on your safety glasses!

Using a suction cup on your forehead like that is only a hazard if you actually have a brain. Of if your parents see the hickey.

I've spent the last ten minutes picking up parts and tools, and it still looks like the toolbox exploded and took out a robot in the process.

Make sure the blade is still in backwards. (Instructions to cut polycarbonate with a circular saw).

That's not grilled cheese that's a melt! And provolone? You can't make a proper grilled cheese sandwich with anything other than American cheese. And anyway, American cheese isn't good for anything but grilled cheese sandwiches.

"What WERE they thinking?" (four bolts sticking out well over 1" below the belly pan/skid plate, when everything else points up, and most of those are rivets).

Chill. It's not the end of the world. Not for you, anyway.

(Reading punch list) "What are pex ribs on side panels?"
"That's what Jackson's doing."
"Jackson's putting the pex on... the side panels. Oh."

"Did you see the ballast plates?"
"Yes.""
"Well, they're going to mount right here."
"Oh, I thought they mounted over there." (much too small a location)
"The iron ballast plates?"
"Ye..wait, no, they're aluminum."
"Do you know what ballast is?"
"I'm guessing No."

Shouldn't you drill the hole before you put a bolt through it?


* Yes, our football head coach is a Favre. So is one of my immediate co-workers. It's not that uncommon a name in these parts.

[Rebecca8]

(Referring to shooting)
"That was a little spit. We want to projectile vomit."

[Brian C]

Said 10 years ago as a response to a student who asks "Is this good enough?" after making a piece for the robot;

"Well, you can't see it from my house so as long as YOU think it's OK"

They usually give a funny look and then go back to making the piece better.


"You can't see it from my house" has become the unofficial team motto. It's still VERY much in use today.

[maxnz]

"We're actually in danger of winning this year"
Our head build coach at our week zero event

[Dave_4539]

*3 of 4 drive chains fall off* Me: "That's fine."

*Front intake bar falls off* Me: "That's fine."

*Climbing string breaks mid-climb* Me: "That's fine."

*Motor starts smoking profusely* Isaac (to me): "Let me guess, that's fine?"

[Robin Hood]

One of my teammates was playing with one of the tiny pistons. It was during our leader meeting so as my mentor was mid-sentence he just glanced over and calmly said "Quit jacking the piston" after a pause and continual "jacking" my mentor said "Were you even listening or did you just sit there and jack the piston?". My teammate replied shyly with "both" to which my mentor rapidly responded with an escalated "QUIT JACKING THE PISTON!!!"

[Ginger Power]

One of my teammates was playing with one of the tiny pistons. It was during our leader meeting so as my mentor was mid-sentence he just glanced over and calmly said "Quit jacking the piston" after a pause and continual "jacking" my mentor said "Were you even listening or did you just sit there and jack the piston?". My teammate replied shyly with "both" to which my mentor rapidly responded with an escalated "QUIT JACKING THE PISTON!!!"

You took the 4607th post :mad: :mad: :mad:

[Stayskull]

2 years ago

"Why do we have water bottles on the robot?"
"Those are air tanks"
"Nope, definitely water bottles"

[SpadeSeveren]

"Oh my god, I figured it out! It has a nose!!"

[abigailthefox]

A: "this is robotics--everything is going to go wrong at some point, it's how we deal with it that counts"

me: "so we are going to put a battery where there's not enough room for a battery?"
Mentor: "it will work if we use AAs!

Mentor: "pray the shui away"
(look up feng shui...it's our team's phrase for aesthetic appeal basically)

Mentor: "measure twice cut once!"
T: "...or you could just eyeball it..."

me: why doesn't this center punch punch?
mentor: that's the one you took apart and put back together this summer...
me: oh

E: “how do drive teams enter the field?”
S: “six"

I: "is it safe to use a drill to liquefy an orange and then drink it?
me (as safety lead): "as long as I'm not in the room I don't care"

T: it's not magic, its failure smoke

me: "I will wrap you up in masking tape and throw you to the wolves"

[hawktomatoes]

Unrelated to build season, but it was said during one of our meetings:
"I have two fish. They're not very smart." :D

[orangemoore]

On the bus to our FTC State Championship

One of our seniors was talking to a friend in NY First. He asked to see how the robot traveled. The senior sent this picture with this caption written:

"A very high tech bus seat. Shhhhh it's sleeping"

http://i.imgur.com/V1BsGoV.jpg

[RoboMo786]

*Me playing with piece that looks like a karambit*
Mentor: "Looks like something that any good prisoner would want to have."

*Controls group trying to figure out battery mounting*
Mentor: "Just drill and tap the battery"

[MasonK]

We usually heckle by saying, "You dropped something."

I usually say: "Don't worry, the ground caught it!"

[squad1706]

We have a running quote that we say. When someone asks for a tool or part that we know is somewhere in the facility, but not completely sure where, we just say,

"Did you check your pockets?"

[Cothron Theiss]

The following exchange was between a mentor and a student after a student went outside to channel his frustrations.

"Where did Higgins just go?"
"He went outside with a hammer and a bearing."
"Oh. Poor bearing."

Next one is between another student and I after the part I designed came back from the water jet cutter.

"It looks like a duck!"
"That's upside down. It goes this way."
"Nope. We're changing the design. Now it looks like a duck."

Finally, this was between the same student and I after the I pulled a completely different part I designed off of the 3d printer.

"Crap. I made another duck."
"You're right! It looks like another duck!"
"Yup. I know."
"It's about time you did something right!"

[VacioArconte]

"Thou shalt not covet thy mentor's jumper wires."

[白巨人]

Holy crap, I'm so happy I made a list now.


Me: "Savage and Dick have no letters in common."
President: "Yes they do. S-A-DICK!"

Freshman: "Forgetting to eat is bad. but giving us your food is good."

Freshman: "You don't want to create a visual quagmire."

Head Programmer: "I just sucked in, like, my whole lip."

Head Programmer: "So, I feel like robotics is my crack."

Head Programmer: "SEE THAT? THAT'S FRIENDLY!"
Machining member, with a middle finger in his face:
"I can feel the friendship"

Head Programmer: "WHAT IS THAT?"
Me: "That's rain."
Head Programmer: "NO! THAT'S BS!"

Head of Manufacturing: "A mill is really just a vertical lathe."

Parent: "Your imagination is beyond boba."

Coach: "[Head Programmer Name]! You're a boy!"
Head Programmer:"What?"
Coach: "Oh sorry, I thought we were playing the obvious game."

[Edxu]

"Aerial Assist was like World War 1. Defense was too strong. This year, I hope defense will be like World War 2, where it's annoying but doesn't affect the grand scheme of things."

[wazateer1]

Actually, we always called the 2014 game "Aerial Assault"

[GeeTwo]

Actually, we always called the 2014 game "Aerial Assault"

Y'ain't the only ones.

Some more recent ones from our build and drive practices:

Our workshop is a "portable building", raised a couple of feet with a boardwalk shared by five portables. Outside the workshop yesterday, two team members were talking, and I overheard:
He: If I start doing that, it's because of you.
Me, thinking: Hey, that sounds like a pretty good song title.
She: (spoken too low for me to overhear)
He: I didn't mean to touch your armpit.
Me, thinking: Now how can we work that lyric in?
(OBTW, they were about eight feet apart at the time, so I assume the armpit touching was something that happened somewhere/somewhen else.)

Why can't we put the holy pin back in? (Me, referring to a safety device on our launcher.)

Everyone who's not too busy, bring defenses and batter bits to the trailer!

What are we waiting on?
Er, um, er, WHAT ARE WE WAITING ON?

I (mentor): What does LCKR (locker) stand for?
L: (pause) I don't know.
I: Are you sure?
L: (pause) Yes, I don't know.
I: You shouldn't have been wiring the robot if you don't know.
L: I didn't know that.
I: Of course not - but who let you wire the main power cables when you don't know that Loose Connections Kill Robots?

[JustinCAD]

This year, the CAD team was especially behind in getting drawings to build team.

When the CAD team is in a low state of productivity, the cry "CAD team is CAD-a-lackin'" makes it's way around the workshop pretty quickly.

[*Rachelle*]

While wiring the robot and of course cutting some zip ties, student next to me starts singing "Another one bites the dust, and another one gone, and another one gone, another one bites the dust"

At competition this same student and I decided that Stronghold is the real Aerial Assault and that maybe we should keep track and give recognition to the team with the most air time going over defenses. :D

[The_ShamWOW88]

"Man I hope the scaler works..."

[jbdman]

"Keep Hans away from blade"
"Hans must really like that blade for us to have a sign about it"

[RedRoosterFarm]

Me "Why is arm not working right?"
Mentor "I think the robot needs more cowbell..."

"Routing wires and zip tying them down is zen like..."

[blackbrandt]

When we were eating lunch at Wake Districts in NC, some student managed to completely butcher opening up the bag even though it had a EZ seal. Like one of those recloseable bags.... hahahah not for us. A student literally ripped the bag open....

Sooo....
"Must have been a programming student...."
"No... definitely not. Probably mechanical."
"Guys... you're all wrong. Mechanical would have pulled out a razor knife and cut it open. CAD would have designed a new bag that required a minimum amount of effort to open. And a programmer would have just said "bag=false" and grabbed their slice of cheese."

We still never figured out who did it.

[svpracer]

"They don't want us to..."
Fallowed shortly by
"Kevin I am going to shank you"

"don't be they"
Again, Fallowed shortly by
"Kevin I am going to shank you"

"he actually parked in one parking spot today!?"

"I haven't had pizza since lunch!"

[SeeleySWS]

"Cheese the field!"

"Do you like pizza more than people?" "I do!"

"Shhhhh be vewy vewy quiet.... I'm hunting Wobots! (141)

[fredghostkyle]

"Don't worrrrryyyyyy about it"

Said at least 100 times this season.

[IronicDeadBird]

Student 1: "Isn't it amazing how many lights are packed into that area for an LED strip?"
Me *checking wikipedia*:"Well cuttlefish cram red, yellow, black, and brown into a pigment cell and run about 200 of em per square millimeter while also being able to control the size of the cell to influence texture, giving them effectively 359DPI if they could be individually controlled."
Student 1:"Thats insane."
Me:"Yeah nature does some intense things."
*Five Minutes later*
Me: "Hey can you pull up the rules on your phone real quick?"
Student 2: "Yeah sure hold on"
Me: "cool thanks"
Student 2: "WHY IS MY PHONE ON THE WIKIPEDIA PAGE FOR CUTTLEFISH?"

[Hgree56]

Over the weekend, we had a competition. At one point our programming mentor looked at two of our freshmen dead face and told them "I don't actually know how to program, I just roll my face across the keyboard and it somehow works."

[Coach#3536]

We are now calling the latest group of electrical/programmers the Italians, every time they get in to the robot the wiring ends up looking like a bowl of spaghetti.

[planetbrilliant]

"Go away, we're licking the robot."

[Rivet Man]

"Grab the rivet gun...Not that one!"

Best Regards,
RM

[JoaquinC]

"No pressure, but we've got a pneumatic leak!"

[hank2247]

"What were we even doing"
"Watching this makes me physically sick"


Said by our drive team after watching videos of our robot in the az regional during a strategy meeting befor our next regional.

[a2alexa]

"Let's call AndyMark and see what they say."
"Do you think we'll talk to Andy or Mark?"

"Our robot doesn't do half of what we want it to and our competition is in a couple days."
"It's okay, aesthetics are way more important."

*after making a flap out of camouflage duct tape to cover our electronics* "They can't hit what they can't see."

(Every time something goes wrong, whether it was our sole programmer's fault or not) "Stupid programmer."

We call Allen wrenches "Freds." So many times throughout the build season, "Pass me that Fred."
*gets the "Fred" passed over*
"No, the other Fred. This one is too small. I need the Mega-Fred."

[HolyDollar]

*After drilling a hole in the robot, using a shop vacuum to suck up the shavings
*Shavings are still on the robot
Mentor A: "I don't think that shop vac did anything..."
Me: "Well it certainly did suck!"

Mentor B:"Can you measure out this piece for the robot?"
*Our team captain measures it out
Team Captain: "This measures out to be 31 and the line after 3/4 inches."

*After failing to get a bolt secured in a hard to reach place
Me:"Man, this is so frustrating!"
Mentor C:"Well, you just gotta self-tap 'em, baby!"

*After someone cut a piece too short
Student A to our team captain:"So this piece is too short; what do you think I should do now?"
Team Captain:"Just cut it longer."

Also, the quotes "Aww, yeah" and "We need to work on that one" (taken from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Vgs8xisQo)were said by most of our team about a million times this season.

[devg29]

We call them Oeschgerisms after our head mentor (who wrote them on the wall). The list has continued to grow.

[Lady-of-Fandoms]

My team keeps track on a webpage, linked here: http://frc4131.github.io/media/2016/quotes.html

[Ashley Hartley]

"Those little Stryke Force airplanes are like glitter, they get everywhere."

[3072Cap]

"Hand me that hammer."
"No, left. Left. Leeeeeft. Dear god, I'll get it."

"Do you guys think our shooter will be outlawed if there is a gun ban?"

"We don't need to scale. The robot already thinks that it's fat."

"You can be the official nut-holder." -Personal Fav

"Don't worry, we can E-Stop."
"WHY WON'T YOU E-STOP!?"

[a2alexa]

While going through OSHA safety powerpoint at the beginning of the year:
Coach: What kind of injuries can result from improper use of tools?
*from around the room, various people say things such as "cuts," "burns," etc*
Some random new kid from the back: Decapitation.


At the beginning of the year, while the coach is asking people their names for the sake of all the new people...
Coach: *asks a guy his name*
Guy: *ponders for a moment* Batman.
Everyone laughs.
Coach: No, but seriously. What's your name?
Guy: *ponders again* Robin.
Coach then proceeds to frantically ask everyone what his name is as he keeps telling us it's Robin, but no one can remember. Turns out his name really is Robin. From then on, I called him Batman. I still do to this day.

[a10t10j10]

This isn't from build season but was from when we went to the Orlando Regional.
MC: Just a reminder there is a penalty if you have more than one boulder at a time.
Shelby: I've got two boulders right here!(as she hugs her chest)

[maxnz]

THE GOAT NEEDS A BOW TIE!!!!!!!!!

Talking about how we can use the Andymark goat for chairmans.

[a2alexa]

A bit of context:
At the southwest district competition, we had to borrow another joystick because a robot ran into the wall during the autonomous period of a match and knocked our driver's station off, rendering our right joystick completely useless. (Sadly we didn't find that out until after the match, and it was our last match of the day.) So we went to the lowest ranked team and asked them if we could borrow theirs. After they gave us one, I had to run it back to them because the USB was bent. When I returned it, asking for the other one, the response was:

"Oh yeah, that's the one that Chase stepped on."

Thanks again to team 617 for loaning us your joystick, even though we didn't end up using it. We appreciate the show of GP.

[a2alexa]

"If you just say 'gracious' a bunch of times, they'll love you, even if you say no. 'Graciously we graciously decline graciously your graciously gracious request graciously.'"

Heard while standing in line as my team's rep for the alliance selection.


Coach: Alright guys, look around, do you see anything else we might need to have with us at competition?
Evan: *picks up a random nut off the floor* Do we need this nut?

[TheBaconWiz]

My favorite one that I use each year is "Having FUN yet?!"

Best used when something has just broken...

[dudeman2009]

Some of my favorites, I wont give names as they like to frequent this board.

"I did the math, it will work"
"Those forces are negligible"
"That problem wont happen in competition" Talking about an issue that reoccurs every hour or so.
"Did we test that on carpet? No, just tile, guess I get to tune that again"
My favorite of all "My code is exactly the same as his, line for line, but mine doesnt work"

[CJ_Elliott]

"Not moving in a match is my favorite way to lose a match"

[Calvin Hartley]

"Your elbows are surprisingly spikey."

[Squillo]

This one is more of a "quote heard" than a "quote said".

We were out to breakfast with about 8 team members this morning, after the Utah regional. One mentor asked for some hot sauce, only to be met with several puzzled looks - we all thought he'd said, "Please pass the Cheval de Frise".

[Tv_Eater]

Talking to member, "I see you are still not able to park,"
Member, "My sister drove today,"
First person, "Aw I see it runs in the family".

[GeeTwo]

During competition, in the stands and on the sidelines:

"OHHH! They got assaulted on the battery" (actually the BATTER in this case)

Announcer: "Team #### lost their battery; they may be disabled for that."
3946 student: "May be? Does that mean they might NOT be disabled?"
G2: "Well, since I can see their Anderson Connector about five feet behind the robot, and wires only on one side it doesn't much matter what the refs decide; it's disabled."

(overheard on sidelines) "YOW! Even a robot's gonna feel that!"

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In/around the pits:

"Mikey, here's a clip that should fix the riveter you broke."
"I didn't break it; I found it like that."
"You found our hand-riveter with a quarter-inch rivet jammed inside?"
"Sort of.."

"The chain's pitch is ... five and a quarter inches. What ANSI size is that?" (Our pit display features such a chain.)

Here's one in three parts, first and third both quote-worthy.
T.S.:"The numbers won't stick on the bumpers, even with heat. We need something else to help hold them on."
G2: "I just happen have an unused roll of clear gorilla tape in my car."
T.S.: (does double take, eyes open wide) "Gorilla tape is insane. Clear gorilla tape..that's double insane. Can we use it?"

T.S.: (An hour or so later) "Do you have any more clear gorilla tape?"
G2: "No, but there's a hardware store a mile down the road where I can probably get some."

(In store)
G2: "I'm looking for tape. Clear gorilla tape."
(clerk, leads me a couple dozen feet down) "Here it is, the entire gorilla collection."

(You can't make this stuff up.)

************************************************** **

Background: Starting about 1 Jan, I did not trim my beard, hoping to get it long enough to braid. I didn't get it that long, but it's considerably bushier than in my WAI. I sprayed it green again for Bayou.
M.E. (student): Mr. Gus, how did you get your beard like that?
G2: "I just don't shave it."

************************************************** **

There were several more good ones at the mentors' decompress at the Mexican restaurant across the street from Slidell High, but I can only think of one I can post where the students might see it. As background, our founding head coach, Jesse, is leaving high school science teaching for self-employment. It's the only job he's held more than about three years, if you count vastly different jobs within the US Army separately.

Larry: "So, what are you going to do, Jesse? Take that educational job with NASA"
Jesse: "I don't think so. I don't really know what I'm going to do next. It's not that there isn't anything that seems right, it's that there's so much I want to do next, and I can't decide."
G2: "Don't worry; that's actually a pretty common situation for people coming out of high school."

[logank013]

My favorite of all "My code is exactly the same as his, line for line, but mine doesnt work"

Forgot a semicolon? ;)

[waffle_dynasty]

Pit Scout: "What Defenses can you guys cross?"
Team: "Absolutely zero! We can't cross a single defense."
Pit Scout: "Okay? Good luck this weekend!"

[sawhneyjalaj]

Hmm... these two are ones I've said altogether too much in this build season
"AARGH! Give me the hammer. The big one."
"Oh. My. God. Solidworks. I hate you so much. I hate you with a burning passion. I hate you so much that if you were a person, I would run you over with a robot."

This is what pretty much every one says whenever someone bumps the robot into something or messes up in anyway shape or form:
"Welp, (so and so student) broke the robot. Get away, it's gonna blow!"

[axiomofdarkness]

"Oh. My. God. Solidworks. I hate you so much. I hate you with a burning passion. I hate you so much that if you were a person, I would run you over with a robot."


That's me, but with Eclipse.

[Ninjastahr]

That's me, but with Eclipse.

Same here.

[frcguy]

"I have a list in my mind, it will soon be translated to a tangible form others can read."

[Daniel Vijay]

"We have to make it go BEEP BEEP BEEP!!!" ~Neelish

"I am apologize" ~Raahul

"Don't worry, just zip-tie it, it'll be fine" ~Trevor

"Sharkbait---HOO HAH HAH!!" ~226 Drive Team

"Double decker buses aren't real" ~Daniel

[sawhneyjalaj]

Oh also this one was during FTC competitions but it went like this:

Mentor: "so i just found out, we are in 28th place."

Me: "How many teams are there

Mentor: "Use the match schedule to figure it out"

Me: *does calculation on phone*... this is either gonna make you laugh, or just depress you."

Mentor: "What?"

Me: "There are 28 teams"

*The entire pit cracks up*

Other Mentor: "at least we have a sense of humor"

[Cam_Team 2619]

Not necessarily a quote, but our scouters have taken to calling the defenses by some... unorthodox names.

Rock wall = Trump's Wall
Moat = Banana Moat
Ramparts = Ramp Parts
Rough Terrain = Lil' Giblets
Drawbridge = Sneaky Beaky Port
Sally Port = Deport Sally
Cheval De Frise = Shovel the Fries
Portcullis = Pork Cutlets

Way to go scouters.

[frcguy]

"You guys should just program the robot in Scratch."

[frcguy]

"Well, according to the 14th law of thermodynamics..."

[Guy997]

"I'm gonna convert all of your code into Pig Latin"

[Guy997]

"We should do that, but let's do the one tote auto first..."

[fovea1959]

not build season, and perhaps not new:

@ Lansing District Competition Alliance Selection
MC: ... and so, what is your choice?
just "promoted" #8 alliance captain: I choose... <rustling of scouting notes> the Jeopardy music.

[Hitchhiker 42]

Another not quite build season one from last year:

Alliance captain: "We choose 455"
MC: "That's not a team up on the screen."
Our team in the stands: "7! 7!!!!"

[SpadeSeveren]

"I'll put my foot in your pocket!"

[MRT45]

"You sure the treads slip off again?"
"Pretty sure they won't"

*Slips off"
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Me- "Spike seems to be broken again. Don't you check PWM's??"

Them - "Surely its programming, I have not changed anything..."

*Suddenly works after finding an unplugged PWM*

--------------------------------------------------------------
"It broke again.... F***ing programming...."
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"Sure that screw is tight?"

"It's good enough."

---------------------------------------------------------------

"What should we name the robot?I think Julius sounds pretty nice..."

"We should name it "JEB!" It fits the quality of how our season actually went! XD"

"Please clap."
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"Where is the USB B? Did we lose it again?....Yes, yes we did."

[lamiet01]

Me: "I hope we've worked on a batter shot and outer works shot."

Programming and Drive Team Member: "We have worked on both batter and defender shot as well as a ruin and gun shot."

Me: "Now, I'm excited! A 'ruin and gun shot' sounds Awesome!"

[roddonfire]

"If we want to win, we better Raise our Standard!"

[Oromus]

Fresh from the Rocket City Regional:

"I need my underwear."

[IronicDeadBird]

"Man I feel out of shape can never figure out why"
*As I reached for my giant can of rockstar energy*

[Rebecca Pelzer]

"I can't start a pie and not finish it." - Ed Sparks

Said while having a conversation about safety one morning at Rocket City; pies somehow came up.

[M217]

((2 days before our first regional, talking to our newly-appointed safety captain.))

"What do you do when the battery fluid leaks?"

(Deadpan) "...Pour it back in."

[GeeTwo]

((2 days before our first regional, talking to our newly-appointed safety captain.))

"What do you do when the battery fluid leaks?"

"...Pour it back in."

That would be moderately amusing if I were certain that it was a joke on the speaker's part. I've been mentoring FRC long enough that it's more of an :eek:.


Added:
OBTW, here's one from the post-season chatter on a mentor slack channel. For the record, we do not have anyone named named "Mark" as either a student or mentor this year. The names have been changed a la Dragnet:

".. numerous freshmen tell me Mark had taught them stuff ..."
"I hope he didn't teach them how to measure .. if so, we'll have a whole lot of un-teaching to do."

[Cothron Theiss]

"I have more hopes and dreams for this cart than our actual robot!"

[plurp911]

After many hours of hard and tiring work cadding and ordering parts on super bowl Sunday, our mech lead uttered the following words:

"I take straight bathroom cleaner"

...enough said.

[IronicDeadBird]

"What did you do if you didn't sleep on the 10 hour bus ride back from the regional?"
"Eh, had some stuff to think about..."

[squad1706]

"You can't skeet the Skoat!", has become one of our new chants in the stands.

>Walks into CAD room
>CAD kid says, "Roads? What does that have to do with a car?"
>Immediately leaves CAD room forever

Me: Angrily demands, "Where's my Python PIL!?!?!!!?!?"
Programmer and Vision Guys: "Everything is written in Java..."
Me: "DID I ASK FOR YOUR OPINION!?!!?"

[maxnz]

Why doesn't the bedazzler go kachunga like a stapler?!?!?

Build and marketing team members trying to figure out our new bedazzler.

[Dr. Robot]

Student x: "I've started to judge the build quality, design, and effectiveness of the houses in my neighborhood based on the number of their address." (1678, 254, 971, 1671, 701...)

[squad1706]

When a Student drops a large piece of aluminum, thus making a very loud noise, he/she is told...

"You found the Floor"

:yikes: :ahh:

Our typical response to this for about 5 years has been, "Your dropped your lucky nickle!"

[Calvin Hartley]

During our scouting/pick list discussion, our drive coach said the following:

"Their drive team is kinda like a weather balloon, they just float around."

[jjeter]

At competition after trying to explain a snippet of code to our buisness mentor:
Mentor: "I find it so cute how you keep trying to explain it to me like you think I'll understand"

Me: "Why didn't we do X [much simpler way]"
Build Leader: "Don't ask questions!"

[frcguy]

"Come on! There's peanut butter all over this gear!"

[PeeDiddy]

Me: Can you hand me a battery?
Co-Driver: I already changed the battery.
Me: Just give it to me please.
Co-Driver: Why?
Me: So I can have a seat.

[IronicDeadBird]

Me: "You guys would know this if you read the rule book more but in case of a tie breaker, the last determining factor possible is actually swag."

[hotwheel326]

"Cheval for days!" When planning our attack for breaching the defenses and we want to tackle Cheval de Frise.

[MikePerreman]

mentor: "now, this isnt supposed to work, bu it should give us some valuable information..." 30 seconds later + a rock wall "HOLY $@#$@#$@#$@#, THAT WORKED"

me: jus another average day at the programming table.

[polytechnique]

After catching a pair of fingernails in a belt sander -

"Bishop (team mentor), I think I sanded off my fingertips."

"Well, what'd you do that for?"

--

"Maybe you could catch a ride to the convention center with Bishop."

"No. BISHOP RIDES ALONE."

--

"Of course it doesn't work. That'd be too easy." - lots of times

--

"It's not a Sawzall, remember. It's a Sawzmost."

[jess_17]

"It has bumpers for a reason! I didn't build 16 of them for nothing!" said by me, the driver, after repeatedly running our robot into various objects and people. We were having a few issues with the joysticks so it was virtually impossible for the robot to drive straight and maneuver easily.

[qscgy]

While attaching leads to a battery:
Electronics person: I think this bolt is too long, but I can't unscrew it.
Mechanics person: Why does that matter? We can just Dremel it.

We can't turn on the robot after a few minutes of trying:
Aaron: Well, the battery's charged...Hey! Electronics! Come figure out why our robot won't turn on!
Bronte: (looks at it for a moment, then holds up the wire connecting the PDP to the main breaker, which has pulled loose)
Aaron: That explains a lot.

[GeeTwo]

Bronte: (looks at it for a moment, then holds up the wire connecting the PDP to the main breaker, which has pulled loose)

Been there, done that. Sometimes words are unnecessary (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1462853&postcount=4253) (middle quote).

[SeeleySWS]

*after having gone 1-2

"Alright guys now all we have to do is go 10-2"

(We did!)

[abigailthefox]

That's me, but with Eclipse.

The most relatable post on this thread

[quigjam]

discussing getting up for breakfast the morning of the Windsor Regional

Kevin- "If you want waffles you better be first in line before we get out the door."

Garret (my mentor) - "Or we could just make one waffle and split it evenly among everyone."

Me- "Now you're thinking like a communist Garret."

[Russell2144]

Not really during build season but it cracked me up.
So I was in English class and my teacher is trying to get a movie to play but the sound wouldn't play through the sound bar in the classroom. And everyone knows that I do robotics..

Class: "Russell! Go help! Go do tech things!"
Me: "I build robots! Not IT!"

[Russell2144]

Me: "QUICK I need the lobotomy stick!" (Hammer)

[NickKerstens]

not build season, and perhaps not new:

@ Lansing District Competition Alliance Selection
MC: ... and so, what is your choice?
just "promoted" #8 alliance captain: I choose... <rustling of scouting notes> the Jeopardy music.

This is by far the best picking-related one

[sarah_storer]

"You can stop looking....I just bought a high res picture of toast."

-Mom from Team 5332 Toaster Tech

[2521 Robotician]

"Stop trying to zip-tie my ear!!!" - I got bored one day and there were zip ties in arms reach....

"Not good." - Our shooter prototype started flailing around and slammed into the table.

"Where does the ____ go?" :confused:

"That's not what that's for."

"There's a limit to how serious you can act while eating animal crackers."

[Van.Augur]

"Close enough for government work"
"Look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls"
"Transmission grease doesn't taste good"
"At 300 miles an hour, no one will tell the difference"
"See, Damon smart."
"You need to stop worrying about all your stupid math"
"This is the type of thing I think they'd teach you in engineer school"
"They don't teach you that in engineering school"
"What would Foss do?"

[jjeter]

[A letter found on our white board from our Build Captain]
"Dear Future Self,
Tomorrow you need to..."

[qscgy]

Inspector: Do you guys have a multimeter?
(Person passes him a multimeter)
Inspector: Fantastic. I also need the leads for this.

(While testing our CDF/portcullis wedge mechanism)
Driver: Are you sure the rivets will hold? The wedge is getting slammed around pretty hard.
Me: Should be fine. Those things are pretty strong.
Driver: OK...(does another CDF crossing)
Mentor: Hey, you might want to look at this.
(all eight rivets on the wedge gusset plate have sheared)
Me: OK, we'll switch to 10-32 bolts. And if they fail, bigger bolts. And if those fail, welding. And if that fails, the rest of the robot is probably in pieces and on fire.

[GeeTwo]

Inspector: Do you guys have a multimeter?
(Person passes him a multimeter)
Inspector: Fantastic. I also need the leads for this.


This reminds me of a story that took place way before my FRC years. IIRC, it was in the fourth year of FRC (1995), though I may be off by a year or so. I had arrived to do an acoustic survey on the USS Littlehales in Brindisi Italy on what was normally a hydrographic survey vessel. This was not a good mix, as acoustics surveys were (and still are) performed with roll-on-roll-off equipment, and the hydro ships were engineered to a single mission, with no spare space; we wound up mounting our equipment to a sheet of plywood strapped to a drafting table. And OBTW, laboriously and back-breakingly deploying and recovering an acoustic array in the space beneath a hydro survey launch. As we were securing our equipment (pre survey), one of the ship's E.T.s (electronic technicians, not extraterrestrials) was fussing and fuming at the ship's survey computer station. I politely asked if there was anything I could do to help. He said rather irritably "Not unless you have the printer drivers on disk 5 of windows". I calmly rotated my fanny pack around to my belly, unzipped, pulled out a rubber-banded pack of the 6 Windows 3.1 disks, took off the rubber band, and frisbeed him disk 5. His jaw hit his chest. There were three or four occasions later in the survey when I was asked some really silly "you don't happen to have a ****** in that pouch, do you?" The answer was uniformly no, but I think I gave him some helpful info to find what he needed on a couple of those occasions.

[frcguy]

(While watching Team 16's reveal)

Student 1: "Wow, nice swivel drive"

Students 2 & 3 in unison: "Uh, no"

[Thayer McCollum]

159 actually started writing a quote o' the day on a whiteboard this year. This meant that our captain was constantly being texted every hilarious thing anyone said all season.

Some of the best

"Hey Calvin? Is it hot?"
(He asked us every time he picked something up if it was hot, the one time he didn't ask... well...)

"My welds have CHARACTER!"
(Speaking of his very not pretty welds)

"It's an angle protractor"
(From myself)

"Oh by the way don't wear polyester"
(Said to girl whose soccer shorts were now full of holes [They were cutting bolts with an angle grinder])

[TheDoctor_1]

Our team has quite the knack for "PUNishment" as we refer to it, consequently I hear, "We have a STRONG HOLD on this year's game."

Also:
"I CAN'T CHANGE THE COLOR!" (long story)
and finally,
"ZAP! You're inspired!"

AFS
Team 980
CAD, Mechanical Design, Media

[iruletheskys]

"You gotta have balls to get balls."

"You're not hardcore unless you live hardcore."

"(Name) get me some females (talking about crimps)" *Comes back with girl

"Hey (Name) can you get me a flashlight?" *walks up to bin with drills and flashlights in it. *Picks up right angle drill "This isn't a flashlight!" *Walks away

[tig567899]

P1: "Worst case scenario, the thing turns on on its own, starts flailing around and destroys another robot. We can't consider those miniscule probabilities as reasons for failing inspection."
Me: "No, worst case scenario, the thing breaks off the hinge, punches a hole in the ceiling, flies across the street into the Edward Jones Dome, lands on another robot, causing them to explode and the whole arena to catch on fire."
Mentor: "See, this is why I have concerns when I let you guys design this stuff."

[Zuelu562]

Driver: "TORTUGA! TORTUGA!"...
*Seconds later* Me: "Well, the worst that can happen here is our PD exploding..."

Our final match of Saturday at NEBOS, we ended up dying on/just beyond a defense (IIRC, our tread broke [again...]), and 238 was trying to finish the breach, and, not very obviously at first (First quote), gave them permission to do whatever they needed to get over, even if it required our robot to tip. They succeeded, without FULLY tipping our bot, leading to the second quote.

Funny moment from our repair disaster zone that was NEBOS.

[Thayer McCollum]

159 actually started writing a quote o' the day on a whiteboard this year. This meant that our captain was constantly being texted every hilarious thing anyone said all season.

Some of the best

"Hey Calvin? Is it hot?"
(He asked us every time he picked something up if it was hot, the one time he didn't ask... well...)

"My welds have CHARACTER!"
(Speaking of his very not pretty welds)

"It's an angle protractor"
(From myself)

"Oh by the way don't wear polyester"
(Said to girl whose soccer shorts were now full of holes [They were cutting bolts with an angle grinder])

The whole list:
"I feel awkwardly clean"
"I can't hear you over the sound of my own mistakes"
"If I can do it with a sandwich in one hand you can do it too"
"Just mount the ball"
"We're going to kill him with his mistakes"
"I'm pretty relaxed about my drinking habits"
"That's it. I'm never taking my shirt of again"
"It's an engineering problem"
"That's not mine. Someone else will fix it"

[ithza]

Person 1: "I can't get this into the shaft, what should I do?"
Person 2: *examines it* "Just use elbow grease"
Person 1: "Ok, Where is the elbow grease?"

[station]

"hannn"

[jminer19363]

The Saturday right before Worlds:

Me: What about that thing?
R:They got it.
Me: You mean the thing that only you know how to put together?
R: They can figure it out.

N: Can we put our drive team coach on stilts?

G: For every minute you play Pentatonix you have to pay each of us a dollar.
Me: Letmethinkaboutthatno

JJ: Are you just waiting for funny things to say?

(we named our two new batteries after myself and my co-captain)
Me: I checked after lunch. You're at 114% and I'm at 111%
R: What?
Me: Think about it. 'Put me on the robot'

[frcguy]

Student 1: "Why are you sitting on the floor making a square out of plywood and angle?"

Student 2: "It's my drivetrain for Skystalker-er-er."

Student 1: "Get back to work."

[kmckay]

When I tossed a roll of tape to a student expecting her to catch it: "What are you doing?! I'm in robotics, I don't sports!"

[Jellypickles234]

"These are the real cyber hours"

"True design is not democracy"

"Don't bleach the couch"

Me when trying to do manufacturing stuff: "He needs an extruder!"

[Jellypickles234]

Also,

"Stab stab scoop!" -Shout out to Team SPORK

Scouting meeting at state:

"I'm not saying anything, but..."
*Holds up sign that says Don't Decline*

[svpracer]

*Me after putting our practice robot back together*
"So if it stops working, I know who put it back together"

[b1nary]

"mr. dognaux"
"we can't put holes in the wall here" (our robot drove into a classroom wall twice, and we got a new facility that we were loaned)

[Gravity]

"We should apply some WD40 to the duct tape, now we don't have to choose."

[Theseusgoats]

Holy crap did we really just break the duct tape. (Heard while queueing)

[Gravity]

"Just... why?"
In response to finding a bag of chips clamped with a quick-grip.

[evanperryg]

"Why isn't there an Australian team named Koality Robots?"
"LOOK AT THAT BEDFORD EXPRESS" (https://youtu.be/-sgTqClrymQ)

[IronicDeadBird]

"I get it you guys went to iHop without me"

[Hitchhiker 42]

At the end of the meeting:
Captain: Anyone have anything else to say?
Going once...
Going twice...
Me: OOOOOH!! Nevermind, I got nothing to say...

[nardavin]

"Do the clouds move faster in St. Louis?"

[Jonny_Jee]

"We always seem to take one step forward and two steps back"

[frcguy]

"This City Museum thing is a death trap"

[The Sofa]

"So I'll be going to Office Depot for the parts."
"You mean Home Depot?"
"No dude, I'm going to get all the paperclips."

[Ngang]

One of the mentors, while trying to see if the compressor was connected to the rest of the electronics while the robot was on: "It's fine if it shocks me, I'm an adult and we'll know it works."

[WSiggs]

*Pulling MIG wire out of the tip of a welding gun* "This is so satisfying, it's better than popping a zit." -Our lead mentor

[emeraldstorm]

P1: "What was 217 called again? ...The Lightning Ducks?"
P2: "I feel like 33, the... 'Friendly Hornets', are going to win."

*entire team breaks into churning out name spinoffs*

[TheDoctor_1]

This alone warranted a post:

"The hottest balanced-breakfast based album of 2016."
-Team 980 member

Andy FS
Team 980
http://i.imgur.com/QuGiVVZ.jpg

[em202020]

As a team was in the pits testing how hard their shooter shot the ball, a kid out his hand in the line of the ball to catch it, conversation went some what like this:

"I'll catch it"
"This shooter will literally break your hands"
"Naw bro it's okay I got it"

The kid shoots the ball.

[Hitchhiker 42]

As a team was in the pits testing how hard their shooter shot the ball, a kid out his hand in the line of the ball to catch it, conversation went some what like this:

"I'll catch it"
"This shooter will literally break your hands"
"Naw bro it's okay I got it"

The kid shoots the ball.

We had something similar when someone had to stand in front of the shooter with a radar gun.

[itsjustjon]

"TSIMFD" - will.i.am

[S1LK0124]

Me to the students: "It wasn't a mistake...it was an engineering miscalculation."

One student at the open-house: "And due to an 'engineering miscalculation'..." he said as he smirked at me in the audience :rolleyes:

I'd like to hear more about that! Lol

[S1LK0124]

I would say the best thing from build season this year was when the team was discussing ideas.
One of the teams programmers confidently got up in front of the whole team to draw up how we were going to make the shooter.
He begins writing down what he's saying above the drawing.
"And then we collect the Bolder..."
This inspired our t-shorts for this year...

[HotCrossPuns]

Student 1: "Does anybody have a pencil I could borrow?"
Student 2 hands pencil to Student 1: "Here you go."
Student 1: "As the Germans say, 'Feeling dank'!"

[Montavo]

Me: "Did you try it in CAD?"

I love Team 751:Barn2Robotics's button!
"I swear it worked in CAD"

[Ringo5tarr]

"I'M SCREWING"

*Assorted innuendos*

"Stop blaming everything on your pancreas!"

[frcguy]

"That hurt my earballs!"

or

"MY EARBALLS!"

Yelled by one of our mentors whenever we make loud noises.

[jijiglobe]

"What if we make it to Einstein with this horribly broken robot?"

"I'll start a thread on CD about it, but for now, don't let anyone know that we're broken."