"Quotes" that were said during build season

[rlounds]

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"If one of the arrows is backwards the ball won't know where to go!"
-our team captain to me and one of our alumni when we bent the metal for iur intake the way the CAD told us too.

[TheModMaster8]

Programming mentor: Why are you sitting on the power junction box? (supplied all the electricity to the pits) It has about 300 amps in it

Me Because I like to be the most powerful guy here.

(our shooter was a horizontal wheeled shooter ex.( 0___0 ) 0's are wheels)
Me: imagine if we sucked someones face into this!
programming mentor: Yeah, once they're in there we can spin one of the wheels forward and the other backwards, snapping their neck...
Me: *laughed so hard*

[SpoonMechanic]

“Whenever I see a hole, I just need to find something to jam into it” -girl on build team.
“Left hand people are just wrong” -Our left handed coach.
"port-ack-yulus" -Co-captian discussing defences at kickoff.
"When in doubt, jiggle" -Attachments driver vigorously jiggling our pull up arm.
"I got so excited I hit you in the head!" -When a prototype worked.

[Twepeler]

Me: "I like my Mascot costume, it's private and the fan soothes me."

[ARampantBrian]

Our operator to our driver after the robot was stuck on a ball during nearly the entire match:
"Come on [driver], you at least owe that boulder a nice dinner after you sat there and humped it all match."

[maxnz]

One of our members was talking about work today, and one of our coaches said that "money is good".
The team member's response was "But money isn't as good as robotics"

[smitikshah]

Student 1: "Are you sleeping on the bumper...?"
Student 2: "Yup I think he's trying to nap on the bumper."

[NickKerstens]

"Who ate all the timbits again?"

*two weeks later*

"Cham! Stop eating all of the timbits! We know it's you"

*two years later*

"Cham! Stop eating the food!"

[StephenKohnle53]

"Oops we broke another defense"

"Thats the first time you drove over the moat and rockwall, How did you break it already. Now I need to rebuild for the seconf time!!!!"

"Dont forget the butt plugs, I mean aluminum tube plugs"

"And its markiplier..."

[BinaryWork]

One of our team members had pumped a wheel too much and it exploded. A container holding rubbing alcohol burst and the immediate response was "was that another wheel!"

[jlindquist74]

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.

I hope the DJ was quick enough to play that...

[blackbrandt]

At robotics meeting.... Discussing what we need to do.
Mentor: We gotta make a video for nVidia tonight.
Me: ...
Me: ...
Me: So we need to make an Nvideo?
Other mentor: Stop that.

[GeeTwo]

At robotics meeting.... Discussing what we need to do.
Mentor: We gotta make a video for nVidia tonight.
Me: ...
Me: ...
Me: So we need to make an Nvideo?
Other mentor: Stop that.

So will this video get so many plays that it becomes famous? Perhaps so many that it will be not only famous, but Nfamous (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIGtHhAfe8w)?

[Joy4201]

"Umm, Autodesk is saying it is going to take 1155 days and 116 hours until the download is complete but it said 784 days and 9 hours two minutes ago. Is that a problem?"

[GeeTwo]

"Umm, Autodesk is saying it is going to take 1155 days and 116 hours until the download is complete but it said 784 days and 9 hours two minutes ago. Is that a problem?"

A: Only if we want to compete this year.

[Cothron Theiss]

"So how are the designs going?"

"Well, it's taking longer than expected, which was to be expected."

"What?"

[fovea1959]

In the car on the way back from IRI:

"... and when my friend found out I was on the robotics team, she wanted me to build her a demonic robot army to take over the world..."
very quiet thoughtful voice from back: "...but... what about gracious professionalism?"

[GeeTwo]

"Three bolts in a triangle is much more stable than one bolt in a dot."

[QuatroDoesGood]

Whenever we were about to do something risky for the robot we would ask our mentor for more elaboration on how to complete the task. He would respond with "Very Carefully" no matter what it was.

[Ringo5tarr]

"I'm SCREWING"
"Thank robot Jesus"
"Please put your forms on the modem" (referring to a desktop)
"Reeeeeee"
"you sanded off yoda's face"

[Ringo5tarr]

"Reeeeeee"

Some people asked about this, the answer is very simple

Our lead programmer uses 4chan

[ShIfTiNgBoT]

"The worst thing I can do is dro- oh crap I dropped it."

-Me, in all me grace.

[gixxy]

A: Only if we want to compete this year.

ExpandedA: Or the following year.

[GeeTwo]

"So, because we have a problem, we don't have a problem"

(CAD made it look like there was not enough room for a chain tensioner, but because there was slack in the chain, there is, indeed, enough room.)

[WinterPoet]

So I don't know how many people on my team caught it (after a certain point, everything anyone says makes as much sense as gas station sushi) but I accidentally started calling my safety glasses "safty galasses" and had to remind myself not to refer to them as that at an actual competition.

Other highlights include:
"Perry did it!", even though Perry was rarely there, let alone actually screwing stuff up.

"All praise the demon cross!!!" said in reference to the electromagnet in the shape of a cross that someone (it's still a mystery) hung from the ceiling.

"Who's running the Facebook!?!" We still don't know who is successfully running our Facebook. It sent my mother an event invite to our parent meeting and we have no idea who is running it. We've decided it's the demon from the cross XD.

[GeeTwo]

"Perry did it!", even though Perry was rarely there, let alone actually screwing stuff up.

Oh, there you are, Perry!

(OBTW, we had a Perry for three years; he's at left as viewed in my WAI)

[WinterPoet]

Oh, there you are, Perry!

(OBTW, we had a Perry for three years; he's at left as viewed in my WAI)

Our Perry joke started after he walked around in a Perry the Platypus hoodie and made a little girl cry. We apologized to the sweet thing, as well as her mother who thankfully thought it was funny as we did, but we still make fun of him for that.

[legts]

"We will seduce potential sponsors with puns!"

[Ringo5tarr]

"I now crown myself KING CRIMP"
"Only work with the best strippers"
"You're not assistant lead, you're CO assistant lead"
*assorted references to drinking solder water*

[Christopher149]

Said during last year's FTC season: variations of "set screws suck" and "I hate set screws".

[LFPneumatic]

- Its gonna go "foomp foomp foomp" (said by a student explaining how the scaling arm would move around a lot)

- The wheels on the robot go "crash crash crash" (said in response to repeated destruction of the pneumatic wheels)

[beijing_strbow]

Person 1: It doesn't fit.
Person 2: Can you be more specific?
Person 1: The shaft doesn't fit in the hole.

[WesleyK]

From our senior member last year
"Duck tape doesn't fix everything : ( , but it helps"

He wrote that on a Plexiglas sheet that broke on our robot during our very first regional, we have that sheet hanged up on our wall.

[abigailthefox]

P1: do we want to do it fast or do we want to do it right?
P2: (mentor A) is in charge, so we'll do it fast, and then do it over four times

"you can't stand still...I feel like you were once a mountain goat"

"free stuff from the part of kits"

"my middle finger is going to be so worn out by the end of a season with you"

"woodie flowers and his derpy little ponytail"

"you're doing ok!...ish"

[Jono37]

After alliance selections at Aus regional

*Gets handed replacement robot and time-out slips*

"Great! Now who was meant to bring the photocopier?"

[GeeTwo]

Said during last year's FTC season: variations of "set screws suck" and "I hate set screws".

Me, today, at a 364/3946 demo at a NASA Curiosity event, regarding a set screw: "Yes, it felt important when I stepped on it."

[ltates]

"Who disassembled the drivetrain AGAIN?" Our drivetrain went through 5+ versions and was disassembled wayyy too many times

[kylemikableh]

"Is this safe to breathe?"
"Probably not."
I asked the build captain this when we were sawing Plexiglas. We never did put on a mask...

[GeeTwo]

"Is this safe to breathe?"

Just Thursday, me again: Yes, you may use some cleanup of the rags to stain the bench, but OUTSIDE, and not at the end of a build session.

Tonight, on our slack channel: "Dremel is the last refuge of the incompetent" (with apologies to Salvor Hardin and Isaac Asimov)

[planetbrilliant]

So I don't know how many people on my team caught it (after a certain point, everything anyone says makes as much sense as gas station sushi) but I accidentally started calling my safety glasses "safty galasses" and had to remind myself not to refer to them as that at an actual competition.



A girl on our team did a small presentation once and every time she wrote the word safety, she misspelled it as saftey. It became a kind of in-joke on our team, if you say 'safety' you will be corrected until you say 'saftey'.

[TheMagicPenguin]

*When putting grease on anything* "The bigger the glob the better the job."

Mentor: "This part isn't to critical so it can be half assed"
Student: "Sweet I'm the king of half assing!"

"Looks good enough for the girls I go out with"

"Why is the ratchet moving that way. That shouldn't happen"

[bobbysq]

"I HAVE A BUTT"
-Me, April 2016

(To clarify, I found an electrical butt connector while someone was in the pit across the way looking for one after some of our Powerpole crimps failed.)

[Thayer McCollum]

"It's really ghetto... but it'll work!" -Every 159er Ever-

[GeeTwo]

...these three put the "harm" in "harmony"

Oh, momma! (like Johnny Bravo) (We have a male team member who does powerlifting, has blond hair in a big-on-top style not too much unlike Johnny Bravo's, and has become known as "team mom").

[Bo8_87]

"Who plugged the motor into the PDP?" :ahh:

[logank013]

A girl on our team did a small presentation once and every time she wrote the word safety, she misspelled it as saftey. It became a kind of in-joke on our team, if you say 'safety' you will be corrected until you say 'saftey'.

A programmer who was on our team last school year for stronghold (graduated last school year) was drawing a picture on the board during game breakdown right after kickoff. He drew a circle and we couldn't tell what it is. He then proceeded to say "Can't you tell!?! It's a boulder!" and then spelled it out on the board "B-O-L-D-E-R Boulder".

[EricH]

During a recent offseason...

Backstory: Due to a shortage of teams, the #1 alliance needed to randomly draw one eliminated semifinalist so they could play the finals 3v3. So, they sent out one representative to do the random draw, and who was blindfolded prior to drawing a boulder from the box of boulders with team numbers.

MC: *holding up five fingers* How many fingers am I holding up?
Rep: Umm... Five?
Head Ref: *turns towards scoring table* All right, who supplied the blindfold?

[JayNico]

A girl on our team did a small presentation once and every time she wrote the word safety, she misspelled it as saftey. It became a kind of in-joke on our team, if you say 'safety' you will be corrected until you say 'saftey'.

Arrrgh my team did the same thing but several years before I joined. In our glass cabinet at our school where we store our awards and various other things, there was list of things that we were involved in. Of course, "saftey" was one of them. Nobody noticed until last year, or at least nobody said anything. At least it was in a reasonably out of the way place. :o

[JayNico]

"You're to smurfs what Michael Jackson is to white people."

"How would I forge my own signature?"

"You young'uns these days...I can't keep up with you and your...hippity-hop."

"Were potatoes even invented in 1946?"

"What is that? Is that that Daft Punk song?"
"That's the motor."

"Does it say in the rules that having your robot on fire is illegal? Hey, you show me where it says in the rule book that I can't have my robot be on fire."

"Does butter count as a fluid? Can I build a robot out of butter, is that legal?"

[Sparky Jell-0]

This was said to me by a close friend of mine when I was about to go to the shop to machine a part, and almost forgot my safety glasses.

"Hey Jello!"
"What?"
"It's dangerous to go alone. Here take this!" *hands me my safety glasses*

[logank013]

We were at the Indiana FIRST forums on Saturday. This year, it was in one of Purdue's chemistry buildings. Obviously, there were periodic tables hanging from everywhere. Someone from behind me said something along the lines of

"If we need to use the periodic table while building a robot, I think we've taken it too far."

[GeeTwo]

...and don't be brain dumb.

Veteran student's impromptu safety chat during a build on Saturday.

[ctt956]

First off, I want to congratulate the OP of this thread, Jherbie53. On February 23, 2016, this thread turned 10 years old! :D Now for a quote...

Student 1(to Student 2): "Do you know how to eject a flash drive?"
Student 2: "Yes..."
Student 1: "Eject the flash drive!"
Mentor: "Enject or inject the flash drive?"
Student 1: "Do NOT inject the flash drive!"

[JackJohnIII]

"Wisdom is strength and strength is wisdom"

[domot]

Yelled by our scouting mentor while we were assembling the tower and time he needed a screw (now that I'm thinking about it, the question of why was the scouting mentor working on the tower comes to mind)
"Screw me!"

[neelpatel1710]

This was said by one of the builders on our team while cleaning up the 3-axis mill.

I saw him attempting to clean up the mill with an air nozzle, trying to blow away the oil residue.

"Why don't you use a brush," I ask.

Reply: "Who needs finesse when you have air pressure?!"

To this day, this remains a valid meme on team 1710.

[DThornton3490]

"Yo if I had two of these and put my hand in them I could fly"


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[Oblarg]

"Wait, 'OI' means 'Operator Interface?' I always thought it was just, like, 'IO' but terrible."

[StephenKohnle53]

Here's some good ones from 5556
We broke a bottom rail clean off and reattached it and it works horribly.
"It's good enough for government work"
"Yes, but it didn't cost enough for government work"

"Don't blow metal into the robo-rio we can't pay for a new one"

While testing the robot our first driver said
"If the robot loses control and won't stop block it with your leg, the robot matters more than a leg, it can heal"

At one point one of our members said he was gonna kill me so since I am a problem solver I said "If you kill me I recommend you get a knife and go for the back of the neck so it's cleaner"

Some guy used the drill bit box as a hammer so we joked and said "Let's just use the robo rio as a hammer, it'll work"

I talked to my brother privately and said "I will build a great great robot and make FIRST great again!!!!"

I'll post more later on.

[MarcusDB]

When our team was coming up with the high level goals I said "I'm here to meet people along with..." meaning I wanted to find like minded friends outside of school but as you can see it didn't quite come out that way ahaha

[Jarren Harkema]

"Can I use your toilet paper?" [long pause] "I need to clean up this ketchup."