"Quotes" that were said during build season

[Libby K]

"glass is the leading cause of blood!" -one of our seniors.

[3DWolf]

"You inspire one kid, you can get a car.
But if you inspire a generation, you WILL get a new world!"
~Josh Riley, Team Captain 1502

[Danielle H]

Keep in mind, I was giving one of our manufacturing guys a comb over with my fingers because his hair is really easy to play with. Chrispy, our Chairman's Goddess, walks in and simply says:

"Dude... that's so... GAY!"

Then, later on, one of our programming guys revealed that he was having girlfriend problems... here's the conversation that sparked:

Ronnie- "Clark, just call her back so we can end this."
Me- "Are you still having problems with her? I though you broke up."
Ronnie- "Yea, but you see, Tyler made the mistake of calling her."
Chrispy- "Way to go Dr. Phil."
Me- "Dude.... that's so... GAY."
*commence hysterical laughter*

[bhsrobotics1671]

sadly..our team leader: can you use a hacksaw on aluminum?
everyone else: looks at rolls their eyes

[Adare180]

--"what is spam actually made of?"
"spam is people"
"..it's made by people, for people, of people"

(i must have heard this at least fifty times in the last week, sadly it did not go over as the t-shirt design)

[lopz056]

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

sadly, i have actually seen a team with the name chuck norris, good call

[mormannoob]

"we need to mount the ROAST motors" this was said by our cannibalistic dictator president Andrew when he was talking about the wrist(side note : he's cannibalistic because his nickname is donut and he eats donuts)

me - "can something about a robot be ironic"
donut - " yea if it's built of iron" ( we were tired so this was mildly funny )

me " why do we need to recalculate the gyro bias at regionals"
Even,mentor " because the magnetic field of the earth might change"

me - "can you die from lack of sleep"
....random stuff said then .......
teacher - "Atlanta doesn't wait for dead people"

donut - " hey Daryel can you overload the compiler with a long variable name"
Daryel,mentor - "yea but its like 256 or maybe even 1064 characters long"
after many tries to have the compiler crash
donut -" i cant believe we cant overload the compiler"

[raymaniac]

Sean: Go get [object] (whatever it was)
Me: Ok
VEX person: I got it
Sean: Jobs are being outsourced to migrant workers!
Me: I am a migrant worker
Sean: Migrant workers are being outsourced to migrant workers! This isn't a good sign

[TheNotoriousKid]

"Awww man............................................... .................................................. .....you broke it."

In a sort of greek god voice, maybe Zeus,"AUTONOMOUS MODE."

[Hiteak]

Me: Guess whats White, black and red all over...the electrical box!

[MishraArtificer]

Me: Guess whats White, black and red all over...the electrical box!
Guess what's black, white, and NOT red all over? (HINT: It should be!)

[Nuttyman54]

Guess what's black, white, and NOT red all over? (HINT: It should be!)

THE RULES!!!

[Gabriel Mendez]

"tiny shminy" we use this all the time.

Can you pass me a tiny shminy drill bit...

Can you pass me the tiny shminy screw driver...


Another one Is "city worker", we use this when ever we create something thats not pretty.

I've been called a "city worker" many times because sometimes I make things that are functional but not pleasing to the eye. :p

[MishraArtificer]

THE RULES!!!
DING DING DING!!! WE HAVE A WINNER!

The son of one of our mentors came up with this one:
"Why don't we just put Branden in a box and call him the robot?"
Branden (118 lbs.) is our programming god.

[StephLee]

*robot makes loud obnoxious sqeaking noise*
Grease time!
*more obnoxious squeaking noises*
More grease!!



Me: "Sarah, go direct the freshmen, they look rather lost right now."

[Commanchetruck]

"MEHHHRRRRRRRR"

"dont worry its not precision work it's robotics"

[StephLee]

Me: Their driver told me they're underweight this year.
Sarah: ...Can we steal a few pounds???


James: Oh crap, it's really bleeding now...


*after several instances of sparking*
Emily: Do we know how flamable this carpet is??

[NK2007]

Programming or Wiring Representative: "How much longer till we get the robot?"
Me: "20 minutes"


---------3 hours later-------

Programming guy: " So when will it be done"
Me: "Shouldn't take more than 20 more minutes"


This was all too common as we hit problems this season.

Some others were:

Programming Mentor: "Our robot won't be able to do anything if you hardware guys don't give us the robot now!"

Me: "You can't seriously expect the robot two weeks into the build season!"

And yet he was serious...

Same Programming mentor: "If we don't have the larger wheels by tomorrow, we won't be able to program it to drive."

Under my breath: "Even if you had the wheels today you couldn't program it to turn on..."

If you can't tell, there is much tension between "Us hardware guys" and "Those weird software guys"

[whlspacedude]

"The easiest way to put the blue smoke back in is blowing on it!"-Me
"COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (As he blows on the e- Box)"-NOOB

"so how many toes does a fish have?"

[Hiteak]

Mentor: Whats that liquid on the robot?

Student: O, thats just Mountain Dew.

[Éowyn]

"I'm on two-mile an hour mode today. . ."
said by me when my brain isn't functioning quite right. :)

A conversation between the other person who really wants to drive and my brother.
"So, how much would it take to have you poison her?"
"Oh, say a mere $15,000."
"Hey Tony, can I borrow some money?":yikes:

[Andy Baker]

said by a team parent:

Andy, it's good that you are ok, now that you are back from the hospital. We are glad that it happened to you, and not a student, though.



sigh

5 stitches and wiser,
Andy B.

[Aren_Hill]

other driver hopeful (eowyn) wrote "aren if you get drivetime while i'm not here death shall find you quickly" on the whiteboard i then replaced the word "death" with "candy" and yelled yayyy and was attacked gah lol

[taylort]

My friend Jamie--
"Sorry, I only recognize people in here with safety glasses on."

Me ( while mentally testing some code that I wrote )--
So...forward...SLAM! Oh, drat, that's a wall.

Me ( this time holding up a pair of wire cutters/crimpers) --
"Why is this in the refrigerator?"

Our captains --
CJ ( programming/electrical ) -- "This looks like a bolt."
Frederick ( Mechanical ) -- "That's because it is a bolt."

Me ( yet again, this time talking to CJ about PID stuff ) --
"Maybe in the off-season ;-)"

[Alex.Norton]

"How do we get the battery out?"

[WillItBlend]

VP: Next time you get food without asking others you're off the team!

Him: That looks like a good sandwich.
Me: It looks better in my mouth. *stuffs sandwich in mouth*
Him: You were wrong, it doesn't look better in your mouth.

Me: *lathes*
VP: What are you doing?
Me: Practicing.

[Gabe]

"Gripular capacity" :p

[Pat Fairbank]

"Uh oh, we cut it too short. Fetch the bar stretcher!"

[StephLee]

"Close gripsy."
"Open gripsy."
"NO, BAD GRIPSY!!"


Somehow...our claw is unofficially named gripsy...or Gonzo, depending on who you talk to. But generally, it's gripsy.

[mgreene]

"Hey, have you guys ever seen a torque calculation result in a complex number? There's a real component due to the arm, and an imaginary component due to the <as yet non-existent> gripper."

:D

[june_2008]

"Don't mess with Texas. Its not nice to make fun of retards."

That was said by one builder to another, during a fake argument.

[triggerhappy336]

One day Jimbo walked into the meeting at like 8, we start at 6. So we all started clapping and yelling "Jimbo! Hey Jimbo!" Now we do it whenever we feel like. It's good for team moral

Mentor: What'd you guys do today
Me: We fired up the suction cup to see how much it sucks.
Mentor: hahah
Me: What are you.... wait, I didn't mean it that way
5 min later
Another mentor: How good is that suction cup
Me: We fired it up today, it sucks allot... I did it again
During team debrief
Me: Today mech team fired up the suction cup and we decided it sucks enough... I mean... xxxx!

Good catch safety captain/officer *salutes*

When the suction arm decided to drop down without notice "Holy xxxx that came really really close!"

EDIT: After grinding a metal piece on a wood grinder. "Is that grinder smoking?"
"uhhhh, yes? xxxx, is this bad?"

After being told that we were going to practice games at another school on Monday "Wait, this Monday?" "No, the monday after ship, we'll send Chad out on the field and have him start tossing tubes on the rack. If you think that's funny just wait until he malfunctions."

[Chris Marra]

Student: I'm confused, why are the posts in the build season thread talking about poof balls. Shouldn't they have made a new one?
Mentor: Welcome to engineering.

:p

[blaise]

I made a new one it is in the http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=54398

[FunkyRatDemon]

"Oh xxxx, which one goes to which motor...oh xxxx"-Jason, electrical

"Why ohh why did we let Jake ride the robot? He looks like a freaking frog"-Tipton

"Nick's mom"-Jake (and most of the team)

[VEN]

Me holding up a lighter to a spray bottle of cooling fluid "Hey Keats, you think this flammable?". Kyle after a few seconds of thinking "It's 90% water you tard!"

Kyle commenting on me filing an inside of a bearing block "Try to keep the circleness of it"

Kyle: "Stop, you're changing the embience"

A mentor "Who started putting tools back into their right spots? Now i can't find anything!"

[tyron256]

"That would be about a quarter pound off"
"we took off an eighth of a pound!"
"we took off another eighth of a pound!"
OR
"Swiss cheese the robot!"

[athtfishtebomb]

Design Team Leader " You know its not supposed to look like that" as he looked at my flawed Autodesk design
Me" I know I just got lazy" :D
Design Team Leader " Thats what I like to hear"

[Norm Plude]

Team 2064


"Your robot may have been built in a garage but ours is built from a garage."

http://www.pomperaug.com/organizations/robotics/index.htm
http://www.plude.net/first

[athtfishtebomb]

Miss Lundy from the front of the room " Whats that smell?"
Me from the back of the room " DON'T WORRY THE FIRE IS OUT!!!"

[athtfishtebomb]

As i get out of the car " Sean I think robotics is making all of us ( the team) go a little bit insane"
Sean " Probably..but we were never completely sane to begin with"

[Eric Scheuing]

Picking up a spray painted bumper:

Mr. Mo: "This is so pimped out."

[BotBattler]

My Mentor, James Moran: "Calc has its place and Trig has its place, but the two should never mix!"

Me: "You know what?"

James: "What?"

Me: "We're such freaking nerds. I can't believe we're talking about math..."

James: "At 7 A.M.!"

Me: "On a Sunday!"

[BotBattler]

Coach: "It would probably be a good idea to run the pneumatic tube underneath the bar so it is easier to access..then again.. it would look a lot sexier if you ran it through the bar."

[Sharkbyte]

after WD-40ing our (EXTREMELY) noisy cart:
David: You see, the noisy wheels were a safety feature. They alerted people to dive for cover. LOOK OUT STEVE!
*WHAM* (as Steve crashes the cart into a door frame again)

Scott (mentor): Fernando would be our comic relief, except comic relief implies that it's not constant.
*Fernando is running around in a jumpsuit like a penguin while making his wookie sound*

I overhear Steve calling our team leader to find out when the robot will arrive at the mini tournament: "What do you mean the wheels fell off again." I never actually found out what this was...

[notquitehere188]

"Good news, we now have an external unsigned volatile long long"
"External ?! It's not in Pants.h?"
"There is nothing in pants.h anymore"

yes, we did have a pants.h file

[FunkyRatDemon]

"Jake, your the most useless usefull person on the team"-Bradley Smith
"Don't ride the robot (Jake)"-Sam, Mentor
"Jake, stop thinking about marketing for a minute and hand me that wrench"-Keaton
"I think we should add a flower pot to the front of our robot, that way when we win we can as a gesture of kindness give them it as a souveniur" -Ari

[jburianek]

A student when learning the robot is overweight:
"Can we just cut off the diamonds and make it flat" (referencing our diamond plate)

[jaker29902]

"Screw the research, lets just do it"

"Wheres the pizza?"

Me as the robot is attempting to drive itself off the table and smash into the floor: "JEFF FLIP THE FREAKING KILL SWITCH!"

Jeff: "What? what switch?"

Me: "hold down the programming button!!!"

Jeff: "Where is it?"

Me: "Unplug the battery for the love of God!!!"

Jeff: "How!?!?"

Someone eventually came and uplugged it but not before it tored up one of the tires.

"Just solder it" which has become the first response to any problem involving connecting two pieces of metal together

[vic burg]

Nerdy pick up line:
Student 1: Hey, let's make fetuses!
Student 2: That is so nerdy!
Student 1: Yeah so?
Student 2: Are you trying to suggest something?
Student 1: No, not really!

[BigJ]

Yo mama is like autonomous mode; she only lasts 15 seconds.

[bhsrobotics1671]

"i can smell your feet from here"
-TRUNG (webmaster to team leader)

[raymaniac]

Parts of an IM conversation between a team member and another team member's brother:

HMM...
What's HMM stand for?
Homo man monkey

...

We <3 you!
What's <3?
It's less than 3, fool!
???

He's not very bright :D

[bduddy]

Me- "Our build days mostly consist of trying to get (and keep!) the best chair."

[trilogism]

"Flippo, will autonomous work?"
"Of course it will. The robot will do exactly what the code tells it to."
"Will it put a tube on the rack?"
"I never said that!"

[Dasistmeinmoped]

"HIGH FIVE!"
"VERY NICE"
"well.. its precise enough"
"dont, worry, programming can fix it!"
"SHARPIE!!" (always followed by an echo from 4 or 5 people)
"TAPPPEEE MEASSUUURREE" (ditto)
"ALLLEENN KEYS!!!" (and again)
"WHERE ARE THE $@#$@#$@#$@# 5/32 ALLEN KEYS??!?!?!"
"kutch.. we need more angle brackets..."
-next day. "kutch.. we're outta angle brackets..."
"jacob, put the allen keys in their houses please."
"somone clean the table"
"whos got dinner"
"can you lathe somthing down?"
"no, but i can turn it down for you"
:confused:

theres just to many to list.

its not even over but i miss build season 07

[efoote868]

As we were stacking 12 tubes on one of our members...

Matt: Hey, is that a freshman in there? because if not, then thats just cruel.

[joshsmithers]

a funny series of comments that often occurred during build season, now that i look back at it:

person: "whats that?"
luke: "a diagnostic light"
person: "whats it for?"
luke: "diagnostics"
person: "whats it do?"
luke: "it diagnoses"

[Nuttyman54]

"Soapy water works well for finding pneumatic leaks, but it also works GREAT for finding problems in the electrical system. You just apply it and look for sparks and smoke!"

[Éowyn]

"I'm going outside to check my email."
Where we work doesn't have internet, but out by the road does!

"Gerber-ber-ber-ber!"
said by anyone who wants/needs/wishes they had one of the 4+ gerbers owned by various people in the shop.

"Winnebago Super-Valu!"
Someone on our team works there and randomly outs with that. It's quite odd.:D

[GRaduns340]

"We affect everyone in the world, including Kate's mom's people..."

[Spencer E.]

"Theoretically the programming should work...right?" -said by me (the programmer) to another person learning C

[Cody Carey]

Kyle: "Man, It's a good thing we had to ship the batteries this year... If we get speared by a forklift again, the batteries will protect the brain!"

A couple seconds later...

Kyle: "Wait, I guess the batteries getting speared is a bad thing, too..."

Me: "I'm putting that in the CD quotes thread"

Kyle: "Please don't"

[Frinkahedron]

"Our batteries have milk in them?"

[Robyn Needel]

"It can't be a software problem, I know it isn't...oops"

[Kyle Love]

"OUCH!" -Andy Baker
"MEDIC!!!!!" -David Abney

[k4r3n2]

Probably my favorite quote was 'turn the flirting dial down! This is robotics - wipe that smile off your face and go draw something!'

This was immediately after our team captain thought it was a good idea to try to throw the inner tubes on me as I sat writing Chairman's....

Or maybe 'someone should probably find out why that claw motor's smoking...add it to the to-do list.'

Everything was a lot funnier last night after two liters of Mountain Dew, though :)

[Vapo7]

Programming-did you touch the controls
Driver-No...
Programming-Really
Driver-Yes
Programming-YES!!!!

[fledman]

We were thinking of mottos and I came up with this:

"Warbots: 1/2 inch tolerances"

[k4r3n2]

I was going to write that, lol

You know we're kind of sad when it's 10:45 the day we ship the robot and we're cruising the forums.

Casey: How much Mountain Dew do we need? 2 12-packs?
Me: Let's be realistic here...
Casey: Okay, four...

To-Do List: Obtain Raoul.

Okay, I'm done.

[Eldarion]

In theory, this should work...

Oops.

[seanl]

one of our team members says "our robots missing 2 nuts down there" my team and i laughed so hard, i burned myself with a soldering iron. it doesnt seem that funny after i burned myself.

[abrockhoff]

"Let me get my programming tongs."

--Mentor of the drive train team when he goes to get massive tongs to crush my head when something goes wrong in the code. It's scary.

[Libby K]

We were trying to come up with a team motto...we had some serious ones, and then out came...

"Team 1923: a bunch of kids, and one really funny big guy"
[you're welcome, Big Mike. (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/member.php?u=268)]

more to come if/when I ever remember them. darn you, lack of sleep!

Spending the entire weekend in a small office space with a lot of caffeine makes for some funny memories.

Don'tcha love build season?

[Hiteak]

Student: Its the end of build season, I have the right to loose my mind.

[Spencer E.]

"We should rename our team SWEET, it stands for Super Wicked Engineering Experts of Tomorrow."

About 2 minutes later,

"What about Super Nerds of Tomorrow? We could be SNOT!", everyone bursts out laughing and then I replied again with "And our robot name can be Booger!" It was hilarious.

[waiakea2024]

...MAGIC SMOKE!!!!

[StephLee]

Which seems more violent to you? An axe or a bloody bunny?

[StephLee]

One button, ten copyrights, you do the math.

[nautica]

Two of our mentors talking:

"We need to get a box to put our tools in."
"How about a toolbox?"

[Spencer E.]

"Why is autonomous so jerky?"
2 minutes later, while driving
"OH! The robot was in high, lets try it in low"
A minute later
"I think my autonomous needs work, the robot just dances :D "

[RyanN]

From a guy on our team: "Where are my males?" (as in the electrical connections)

Monday I had my own quote that made a few people laugh: "Oatmeal Cream Pies do not belong in the electrical box"

[TheFuhr]

"It's Turban Time!!!!!!"

New slogan to reflect evolution of the AutoDesk Bandits.

[SwitchBlade430]

With the robot weight at 120.1...

Bob: (joking) Yo Dan,(programmer) We need to upload the low weight code...

[lukevanoort]

From a guy on our team: "Where are my males?" (as in the electrical connections)
Oooh, we had a lot of that the last couple of days, but instead of males we I was trying to find female connectors for wiring up our spikes or female PWMs for sensors. I eventually got so frustrated I just kept muttering "I need some females, where are the bloody females?" Many off-color jokes ensued. We had a long discussion the night of ship about "butt splices" as well....

[rohit]

"Error 11 Division by 0"

[taylort]

"Does the tape measurer go in the tape drawer?"

"That's a safety hazard."

"Autonomous is a curse word."

[scottyh2006]

Day before shipping all of the useless people left and our forklift wasn't work and our potentiometer's number kept on getting higher so i said Don't Smoke Our POT. And on our message board one of our topics was Everything we need to know about Pot iometers And here's one from last year that i can't get enough of Tap That Hole best one yet.

[Eldarion]

With the robot weight at 120.1...

Bob: (joking) Yo Dan,(programmer) We need to upload the low weight code...

By that, you mean the code that accidentally ripped off the arm last time, right? :D

[+()c|D]

Our team joker, David, was in the shop, on the lathe...

He was being taught how to count in thou...

once he finally got it, he went around the shop yelling

"I learned math!!!"

It was great :yikes:

[+()c|D]

Veteran Member - "Someone get me some strippers."
Freshmen - "This is the coolest place ever, we have strippers, we grind, and we tap!!!"

I'm responsable for this one, as is the case with most of my team members, and probably yours too...

Me-"What time is it?"
Student-"It's 8:45, clean up."
Me-"It's 8:45?!?! When did that happen????"

[tyron256]

-"the robot's smoking"
-"What?! turn it off quick!"
-"yeah, electronics tend to not work after the mysterious smoke is released"

[Athleticgirl389]

[QUOTE=+()c|D;584838]Veteran Member - "Someone get me some strippers."
Freshmen - "This is the coolest place ever, we have strippers, we grind, and we tap!!!"
QUOTE]

That is one type of quote that I hear all the time. To show ya...

Senior Mentor: "Sodering?"
Alumni: "Nope Grinding."

Me: "Good Strpping Joey." (In Reference To The Wires)
Joe: "Uhhh Thank."
Me: "Yeah You Stipped It Good."
Member: "Joey Stipping Again?"
Me: "Yes."
Alumni: "You Are So Immature."

[Lea103]

One of the team members when looking for pics of the mentors commented on his pictures, "I get all of my good looks from photoshop"

[Spiffizzle]

Our mentor likes to lighten the tension of build season by joking about the current challenge at hand...

"I don't understand. I've cut this metal three times and it's still too short!" - Don Rotolo :D

[I.U.man_22]

"brainfart"

[kawelch]

Any variation of "RACK" joke....

[StephLee]

Me: "Awww, you let the magic smoke out!!"
Freshman: "...magic smoke?"
Me: "That's right. Magic smoke makes the electronics work."
Freshman: "..."
Me: "Show me one component that's smoked so far and still works."

[ay2b]

Day before shipping all of the useless people left and our forklift wasn't work and our potentiometer's number kept on getting higher so i said Don't Smoke Our POT. And on our message board one of our topics was Everything we need to know about Pot iometers And here's one from last year that i can't get enough of Tap That Hole best one yet.

We've had "don't smoke the pot" written somewhere on our robot (generally near a potentiometer) each year for the last several years.

[Peter Matteson]

EOB: "Why does the fischer always catch fire before we pop the breaker?"

Another mechanical mentor contemplating why we always burn up the Fischers but never seem to pop the circuit breaker like we would expect.

[VanMan]

"I don't know!!!!!"

^We are a rookie team^

"I need 2 nuts. Hahahahaha"

"I know wiring like the back of my palm!"

"I didn't know PWM wires could catch on fire!"

[Kaizer007]

"But I don't have anything to do...:confused: " ~a few students
"I'll fix it. Give me the hammer.:cool: " ~Charles
"Uh... Charles:yikes: , just don't break the Tap again." ~Daniel (me)

[Taylor]

1: "How much does the battery weigh?"
2: "About 12 pounds."
1: "So each volt weighs one pound?"
2: "Yes. Yes it does."

couple minutes later....

1: "So what about 9-volt batteries? They don't weigh 9 pounds!"

[JaneYoung]

Said by our teacher during the design phase -
'well, that would work if we had a mongo but we only have a mongette.'

----
--a little history - in the advanced tech/robotics classes he teaches, there is usually a challenge that has to do with an old bowling ball that is called Mongo (yes, Blazing Saddles).
This quote had nothing to do with the bowling ball but the idea translated.

[Molly Stieber]

I need my strippers!
refering to wire strippers of course

[Dave McLaughlin]

Another one from 1983, Skunkworks.

"Its like saying 'im gunnu hit you in the spear'!" -Robert Steele

[Molly Stieber]

"It's intetionally smaller!" - Kyle about font size.
"I'm just a freshman, I don't know anything." - Ben, a freshman

[BorisTheBlade]

I know its not from this season but I would have to say or teams all time greatest quote came from our 2004 build season.

we were descussing diamond plateing and one of or seniors said
"hey daimond plateing is made from crushing peanut butter and diamonds using extreme pressure."
it was great timing considering it was like 12am the day before ship and we still had alot of work to do. it got us pumped for another hour of work. we still talk about it today.

[Ian Mackenzie]

Me: "Hey! I think I just saved half a pound!"
Todd: "I call shotgun on your half pound."

[Nuttyman54]

Said earlier in the season by one of our mentors describing a computer simulation of our gripper:

"It works pretty well...Until you turn gravity on."

[Starke]

Quote from my fellow college mentor Justin:

"This is the worst printer in the history of printers!"

[underwood]

"did you just crash the rc???"

"you see electrical team? this is why you dont put 12 volts through a pwm cable" *shows*

*after watching eurotrip at robotics retreat* "mi scuzi, mi scuzi!"

"it's enrico pallatzo!!1!!!"

[cziggy343]

"It took how long to render? Holy crap!"

"Lift the arm up, LIFT THE ARM UP! Now, drive it like you've been driving it for years, DRIVE!"

[Qbranch]

Kid: "You think these ball bearings will get rid of a lot of the friction?"

Me: "Yeah.. those igus bearings were never meant for as much weight as we had on them."

Kid: "Ready for me to take the support off the elevator?"

Me: "Yeah... it wont go anywhere..."

Robot: (which had suddenly found a calling to become a guillotine :yikes: ) SLAM!!! BANG!!! CRASH!!!!

Kid: "Yep... i think we got rid of a lot of friction."

Me: (looking like i've seen a ghost) yeah... yep... never seen a faster going-down elevator in my life.

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

Stay safe everybody.... watch out for homicidal robots!!!!! :ahh:

-q

[robostangs548]

"I am sure the atonomous mode works this time"..... (Diden't work)

[Nuttyman54]

*disclaimer: I have no idea what the context was*

"Oh, I would totally run around the parking lot with no pants on....wait...what were you guys talking about?" - Josh

[seanl]

"autonomous SHOULD work"
"SHOULD? come back here when it WILL work"

[TrippyMohan]

"Are you tappin' the same thing I'm tappin' ?"

"Get the ball fuzz out of the electronics"

"That's ok, a c-clamp will work as a hammer too.... or a wrench"

[murray2077]

Coach : An inch by inch by inch cube piece of aluminum weighs an eighth of a pound.

Frosh : What's the fourth dimension of the aluminum?

--------

Sophmore : In Soviet Russia, robot builds You!

[team 1094]

" cut once, measure 3 times"

"presicion is key"

[FourPenguins]

"I need my special tool." -Mr. Van Glahn asking for a hammer

Mr. VG: "Speedwrench."
Me: "That's a nutdriver."
Mr. VG: "You need to learn the names for tools that I use."

Mr. O: "Are you sure that's 1/4-28?"
Mike: "I think so."
Mr. O: "How sure?"
Me: "He's just messing with you."
Mr. O: "Yeah I am."

Kevin: "Wow. That's...very successful."
(In reference to some dilapidated machine.)

"Is great success!" Many people, but mostly Marc.

[NS2591]

At Pittsburgh when we where taking down the Pratice field. I was in charge of Collecting the nuts and bolts. This is what little sleep and lots and lots of Mtn Dew does to you..."I want everyones nuts!!"

[Josh Fox]

"Raise the Titanic initiate..."
- Entire drive team in reference to noises made by our lift

This is now the official unofficial term for our lift maneuver

[ChrisMix]

Noob: What can I do?

Me: Go stuff the newsletters.

(This after he plugged in the battery backwards.)

This was said during the filming of Team 829's new commercial

Scott: Your coming too fast, slow down when you come.

[Molly Stieber]

M: "Oh....s****." A: "AHHHHHHHHHH!"

[Adamskiy]

"Don't worry about it."

[Otaku]

Not exactly Build Season, but from a Regional.

-----

(After a support bracket fell off of our bot for no apparent reason)
me:" "Uh, that shouldn't have fallen off."

(Later, in the pits)
me: "So, uh, why did that bracket fall off?"
Weaver: "We had unbolted it but forgot to take it off before the match."
me: "...oh."

-----

668 Member: "How much torque does your bot have?!"
Me: "Too much. We can push another robot and the rack... at the same time."

[Nuttyman54]

"The Curse of Chris is dead!!!" - Colin, our driver, after winning SVR.

[Modesto]

do a barrel roll! - me
are we still in autonomous?

[StephLee]

Me: Did you go full speed that time?
Driver: Yes. If it had hit the rack...bye bye rack!

(Before changing our drive, we had way more speed than we could ever use. We were wondering if the robot could move the rack from sheer inertia.)

[oberg]

"Don't worry, James will fix it" Just about everyone on the team

James is this really smart kid on the team that can fix anything wrong with the program, anything wrong with the wiring and mechanical stuff. We even made a song, Anything you can do, James can do better, James can do anything better than you, No he can't, Yes he can.

[EvilMonkyPirate]

"You look like a girl laying on the beach." -me to one of the boys on the team during driver testing.

"E. F. did that?"- talking about the rack which broke when he moved it.

I was reading the arena rules about reporting injuries.
"Does that mean I should go submit your name now? -Our drive coach making fun of me.

"Can I see the quote book?"
"No, there's a reason I'm holding it. I say a lot of stupid things."-Me

We have a whole binder of quotes too from build season, but its at the school right now.

[Sharkbyte]

Eric: "Steve, you're omniscient"
Steve: "What does that mean?"

[code_lacky]

mentor- "I think we can procrastinate and still be okay"

It was a week before ship date and our the sprocket on the arm was sticking out making it half an inch too high. We wanted to cut the arm down but he thought we were underweight enough to go up to the next height level. But we weren't.

p.s. good thing we cut the arm down later that day anyways

[Nevets Amstier]

this is the general guidlines used by our mentors when talking to the drivers...

"Drive it like ya stole it"

in otherwords...don't be afraid to break the robot

another good one from our driver coach, Lynn,

"Steve, Hunter, if Pete[a mentor] ever tells you what you can or cannot do while driving the robot, tell him to shutup from me" - Lynn

later that day

"Hey steve, try to not get our arm stuck in other roboots" - Pete
"Hey pete, 'shutup', from lynn"-me

[Josh Fox]

"That looks like way too much Tap Magic"

"Too Much Tap MAgic? There's no such thing as too much Tap Magic!"


"Innuendo Levels are reaching Critical Mass! Take Cover!"

[Gboehm]

One of my Team Members:"why did our arm fall off?"

Me: "I think somethin' broke"

[Nuttyman54]

"I didn't like the way your robot looked. Namely, nonexistant."

-Tim Baird, in response to 190's query as to why 126 didn't pick us at Boston (190 was not competing at Boston this year, but we went anyways to support our friends)

[Otaku]

Not during Build Season, but at the Davis Regional:

Pit Announcer: "Team 675, stop blowing bubbles in the pit."

[Greg Ross]

The back of team 696's shirts says "But it worked in Inventor!"

(If anyone knows the genesis of this saying, I would be interested in hearing it, but it's amusing in any case.)

[Otaku]

The back of team 696's shirts says "But it worked in Inventor!"

(If anyone knows the genesis of this saying, I would be interested in hearing it, but it's amusing in any case.)


Heh. I like it.

I was thinking that I should (in off-season), make up a bunch of Robotics T-shirts that aren't team specific (just general FIRST geekyness) or maybe a few that are 675 jokes or rules (like "No politics in the shop", or "I aerated my Amp!")

[TwIsTeD2]

"so how many times could this kill us over?"
"I want to see the magic purple smoke"
"Ms so are you coming to are game with a hang over?"

[wingnut1705]

"FOX!!!(our head coach) LET ME OUT OF THE TRAILER" as i pound my fists on the inside of our trailer

(at about midnight) "Our safety captain is jumping on his bed"

[shamuwong]

While smashing some flourescent light tubes in the garbage:

P: "What's that white stuff coming out of the tube?"
M: "Is it light?"
me: "You have to be kidding."

she wasn't kidding.

[TwIsTeD2]

this is the best one
"You are a huge Tool"
"1) i cut my self
2) here is duct tape and a papper towel"

[wingnut1705]

What? You don't normally make band-aids out of duct tape and paper towel?

Here is another good one-
Me- "GAHHH my auto mode just tried to kill me"

word to the wise- always make sure that when you type in speed values you dont put 16 in the place of 160.

[TwIsTeD2]

What? You don't normally make band-aids out of duct tape and paper towel?

Here is another good one-
Me- "GAHHH my auto mode just tried to kill me"

word to the wise- always make sure that when you type in speed values you dont put 16 in the place of 160.

;p

when you are in the heat of building u use waht you have around you they are lucky to even get a towel :P

[dtape]

What? You don't normally make band-aids out of duct tape and paper towel?


You have obviously never seen our 200 uses of duct tape buttons. one of them is as surgical bandage, another is as band-aids.

[Otaku]

;p

when you are in the heat of building u use waht you have around you they are lucky to even get a towel :P

When in the heat of building, you're lucky if you even notice an injury. I cut myself something like 5 times during build season, and didn't notice until the day after I cut myself. At least I still have all my fingers.

[Athleticgirl389]

You have obviously never seen our 200 uses of duct tape buttons. one of them is as surgical bandage, another is as band-aids.

duck tape and tissues also works when you twist your ankle by tripping over something at the work site (tissues so the duck tape doesnt rip your skin when you take it off haha). i've used that combo many many times :rolleyes:

[MishraArtificer]

"you see electrical team? this is why you dont put 12 volts through a pwm cable" *shows*"
Hm...echos of GLR...
Between me and a member of a rookie team after they roasted a PWM...
Me:"Got PWM?"
Him:"Nope."

Also, if I haven't mentioned it before...
"You can build a perfect machine out of imperfect parts."
Plastered to the whiteboard after I read it on the MTG card Coalition Victory. Yay, flavor text!

[Alpha 997]

From our lead coder, while trying to get the robot working:
"I know the code works, I wrote it! It must be a hardware problem."

To answer a question above about extra code adding weight: I believe that all of the electrons already exist in the flash memory, but they are just disorganized. Writing to the flash memory just consists of organizing electrons, therefore the weight would not increase.

It's never a hardware problem. As long as things don't fall apart, it's always software problem.:D

[Alpha 997]

“The holes doesn’t match”
“Just make both of them bigger”

“WHERE are my NUTS??? WHO took my NUTS!!!???”

“ Let me see the uh… gripping…thing…”

“ Ummm… are you supposed to hammer that?”
“ Yeah.”
“ Umm… isn’t that our drive train?”
“ Yeah…What!? Hammer fixes everything. Haven’t you seen Armageddon?”

“If someone ask what our robot can’t do, tell them it can’t make toast.”
“If we put a toaster on the robot, we can make toast!”
From then on, the name toaster was a hit and almost became the name of our robot >_< (lost by one vote)

(Pneumatic team let the air out of the tank) us mechanical team screamed: “LEAK!!!!!”

“Where are the scissors?”
“In the tape measure drawer.”
“Why?”
“That’s just where I keep them.”

“It’s only 1/8th off”

Between regional:
“The bumpers got ripped again!?? That’s it; I’m wrapping them with Kevlar.”

“We’ll make our robot hover and get 90 bonus points.”

(To self) “Oh s*&#, It doesn’t fit.”
“What you do this time?”
“Nothing, just prototyping.”

[StephLee]

Sarah: OWWW! *dances in pain holding finger*
Me: Did you just stab yourself with your Safety Captain button??
Sarah: Yes! *dances some more*

[wondoman]

What to say to a female you are trying to pick up at the FIRST robotics competition....

you- Hey you look like a keeper

XD

this came up at dinner with team 675 and non of us had the chance to use this awsome line:)

[Alpha 997]

During the championship in our hotel at the girls' room.

guy:"Why is there beef jerky on the bed?"
girl:"Oh that's where it went. Ewww."

guy:"You have to put the coffee filter in first."
girl:"Is this the coffee filter?"
me:"That would be the napkin."

[Mike Harrison]

Quotes by our fearless leader: Paul Copioli...

"You are SUCH a tool!"
(what Paul refers to students who he deems incapable of intelligent thought)

"Brass hammer... now."
(what Paul says when something needs fixing)

[Monochron]

"No WOW references in the shop! Time to play catch the hammer."
(We had to enforce a strict "no WOW reference" rule after multiple warnings)

"Oh, great the robot's over weight again?"
"It must be that new programming for the arm."
"Tell them to redo it with less 1s and more 0s"

"Does it taste like a Loogie?!?"
(One fateful night after a meeting I set down my soda on a shop table to clean up a few of the tools. Upon returning I up-ended the rest of the contents of the can into my mouth. Something was different. It wasn't as sweet. And it had a familiar feeling...you know like when you have some phlegm in the back of your throat and you....well you can guess)

[Cuog]

"Hey that was me!" __Andrew Rankin today recalling something funny from build season

[Grant Cox]

Quotes by our fearless leader: Paul Copioli...

Of course you can't forget "you've gotta be KIDDING me" and "what are you doing??!!?!?!"

[Sparks333]

This is one by me, when working with some complex sensors (lovingly nicknamed 'Codename Weasel') in a very noisy environment with lots of programmers.

"Shh... I can't hear the ultrasonic sensors."

And, when they actually worked, the programmers in the stands:
"WEASEL!!! WEASEL!!! WEASEL!!!"

(I imagine we got a lot of strange looks. If you're curious about the nickname, watch Hotshots!)

[Viper37]

It seems to me that our best quotes are said outside of the actual event:


"Wait your from Poway!? Do y'all know Tom DeLonge? Course we do, we know Sally too. YOU KNOW SALLY!?" - A blink 182 fan in the pits

"Matt looks like a Marine. Matt's not wearing Green. Who am I marrying?"

[Zach Wydick]

"Jon Dudas..."

[Grant Cox]

"Jon Dudas..."
AAAHHHHH

I swore, if I ever saw that name again...

[Zach Wydick]

"I'm the best male electronician ever..."
"Hey Mr. Steele can I get a tactometer..." (we told our secretary that the calipers was called a tactometer)

"Team 1983 needs a 2ft peice of Robert's Steel." (Our coach is named Robert Steele...this was announced at Vegas)

[Stephi Rae]

"I'm the best male electronician ever..."
"Hey Mr. Steele can I get a tactometer..." (we told our secretary that the calipers was called a tactometer)

"Team 1983 needs a 2ft peice of Robert's Steel." (Our coach is named Robert Steele...this was announced at Vegas)

That's because the best electronician is a girl... aka me... ya that one was said at about 3 am 2 or 3 days before ship... and in the first week of the build season, I was teaching myself inventor and wanted the (what I now know as) calipers, but the guys told me they were tactometers... our coach looked at me like I was crazy. We also asked for some tactometers at the Portland regional... the pit announcer says, "oh yea, I know what those are!!" and then she announced it. We couldn't stop laughing for half an hour. And then in Vegas after we announced that we needed some Robert's Steel, three teams came over with different types of steel asking if we could use it. That was the best. There's plenty of others, but there on poster board up in our physics classroom, I'll have to go take a look.

[Stephi Rae]

AAAHHHHH

I swore, if I ever saw that name again...

Our team is like obsessed with that name!!

one of the guys coined the term "dodeum" (pronounced dotam) early in the build season, our name for anyone who does something stupid, pretty much everyone... so we are working on making a "dodeum pole," but the most recent quotes seem to be made up of...

"you're such a dodeum! Who's your hero, Jon Dudas??"

and some of our most recent cheers include

Who are we? SKUNKWORKS!
Where are we from? SEATTLE!
What does it do there? RAINRAINRAINRAIN!
What is this? THIS IS MIST! THIS IS MIST!
(the "rain" in atlanta after the "wrap party" on sat.)

and...

Who are we? SKUNKWORKS!
Who's our hero? JOHN DUDAS!
Where does he work? PATENT OFFICE!
PATENT! PATENT! PATENT!

Too little sleep... too much spirit... too late...

we can't get the championships out of our dreams or our thoughts either... and I don't want it to go away! but I can't make it until january!!

[JBotAlan]

"The fans weren't spinning, so I turned up the voltage..." (a freshman who I mistakenly left with my cruddy $25 inverter and the bench power supply; we were modding it to have fans and he had wired it wrong.)

"Try cutting the ground wire off. It will give me better resolution." <SNIP> "Umm...I'm not getting *any* signal from that pot now..."

As he carelessly flicks the Disable switch off: "OK, let's try this..." The arm starts moving to the (impossible) position the software wants to get to; the other guys in the pits start yelling "STOP STOP STOP DISABLE DISABLE!" as I dance in success--my code moved the arm where I wanted it to! (even though it blew out yet another BaneBots tranny...oops:p )

"The solenoid cracked. It's alright, I can fix it in software!"

[MGoelz]

student:I don't get full; I just get less hungry.
(motto on food consumption)

[Gboehm]

Andre: Greg, What the hell happened?...
Me: Somethin broke...

[Viper37]

During a pep talk before a match with our other 2 alliance partners:
"This is our house, and nobody comes into our house. Now lets go out there and drive like a bunch of pissed off teenagers!"

[Brian J. R.]

Who are we? SKUNKWORKS!
Who's our hero? JOHN DUDAS!
Where does he work? PATENT OFFICE!
PATENT! PATENT! PATENT!

Too little sleep... too much spirit... too late...

Not to creep anyone out or anything.....but a couple team mates and I (I started the chant above) founded a religion based wholy on Jon Dudas, called Dudianity. You see, it is all a way to keep the bewildered little freshman in line...Teach them the holy ways......(and yes, I am kidding, but we really did talk about this that night...)

"Team 1983 needs a 2ft peice of Robert's Steel." (Our coach is named Robert Steele...this was announced at Vegas)
I was standing in our pit at the time and someone came up and asked "I know its kinda stupid of me but what is Robert Steele?" I found that pretty funny. I then told him that that was the name of our mentor.

[1359th Scalawag]

What to say to a female you are trying to pick up at the FIRST robotics competition....

you- Hey you look like a keeper

XD

this came up at dinner with team 675 and non of us had the chance to use this awsome line:)

"Team 675, stop blowing bubbles in the pit"
--admins at Davis

No doubt, you were the most random team at the Davis Regional.:D

[Joohoo]

Secret Lovvvveerrrrrsss

Don't ask.:D

[Cartwright]

Student (myself): Don't force it honey!
We were bending plastic for the top of our chassis. It was hilarious

[Zyik]

Why when you keep food in the microwave away from ants, you tell people.
--" Why is there tea in the microwave?! "
--" We have tea?! "
-- " Thats where it went!"
-- " ew...."

How 973 members learn why you don't wear rings and work on the lathe.
--"Have you seen Chuck's ring finger?"
-- "No.."
-- "Neither have we. "

"What would you need a two house power blender for, blending babies?"

[MishraArtificer]

"Team 675, stop blowing bubbles in the pit"--admins at Davis

Echos of GLR...

Team 280 was burned by the judges for playing their anthem in the pit area the day I missed, apparently.
Their anthem? Aptly, "TNT!"

And I swear this is true, even though no one believes it, but this is something somebody actually announced SOMETIME during the competition...
"No swordplay or dagorhir in the arena."

[Brian J. R.]

me- "No one say pneumatics ever, i mean ever, again...it is now an evil word that should be banned from speech."

I became operator during the latter half of the Las Vegas regional and the Championship. For some reason or another there sprung a leak in the pneumatic system and the mechanical/drive team (drive team is part of mechanical) looked over the entire system 3-5 times and could not find a thing, reconnected every tube, checked ever plug, couldn't find a thing. And during one match someone (most likely me....) forgot to close the pressure valve fully so during that entire match i had virtually no pressure, and thus, our arm was completely useless.

[65_Xero_Huskie]

me- "No one say pneumatics ever, i mean ever, again...it is now an evil word that should be banned from speech."

I became operator during the latter half of the Las Vegas regional and the Championship. For some reason or another there sprung a leak in the pneumatic system and the mechanical/drive team (drive team is part of mechanical) looked over the entire system 3-5 times and could not find a thing, reconnected every tube, checked ever plug, couldn't find a thing. And during one match someone (most likely me....) forgot to close the pressure valve fully so during that entire match i had virtually no pressure, and thus, our arm was completely useless.

/off subject
Thats why we dont use pneumatics :)

::Hearing the awards being read off and the descriptions not matching us whatsoever:: *Looking at someone else* "Thats us!"

*It wasnt me! It was the robot!" - Says the operator :)

[James1902]

Explination<Our coach gave the drive team nicknames from star treck this year...I was scotty.>Explination

Coach:Scotty we need that arm higher
Me in a scottish accent:I'm pushin it as hard as I can Capn' ,it's just a robot, you can't push it's arm any higher than thaaaaaaaat!!!"

[JesseK]

Here's some quotes by the mentors on our team from this season:

Innebriated Mentor Discussion at ~3:00 am January 7th, 2007:
Mentor A "So if we put up a 72 times the square root of two inch wide sheet that's 6 feet tall, and go to the opposing home zone line and drive about 6 feet back and forth in front of the operators, would they call that ungracious professionalism or the best [darn] defense ever?"
Mentor B "Maybe it's gracious if we put a BIG yellow smiley face on it, then at least they'll have to laugh the first time"
Mentor C "We'd be infamous!"
Lead: "We do NOT tell the kids about this strategy."
Me, somewhere in there, flipping through the rules: "Well as long as we don't call it a 'decoration' I think it's technically legal"

During the season:
"If it can't hold a static 200 pound me, there's NO WAY it will hold a 150 pound robot hitting it and driving up it at 10 feet per second!"

The night we got the robot back at the school and uncrated:
"Ok now we're going to let the MENTORS drive and the STUDENTS boss us around!"

"See, this is what John meant when he said it turns itself."

<After spinning the robot as fast as we could in one direction to test quality after competition season>
Lead: "Hey watch where you're spinning that thing, you almost hit something"
Me: "Oh, well it's just a locker and we could repaint it"
Lead: "No, I meant don't hurt the robot"
Me: "That's why we have bumpers" <big grin>

Me: "What genius decided to make a rocking drivetrain and then put all supports for the ramps on the outside of the outer axles?"
Lead: "Joe, Piccione, Duane, Me, and oh yea, You too."
Duane: "Darn this hindsight vision, it's so clear it's making me dizzy"

[BobC]

"KISS"

[waiakea2024]

"There is a life outside of F.I.R.S.T.?"

[MishraArtificer]

Mentor: Sleep.
Me: Wha?
...
Me (singing): I like caffeine!
Mentor: Wha?
...
Me, after accidentally swallowing aluminum dust at a saw while cutting a piece for the frame...
"Hm...needs Tabasco."
...
To be continued...

[cooker52]

Mentor-Stupid Freshmen.
Student-I'm not a Freshman! I'm a Sophmore!

[K. Sehgal]

Every body quotes famous people during speechs and stuff!:yikes:

[tseres]

background info: a wire on our solenoid broke, and i had to replace the whole electronic device. we never used that solenoid, until one broke and we had to. 10 minutes (or 20, i forget) before a qualifying match, after the new solenoid was wired up, we tested out robot. nothing. the solenoid lights were changing, but the pneumatic cylinder wouldn't move.

Mentor: it's not working....
Teacher: [after looking at it for a minute] ahhh....i see the problem!
Teacher: [takes the solenoid away, fixed it, comes back a few minutes later. we're all going crazy because we're going to miss our match]
Teacher: someone put 24 volt contacts. we needed 12 volt contacts
Mentor: [i forget exactly, but something along the lines of: ] what kind of person did that!
Me:[not saying anything....it was me way back during build season...]

ya.....that was kinda funny looking back at it.

[Brian J. R.]

"There is a life outside of F.I.R.S.T.?"

me- "wow....i have a life now....what am i going to do with this much time on my hands.....be social? whats that?"

This was said by many when the season came to a close and we where flying back from Atlanta...i still have no clue what to do.....get a job maybe....

[Nica F.]

"Why can't we fix you like a robot?"

[Kelly]

The code leaked!

Let's take an outside break.

[thatmorman]

"I hate one eigth"

after messing drilling a whole for a screw on our chasis by 1/8th an inch, it cause a few problems...

[Stephi Rae]

*interviews for our rookie season summary video*

B.G.: "so... tell me about a memorable moment and how FIRST has changed you"

me...: "well this one time John Dudas and I were walking down the street..." (insane laughter)



*more interviews... in front of our robot that has fur on the "claw/jaw"...(skunkworks... go figure)*

"ooooohh fuzzy... (strokes claw) rawr... (cat-like claw motions towards camera...)"

B.G. "I'm so posting that up all around school!!"

(don't ask me how he's going to print out a video... lol)

[4throck]

A conversation involving Mechanical guys 1 and 2, and the programmer. The programmer and mechanical guy 2 are in the adjacent room. Mechanical guy 1 is playing with the laptop with all of the code on it.

M1: This computer is broken. I'm gonna fix it. By taking out the RAM.
M1 is not actually doing anything
P: Stop making fun of me.
M1: Wheeee!
M2 walks into room with M1, and immediately says:
M2: Dear lord, he's actually doing it.
P curses wildly and runs into room. She sees that nothing is wrong, and then begins to curse more, and no longer lets the laptop out of her sight.

[tseres]

the old classic:
"That wasn't supposed to happen!!!!!!"

[4throck]

"Well there's your problem"

[Skifanatic]

Dinosaurs...Blahblahblah...Big Bang...BlahBlahBlah...Now we're building robots-Kwol

[Grant Cox]

"You see what's happening is that my rod has a much larger diameter than yours --"
*we all stare at him*
"and by that I really meant NOTHING sexual, look the diameter really is bigger.."

-----

"What if the robots were controlled..

..through TELEKINESES"

[alex1699]

i you put a balloon on the air release then your release the air it will blow up the balloon

[laultima]

after the championships, i, as a new programmer, am fiddling with the robot code. shortly after the robot goes completely insane, almost taking out our mentor:
me: "There's apparently a big difference, when making a kill switch, in disabling user control and disabling user control AND the motors"

[silicon_ghoti]

By a programmer:
"Metal conducts heat! Metal conducts heat!"
(As he holds square pins to solder them to a PCB.)

May be already mentioned, but this was said by the pit announcer at LVR:
"Team ### as requested a flux capacitor."
(At this point half the pit bursts into laughter, then goes quite as that half explains to the other half why that was funny.)

[Joe G.]

Me to an extremely bored team member:

Me: What are you doing?
Team member: gluing pieces of metal to the ramp
Me: And I'm drilling speed holes.

Me trying to explain the robot to a non-robotics friend:
"It makes a lot more sense if you refer to 3/4ths of the parts as 'that thingy'"

"Holy.............Um, about us being here for only 5 more minutes?"
Said the day before shipdate after discovering that the wood shop class had converted our crate into storage for projects, and installed shelves.

After the first test on our elevator prototype
P1: Bad news: the little banebots motor dosen't have enough torque, any suggestions?
P2: *holds up minibike motor* eh, just stick a few of these on it.
P1: Um, weight limit?

[Brian J. R.]

May be already mentioned, but this was said by the pit announcer at LVR:
"Team ### as requested a flux capacitor."
(At this point half the pit bursts into laughter, then goes quite as that half explains to the other half why that was funny.)

And about 5-10 teams make flux capacitors out of cardboard and pneumatic tubing and bring it to the admin desk, to which the team that requested takes them and proudly displays all of them in their pit.

[AndyB]

Teacher: Now if you would have invested money in Motorola back in the 70's how much money would you have made?
Molly: Wildstang!

[HypnoticSheep]

"WD-40 is NOT a lubricant!"

"Alright, I'm turning it on. Nobody stand in front of the hook or near the wings..."

As S is putting lubricant on a rod to hold our hinges together...
Me: "Why are you lubing up that rod?"
S: "It won't fit in the hole."

As the arm starts spinning by itself...
Me to the driver: "Look! The robot's waving!"

It's an inside joke, but...
<Gollum voice> "My preeeeciooouuus!"

[luciaes]

a few of us were in the hall calling businesses for sponsorships, and we were kinda messing around and then while one of us was calling a business he said "GUYS, no more physical contact!!!!... oh no not you sir!!"

[tseres]

this happened today...i'm the new programmer, and i'm trying to do everything we didn't do during the actual season like using the camera and auto mode. because of our robot design, we couldn't use the pan-tilt-thing-a-ma-bob for the camera, so we mounted it under our claw (see sig pic). today while programming the tracking code, i said "we should just hook up the servo values to the PWM's controlling the main drive motors....our real programmer says "that'd be fun".....ya...it was funny at the time....knowing my programming history, i can just see the robot going out of control and crazy

[Rapt0r9]

G: "Where are those nibblets?" (In refrence to a modified pair of pliers)

G: "Just move the arm a smidgium."

C: "The code isn't working."
T: "Compile it until it works."

T: "Not bad for a novice, huh?"
J: "I'd expect more from a novice."

R: "Whats that smell?"
J: "Tyler is soldering again, get the extinguisher."

J: "I don't know, he isn't picking up the page. They ran in here 10 minutes ago to grab the fire extinguisher and I heard some yelling, so I figured I'd stay out of the way."

T: "Why isn't the LED lighting?"
P: "Software Error"

[Zyik]

Last year while taking orders for Pizza everyone was asking for Hawaiian as a topping and the mentor taking it down was conviced it wasn't a topping. After asking everyone in the office area of the shop what they wanted and getting frustrated at the answers he went over to the other side. A few seconds later we hear him shout, " Hawaiian is not a topping! " from about 30ft away. Of course, when going to pick it up we found out it was there all along....

[mormannoob]

me...: "well this one time John Dudas and I were walking down the street..." (insane laughter)



*more interviews... in front of our robot that has fur on the "claw/jaw"...(skunkworks... go figure)*



who is jon dudas (i read the wiki article) whats the joke

[Brian J. R.]

who is jon dudas (i read the wiki article) whats the joke

Long story, but here is the short and to the point version.

It was the last day during the championships, and we had seen Jon Dudas's commercial on the big screen so much his name, particularly his last, stuck with us. Dave, our driver, had already come up with a new word and had the ability to make pretty much any word funny. We picked Dudas as our new word to play around with. There where 3 of us that joked around with forming a religion based solely on Jon Dudas, called Dudianity, and it is still in the works. Otherwise, all of 1983's pit crew and drive team have that as an inside joke between the 8 of us ever sense.

From an outside point of view it is kinda lame, but within our little drive/pit circle its quite funny. So the posts here about Jon Dudas from anyone on1983 is for our teams personal amusement, and it is not expected that others will get it, simply because they were not there when the whole joke got started.

[Stephi Rae]

AWW c'mon Brian!! someone else recognizes it!!! This was posted after all zach said was "Jon Dudas..."



AAAHHHHH

I swore, if I ever saw that name again...

Which makes me wonder...
Hey GeeForce, WHAT'S YOUR JON DUDAS STORY??? :confused: :rolleyes: :D

[Monochron]

"Real programmers don't comment. It was hard to write, it should be hard to read!"

[C222]

"I forgot a semi-colon, didn't I?"

Said by me after 5 failed attempts to compile.
Followed by the painstaking work of finding the line with a missing semi-colon.

[Branden Gee]

This isn't a Quote, but When I see that there has been new replys on this Thread I always shake my head and wonder "what are Richards and Hoag saying now?"

[BanksKid]

"why are youwearing pants?"
"I don't knoow."

that was on the bus to VCU

[Stephi Rae]

"Shutup B.Gee"

lol...

[Brian J. R.]

"Shutup B.Gee"

lol...

I was thinking the same thing....

And on an unrelated note

"OH MY GOD My pants are on fire" Well his pants where perfectally not on fire and we, to this day, have no idea as to where that came from.

[1359th Scalawag]

"You should be happy i'm wearing pants today"

[Nin_estarSaerah]

"your face"
"your mom's face"
"Aiden's face"

(Aiden Browne is one of our mentors. it was very late...everyone thought it was hilarious)

[Stephi Rae]

I was thinking the same thing....

And on an unrelated note

"OH MY GOD My pants are on fire" Well his pants where perfectally not on fire and we, to this day, have no idea as to where that came from.

I'm pretty sure there was also a...

"OH MY GOD My pants are eating me!!" one time from Tedrick too... really not sure where that one came from...

[BigJ]

On the topic of pants, I actually ripped my pants this season...

While working on Chairmans.

I was making a point that our essay jumped from one topic to another (and jumped across the room) and our school's floors are made of smooth concrete. One of my feet slipped and, yeah, my pants ripped straight down the front. I walked around for about an hour with my hoodie tied around the front.

I had to make a phone call ("Dad, you should totally drive down here with a pair of pants) and all the other Chairmans people were hiding behind the corner and busted out laughing when I said it.

[bcieslak]

"We don't build the robots, we build the robot builders."

Team 1675 mentors
Ultimate Protection Squad

[Storcky]

When one of my friends was recognized by a member of another team
"Hey! You're a robot, too!":]

[Brian J. R.]

This was said by Branden Gee (Bee Gee to us, no relation to the band) at the end of year, team picnic

"Lets throw some more fire on the wood!"

At the same event, I dont know who it was but they said

"Ooo fire in a can!"
This reffers to the common pass time of lighting Axe on fire.

[Nuttyman54]

"Ok so our pit runners are Liz and.....who in the devil is William Leverette??" - Ken Stafford

[Uberbots]

"who is team 190?"-my dad (while at battlecry 8)

[WernerNYK]

"who is team 190?"-my dad (while at battlecry 8)

Ouch.:ahh: :p

[Uberbots]

Ouch.:ahh: :p

we all had our laugh at that one (=
the sad thing is, is that he was down on the field during the finals at the championship )=

[ScoutingNerd175]

From Battlecry friday night:

"I wish I were the most kissed girl in FIRST" -George Ackley

[Herodotus]

"Well I haven't screwed anything in awhile." - me after making a couple dumb mistakes while screwing some parts together.

[Nin_estarSaerah]

"uh oh, i hope that wasnt important"

"is that supposed to happen?"

"that is not what i programed it to do!"

[Herodotus]

Not really build season but still robotics related. Me and my friend(also a robotics member) were driving around outside the movie theater for awhile cause we were waiting for some other guys to show up. So while we are driving this happens.

Him:Sweet, dollar castle.
Me: Awesome, a dollar store, let's get some robot parts.

We then keep driving.

Him: Oh look, Farmer Jack's. Whole store on sale! (Farmer Jacks is a local grocery store that is going under)
Me: Awesome, let's get some robot parts... What? We can make the robot biodegradable.

We keep on driving and come to a Blockbuster to go in for awhile to look around. As we are pulling up.

Me: Alright, Blockbuster. Let's get some robot parts.


Yeah, you can get robot parts anywhere.

[JBotAlan]

After I made a boo-boo by letting a freshman touch the controls:
Me: "We had a minor mishap in which the code tried to put the arm in an impossible position..." (yes, I do talk like that sometimes)
Mentor: "And?"
Me: "the motors kept driving and..."
Mentor: "What?"
Me: "I blew out the elbow." (I turn around and book it back to my corner)

"I dub thee 'Gear Muncher'" - after ripping teeth off the shoulder gear for the 50th time...

Playing with a new sensor:
"Why is this chip getting so hot?" - I had reversed the connections, putting 5v on the signal pin and grounding the 5v pin. Thankfully it still works.

"Think of all the poor turkeys in wheelchairs!" - we cook turkey legs at our local Renaissance Festival and the volume is crazy. That is a good point...:ahh:

JBot

[JaneYoung]

Today, one of the team members was loading 2 of our smaller robots into my vehicle for a demo at a middle school. We were trying to decide if he could load the robots in one seat and climb over to the back seat.

He said - 'people are more flexible than robots, right?'

:)

[Stuart]

Well its not durring the FIRST build season but durring this years BEST season(most of the KOP is plywood or PVC)

CAM captain
"HOLY SMOKES!!!"

note:
this is about 2 seconds after the plywood were milling starts smoking . . and about 5 seconds before it catches fire

[Sam N.]

"These holes don't line up. Whoever drilled these holes is a complete and total... wait, I drilled these holes"

Yep, actually said by yours truly.

[Josh Fox]

Him: Oh look, Farmer Jack's. Whole store on sale! (Farmer Jacks is a local grocery store that is going under)
Me: Awesome, let's get some robot parts... What? We can make the robot biodegradable.


Ahhh Farmer Jack.... May you R.I.P.

[Storcky]

Today at kickoff

Dean Kamen: "...the game which you are about to see..."
Dave Lavery: "...the game which you are about to see..."
Woodie Flowers: "...the game which you are about to see..."
Me: "'About to see' is a relative term!"

[Stephi Rae]

The curtains are pulled back, revealing the long-awaited game for 2008, and as the audience gasps, one of my teammates says (very loudly)

"They're big balls!"

...we were in the bleachers in the back corner of the room, and literally the whole auditorium turned around and looked in our direction. :yikes:

[Akash Rastogi]

"we're gonna need a big cage for the balls" lol

[Herodotus]

"We poke the needle into the ball and inject the hamsters."

I am fairly certain this line has never been, and will never be uttered again.

Also "It's so big!!" in reference to the ball. Even after having seen it for 3 hours we would occasionally turn to it in them middle of designing and just be astounded by how big it still is. Heh, like we expect it to shrink.

[Otaku]

"So basically, this year's FIRST game is NASCAR with balls."

It's funny if you analyze it the right way.

Also a lot of other "ball" jokes already. And it's only day two. Not even 24 hours after kickoff. =p

[Tetraman]

"THER MAKIN" "NOTHER LEFT TUURN!!!"

[BlondeNerd]

"Herding, Hurdling...it all sounds kinda like hurling"

[lilac]

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

hauhauhauhauhuauahuah

that's sooo true!

[Setsanto]

"<nameless student>, is alone in the shop, someone go supervise him"

[sishu7]

"Tighten the graphics!"

(After programmers make the joysticks too sensitive) "Ah... well, the wall was old anyway"

Most common: "You are NOT driving! Look at the [insert piece of furniture, computer, wall, whatever here] you just broke."

(after stripping out a fourth window motor) "wait? you drove it directly? you didn't gear it down? Are you stupid?"

(2 am) Me: Z, why we here?
Teacher (not Z): Because I can't go home until you do.

[Steve Kaneb]

After seeing this year's game, I was reminded of an old chestnut:

"We must go forward, not backward. Upward, not forward. And always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!"

[BordomBeThyName]

It's too short, cut it again!

We measured a piece of metal as 15.2", cut it, put it in the ironworker, cut it, took it out, and measured it at 15.4".

Since then, it's not uncommon to hear "It's too short! Cut it again!" floating around our shop.

:D

[Zyik]

"We could fit half the team in this thing!" - another joke about how freakin huge the game peices are.