"Quotes" that were said during build season

[Danielle H]

Said by a teacher who randomly showed up from time to time, but wasn't an official mentor:

"You're the engineers, YOU figure it out."

[Eria4044]

"All we have to do is make our thing longer." - our VeX captain, referring to the ball-collecting arm on the Vexbot.

[ICE MAN]

Hey didn't you just rebuild the transmission. Yeah I did. Then what are all those screws there for. Crap. :yikes:

[Storcky]

By me when getting change at a fundraiser:
"$3.50 from a 10. That's 5 1 50, right?"

[Storcky]

I was trying to wake up our coach to ask her a question:
"Steph wake up you evil knigit!"

After I recently injured myself:
"Our Safety Captain broke her foot!"

[gizmoman1089]

MENTOR: "did you know that motors run on smoke?"

ME: "No they don't"

MENTOR: "yes they do, cause when the smoke comes out, they don't work anymore" :)

[379Robocat]

This isn't really a quote but a little prank I played on my team. We were at the philly regionals and going into saturday we were in 5th place. I talked with the other advisors and they wanted to do it but couldn't keep a straight face. So I get on the bus and I was like listen up guys I have some bad news. The head referee called last night and they had found something illegal on our robot while doing our inspection for finals. They weren't sure so they didn't say anything at the time but confirmed it and then called us. They said we have been DQ. Then silence filled the bus. Some were about to cry and then some made some quotes.."So does this mean we can go home." and "Does this mean we don't have to scout?" Dead silence for about five mins and then someone was like hey it's april fools day and me totally forgetting denied it until I looked at my phone and realizing it was. I convinced them again that I was telling the truth. Finally I walked back up front and then told them I was joking. The silence was broken and we advisors got a good laugh out of it but the kids it took them a minute to get over it.

[Michelle Celio]

Me: Have you checked my teams website, I changed the titles on the team history page to be darker

Adam Richards : No, I don't check your team page everyday

Me: Oh, well I do, I need to see if something has changed.

Adam Richards: Uh..Michelle...you edit the page

Me: Oh yeah..

[Shiny1629]

after listening to Blood Hound Gang
ME: i want a boyfriend so i can call him Cookie.
after a pause
ME: I CAN CALL MESHACH COOKIE!!!!!!!-Meshach is the name of our robot.

On the bus to Nationals
ME: I'm gonna turn around and watch the road go backwards-i have no idea what i meant to say
To answer a team members question i intended to say sorta/so-so. it came out ish-ish.

[travis48elite]

"Never Give in, Never give up!"

"You wrote the CNC code wrong!"

"Paco catch the poof balls while we test the shooter."

"Sleep is for the weak!"

"Sleep?, What is sleep?"

[Sila741]

"We need to know when to bring the adult female!" At a team meeting, while discussing when people could actuality come to the lab so we could organize it with mentors.

[sheltie234]

"Those bloody servos are going to be the bane of my existence!"

[Loco4Robots]

My favorite had to be...

"You actually returned the drill?"
"Yeah"
"Is there an award for that? That is a first time occurance."

[stuntman551]

team 521's most common thing said during duild. What could have been done to prevent this.

[Dan Richardson]

"Robby You should be wearing your safety glasses while we are testing the shooter. " ... " Dan poof balls don't fit your EYE!! "

When talking to the team about talking with judges.

" When the judges ask you what you learned this season just tell them you learned how to do a lot of things the wrong way. "

When describing what we had available to build our robot...

" Yeah well we got a drill press last week oh and a chopsaw. "... " Chopsaw? " .. " Chopsaw... "

" OK so we are all here and we've got the game and the kit of parts.. now where do we build the robot?" .... " Well I guess you could use my garage temporarily until we find a place. " ( Famous Last words )

" Dan you look like Walking Death. "

Competition hosted some funny ones too..

" So what happend? Why did we stop moving ? " .. " The battery died I think we have a short. " .. " Ohh few I thought it was something mechanical, luckily I dont' do wires. "

[Sharkbyte]

"This part is worth more than you." "It's a 10-dollar motor!" "It's STILL worth more than you!" -- from early on in the robotics season

Plus, the never-ending battle over whether it is a software or mechanical problem (I say that it it ALWAYS software, since I'm one of the people who has to fix the robot when it breaks)

[Renee Becker-Blau]

(In the pit watching our robot in the competition) "Look that us....dead....right there...."

"hey guys where's Caboose??" (Caboose is a poof ball that we lost, so it anyone found a green and black poof ball named Caboose contact me)

"So if we pitch in our robot, the cart, and one of our team members, we can get your robot???" - our team
"No not really.."- other team
".......are you sure???"- our team

"Who said worm drives in the first place?"

[santosh]

Me- "So what happened out there" (to a team we mentor)
1848- "We ran the robot in the wrong direction during autonomous and the battery got disconnected..."

"WHAT!?! WHAT?!?! WHAT?!?! We are redoing the shooter again?.. Oh WHAT?!?! We are redoing the robot again. This is the 4th time"

[amos229]

NEVER GO DOWN THE RAMP

[ScoutingNerd175]

NEVER GO DOWN THE RAMP

This applied to our robot as well, although I don't think we learned the lesson very well...

"Do we have enough weight left for pneumatics?"

then later

"Is it possible to cut enough holes in the robot to weight reduce 8 lbs?"

[StephLee]

NEVER GO DOWN THE RAMP

Followed by a smack to the back of the head...

[DevilChild]

Our team has a tradition where any memorable quotes are submitted to our team website, www.rvr87.org, and this year the number of submissions soured. We now have over 200. They are hilarious, and if anyone wants/needs to have one explained, they can pm me.

[Peter Matteson]

NEVER GO DOWN THE RAMP

I like that but its counter to the standard advice I give to our drivers since I started mentoring in 2003. I always remind them:

Drive it like you stole it! We'll put it back together for the next match.

This year our base driver took me up on it coming off the ramp so fast the bot was parrallel to the ground a few times. That'll teach me. (Smacks self in forehead) Luckily we built a sturdy bot to handle it, when we modified the drivetrain slightly after Winter Warzone when I saw what we would go through.

[efoote868]

(from some adult at each competition)

"RAMMING IN AUTONOMUS MODE?!?!?!!? thats not even a rule is it!"
yeah, our robot was so fast it could scream across the field in 2 seconds, fly up the ramp, and hit the other alliance's wall so hard that their controllers are knocked off the shelf, and hit the other driver's knees...

oh, and then theres the
can you tone the robot's speed down a bit? i can't handle driving with it
the programmers got a good kick out of that one

[Schnabel]

At competition
1-Had did it do?
2-It worked!
-The Robot Pulls In-
1-What happened?
3-The radio cable wasn't screwed in so we lost connection.

[Freddy Schurr]

"Why is our robot 120 pounds overweight?"

Trust me it happen!

[StephLee]

-The Robot Pulls In-
1-What happened?
3-The radio cable wasn't screwed in so we lost connection.

That's what happened to us in our last match in Atlanta; the cable is now taped in to prevent that ever happening again. It's the worst feeling in the world.

[Gabe]

"Measure twice -- in your case, three times, if you have to -- and cut once."

And

"Just get the uppy-downy saw." (jigsaw)

Finally

"Once upon a time there was a moron. But he was a powerful moron, who could change the future merely by fouling up a job in the past, which was his present."
(Ever had to fix someone else's old work?)

[Michelle Celio]

While walking to go do a mentos rocket..

Me "Oh man I feel like such a FIRSTer" "oh man im such a loser for saying that"
Adam "I take it you're putting that on CD?"
Me " OH YEAH "

[Alexa Stott]

Mr. Cokeley: Remember, we're meeting this Saturday, 10-4. And that means 10 AM to 4 PM, not 3:50. (Saturday meetings usually lasted until about 8 or 9ish, really, though)

(A student actually showed up at 3:50 once, thinking that was what he meant :p)

[Malenddruid]

Here are a few from the good ol' folks on the Force team

Me:~Drops important robot part~
"I DIDN'T DO IT!"

~Loud bang or other noise~
J: That didn't sound healthy!
Me: I didn't do it!


Me: Hey miss H! Do ya have change for a 5?
~~Question I asked mentor every single meeting~~

Dan: What are you DOING TONY!
Me: I DIDN'T DO IT!

~Part falls off of robot~
C: Tony didn't do it!

Mike: Hey Corey. The spice must flow...
Corey: Yes indeed it must
Me: What is this spice you speak of?

~Shooter falls off of robot during a match~
Me: ~In stands with my ex~ I DIDN'T DO IT!
Ex: whaa?
Me: You wouldn't understand

M: The pigmy surf crawlers will take over the word tony!
Me: Yes of course and with the Amy Lee clones. Now can we please work on the robot!

~~These quotes were taken from Build season, Comp, and the pre season this year~~

[Éowyn]

Conversation between mentors:

Mentor1: What's he doing here so early? (referring to my brother)
Mentor2: He's programming the robot.
Mentor1: Then why's she here? (quietly, pointing at me)
Mentor2: Oh, her? (louder, so I can hear) She's just a pain in the butt!

Mind you, the reason I learned so much was from following Mentor2 around all the time, learning how the machines worked. So yes, I was. :D

President: (Joking, I hope ;) )You're a just a Freshman!
Me:I'm a person.

...And my name is Anakin. No, wait a minute!

[jackie Ha]

we have so many every year, like:
- eh, its good enough
- lets just getto rig it
- ok kiddies, time to work
- if i can find it in 10 seconds...
- that didn't sound to good
- where is all our tape
- why are you all waiting around, do something

and my personal favorite:
- that was teh awesome manz 1111

but thats just to name a few.

[Athleticgirl389]

One thing that is said at our site over and over again...

"SG BROKE THE ROBOT!"

Even when he is no where close. You do it once, it's always your fault :p

[Stuart]

"Stupid laws of physics . . . ."

[Athleticgirl389]

Oh I forgot one that everyone says about me all the time!

Student (or mentor): "Where is a marker or something?"
Another student: "Oh!!! I know! Ask Ashley... she has every sharpie under the sun!"

It is true... I have a lot of sharpies and they come everywhere with me :D

[65_Xero_Huskie]

Last years build season was great. We had tons of them but i only remember a few
----
"Duct tape it!"
"SEVEN DAYS" (Inside Joke)
"We shoulda went with the giant fan idea"
"Look to see if were againt the triplets"

I miss last year and the year before. I cant wait until this season :)

[Ken Streeter]

Our team has been keeping a "quote book" for a couple years. They are both available on our team's web page.

The 2006 quote book: http://www.mechanicalmayhem.org/quotes-06.asp

The 2005 quote book: http://www.mechanicalmayhem.org/quotes-05.asp
One of my personal favorites is from our rookie year: I think all we need now is a robot. David G (two days before ship date)
But most of the team like some of the other ones better...

[Sgraff_SRHS06]

"RAMMING IN AUTONOMUS MODE?!?!?!!? thats not even a rule is it!"


I'm sure there were a number of people at Chesapeake saying that. They wished it was a rule based on how badly robots hitting theirs during autonomous mode.

One took off a chuck of sheet metal and dented the other robot while the other....well, lost a good deal of metal from somewhere vital but not life threatnening

[ScoutingNerd175]

I'm sure there were a number of people at Chesapeake saying that. They wished it was a rule based on how badly robots hitting theirs during autonomous mode.

One took off a chuck of sheet metal and dented the other robot while the other....well, lost a good deal of metal from somewhere vital but not life threatnening

Our robot broke itself in autonomous mode. It went flying across the field and hit the wall, bending in the front bar. But that's not what it was programmed to do... but that wasn't at Chesapeake, at Chesapeake stuff worked.

"Why is it that when you put something that works in a box and send it to Atlanta, it doesn't work when it gets there?" various members of my team when fixing things in Atlanta

[Kakashi]

-Looks over at smoking camera unit-
"Hmm... that's not good..."

[Kellen Hill]

"Is something burning?" was one that was used when something metal accidentally connected some battery terminals it was pretty funny.

[Gboehm]

"WTF WAS THAT!!!" - When I was out of the room and the robot went out of control and hit a fesk at full speed

"I think somethin broke..."

"I don't care how, just build the $@#$@#$@#$@# thing already, we ship in 2 hours!!!"

"Duct tape is allowed on an air duct"... Our ball hopper was an air duct, and we used duct tape to hold parts of it together... The inspector at the San Jose Regional allowed it...

[Richard Wallace]

We're 3 pounds over. Drill until the hole saw is too hot to touch, then go find something else to cut off while you wait for it to cool down.

[Zak698]

"Hey guys we got the shooter working! WHo wants to test it?"
*Slience*
Me: "Hey Ken you catch the ball"
Ken: "ok"
Miner: *Turns on the shooter*
"Ready?"
Ken: Yea
*ball hits ken down low"
Ken: *falls to the floor*
"OOOOUCH!!!!"

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"Almost done with the code"
---week later---
"just one more thing"
---last day---
"uhh guys... im not where close to done... i have only got three of the ten auomonous codes done..."

-Me (I think i went too far)

[Viper37]

"We cant drive the robot down the ramp, NO MATT YOU CANNOT DRIVE THE ROBOT DOWN THE RAMP! IT WILL TIP OVER"

*I drive the robot down the ramp with perfect stability.*

"Designers are to be seen and not heard."

[Greg Peshek]

While proving to mentor the robot wouldn't get stuck on the foam balls.

"I am Poof Ball, here me roar!"

At Championship, mentor promised us we could go to walmart and get airsoft guns if we won three matches. When we won out third and got off the field we yelled

"YES, WE'RE GOING TO WALMART"

Other teams around looked at us quite strangely.

Working on the big CIM motor.

M: Hmm, why won't this stupid pulley come off?
Me: I don't know, use the learning tool to get it off.

(The learning tool is a 5lb bar of aluminum)

At the regional, the driver of our bot accidentally drove the bot to the other teams ramp and tipped it over.

After:
Mentor: Why did you do that?
Driver: Duh, it was to block the other teams from getting on the ramp.

[Nuttyman54]

(very early morning of ship day)

Person 1: Hmm, we need that part by tomorrow, don't we
Person 2: dude, it IS tomorrow

[Krazykid]

my quote ....."Thats Incredying", meaning incredible and terrifying at the same time.. every one used as a sign of excitement and scared that it actually worked....

quote said to me alot "Shut up Zoe!!!!!"

quote to students that did mistakes "dude you did it wrong", now u have to do it over..

Quote bye every one "Im Hungry"

[Eric Scheuing]

Two stand out in particular to me.

"Interesting strategy. Let's see how it plays out."

"I'm afraid if we keep calling them balls, we may get too many suggestive comments out of you guys. From now on we're calling them SGO's (spherical game objects)."

I have some others, but they aren't exactly appropriate :rolleyes: .

[Schnabel]

This wasn't either during the build season nor is it from a FIRST anything, but I read a quote today that I thought was funny:
"The variables varied."

[NeedMoreEngines]

"Go look on the table and you'll find two pieces of cardboard that are this-thinged together. Bring it here." (it was a brass pin thing)

"Hey what should we use for the [CRITICAL ROBOT COMPONENT]?"
"We should use your mom 'cause she is ROLLIN'!!"
"Alright you've used up your one allowed Captain-Burn for this season."

"Hey can we just call these tube things Tetras from now on? It would make it so much easier."

check my sig. for a good one too.

[AV_guy007]

"ok guys heres the 2007 controller. please TRY not to break this one"
- was said the week after the programing port was ripped off the 2004 controller:eek:

[David]

"Thats 2/10ths of an inch" -One crazy mentor we had. (he is the guy hunched over in the background of the Kit of Parts page picture) he had about five rulers at all times that had 10ths and 3rds of an inch

[NoSkaOnTheRadio]

team 1757 has this box full of random screws and bolts (the "tetanus box"), and i realized during the prototype phase that we didn't have a similar box for nuts, and that we were actually running low on those. when someone asked today what else we should put on the shopping list, i said:

"we should probably get our hands on a bunch of random nuts, too."

that's only funny because i had no idea :ahh: it was funny when i said it.

[StephLee]

"So we score this tetra - I mean ball - I mean - the thing that looks like a supersized donut!" "The tube?" "Yes that thing..."

[Cuog]

Not robotics just funny(to me at least)

"I don't have anything against republicans... just Republican Policy" __Stephen Colbert

[Lkr220]

"Who took the big red saw into the Autoshop?"
"I did."
"Did you put it on the table by the window or the bench in the middle of the room?"
"I don't remember."
"You don't remember!? What's your name?"
"Leon..."
"Well, how do you remember that?!"

^^^ freshman do dumb things sometimes :p

[hallk]

"Come on guys, its not like its rocket surgery or anything"
said by another mentor at a stragery session

[pyr0m_1595]

2 days to ship date: "Hey guys, this doesn't work at all. We need to build this instead."

[ewankoff]

PAY MORE TENSION!! - our mentor while discussing chain tensioning issues

[JackN]

Tonight at a design meeting:"You can't see the far side for the tubes" instead of "you can't see the forest for the trees"

[litchi_chan]

(Whoa, I remember Chief Delphi!) Ahahahaha, great thread. Our driver spoke about how random members of the FRC team would do stuff to our 'bot...

"Our robot is like a $Lu7. Everyone's been in it!" <--- I'm sure a lot of you can relate to that. It's truuuue! XD

[katiyeh07]

"We should just build robots to build the robots."-Michele...a rookie.:rolleyes:

[Eric W. Jones]

"Check out those sexy transmissions!"

[Dancing_Chuck]

This has to work.
(At the competition...)
So.... Its working, right?
No, the robot caught on fire.
Oh...

[Zach Wydick]

me- "My cut was fine, it's the yardstick that was crooked..."

ya...that was a long day

[Mike200]

"I made it invisible, so I could see it better."

[Dancing_Chuck]

"So.... what?"

[Spark Hawk]

*At Six Flags event, calling the half of our team that was at lunch*

"Um... Yeah, we've got a problem... Pedro (our robot) broke..."

Response: "WHAT?!?!?!" (This was audible 5 feet away, no joke)

[Dancing_Chuck]

That is absolutely true.

[Spark Hawk]

More:

"That would make too much sense"

"I'd kill you for saying that, but there's too much paperwork."

"The camera's smoking. That can't be good."

"Yeah, every time we used the aiming system, we missed, so we stopped using it."

[Jaime65]

1 -

“what is this, what do it do” (student 1)
“i dont know you put it there” (mentor)
“your suppose to know” (student 1)
“well i dont know what it do play with it and find out” (mentor)
*student plays with it 2 minutes later*
“opps” (student 1)
*10 mins later*
“hey who did this” (student 2)

2 -

“hey thats another sound effect”

3 -

“this is a family show”

4 -

“hey were is our engineer” (student 1)
“i dont know i think he left” (student 2)
“oh well i need him” (student 1)
“lets go look for him” (student 2)
*students go walking around in search for our engineer and comes back 10 minutes later with no look*
“hey look at the white board” (student 1)
“student 2 looks at the board to find our engineer cellular phone and a message that reads “call me if you need me” (student 2)

5 -

“what about scouting”

6 -

“we said we was going to keep it simple” (student 1)
“oh screw that lets do cool and complex” (mentor)
“okay!” (student 1)

7 -

“go back to the bolt bin this bolt if the wrong size”

8 -

“why” (engineer)
“because thats the only one i know” {student}

9 -

“thats so absurd”

[Matt Krass]

Hartford Regional

Me: No no, that number is too big, let's halve it
Mark: Alright...
(five minutes later our robot turns exactly half the distance it should have and proceeded to hammer the goal with 10 balls right next to the opening)

SBPLI Regional

Me: Whoo we scored 8 in autonomous, if only I could get the tracking working
Mark: I put the tracking in two matches ago, it does work
Me: What?! It's not done!
(Apparantly I had finished it late at night, with no memory of doing so...)

[RichardJames]

"Triangles, they are the best." -Lange

[crafty]

"What month is it again?"

[MattLi]

Kevin: What's our plan? We've had 2 weeks (after build season) to come up with an effective strategy. Let's hear it MattLi

MattLi: Umm we don't....

Kevin: HOW CAN WE SPEND SO MUCH TIME PLANNING AND NOT HAVE A PLAN?!?!?!

[yoshi1319]

OH... These ...:)



"ARE YOU STUPID ANDREW?"
"ARE YOU STUPID KYLE?"
"ARE YOU STUPID DOUG?"
"ARE YOU STUPID TREVOR?"
"ARE YOU STUPID ABE?"
"ARE YOU STUPID JEV?"
"ARE YOU STUPID MARTY?"
"ARE YOU STUPID NICK?"

and last but not least, "BEMIS, YOU ARE SO STUPID!"

This one is totally my favorite.

[synth3tk]

A personal favorite that came up today during build:

"Legos are like plastic duct tape"

[Mike200]

"Watch out! Anyone of these people could be hot dog vendors in disguise."

Tim hides inside couch
Mike C walks in
Tim starts speaking
Mike C: Why is our couch talking?
Mike C walks out
Boyle hides in couch with Tim
Mike C walks in
Tim and Boyle both speak
Mike C: Why does our couch have multiple personalities

"We should start an AutoCAD clan"

Steve: Look how cool this image that I made is.
Eric: Are you going to put it on the website?
Steve: No.... I was thinking more of putting it...... on the website.
Eric: Did I not just say that?
Mike: Eric, stop stealing Steve's ideas.

"If we could move this, I could be in there"

"How are people suppose to know that 29 is greater than 27?"

"Why are I getting umlats over my A's?"

"Can I borrow your antenna?"

[StephLee]

Remember how last year, there were so many jokes with the word "balls"? Well, our team has started doing the same thing with "rack."


"Our robot finally has a rack..."
"A huge rack, too!"


"Hey, stop touching the rack!"


I have a feeling it will only get worse...

[Cuog]

While watching the kickoff video(on kickoff) "Nice Rack!" and so it began...

[efoote868]

During our 2nd strategy/design meeting, a question was asked:

person 1: "And we'll have the arm go to preset heights, so the driver won't worry"
person 2: "Foote, can we program it to do that?"
me: "Just give us the hardware and we'll be able to program it to do anything."

[Alex Burman]

"Why does it smell like bad?" as we did some work on our old 2001 robot

[Otaku]

"Don't let the smoke out of the robot, or else the electronics won't work."
"...What smoke?"
"The magical smoke that make electronics work."
"Oh, okay."

(Conversation between me and Ken, a mentor. He was talking about the smoke.)



"Okay, now turn that handle.... uh.... thirty-two times."

(Me talking at somebody who was milling.)



"I hate burs." *Spins a power drill on high speed with a reaming bit in it*

(Me talking to Connor, one of the other Chassis members)


"Farbon Ciber"

(Random 675 saying)


While watching the kickoff video(on kickoff) "Nice Rack!" and so it began...

When that one dude kept saying "The game" a lot of 675 members kept groaning and making their distress public.


While talking about reservations for the San Jose regional:

"We can't go anywhere else than Motel 8! It's like a tradition for 675! Not to mention, all the hookers downstairs and the wild, fake sex in the bathroom!"

Then another person chimed in, after we were talking about how we all went to denny's:
"Wait, you all went to Denny's? Oh yeah, I remember that. I actually went to sleep, then I woke up and I was like "You went WHERE? WITHOUT ME?""

[Otaku]

Me: "How come the transmission smells funny?" (I said that when assembling the CIM/56mm Transmission, the grease or whatever BaneBots uses smells funny Dx)

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Me: "Okay... so. I'm three thousandths of an inch off. Nobody will know."
*Later, when assembling a part on to the transmission assembly*
Me: "Balls. That hole is three thousandths of an inch off."

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Mentor: "Always leave 1/32nd for human error."

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Me: "Where the hell is Blake?"
Somebody else: "He went to a LAN Party last night. Either he's gaming or sleeping."
Me: "Well then, we make decisions without him."

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Cecily: "I want to burn that hat. Can I burn the hat?"

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Shawnie: "The hat is evil. It gets like a foot away from you and it's all like "Hello, I am a hat."


(All hat references are referencing Team 100's mascot, a giant orange and black hat.)

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Robin: "Cambot, you're a nub. A nubby nubby nub nub nub."

(Robin Davis talking to our Camera Bot)

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Me: "It would be so hilarious if somebody jumped out of the crate yelling "LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEROYYYYYYYYYY JEEEEEEEEEEENKIIIIIIIIIIINS!"."
Somebody else: "Shut up, Baker."

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Robin: "Burninated!"

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Me: "Oh woah woah woah, The mill is in eighth inch increments?"
Mentor: "Uh... yeah...What do you think .125 is?"
Me: "I dont's know maths!"

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Somebody else: "Yeah, and they'd pay for transportation to Atlanta, too."
Me: "Heh. We'd probably fly. With snakes."

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More later ;)

[mizscience]

Britnie: "Can I turn it on?"
Phil: "It's very hard to turn it on."
Koza: "It takes a special skill to get those on."
Kenny: "Especially those older ones..."
[Britnie proceeds to turn on the 3yr old compressor]
Koza: "She's got the special touch."

One of many, many more :D

:]

[trilogism]

"Now I can't stress enogh the importance of not wasting time during the build season"
Three hours later
"Now I can't stress enogh the importance of not wasting time during the build season"

[Otaku]

Mentor: "You can't mill with the drilling chuck!"

(It's true, we tried, and ended up making a rifled hole in our aluminium... it looks cool...)

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Weaver: "So what, should we put that pizza in the fridge?"
Me: "Nah, just leave it on that table overnight."
Weaver: "Alright."
Me: "Besides, I'll eat that for breakfast tomorrow."

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Brian: "We should name our robot 'Bess'."
Me: "Why?"
Brian: "So at the competiton, we can say 'Blocked by Bess!'"

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Me: "I need the digital-ey slide-y measure-y thing-y."

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More later ;)

[geeknerd99]

Laura: "Hey, this drill smells... bad"
Me: "Like, ozone?"
Laura (hands over drill): "Here, smell it"
(Smells like ozone)
Me: "Smells like ozone alright. Just like my egg beater"
Laura: "Eggbeaters aren't supposed to smell like that."

(Laura was under a ladder)
Me: "Turn around. No bad luck for you"
(Laura backs up and hits her head on a spider arm)

Not quite a quote, but somebody on my electronics team was crimping a terminal onto the battery-gauge wire, and he held it vertically to crimp, by the crimping tool. He had already crimped it down before he realized that the wire had fallen out first.

[dmurdz]

During lunch Saturday:

Mark (a mentor): Dan, did you wash your hands before eating?

Me (Dan): No, I don't need to. During the Build Season, I eat enough iron here at Robotics so that I don't need to eat any more spinach at home.

Mark: We are working with mostly aluminum.

Me: Oh, I'm going to wash my hands then.

[StephLee]

One of our mentors is very adamant about not just jumping in with a design unless you've run the numbers, so it's become a sort of saying with us:

"Oh wait, I'm sorry, I haven't 'run the numbers' yet."

"Nope, I'm not listening until you run the numbers. Try again."

"Ookaaay...you run those numbers, then we'll talk."

So now, whenever someone says it, the mentor who started it asks "Alright, what can I throw this time..."



Devynn - "Three doesn't divide equally when dealing with humans, does it?"



Parent - "There's a lot of pizza going into this endeavour, isn't there?"



*after the second slashed tube*
Mr. Phil - "Okay, you're all on official tube tossing restriction..."



*loud obnoxious clanging noise* "Okay, this time, I'll admit that was me. My bad!"



"Is there any pizza left?"
"...no."
"We just got it ten minutes ago!"
"Exactly. It's been ten minutes."
*so that was about three minutes per pizza*

[synth3tk]

Me: Hey, hand me the whatcha ma-jig for the thingie-mabob.

[Gabe]

"Look at this, it's a team that's even more insane than we are!"

[Libby K]

Katie [aka Horsegirrl]: hand me the watcha-ma-call-it-thingy-doo-bob...
Kay: You mean the rachet?
Katie: ......yeah. that.

Katie and I were wearing the tubes...we had a pushing match [video to come]
Katie: RED ALLIANCE!
Me: BLUE ALLIANCE!
Katie: RED ALLIANCE!
Me: BLUE ALLIANCE!
Matt [wearing black] :........SPOILER! *pushes katie to the ground*


hoo boy, do i love my team. more to come, i'm sure.

[Otaku]

During an AIM Conversation...:

TheBornOtaku: If the robot ever breaks, we'll fix it.... WITH COPIUS AMOUNTS OF MACARONI AND CHEESE!

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

Me: Who would you rather have do your milling? A CNC Machine, or a badass dude in a black trenchcoat?
Brian: A CNC Machine.
Me: Oh, gee, thanks.

[Mister_Juggles]

*while piecing together a prototype of what has come to be known as the "tuber scooper"*
Me: No Thomas! [He's a freshman] You have to hold this piece up tight against the crossbar so it doesn't slip.
Thomas: What? I thought it was just a prototype, it doesn't really matter.
Me: No, Thomas. We have to be very, very precise when working, even with prototypes. That's why we're using this duct tape instead of bolts.

[robotguru1717]

"I guess its not mo-fo!" -Instructor

"Moderate your kinkiness"

"Steven you're about to get pwned!"

"I'm being optically raped"

"SHAKE THE RACK!!"

"Richard is watching you"

"Just rain on my cloud"

[synth3tk]

To me: "Oh yeah, Devin (main programmer) wants you to try and program the camera"

Me: "Doesn't anyone else here know how to do it?!?"

"Nope."

"Oh well, guess I can try my hand at it"

[later]

Me: "Oops, hope Devin doesn't kill me when he finds out I screwed up the code."

"Just tell him it was all Nick's fault!"


I got it calibrated so the servos are zeroed, but still can't figure out how to make the stinkin thing follow the light.

[cgredalertcc]

"I made it invisible, so I could see it better."

I've done this one before lol curse you inventor and your visibility options.

[BQuennell]

"That's a woman"?
"I understood what you said but that made no sense"
"Gription"
"We need to recut this piece longer"
"Turn up the heat baby"
"Clearly you have no idea about electronics, what with the wires the milliamps and the stuff"
"How do I make a 45 degree angle"?
"longness"
"So you were in the army?
-Yeah
-What years?
-71-73
-so was that like WWII or something"?
"We'll fix it in programming"

We say a lot of dumb things, I more than most.

[synth3tk]

Our main programmer, Devin, couldn't make practice the other day.

"Hey, David. Devin wants you to try and program the camera"

Me: "Um, I don't know how to do it. Anyone else here want to try?"
.....
"Alright, I'll try my hand at it"

[later]

"Uh-oh, I forgot to make a back-up file! Devin's gonna kill me when he finds out what I did!"

"Don't worry. Just blame it on Nick!"

[Juliet]

as we were thinking about the game we did a mini game i was a human player matt was the robot and we had two "bots" aka peeps as defense and a human player rack. i would put the intertube on matt he would go for the arms then the legs then and remeber being blocked by two defenses i yelled go for the heads. so if your at a regional and here someone yell go for the heads too 1390s robot just know it means the top of the rack.:yikes:

[Juliet]

how old do you think the pizza is in the fridge.

hhhmmmm well its not green yet


okay who wants some pizza *guys dodge to the box*


anyone sick yet



nope

[Cuog]

"So Jared what's your opinion on that"__joey
*Jared with his finger in his mouth* "I whyike wats"


"So are you with me on that Jared?" __Joey
"No" __Me
"Yes..." __Joey
"YAY!" __Jared

[Libby K]

We were testing our vacuum system, and it FINALLY worked...

me: OH MY GOD GUYS! WE SUCK! YAAAAAAY!

....whoops.

[JBotAlan]

Keep in mind these mentors are...lets say older than 30:

"So, how are you doing on the chassis?"
"We pimped it good!"
(everyone cracks up)

Later that night; remember that I'm the only programmer with enough experience to do anything on our team.

"So, is everyone happy with their subteam assignments?" - Rory
(5 seconds later, when everyone is silent)
I slam my fists as hard as I can on the table and yell "I DON'T WANNA PROGRAM" as a joke.
Everyone cracked up because the possibility I would get out of this now is zero.
(Rory, clicking his Gerber multi-tool out) "Which tooth should we pull first? How much do you value your fingernails?"
Another team member "How about water torture?"


Denny, repeatedly to me "So, are we hanging in autonomous with the camera yet?" even though we don't even have a robot with manipulator built yet.

JBot

[StephLee]

Me: Those are not good noises...
Devynn: And neither are those faces...


Phil: Why didn't you wire the lights together and run them off of one battery?
James: Because everyone was telling me not to!
Phil: ...And you listened to them why?
James: It was 10 against 1.

[DHarris]

My teammate and I were sitting inside the rack waiting for some washers and nuts, and we had this short conversation:

Her: "Hmm, y'know, this would make a nice bed."
Me: "They make octagonal sheets?"

[geeknerd99]

We were joking about trying to put a keeper on the other team's side, just to freak them out.

Warren: i think you should be able to get to the goal on your side faster than the other team's
Me: of course, but that's why we have a wormhole machine

[amos229]

Reminiscing about 06 driving at the championship this quote came across my mind.
"Amos, our shooter broke, again, our brake is shot, hit stuff" This was said in the best defensive intentions. Carn thanx for 2 mins of some good defense.

[ahoppe]

Andy you're a moron...I know that's why I'm a mentor:yikes: !

Andy! you're a mentor, not a tormentor!!!

[paulcd2000]

"we have blades on our robot?! SWEEEEEEEEET"

[raymaniac]

"How did you crash MSpaint?!?"-Me and others
(technically before build season, but oh well)

"I killed the computer again."-Me

"Not a life saving device"-On the tube, we have had too much fun with that

"-0.0 is a value?!"

"How do I do [whatever]?"
"You press Alt+F4"
"No, really"
"Press F1 and search for [whatever]"
"It's not helping"

"That doughnut looks like it was made from pond scum"
(note: not a real doughnut, one I made on 3ds max)

[Nuttyman54]

-"the density of our compressor is in lb-ft sec^2 per inch....?"

[cgredalertcc]

"Its too short, go cut it again" -Yours Truly

[Chuck Glick]

"Ouch." - by me, many times this year

[mormannoob]

Adam- "Angled aluminum is not meant to be bent into straight pieces."

[mormannoob]

sal- "if you can build it we can program it"
"if true = !false then true = peanut butter

[Arkorobotics]

Looking at feedback from the robot on the computer "What the heck is that suppose to mean!?!?"

"Ya! the robot is on go!!" ... "Then why is it showing me no radio data?"... "Oh, the robots not on!"

[synth3tk]

Devin: "What's the point of safety glasses if they're on top of your head?"

[Joe G.]

Durring our first brainstorming session
Me: Well, we want our robot to be able to drive around
John: Okay, lets look into the pros and cons of that

[synth3tk]

Devin: "I the way it has the splats on it"

Me: I like it cause it's got that homemade feel"

Bryan: "That's because it is homemade"

Me: "Ok"

[meiv4]

If you can make it weigh negative pounds that would be best.
Well then fill it with helium.

[zander_108]

"uho..."

[Sharkbyte]

When the head programmer (and my very good friend) saw the new (upsized) radio:
"Why is it so huge? It's all...rawr."

[Nuttyman54]

in reference to drafting supplies:
"why are all our squares triangles?"
"because that's how our squares are shaped"

[Libby K]

Our school-appointed advisor was trying to understand the game, and mostly the whole 'swingy-swishy', as he called it, part of the rack.

"Wait, so this thing's gonna react like Jell-O!"

at this point, Big Mike and I look at each other, and I mouth "Jell-O Game!" and burst out laughing.


[edit]

also, we were cutting a piece of our frame, and somehow there was a shortage of safety goggles.

"just cover your hands with your eyes!....er....uhm....scratch that, flip it around, k, we got it.'

[Pyro]

From senior Electronics leader to noobie:
"Yea thats a great idea. If this board bursts into flames, lets poor mountain dew on the electrical fire."

"Hm.... no way around that. Lets just hope it doesnt explode."

"Wait, so putting 12v strait through an aligator clip was a bad idea?"

[WahooWa]

"It is a guaranteed fact that at least one rookie team will name their robot 'Chuck Norris'."

This is Hysterical.

The number one quote to have said by any Team 476 member is "YOU ARE RIGHT"...currently the score is

Mentors-1
Students-6

YEAH!....We rock....:D

[Storcky]

"You took away my right click!"
- a student forced to work on a Mac

[65_Xero_Huskie]

Ken: "Why are you wearing BOTH tubes?"
Carmichael: "Because 1 is NOT a life saving device, so 2 would work"

Ken: "I dont really know how to do it, i just know enough to fake it."

Team Member: "How long has that battery been charging ken?"
Ken: "Only since I put it on there (running to battery) Last night....."

Ken: "Hold down the Prog. Button"
Me: "ok, its solid"
Ken: "Ok, im going to download, im glad these have been fixed so you dont have to retry over and over"
--Computer-- Failed to Download
Ken: "...Maybe there are still a few problems"

Ken: "And the company name is Cross The Road Electronics"
Jaime: "I dont get it...."
Ken: "Copioli brother?..."
Jaime: "Oh..the chicken guy with you at kickoff"

[synth3tk]

Me: (Reading the label on tube) "It Says 'Warning: This Is Not A Lifesaving Device.' So does that mean if there's a fire, it won't save me?"

Nick: "Yeah it will. You just have to put it on your face like this"

[Stuart]

me: any thing left on the drink shelf?
Adam: nope just diet coke . . .
me: we got any mentos left?

me: "this bag is full of stale"

needless to say last week was a munchie week

[Athleticgirl389]

"Have you found that camera to send back yet?" - Super G
"Yes I did actually!" - Ashley
"We have another one in the cabinet." - Jon
"We do?" - Ashley
*Goes in cabinet* "Right here." - Jon
"No Jon. Not that kind of camera." - Ashley
"Digital camera." - Super G
"Oh. Well when I hear camera, I think sensor..." - Jon

We have more... conversations where interesting things are said than just single quotes lol.

[Jeremiah Johnson]

Dick: "Something has to be wrong... this is WAY too easy!" In reference to picking up and depositing the tubes. I don't get it either...

Dick: "I think it requires a 5mm hex."
Me: "METRIC?? Since when do we use metric parts on our robot?!" I didn't know the fasteners for 8020 were metric...

[Squishylizard]

Xander: "You think you have a good idea? Take it to the bandsaw."

[StephLee]

"What's with all this productivity going on? It's getting kind of scary..."



Me: "Okay, I'm off to the short end of the room." *our loft room has a sloping ceiling, so one end of it is dangerous to anyone over about 5'7"*

[Capn. Jake]

Jake: "Hey, why don't we add an extra ramp here..."
Fatman: "Nobody is going to want to drive their robot up and over the side.
Jake: "Come on, If i was driving i'd go up and over...
Corey: "yeah, you'd ramp the thing."
Jake: "Hey at least they'd probably give us Style Points...
Jordan (in backgroud): "Style Points!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!!!"

[Cuog]

"Everyone around here has lights. And they're all green. Except for the ones that are orange and purple." __joey(Mister Juggles)

[Mike Starke]

"That's what you get for playing with a CIM!"

[sojouner06]

1. Everyone shut up! For the last time, to use two monitors on one computer, plug in both monitors! (Adam to team)

1b. What if we dont have two monitors? (Kyle)

3. Do what Adam says! (Jason O. to the rest of the team)

4. You don't have to tell us when you need to take your pills; we already know. (Jason T. to Kyle)

5. Okay, what's the next quote? (Adam to Thomas)

Holy God! I weigh a lot!!! (Becky, weighing herself on our screwed up scale)

6. There's where my pants are!!! (Jason O. talking to himself)

7. Where's Kyle at? (Right next to Jason, Kyle raises his hand) Holy crap you're quiet! Are you all drugged up?!?!?

[Drwurm]

"A nut-driver is a screw-driver that drives nuts."-Me

Believe it or not, I wasn't trying to be funny there.

[Joe G.]

If you want the all time winner nut line:

"you guys are going to need more nuts" (not meant to be funny)

Another one
"Maybe we can convince the GDC to change the endgame task to sudden robot death"

[Choi9111]

*nick* "IM NOT NICK!!!"
*anonymous* " uhhh, is it bad if the wood is on fire?"

*caleb* " how can we make the robot fly?" *my response* " IM ASIAN, I CAN FLY!!! I'LL TEACH IT!!"
( yeah i said it on the spur of the moment...-_-)

[DHarris]

Me: "What's that smell coming from the motors?"
Charmella: "I dunno. Does it smell like smoke?"
Me: "YOU LET OUT THE MAGIC SMOKE?!"

[Choi9111]

1-"AHHHHHHH METRIC!!!"
2-"hahaha metric is your only weakness!"
1-"Yes metric combined with nuts, is my only weakness."

[Horsegirrl]

"Now, Katie, if you stab yourself to death with a screwdriver, DON'T sue the team, ok? cause if you do the sue transfers to the school, and they get mad and end 1923, JUST BECAUSE you killed yourself with a screw driver." - Paul

[cgredalertcc]

*a driver* All this talk about ramps and lifts is making me very afriad that in game is going to look like a robot cliff diving contest.

*all in the room* *audible gulp*

[=Martin=Taylor=]

We call our tube handler "the sucker"
(because of the way it picks up tubes (not a suction cup!))

This name has caused some very interesting exclamations :D

"Stop Sucking!"
"Suck more next time!"
"Suck less!"
"Keep sucking!"

Its pretty funny, especially since nobody means it:D

[Danielle H]

During an AIM Conversation...:

TheBornOtaku: If the robot ever breaks, we'll fix it.... WITH COPIUS AMOUNTS OF MACARONI AND CHEESE!


I think 393 has you covered on that.... We're basically living on 50-cent Easy Mac.... Mmm...

[Libby K]

One of our freshmen told us that TAG body spray takes sharpie off the kitbot pieces...so he tried it [not attached]....it worked, but it smelled pretty icky.

Me: 'Now our robot smells like a DUDE!!!'

Our programmers realized that none of the laptops available had a serial port...

Naveen: "Our computers need to suck more. No, really. "

[Mike Starke]

"Is it snowing outside?"

"No, it's just clear and foggy"

[Nuttyman54]

"If you throw that, I'll probably break up with you"
-Ruth to her boyfriend

[Cuog]

"Just cut and strip" __Mandy trying to get Matt back on task

We are horrible about stripper jokes, and it all started when we named our strippers

[raymaniac]

1:"Hey animation geeks..."
2:"Don't answer him. He called us geeks."
1:"Fine, animation nerds."
2:"Much better, now what do you want?"

[Sila741]

"We can just drill speed holes in the pneumatics!"

[BlondeNerd]

"This curly fry is amazing!" - there is an Arby's right down the street; the fry was about 10 in long.

As someone was stripping wire with a pocket knife:
Me: "There are strippers right there"
Teammate 1: "Kate's looking for strippers?!?"
Teammate 2: "No, she already knows where they are"
I guess I had that one coming.

[Nuttyman54]

overheard at team dinner:

"...because elephants are UFOs!"

[Matt21q]

Most commonly used sayings of team 810:
"guys... we gotta build the robot":mad:
" the parts cost how much?!?!?!:ahh:
"duch sauce" (inside joke)

[synth3tk]

Since I... assumed the position of safety captain, I've been doing my duties by telling them "As Safety Captain I don't condone that type of activity" and tell them why it's wrong. They're getting pretty annoyed by it.

[csi235]

"That can't be right. It makes too much sense."

"Remind me again: why are we doing this?"

"We may have to build the crate early, just so I can shove you in it. Don't worry, I'll put some air holes in. And some chips. Not any water, just chips."
"Cameron, STOP CALLING YOUR GIRLFRIEND!"
"Cameron, if that's your girlfriend, don't even think about answering it."

"What do you mean syntax error, there's nothing wrong with that l... stupid macros."
"What do you mean syntax error, there's nothing wrong with tha... stupid variables."
"What do you mean syntax error, there's nothing wrong with that li... stupid semicolons."
"Why is the code not worki... stupid longs. (changes %d to %ld)"
"Back to the future again! (kicking desk)"

"10 mi/h down. Only 60 to go!"

- "(leaving lab) That battery is just now getting close to being charged."
- "So?"
- "I put it on the charger nine hours ago."
- "Take it off before you leave."

- "I know why the manual said the Vex batteries need three hours to charge."
- "Why?"
- "The two-battery charger can only charge one battery at a time."
- "Brilliant."

[RDayan932]

Me-Hey Nick
Nick-I'm not Nick

[Jak DiGriz]

"I bet someone's going to make a thread about 'quotes' said during build season."

[MishraArtificer]

Something I wrote on the board at the start of the season that as far as I know is still there amongst all the other junk:

"You can build a perfect machine out of imperfect parts."

The mentors were somewhat less than amused.

[Blair Frank]

Engineering Mentor to Student:

"You might want to check the polarities of that (a 12v wall wart) before you plug it in, but that's just one man's opinion."

[EricH]

One of our mentors on Friday:
"It [fiberglass] is about half the weight of fiberglass..."
At that point, the walk-in freezer we were meeting in (don't worry, it was warmer than the rest of the build area) resounded with laughter.

[AdamHeard]

It worked in CAD..............

[Diriye]

During our FLL team's techincal presentation:

"Our mentors are like the backbone, and we're like...like...the hands!!!"

[Uberbots]

"I'm sure the software guys will come up with some sort of algorithm"
gah if i had a penny for every time i have heard that i would have a friggin Andrew Jackson.

[Cuog]

'Hey I can do thi-- oh @^*#%^" __Matt trying to juggle, he sort of had it though

"Something about falling hotdogs from the sky..." __Joey

"Purple cows are pretty pretty" __Jared

[Punkk242]

God $@#$@#$@#$@#$@#$@# (insert annoying person's name here)!!!!!!!!!!!

"Bubbles, you are banned from the WD-40!"

"OW!!!!! MY EYE!!!!!!!!"

"I need a rod and 2 nuts!" (Thats what she said!)

"ITS NOT A DRESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" (stop making fun of my WoW Warlock!)

[optimusfugii45]

this one came from our old friend jamie. when trying to boil some chili jamie said i bet it would cook faster with a drill. how he made that mistake i dont know but he said it.

[Kal-El]

Chris: (talking on phone) Mom, I'm right here.

[Éowyn]

Our team captain: "Only robotics people would prototype clothing."

Me: "HEEELLLPP!!" (said while running away from the person videotaping me):)

[65_Xero_Huskie]

"Are you going past the vending machine?"
"no."
--10 minutes later on another trip--
"Are you going past the vending machine now?"
"no."
--After coming back from the shop--
"Oh, we did pass the vending machine. YOu should come next time just incase"
"'Doh"

[Sharkbyte]

Shawger: "OK, we'll put the tower on PWM 06."
Eric: "Don't you mean PWM 6?"
Shawger: "No, I'm speaking in a higher degree of precision today."

[Éowyn]

"You have lettuce in your afro." :yikes:

[StephLee]

Random person not in robotics: So how's the robot going this year?
Me: ...It moves.

^This is my stock answer to that question, because if I say any more I'll babble for an hour.


James: So if we have a snow day tomorrow, we'll have a meeting, right?
Phil: Maybe...here, I'll make it easy. If you don't have school tomorrow, look at the webcam [in our building]. If there's a chair in the middle of the field, I'm here working.
James: Sweet.
Me: So we have a snow day meeting code now?
James: Pretty much yeah.

[trilogism]

"Flippo, we are way overweight, so we're going to need you to take out all the comments in your code

[Dave McLaughlin]

Quotes to date from Team 1983, The Skunkworks

> "We could cook these hotdogs faster with a drill" - Jamie
> "Ouch, I just ran into myself!" - Tedrick
> "That sounds like burning" - Branden
> Myself "How do we tell if its hot?" - ME
> "I have eyes that are visable!" - Branden > "Captin Obvious strikes again!" -Robert Steele in reply
> "It doesnt make sence untill you figure it out..." - Justin
> "We will talk more about that later..." - Robert Steele
> "Ya Know....No matter how hard we clap....they WON'T hear us in New Hampshire" - Justin (watching the kickoff live in Washington)

More to come as we still Have three weeks left...

[synth3tk]

After someone spills some powdered Kool-Aid on the laptop;
Me: "What are you guys doing?!? Get it off, it'll ruin the laptop! If the laptop goes 'Oh Yeah!' then we're in big trouble."


Mr. Jensen, another teacher, wonders why I'm holding my pant leg up.
"Well, it happened in a freak hacky-sack accident..."

It was true. We were having some... fun playing hacky sack waiting for Mr Armentrout to come back. Scraped my knee on some bricks on the wall.


Devin: "Spanish people are taking over TV! First it just started with one station. Fine."
Me: "But now they've got every program in English and Spanish!"

[StephLee]

Mentor: That doesn't seem like a very schmartness solution.

Same mentor: So if I say you're a boy-girl person it doesn't make much sense, does it?



Chris: I didn't mean to stab you that hard, you just stopped moving!

[litchfieldc]

Famous quote from our drive team
"Have you bled for the robot yet?"

[Dylan Gramlich]

my dad when we were making some tough choices....


"We have painted ourselves in a corner, we are like a ballerina painted into a corner and standing on two toes!"

[MattLi]

Some person(2): "We need to start building the ramp"
Me: "Noooo"
Some other person(1): The ramp can wait we have 5 weeks

Three weeks later

Me: Can we start building the ramp now
Person(1): I told you to get on that three weeks ago!!!

[Kiori]

Myself- *walks into robotics room* All hands on deck, man the Duct tape, load up the superglue, prepare for maintenance!

Friend- *bows* Anything else?

Myself- Bring me a Dr. Pepper!!!!

[underwood]

*cleaning spree*
alex: what is this stuff anyway.....
*reads*
alex: wtf? how do you get sinOMG?!?!?!

[royal_robotix]

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r97/cseeholzer/roboticscomicstrips.jpg

this went around during our build session!

[synth3tk]

Dave: "Well, what about the other two robots?" In regards to lifting at the end of a match

Devin: "We could just use magic!"

Me: "Yeah, put the magic rods right there!"

[horoponhorr]

Mentor: (Talking about the chassis): "Every time we do what Joe says, we have to take everything off!"

[Ctrl Alt Delete]

Mech Team: "How much longer are you guys going to need the robot for?"
Controls: "Maybe an hour at the most."
(5 hours later)
Controls: "Give us another hour."

[Hiteak]

Me: (on a scale weighing 119.4) I'm FIRST legal!

[Zero-Bee]

"Programming weighs too much."

"If our robot was a Transformer, would it be an Autobot or Decepticon?"

[sheltie234]

David: "What's it smell like?"
Emily: "Pure seduction!"

...There was a bottle of lotion being passed around...

[Zero-Bee]

"I am convinced that Zach is too stupid to die."

[Jaime65]

this is a general Saturday morning conversation between a engineer and a student

“im going to work on the robot now” (engineer)
“then what”(student)
“im going to wash my hands” (engineer)
“then what”(student)
“im going to have a bagel” (engineer)
“then what”(student)
“im going to have another bagel” (engineer)
“then what”(student)
“im going to work on the robot” (engineer)
“then what”(student)
“im going to wash my hands” (engineer)
“then what” (student)
“im going to have a bagel” (engineer)

..... and so on

[UnderDark]

This happened just 5 minutes ago...

Mentor: "I need some calipers."
Kid wanders off and comes back with a c-clamp.
Kid: "These are actually called c-clamps."
Mentor: "I know, but I want calipers."

[Steven_585]

Professional Gracism
:ahh:

[raymaniac]

Today there were many comments when someone took the balls out of some of the mice and started playing with them...

I've got balls!
Stop playing with those balls!
Give the mice their balls back!
You can't take mine, I've got an optical mouse :p

You get the general idea

[Cuog]

Well me and Joey were juggling cause we were waiting for the robot back so i could start programming again...

"Joey gimme your balls" __Me
"Get outta my pants you creep" __Joey
"I'm not in your pants, I forgot mine at home" __Me(I was referring to my juggling balls but either way it was funny)

[StephLee]

Professional Gracism
:ahh:

It's a mark of how tired I am that I didn't understand what was wrong with that at first...


One of our freshmen was trying to test the delay on the webcam in the corner of our loft, and he chucked a poof ball from last year over the railing...we hear...
"Ow, I've been poofed!!"
A mentor had been innocently climbing the stairs when he was maliciously brained by an errant poof ball.

[bhsrobotics1671]

me "you break my drill bit you buy it."
volunteer engineer "just deduct it from my salary!"


so thats our inside joke now
since no one is making any money

"just deduct it from my salary!"

[chrisstruttmann]

I have an entire page on the Team Voltage site dedicated to really stupid stuff I've said on the late nights under the extreme influence of caffeine.

Be gentle the site is still under construction... http://teamvoltage.org/struttmannquotes.shtml
All of the above were said in good context, they just didn't come out "right". My brain has a tendency to move faster than my mouth

"Or better yet, include pictures and diagrams." <-- Personal Favorite

--Chris

[R.Greene]

My sig.

[insomniac6688]

after almost cutting off his thumb, one of our mentors said this as he was gushing blood, "It's just a flesh wound."

"Close enough"

Well decide that in next weeks meeting

A file is a one way tool.

freshmen come file

Crap

Stairway to heaven or Highway to Hell?

This freaking penguin is stalking me! ( we were stalking a teacher with a penguin for about a week before his birthday. on his birthday we bought him all penguin stuff. :D )

Change the music, this is crap!

Lindley's on the chopsaw everyone duck and cover! ( this was after his third mishap on the chopsaw)

Wilson :Alright guys I'm a memory.
Me: Not a good one.
Wilson: Just for that I'm taking my I pod.
Me: I've got the same cd on mine.
Wilson: Fine I'll take yours too

[MishraArtificer]

after almost cutting off his thumb, one of our mentors said this as he was gushing blood, "It's just a flesh wound."

I believe the line was actually "It's only a flesh wound," but maybe your mentor isn't geeky enough for Monty Python and the Holy Grail...

[clean399]

"No wheels, no problem we the can fix it in programming."

[Mike Starke]

giggles telling me to go weld...


"2-3-1 GO!"

[Dylan Gramlich]

giggles telling me to go weld...


"2-3-1 GO!"

...giggles...

[StephLee]

I believe the line was actually "It's only a flesh wound," but maybe your mentor isn't geeky enough for Monty Python and the Holy Grail...

Or perhaps the sight of gushing blood is a memory inhibitor.

[Horsegirrl]

Me to another kid on our team "Okay, thats it, who lit the camera on fire?, your letting the magic smoke out"
Libby "Just open a window"
Me "But its cold out there"
Libby "No duh! its winter"

[Libby K]

Me to another kid on our team "Okay, thats it, who lit the camera on fire?, your letting the magic smoke out"
Libby "Just open a window"
Me "But its cold out there"
Libby "No duh! its winter"


i believe it was more like

*breathes in*
OH MY GOD. WHO LET THE MAGIC SMOKE OUT?!?!

my favorite response
'uhhmmm.....crap. we were hoping you wouldn't notice.'

[underwood]

"if it compiles, its a mechanical problem."

"if its not on fire, its a code problem"


*hammering in dowel pins, hits it wrong and it sparks*
"oo, ug make fire!!"

[jacob07]

This quote came after one of our mentors built this years game object: The Rack

Nice rack...How much'd it cost?

[Lord_Jeremy]

This was from when the programmers and I were trying to get a stupid Fischer Price motor to work properly:

Anthony: What?!! How is that PWM reading 4049?!!
Marc: I think I forgot to set the parameters for the PrintF. Yep, it's just outputting random values...


And yet another when I commented on Mitchell writing all of his code under the influence of Starburst. It has now become a running joke...

Me: What's that comment in your code... "This code was done with the help of SuGaR" Who's SuGaR, a friend of yours?
Mitchell: No... I was up late last night. I program best under the influence of starburst.
Me: What, starburst? What's that have to do with anything?
Mitchell: The sugar in starburst! I eat starburst for energy!
Me: Oh... I generally don't need caffeine-induced energy...
Mitchell: You idiot! There's no caffeine in starburst! I program best with sugar!

[Vikesrock]

"Do brownies conduct electricity?"

-A 2175 mentor after seeing students eating brownies around the plywood that was for the electronics board.

[Robo_Coyote]

Mentor: There is 12 inches in a foot and 60 seconds in a minute..... SO.......
Mentor: someone take care of them They were playing Grab-A$$!!!!!:mad:

[Cuog]

"ooooo crumple zones" __Alumni noticing the flimsy sides on the robot that will hopefully be changed soon before electronics get smooshed

[mormannoob]

not a quote during build seasons but it has some great logic in it
"if she wieghs as much as a duck,she is made of wood, and there fore.......A WITCH!!!!!"
lol i love monty python

[MChapman]

Student- "12 days left, and I can see the light at the end of the 5" by 5" tube. No wait...those were the holes that Tim drilled wrong!.."

[AndyB]

"Nothing is allowed to weigh anything!"
"Hey Mrs. Vertz! The robot weighs -26 lbs!"
"If you step on that cord, I'm gonna smash your toes with a hammer"
"You just shortened your life expectancy"
"If we do that, we need to put more shinny stuff on"
"Hold on, I need some breakfast first (opening up Mountain Dew)"

[Dylan Gramlich]

"its a robot not a train!"(about using different types of rollers)
"just use some constraint glue, that will do it."

[mormannoob]

"Hold on, I need some breakfast first (opening up Mountain Dew)"
lol
isnt that every team's breakfast

"Hey Emily i want to show you how to strip (referring to stripping wires)

[synth3tk]

Devin: (Regarding Sprocket Costs) "How much do they cost?"
Mr Armentrout: "A couple hundred."
Devin: "We have a $50,000 budget."
Me: "Yeah, I'm sure we didn't spend fifty-thousand on pizza and kool-aid!"

We have kool-aid every meeting.

[Dantvman27]

"One of these days, you are going to die, and i am going to laugh"

[Dantvman27]

"Thats what she said"


"You Can't Build the electronics board with a hammer!"





(two weeks later)"I Can't believe he built the electronics board with a hammer"


Q"Whats a gear tooth sensor"
A"It senses Gear teeth"


"If we did it right the first time, we went wrong some where"


"If it is too easy, then we didnt complicate it enough"


"If it aint broke, fix it till it is"


"STUPID FRESHMEN"


"New teams motto:'We Hate Murphy's Law!' "



Said atleast once by everyone:"That's It! I Quit!"

[synth3tk]

Me: "Wow, that was funny! Simply funny! It's almost like he did it on purpose."
Alex: "He did do it on purpose"

[Kiori]

*said atleast once a day by atleast 5 people*
When do we eat????

[waiakea2024]

"the code is perfect! i fixed it so the robot will move smoothly...okay well youd better move just in case..."

[thewhit]

" Did you want the measure ment to be 2 and 3/4 " or 3/4 and 2"? -Common sense doesnt apply to me team mate Foud:yikes:

[tyron256]

"Its Kenji's fault!" or " "J", you broke it!"
it usually isn't but as a joke they ended up being the ones to be blamed for everything.

[Athleticgirl389]

"STUPID FRESHMEN"

We kinda have one similiar to that...

Me - "MINIONS!!! What did you do?!"
Minion 1 - "Nick did it!"
Minion 2 - "Cole did it!"
Minion 3 - "Nugent did it!"
Minion 4 - "Yeah! Nugent did it!"
Minion 5 - "What did I do?"

Me - "So, if this fails, who are we blaming?"
Minion - "Nugent."

Also, our minions have caught onto inudendos:rolleyes: haha.

[waiakea11]

"Whoever you are, you should move because i have NO idea wha im doing....."

"Do you know what this wire does? Cause i dont, i dont even remember where it goes...oh well lets just plug it in anywhere and see which part of the bot goes shall we?"

Both said by the same person (our main programmer) while making our electrical nicer then it was before.

[waiakea2024]

"Yay! our robot is done lets drive it!" *bot circles out of control* *screams from everyone (including the instructer :P)*

[crafty]

Mentor- "What's your name again?"
Me- "Taylor."
Mentor- "That's a boy's name!"
Me- "No it's not."

[synth3tk]

Devin: "Is Dave going to Oakwood Hardware now? Cause I'm pretty sure they don't open til nine. Oh wait, it is nine."

[AndyB]

Me: "Hey AJ, where is my gearbox?"
AJ: "Sounds like its in the belt sander."

[SPurekar]

"It's still a lotta gray area"

"We operate in binary, but there are lots of mixed signals and gray area"

and finally...

“We don’t know what matters and what anti-matters, because we get sort of mixed signals due to the gray area.”

[vic burg]

I have quite a few:

((said when some of our other team members were recording something else. It's quite funny.))


Mentor:"I know it is!"
((Student 2 was talking to himself))

Over lunch, there was also a conversation with some inuendos that were interesting:

Student 2:"Hey, I don't know what your thinking about but we're talking about our pizza."
Mentor:"So was I." XD

Yeah... our team is pretty um... interesting this year.
XD

[Torboticsmember]

"Andrew! You did it wrong!"

"It's Robert's Fault!"

"Mr. Epperson's a lame old man... is that thing on 9referring to a video camera that was recording)"

[Sharkbyte]

While downloading code:
"Hey, do you think if I stand on the cable, the code will download slower?"

While wiring: (Note: John=programmer, Eric=Electrical)
John: "It's not working."
Eric: "Maybe it's a bad wire."
John: "Maybe it's not programmed correctly."
Eric: "Programmed wires?"
John: "Yep, you can overclock them too."
Eric: "Overclocking them in the sense of running too much current through them? I guess it's like overclocking a processor then, it gets hot, starts on fire, and then things start blowing up."

[StephLee]

Erik: Why is there a bag on the control panel?
James: It's covering the switch of randomness, I keep flipping it and it confuses me.


(After half the claw fell off during testing) Awww, it's got a boo-boo! Bring it here, let me kiss it...

[Punkk242]

during one day that the entire team was elsewhere in the school, we were leaving the school, and our captain looked towards the building to see that people were still there. we found out that it was just 1 student withone of our mentors.

one ofour new guys had this to say:

"OMG, They're up there all alone, and they are trying to figure out how to use the 11 inch pistons."

[Pirate_Nelly354]

Something I said while going to robotics:
"Ok, let's go prove people wrong.....let's go build a robot."

[James Mullenax]

'ello guvna.


Every five seconds. I love that commercial.

[Mister_Juggles]

(on the topic of ideas for what I want to go into in college) "Well, I figure that if I end up being really bad at physics, all German-speaking countries are removed from the face of the earth, and I become severely allergic to the brass used in trumpets... I could always go into creative writing."

[chris31]

Mentor (Vietnam Vet): "It just has to be as good as a hand grenade."

[Sharkbyte]

Electrical subteam motto: "Unless it's on fire, it's the programmers' problem"

[Tetraman]

"Will you stop throwing snowballs at the rack numbers!?"