"Quotes" that were said during build season

[AndyB]

First words out of my mouth at the unveiling...

"Big.....freakin.....balls!............ who called it."

[Otaku]

"Wait, what are you guys doing?"
"Sitting in a circle and agreeing vigorously."

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"Sorry, repeat what you said. I was looking at the cheese."

[Otaku]

"This year's bot looks like Gloria and Cthulhu combined."
"Also looks like Delilah."
"It can be Cthlorilaulhu."

[basicxman]

Me (only 13 helping dad mentor): Wait...does the robot fit within size restrictions

Team member:Andy (me), stand beside the robot
<robot shorter than me>
Team member and me at the same time: we're good!

[basicxman]

member repairing under robot
Member 1 (repairing): Ahh...My back
Member 2: what!? are you sitting on something?
member 1: i don't think so...oh wait...!@#&! im laying on a hanging sprocket from the 'bot
member 2: well if you finished repairing quickly it would be on the 'bot and not under your back

[lady_raidan]

Yeah, these are defiantly original. (Also you can get these from our team’s website at www.team1980.org under "about 1980" then "team quotes".)

"Safety first! Ummm....where's the first aid kit?

"Giving up is for squares"

"Don’t do today what you can do tomorrow"

"The secret to success is to acknowledge that you have limits, but to never acknowledge that you have reached those limits."

"If you make it idiot-proof, someone will build a better idiot."

"Just wing it."

"He who lives in a glass house should look into a new house."

"Less is more."

"Idealism takes a backseat to practicality."

"Work today, be successful tomorrow."

"Don’t blow it up."

[Bsteckler]

"Ghaaaa!"
Said by another team member while luricating our gearboxes with white lithium grease...

[EricH]

From a teacher on 1135:

"I told my students that if they didn't do their homework, that" (pointing to the trackball, which was on a cabinet in the classroom used as a build area--and happened to be above my head at that point) "would be held over their heads and dropped. If more than one didn't do their homework, I'd roll it at them."

Me, in response: "Bowling!"

Same meeting: "We need to persuade something." "I'll persuade this..." (reference to the deadblow mallet)
"This is doing more damage to the hammer..." (The persuader was having trouble with the rollpin in the tranny)

[hipsterjr]

This is sad but fun.

I asked one of our animators if we would enter a safety animation?
Animator: no
Me: why not!!!????:mad:
Animator: (yelling) Because Mr. Thorp's (animation mentor) mother died!!!
Me: Oh, ok. I guess thats a good reason:o

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"you have to convince it to go into the hole... this bigger hammer should convince it."


"what are the animator's doing out of their closet?" (what we call their work space)

[interfect]

"It was the Gnomes."

Said every time something went wrong, or we couldn't find something.

It went on the back of out tee shirts.

[Leo]

"What happens when you have a 10 pound forklift and an 10 pound ball infront of the robot? Tippie Tippie!"

[GBIT]

I have two


"is there anyway to make our robot tip...........over...........proof?"-newbie

and

"a 2x4 is NOT 2x4 you idiot" - me

[Joe_Widen]

Joe, dont let him near the machines, he just hurt himself in the computer lab.

[Tetraman]

"Psychics Shot" - Term used to describe shooting the ball into the wall at an angle so track ball makes a turn.

[Otaku]

"That's going on Delphi."

"My blood type is caffeine."

"Christ, we're going to spend the next 5 weeks shining the 'bot. NOW LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE, GARTH!" <- Joke about how we were shining the frame with the abrasive pads we got from our 3M mentor, Garth.

[Karibou]

"Oh my God, this thing is sexy"

One of our mentors said that when he saw the painted (yellow and black, duh) mule chassis.

"Please refrain from the throwing of hats"
--Warning from the janitor after we played frisbee in the CAD lab with someone's hat one day after the meeting ended :D

[lilbowser]

http://www.teamvoltage.org/struttmannquotes.shtml

[Nin_estarSaerah]

"the holes don't line up"
"holes don't ever line up"

[Kat Kononov]

"ooh, let's make a drivetrain with 7 CVTs, a differential for each wheel and..."

"let's make mecanum wheels where the rollers are actually omniwheels. we'll call them pan-directional wheels because they can move in 3 dimensions."

"uhh...good luck with that."

[Blair Frank]

Me: "Hey, what's the probability of this flying out and coming crashing down, killing or injuring us?"
Other team member: "Very likely. That's what it's supposed to do."
Me: "Oh Dear."

[x7shaddow]

said while assembling mechanum wheels

"oh crap I think I just dropped a nut"

"shouldn't that have happened a couple years ago?"

[ProgrammerMike]

"No, not the surgical tube, PLEASE, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"

[Otaku]

"the holes don't line up"
"holes don't ever line up"

QFT.

[Josh363663]

actually water and electricity mix exceptionally well that is the problem

[StephLee]

"Okay, that drive train is out." "Why?" "Cause it would have cost $1200!"

"Here, catch!" (Said before tossing a trackball)

[Otaku]

URGH, I left my notebook at school. The one with most of the good quotes. Well, I'll be there tomorrow anyways so =p

Although one of my favorites is:

"An Arm is not a Hand." - Blake Hooper, Manufacturing Leader.

[KoulFireChick]

Andy: So, you like krimping more then stripping?
Jill: oh god yes!
Andy's dad: Never say that one to your dad

[CyDrive]

my personal motto
"theoretically it will work"

my following statement after it has been tested.
"I said it was theoretical"

Applies to all my programming.

[synth3tk]

During pizza ordering in one room.

1: "Is that everyone's order?"
2: "Did you get the programmer's in the other room"
1: "No, I just planned on throwing sardines into the tank. They'll be fine."


"I don't understand why he's a vegan, it doesn't offset anything. Besides, you know how many tomatoes get killed for one pizza?"

[Blue_Mist]

Me, looking at 2008 build schedule "We have to go into FIRST overdrive!" Because Co-President says our robot will be professionally welded if we don't have time to weld it ourselves.

Me: Ah! I'm going nuts!
Tamara: No, you're going washers...

We were sorting washers and slightly nostalgic about freshman year, and sophomore year. We're now both juniors. That's three years we've been doing this freshman's sorting thing...

[Jevin H]

"If it ain't broke don't fix it!"

[Otaku]

*a mentor's phone rings*
Weaver: "bananaphone!"

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*I write "Notebook of Smiting +8" on my robotics notebook*
me: "Here blake, go hit him with this."

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A mentor: "So, do we have a mentor who's experienced with forklifts, forklife repair, design, etc...?"
(It's funny because one of our other mentors, Ken, is a forklift mechanic, and the way that the mentor said it)

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"We could have prongs on it to make it hold stuff better."
"...like a forklift?"

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*When playing the south park song "What Would Brian Boitano Do?", during the chorus*
me: "Now what would Dean Kamen do, if he was here right now? I bet he'd build a 'bot or two, that's what Dean Kamen'd do.

[Eric_teh_Red]

"Frick it still freezes."

-A programmer

[Seraph117]

this is one i said... oops

"Just turn the ball sideways to fit it though the door"

[Schmoll52]

Devon- "Its only to big if its to big"
Brent - "That Doesnt make sense"
Devon - "Mr. Clark said it"
Brent- "OOOHHHHH"

[Otaku]

Mentor: "Baker, do you have a job?"
me: "No, I've got nothing to do."
Mentor: "Oh god, that's dangerous. Baker with nothing to do."
me: "Hmm. I think I'll go read delphi. =p"

[Rochelle435]

"Hey guys? I think this screw just fell off the bot."
"...uh...NOT IMPORTANT."

[usbcd36]

"JON! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" (many times over multiple seasons)

Things Jon was doing when this was said:

• making a blowdart gun out of extra PVC pipe, pool noodle and nails
• using a can of WD-40 and a match to make a flamethrower ("JON, stop making flamethrowers! You're going to set the floor on fire!")
• cutting (expensive) robot parts
• making holes/cuts in things with Dremel
• setting steel wool on fire
• attaching fans together, then stripping the nuts so the contraption could not be taken apart (at regionals)


(somebody says something that would've made our lives easier if said about a month ago)
*pause*
- "WHY?"
- "Because we're stupid."
- "Oh…"

"It's robotics season; we don't have time to study for midterms!"

- "PROG!"
- "PROG'd!"

- "Why didn't you tell us you had a machine shop in your basement?"
- "…"
- "…"
- "I dunno…I never really thought about it…"
(Note: I don't really have a machine shop in my basement; it's a wood shop. I did meet a guy who has a machine shop in his basement, though.)

"In the absence of Jon, we all become Jon" (said every time someone does something without thinking that results in wasted time or parts and Jon is not present)

"Somehow, we got ahold of some good juju."

"We had to seal the basement to protect the juju."

[Otaku]

*I begin to walk towards a table where people are messing around with infrared stuff*
me: "...OH GOD, A SOLDERING IRON!"
*I run off*


(Soldering irons + me = bad)

[Nin_estarSaerah]

"its not working because you didnt program it right"
*wheel falls off*
"never mind"

[StephLee]

"Wow, that one broke it..."

"OH MY GOD, IT'S A NINJA!"

[BigJ]

After a rousing discussion of Mario Kart...

Me: "We should shoot green shells on the track."
Person A: "We can't detach mechanisms from the robot."
Me: "I don't think a turtle shell is a mechanism!"

I proceed to ask everyone whether they think a turtle shell is a mechanism, until person B arrives...

Person B: "You don't need to detach it. just tether it to a string and reel it in quick with a motor."
Me: "IT CAN BE OUR BUMP TO PASS!"

I explain the funny series of events to a few people in the shop...

Person C: "Why a green shell, why not the blue one?"
Me: "The spikes would be a puncture risk"
Person C:" Nah! We'll have Joe file 'em" (Joe hates filing)



Looking back, if person C would have said red shell, I would have said "too much autonomous programming."

And yes, programmers on 1675...

"Program State!"
"PROGRAM STATE!"

[JayZ]

while discussing using sonar to detect trackballs:

"it might just absorb sound. that nylon is very......clothy."
:D

[RoboGeek99]

Mentor:Scott you are mechanical and hardware. JD you are hardware...
JD:Hey i want to have 2 too.
Mentor:Fine you are the mechanical and the Team Scapegoat:D

Oh yeah almost forgot
(We were trying to decide what kind of mechanism to put on the robot to lift the ball)
Buschman:Maybe some sort of fork lift
Johnny:No...it has to has to be curved to hold the ball...like a spoon!
Mentor:...Hey how 'bout a Spork Lift?

[Blair Frank]

Mentor: "If your prototype works perfectly, you've been working on it too long."
"The opposite of life isn't death. The opposite of life is robotics!"
"No matter how much they say it is, not being plugged in is not a software problem!"

[RoboGeek99]

Hey kayla this is what is really sad if the robot is TALLER than me it's still legal

[Setsanto]

While inflating this years gamepiece with an air compressor:

Me: Hey, whats the PSI on that compressor (it was making airplane sounds)?
Student 1: PSI is for schmucks

10 seconds later *boom*

[Herodotus]

Mentor: Attach the gear to the battery.
Student: You mean the sprocket to the transmission?
Mentor: That's what I said.
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Student 1: (while working in CAD) This looks pretty good.
Student 2: Ship it.
Mentor: Just put a memory key in the box.
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Student: We've been here since noon. I know we've had more funny things then this. (while typing the first two up)

[Nin_estarSaerah]

"ah, i love the smell of burning material in the morning"


"it doesnt work"
"hit it with a hammer"
"wheres a hammer"
"anything's a hammer"

[Sergio]

"AHH I CUT MY PINK OFF!!"

ahhahaha

[Grogs]

p1: Get the lube
p2: which one
p1: the one for tapping, its not going in straight, its a little tough
P2: twist it out and do it again
P1: it still is stuck
p2: let me see, ahhh.. yes, see you do it like this.
p1: ok, i'll do the other one
P2: be careful when you pull it out that you don't make a mess.
P1: @#$%...it went all over the place.
p2: oh well, wipe it off....
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
p1 (me actually): i think i broke my middle finger
p2 (standing next to me supposed to be helping): why, what happened, i wasn't paying attention to what was going on...all i heard was zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz *BOOM* Ahhh @#$%! wow, the metal looks bent, what happened?

[Helknf]

Dude, we have a grinder.....it will fit.

[basicxman]

"ok...compiling...come on...hurry up!, ok great...now lets take it for a test drive..."
<robots arm hits me in face>
"owwwwww, ahh crap"
<some words i would say but couldnt ;) :rolleyes: >

[coalhot]

At the kickoff: ken, "David, go run down there and pull the tarp off". David, "why?" ken, "because they're taking too long"

listen to me...come back here...YOURE FIRED!!

ken "picking the ball up is too difficult...why dont we just mount a .22 shotgun and blast the ball around?"

[MasterMkanik]

"so THATS the way this thing goes"- Jan

"Hook up the wacha-ma-call it to thing thingamagigger"- Jan

"He's on the fruit loops side of the cereal aisle if you know what i mean" -Bill
"Who drank my hidden soda... and my hidden soda backup?"

"our newest computer...is a pentium four?"- Our head programmer

1) "well, if you hit the computer screen, it will implode" -Programmer
2) "let's test your theory *picks up hammer*"-me

"I'm Supervising"-Bill

"I thought i smelled twislers"

1)"I thought we said we wern't going to build an arm?"
2)"We did"
1)"then, what are they doing?"
2)"Building an arm"

*The only reason we didn't get lost in Richmond was because we had the GPS"- Jan

"The chair is mine, I commandeered it"

"I need the big screwdriver, No, the one that requires its own gun rack" -me(Refering to a literally four foot long screwdriver we have)

[StephLee]

Person 1: All we need to do is __________ !
Person 2: Well, I'm glad we've established that I was right in the first place!

[Zyik]

Quotes from our new mentor.

"I killed a bear" - mentor as a joke
"Oh really? Nate hit a bear a couple of weeks ago with his truck" -student one
"Wait seriously? There's bears around here? I was joking" - mentor
"Yep" - student
"Oh my god, I'm in the middle of "freaking" nowhere!" - mentor

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"Is that a real blue-jay?" - mentor
"Oh my god your a city-boy" - student

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"Eh, mountain lions, they only weigh like 40 pounds." -mentor
"Have you ever seen a mountain lion?" - student 1
"Yea, once." -mentor, begins to look up mountain lions on Wikipedia
"Did it occur to you that mountain lions have the word LION in there name?" -student 2
"Mountain lions kill people, I'd be pretty ashamed to be killed by something that only weighs 40 pounds." -student 1

Wikipedia reveals that mountain lions weigh up to 200 pounds

"Ok so maybe I was a little off...." -mentor

[AdamHeard]

Quotes from our new mentor.

"I killed a bear" - mentor as a joke
"Oh really? Nate hit a bear a couple of weeks ago with his truck" -student one
"Wait seriously? There's bears around here? I was joking" - mentor
"Yep" - student
"Oh my god, I'm in the middle of "freaking" nowhere!" - mentor

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"Is that a real blue-jay?" - mentor
"Oh my god your a city-boy" - student

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"Eh, mountain lions, they only weigh like 40 pounds." -mentor
"Have you ever seen a mountain lion?" - student 1
"Yea, once." -mentor, begins to look up mountain lions on Wikipedia
"Did it occur to you that mountain lions have the word LION in there name?" -student 2
"Mountain lions kill people, I'd be pretty ashamed to be killed by something that only weighs 40 pounds." -student 1

Wikipedia reveals that mountain lions weigh up to 200 pounds

"Ok so maybe I was a little off...." -mentor

^Me

In all fairness.... It is quite a bit different from where I come from.

[EricH]

A shaft was stuck on a bearing and had actually pulled the bearing out of the wheel (we were exploring options).

me: "I think we need the persuader on this one."
One of the other mentors: "Let me try." (pops it off with no apparent effort)
Student and me: "Whaa--?"
Me: "Well, we still need the persuader. We need to put the bearing back." (as in, back in the wheel)

[pandaF]

Quotes from our new mentor.

"I killed a bear" - mentor as a joke
"Oh really? Nate hit a bear a couple of weeks ago with his truck" -student one
"Wait seriously? There's bears around here? I was joking" - mentor
"Yep" - student
"Oh my god, I'm in the middle of "freaking" nowhere!" - mentor

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"Is that a real blue-jay?" - mentor
"Oh my god your a city-boy" - student

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"Eh, mountain lions, they only weigh like 40 pounds." -mentor
"Have you ever seen a mountain lion?" - student 1
"Yea, once." -mentor, begins to look up mountain lions on Wikipedia
"Did it occur to you that mountain lions have the word LION in there name?" -student 2
"Mountain lions kill people, I'd be pretty ashamed to be killed by something that only weighs 40 pounds." -student 1

Wikipedia reveals that mountain lions weigh up to 200 pounds

"Ok so maybe I was a little off...." -mentor

You forgot the part where i mention that my house cat weighs about 30 pounds, causing him to rethink the weight of his mountain lion. :D

[RoboGeek99]

Student A:What did you do to your fingers
Student B:Oh I sheared them with the drill:mad:
Student C:HaHa! He can't use a drill without hurting himself
Student A:Hey! You are the one who cut himself with...Oh wait, that was me!:o :o

[MTGdiablo]

"Camera's flashes travel at the speed of light."

=)

[whlspacedude]

*people in class raising hands*
me: lower your manipulators!

[Josh363663]

WHY ARE THERE ALL THESE EXTRAS OH CRAP (ASSEMBLING WHEELS)

[coalhot]

"chris, someones messing with your bladder" *me referring to the deflated bladder that had just been put in in the tracball, and that someone had started messing with it*

[Libby K]

"Why do I get the feeling that if I weren't here, Libby would just be hitting the hammer on the floor and thinking she's building the robot..."

-Big Mike AKA Pooh Bear

[SqueaksZombie]

Most of our stuff is safety jokes. Like, "I'm gonna stick this thing in my eye, is that safe?" "Killer death beams aren't technically forbidden in the safety manuel, oh, wait, wait, yes they are." "Claire (me, the safety person), those Cheezits don't look safe." "Stop being unsafe! Be safe or else."

[MishraArtificer]

A while after the release of 300...
"Madness? THIS IS ROBOTICS!"

Also, a while after Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End was released and someone did/came up with something awesome...
"And that was without a single drop of rum."
"Yeah? How much caffeine?"
"Two Monsters."
"Sorry, didn't catch that?"
"OK, 5 Monsters."
"That's more likely."

[MasterMkanik]

"We need to add these two Actuators to make it work"-Me
"Thats not the problem"-Mentor
"So? It solves it" -Me

Student one-"A round peg dosn't go into a too-small hole"
Student two (me) -*Wacks with Hammer*
Student one- "Well, apparently it does..."

"The speed controller fans hurt like if you touch them"- Programmer
*sticks tounge in speed controller*-
"Never mind..."

"We have one Screw on the robot that requires the big screwdriver, just so we can whip it out" -Me
"OH" - Noobie

[cobrawanabe1699]

"WAIT!! Nono don't raise the...arm..... Hey Mr. D, you might need a new garage door"

"Hey! Don't touch my drill chuck without my permission!"

Student 1: "I'm tired"
Student 2: "What does tired mean?"
Student 1: "What does what mean?"
Student 2: "What?"
Student 1: "I'm tired."
Student 2: "What?"

[Akash Rastogi]

a discussion between me and one of the smartest kids i know..its really funny b/c this kid is 15 and is taking Calc AP and AP Physics and something you wouldn't expect him to say....

Me:"Yo are you ready for this season? It should be insane!!"
Abhi:"Yeah, I guess. I just wish we had fruit salad again!:D "
Me:"What are you talking about? What fruit salad?"
Abhi:"Last build season, on one of the weekend lunches we had this amazing fruit salad! It was soooo good =D" -Genuinely happy and excited
Me: *-.-*


lol, you'd kinda only understand if you know this kid. hilarious

another one...

"Who the heck goes to school now?!?!"

"This is MORT, we don't open the second door" lol Okrent

[Eye-gor]

this is from last year's team captain:

"it won't fail 'till it breaks"

Towards the end of build season we start making up words like "gription" and "prettify". Maybe it's because of lack of sleep, but none of the made up words need any explination.

[Herodotus]

Towards the end of build season we start making up words like "gription" and "prettify". Maybe it's because of lack of sleep, but none of the made up words need any explination.

WE have our infamous "Napkin of Truth" where we write down all the words we've made up. Just to name a few.

Gription (though everyone has made this up, I believe)
Argaffirming- Arguing with someone, while simply restating what they've already said. It's both arguing and reaffirming.
Inspenser- The opposite of a dispenser.
Theoletically- Me trying to pronounce theoretically.

I'll post some more when I have access to the Napkin.

[Corey Oostveen]

(talking about how our parts had not come in yet)

Me- "It is really dumb how fed ex can't deliver a fed ex express package and fed ex express can't deliver a fed ex package"
Team Advisor- "Ya the fed ex guys don't touch each others packages"

[Justin M.]

If it don't fit, force it.

Required tools for FIRST: hammer, screwdriver, and a bigger hammer.

[Otaku]

Required tools for FIRST: hammer, screwdriver, and a bigger hammer.

You forgot a Hacksaw. =p

[otomerobot]

The main ones.

"$@#$@#$@#$@#$@#$@# MARIA!"
"Maria what are you doing?!"

The oh so famous one.

"CANT STOP! CANT STOP! CANT STOP!" - This was when we were testing our remotoe control with the robot. It was going forward and then next thing you know the robot wouldnt stop. SO our mentor started to yell and the robot ramned into last years field rack. :yikes:

"David stop!"-Everyone
"DUGADUGADUGA" -Mentor Mr. Meagher
"KISS- Keep It Simple Stupid" -Mentor Mr. Sotir
"Learn from last years mistakes, dont make them again!"

Thats about it for now. There will be more from my team haha.:D

[Nin_estarSaerah]

"no, we can't put bunk beds in the shop. I don't want any babies named after me."- LB, our mentor.

[Cow Bell Solo]

The most that everyone uses (that is about me) is

NO!!! Stolte NO!!!!

after we had a mushroom cloud of blue smoke out of the electronics

[hoorayforpink]

"I'm hungry, lets eat something---later"

thats all i got

[Sqwigy]

"Four-bar lift. . . . friend or foe?!"

Well that's it for now. . . to be continued!

[Steven S]

oh here are a bunch sadly all mine:

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE AREN'T ANY MORE COOKIES!?!":eek:

"Yes, basing this off my inventor model, the floaty arms go right....here"

"Alright who's genius idea was it to cut the ends off the battery charger wires without labeling them?":ahh:
(yeah i don't know what they were thinkin.......)

[danshaffer]

Ok, so first we're going to do some WAD, then some CAD, then some different CAD, then some AAD and then we'll have a robot...
(Whiteboard, cardboard, computer, aluminum)

Grease, blood and cookies... it must be build season.

That's almost unnecessary simplicity.

[Team 1967]

"Forklift scooper thingy!"

"You're allowed to be twice as big as the ball."

"Their word is not Gospel- we learned it the hard way"

"It's ok if we fail."

"...means robot goes crunch."

"Dude?! Is it even possible for a robotics mentor to NOT know how to set up his own voicemail system?!"

[Joe G.]

Me: *returns from shop carrying 2 pieces of 80/20 extrusion about 5 feet long, just cut with a hacksaw*
"The 1x1's for the arm are cut"

P2: (from across the room) "they're uneven" (I have a reputation for being sloppy)

Me: *puts them down, lines them up. They are different by about 1/16th of an inch* "No they aren't"

P2: *looks at end* What's this look like?

Me: A 32nd of an inch?

P3: We'll fix it in programming

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"DON"T LET JOE NEAR THE EPOXY!!!!" (I build rockets with epoxy+fiberglass as the primary fastening material, and have a tendancy to...overuse it for robotics.)

[mormannoob]

me: whats that noise

marcus:its either a vaccum or a compressor

so if true = "1" and false = "!true"
then in theroy false can = "peanut butter"
which may also mean true might equal jelly

[Akash Rastogi]

"Without robotics, kids like us are left alone and afraid!" lol Kraemer (Drive Train)

Our school was scared of snow tonight and decided to cancel all after school activities (hence the previous quote) . They told us we can't come in. Normally, if this was later on in build, we wouldn't listen but we all decided to play it safe for once.(hence the next quote)

"MORT is not a f*****g afterschool activity!!! We simply can't be canceled! Its more like a ...'hey Mr. Principal man, we're staying here for 12 hours if you don't mind. Oh and don't worry, we'll sleep in the gym'... " -Tanvir (End effector)

lmao..always more to come

[Andrew Bates]

P1 "This is hard"
P2 "That's why they call it robotics"
P3 "Wait? it's called robotics cause we build robots right?"
P2 "No"

[Otaku]

Ian: "I've found a way to keep Baker quiet. Give him a file and some sharp edges."
Me: "That wouldn't last long though"
Ian: "I'd keep giving you metal."
Me: "Fair enough."

[StephLee]

Ian: "I've found a way to keep Baker quiet. Give him a file and some sharp edges."
Me: "That wouldn't last long though"
Ian: "I'd keep giving you metal."
Me: "Fair enough."

You'd have the safest robot ever, at least; I don't know how many times someone has cut themselves on an edge we forgot to file...we try, we really do, but something always ends up still sharp.

[Otaku]

You'd have the safest robot ever, at least; I don't know how many times someone has cut themselves on an edge we forgot to file...we try, we really do, but something always ends up still sharp.

I'm obsessed over filing. It's fun.

[Otaku]

Me: "So I had this idea for a CNC Coloring machine..."
Bob (our programmer): "...a printer?"

[synth3tk]

(Me, telling the rest of the team the shelf dimensions)


Me: "Ok, the shelf is 60 inches wide by 12 feet deep"
D: "Twelve feet?"
D2: "That would be a big area"
A: "We could use a big DDR pad"
Me: "It would take three-four people to work it"
"LIFT THE ARM UP!"
"WHA?"
"LIFT UP THE ARM!!!"

[Wayne Doenges]

Said by me:
There comes a time, in every project, when you should shoot the engineers and start production :ahh:

[mormannoob]

austin u play wii u must have strong bicepts

[Rinaldi 427]

our most used quotes include "grind it till it fits"and "speed whole the crap out of that baby"

[thewhit]

Freshman -"Is red negative or is it black?! "
Captain -"Oh man we've got problems!"

[mrbob1000]

"yes... i play the piano"
"so your a pianist?"
"yes..."

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"No your a 120 amp breaker"

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"Wait... theres a NEW mexico?"

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"The control station needs a toaster and some spam. that way people can eat when driving" -me while designing the pannel.

[JYang]

This was the briefing on what happened at the NorCal FLL Championships to one of the teams that our team mentors.
"The team peformed perfectly, but the robot didn't do what it is supposed to do."

So we also have this programmer on our team named Eugene... and these are some of the Eugenisms... (this is from the rest of my team... I personally don't get these...)
"Once you cross the line, you can NEVER go back"
"El Crappo"
"Technically I don't have to program the robot to go backwards or right"

Our other programmer was acting a bit werid on the trackball....
"I feel like Dwight. Except it's too big" (Dwight's from The Office)
The same programmer as above while filling out grants...
"As of now, building robots is our secondary objects"

So our team thinks of food before working sometimes...
"MMMmmmm... cookies..."

Lack of sleep during build season makes a few of our team members crazy... this is at 2 in the morning while drinking Koolaid...
"You know, why doesn't anyone ever sue the Koolaid man? I mean, he jumps through walls getting all of the plaster and asparagus in the juice. That can't be too good for your health."

[AndyB]

Deciding what color to make the lettering on our black bumpers:

1: "Alright, so the vote was 5-2 blue to orange."
2: "You really want to make the lettering baby blue."
1: "Ahem...-- lightning blue."

[Drwurm]

"No Ryan! If you die in Inventor, you die in real life!" -Me to our team captain

[basicxman]

"No Ryan! If you die in Inventor, you die in real life!" -Me to our team captain

lol "take the red pill or take the blue pill" one of them will lead to inventor success, the other shows you how far the rabbit hole goes

[Asiatique296]

"Snowball fight anyone?"

"No more targets!!!!"

as boredom overcame us, we made this target out of cardboard and hung it from one of the many pipes. We then drew a ninja and proceeded to throw random objects at it in a orderly fashion.
Objects including and not limited too: bits of extrusion, files, foam balls, yoga balls, other bits of cardboard, files, sharpies...

i think we also threw a sonic doll, but that must be verified

[JackknifeJustin]

"Our robot is like a murder weapon on wheels and we haven't even hooked it up to the battery yet."

[Scott Carpman]

"Where are the wires? I need to use the WiFi."

"Twinkies don't expire, they turn into twinkie beer."

"Man, I hope these envelopes don't have anthrax in the glue."

[JohnC]

"Get the radio out of the chain and put the robot in programming mode please."

^ par for the course :p

[ArtVandalay]

"Is that OUR chain on the field?"

[DPTeam270Driver]

Me-"hey that is one sexy robot"
Other person- "heyy, keep it in the envelope"

this happened at an invitational
Other person- "heyy WTF why isnt our robot working??"
Me- "Aww man!!!! we forgot to turn the robot on!!"

[shadow1083]

"no, i said you could only have one doughtnut not the whole box"

[Otaku]

P1: "Uh, should this be making smoke?"
P2: "...not really."
P3: "Well, it IS Harbor Freight, after all."

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Brian: "Does anybody have a toothbrush on them?"
Me: "...What's a toothbrush?"

(I'm not known for being extremely hygienic, so it's funny)

[Fab.Master]

1: "what happens when the red wire touches the black wire?!?!?"
2: "the current approaches infinity and theres a big spark-"
1: "COOL, lets try it!!!"
2: "and the battery could explode."
1: "okay...hmm... you try it, I'll watch!"

[Otaku]

Me: "See, Brian, this is why I don't do electronics."
Brian: "Why?"
Me: "I touched red to black once. It wasn't good."

[Karl200]

Quote 1

Friend; "Oh my gosh, Vanilla Ice is white"
Me; "Thats why he is Vanilla not Chocolate"


Quote 2

Me; "How do you do this question"
Frien; "Who cares just put something"

Quote 3

Friend (watching the kickoff game); "If you have a god, pray now!"

[DarkFlame145]

If anyone of you guys where at the Fingerlakes Regionals and remembers our team, we often you yell "Marco" and the crowd would yell "Polo" back. It was funny cause it started out as an advanced team's joke. We where lost finding the motel, so we call up one of the mentors who drove up in his truck. Our drive just says "Marco" then our mentor calls up and says "Polo".

Then also last year we had a bad year, our bot only drove at Regionals. We called it "Ish" because no matter what we did it was also kinda done.......ish. So when people where talking in meeting and said stuff like "The frame is done" then one of use would just say "ish.......".

[Astarties]

"WE'RE MAKIN' A LEFT TURN!"

"Why is the keyboard on the CADD computer deactivated in the bios?" - me

"Who put the pneumatic tubing in the cabinet with the 14 gague wire?"

"Wow that's a big burrito!"

"A flame thrower is perfectly feasable."

"Well, they don't exactly say we can't do it..."

[Brian J. R.]

While building the plywood prototype (mmm...plywood....) I was in charge of putting it all together, while the others on drive base built the connectors for the wheels.

Me: *crazed look* JUSTIN!?!? What do all good teams with casters do?

Justin: I don't know, what?

Me: MOTORIZE THEM!!!!!

Justin: Wee!

We proceeded to think of ways to motorize the ball bearings in the caster.

From the prototype stages our team came up with a simple saying

"The robot should be allowed to boing"

We have a mentor who, unknown to him, we have affectionately nicknamed Gordon Freeman, because he resembles ol gordon, especially with his orange jacket. (his name is actually tom...)

J and Me: We need to build the robot out of something then aluminum...how about completely out of wood...

Tom: That would be (something that the swear filter takes out), or maybe steampunk...

Me: Ooooo.....copper tubing.......

[Kingsmen]

Teacher: We can just weld the rope to the pulley...... Right Justin?

Me: Uhh..... Can you weld rope?

T: You fail the class, go home

[reflion]

[Note: One of our sponsors is a donut company, and they bring us free donuts occasionally.]

"...I don't think that donut's gonna fit in your arteries."

[synth3tk]

S1: "I don't like the way the finish will look"

S2: "We should use oak. It'll look better"

S1: "I think so too. It's beautiful."

S3: "Yeah, sexy oak. Oak is very sexy"

S1: "I think you crossed the line on that one"

[Karibou]

"If it gets any hotter in here, it'll be inappropriate" --Mentor
...referring to our team room, which is boiling in comparison to the shop. There's a difference of about 5 degrees F...

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"We should have a joust sometime."
"What would we use as weapons?"
"Those air compressors are looking pretty good to me..."

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And this is by far the best one...we had subs for dinner this particular day...

Person1: "Do you want my tomatos?"
Me: "Yeah, do you want my meat?" *there weren't vegetarian subs...*
Person1: "Uhh, I'll pass"

[Trav-O]

"wall. wall. wall! Don't hit it!"

[fabalafae]

We had just loaded out 2006 bot onto a cart to pull it back into storage after using it to test our code...S1 pulls cart into storage hall...

S2: "Hey watch it; you're dragging alan wrenches!"

(There had been wrenches on the floor and they were caught behind the wheels of the cart)

[Karibou]

Wait, there's more...

Ok, so I've been making pokemon cards for my team. Like, cutting and pasting pictures of my teammates onto pokemon card bases, and giving them attacks. I gave one of the co-captains (Charlie) the attack "Glare..."

Me: "Charlie: Ok, so when you stare someone down, the person who's being stared at feels guilty and kind of like a wimp (speaking from experience). Glare is an attack that paralyzes your opponent, which means that they have to flip a coin to see if they can attack. When you stare me down, I actually think about what I'm going to say next."
Charlie: "Does my glare seriously scare you guys?"
S1: "ya charlie's like that snake on harry potter...turn you into stone with his glare"
Me: "lol, I bet Charlie'll glad to hear that he's like a basilisk...does he have fangs too?"

It's kinda an inside joke, though...

[ArtVandalay]

This was said while teaching freshmen how to tap holes.

Eric: Be sure to use plenty of lubrication and take your time.
Mike(mentor from across the room): And remember her name!

[SoJ]

"How do you put sunglasses on a robot?"

In refrence to an idea we have about how to send our Robocoach commands. You'll all see....if it works.

[Ricki E.]

*Chain just breaks*

"Did I break that?"

"Yeah you did."

"STOPP BLAMING ME!!!!!!!"


New Day:

*chain breaks*

"Did you break that"

"No, hahahahah"

:]

[Brandon_L]

Me while stripping a wire that wont strip:

"Strip, b1tch"

Guy next to me:

"whoah there"

me: "Screw in the tether wire and your head is mine."

[Sam N.]

"PWMed"

"We should have just used your sharp wit to cut through [the steel rod]"

[Jakob]

Said while laying over and hugging the ball: "This ball is definitely unisex"..

"We have enough fans to cool the Sahara Desert".

[ghebinkim]

while shopping for wires at home depot:

Timothy: "I love stripping, it's so fun!"

[Astarties]

in a series of text messages about a shopping trip to Lowes.

S1 "we got the spacers"

me "are we using copper pipe like last year?"

s1 "no, it's steel"

s1 "you got something to cut it with?"

me "is it conduit?"

s1 "no, it's steel"

me "is it steel conduit?"

s1 "oh, i guess"

me "is it like that long pipe in the room at the school?"

s1 "i guess"

me "is it threaded at the ends?"

s1 "no"

me "it's conduit..."

[zivo123]

some unuesual senteces quoted from people.. (translated from hebrew)
"what should i do now?"
"do what i've told you to do"
"but i dont know how to do that"
"but all i've asked you to do is to think!"
conversation between ceo and one of the other students.

a sentence quoted from our leading mentor:
"just improvise. FIRST is all about improvisation."

luckily he only comes twice a week... :)
*just kidding*

[zim2411]

Laura: I'm leaving!
Karen: I'll miss you! Oh, wait, no I won't. I have chief delphi! :D

[Grogs]

(While teaching freshman powertools)

1: Nails will be as effective as screws
2: No, screws are better
1: Nails
2: Screw it!

[Guy Davidson]

From a random team 8 member during dinner:

"There's a fork udner my salad."

[Nin_estarSaerah]

*two freshmen arguing over one cut piece of metal*
"are you sure you cut it right"
"yeah, right on the line."
"the line's right there, i can see it"
"which end is the end we want to use"
"did they just roll their eyes at us?"

[Broadside]

"don't touch that!"
"go away!"
"why do they call them chips if you can't eat them?"

[Drwurm]

We have a mentor and a student on our team both named Andrew. We were trying to make things less confusing.

Gabby:"Well what are we going to call him?"
Ryan: "What about Drew?"
Gabby:"I don't know, he doesn't look like a 'Drew' to me."
Me: "He looks a little Drewish to me!"

[Corey Oostveen]

Calling a company about some polycarbonate.

I dial the number then just hand the phone to the our Vice President
*ring*
VP:what do you want me to...
Lady:Hello.
VP: uhhhhmmmm....are you guys open?
Lady: (long pause) yes we are open...
VP: ok thanks *hangs up*

Well so much for getting that polycarbonate huh?

[Sarah Moore]

While working on awards...“Maybe if I lay my head on my keyboard, it will channel my thoughts into my laptop.”

This one was after our ex-mentor came back for the first time during the season. “Wow. You sound really bad. You look great though!”

“I sharpened your pencil…with scissors.”

While one member was playing with a binder clip "Rawr...I'm going to eat you..."

[Laaba 80]

From one of our "technically lacking" mentors at one of our first meetings.

Mentor "Kids through this program learn some much. You've heard stories about people who go to college who dont even know how to use a screwdriver. In FIRST you learn how to use powertools, and that you need to tap before you drill"
Student "No, you tap after"
Mentor "Well then whats that thing you poke it with before you drill?"
Student "A Center Punch"
Mentor "Same Thing"



Joey

[Otaku]

"I sure hope you like crimping more than stripping, I don't think anybody wants to watch you strip."

[Drwurm]

Me-"Ken, you stole my strippers"
Ken-"Yeah, well I'm not paying f--"
Me-"NO JOKES."

[Karibou]

Ok, so we were selling the remaining cinnamon rolls from our fundraiser at a local hardware store...these are the results of 4 hours's long work...

--S1 and S2 were playing chess...using Starbursts as pieces and graph paper as a board, since we didn't have a real board. S1 draws a face on one of the starbursts, and then a crown to represent a king. He "walks" the king across the board. "I'm a little starburst...!"
--S3: "We sound like 20 hungover chinese men after a night of drunken organ steeling..." (we were being kind of...loud)
--S4: *picks a random screw off of the floor* "Anyone wanna screw?"

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And the best quote of the season so far:
"Lyke, oh em gee. Lyke, totally!"
~Mentor, imitating...something...

[MasterMkanik]

Its not math, it's Addition!

My butt feels like clamp -Duncan

Wheres Chardonay (The strippers)?- Bill

I'm going to go take a nap in the programming room.- Me
:D

[GRS]

Makin' an assembly in Autodesk Inventor:

"Whaddaya mean I can't copy & paste constraints!!!!" - Me

[Bsteckler]

"Radio Shack-you have questions, we have blank stares"
Said when trying to find a DB15P solder cup, no one knew what we were talking about.

"So they give us the motors and the gearboxes, but no screws?"
Said when trying to assemble a Fisher-Price gearbox

There were many others that were generally comments on the crappiness/randomness of stuff in the KoP, but I don't remember them.

[Cow Bell Solo]

"Fire Is fun, but the robot is important"

"Can I have my Milwaukee Strippers"

[Cypher]

Me: "Hey, Freshman!"
Other: "I'm a Junior!"
Me: "That doesn't matter."

Something to the effect of:
"And that right there is the Sharpie line between right and wrong. Guess which side you cut on?"

And randomly, to justify what we are doing: "Because its more sexy now!"

[Masked]

"If we know something and we know nothing, we know this."

Funny thing was that it actually made sense for what we were talking about...

[neoshaakti]

One of our team members is continuously mocked for saying "You are in FIRST, use your mind"
He is known for doing not so smart things :P
haha

another freshman moment:

Alec: "I have plexiglass"

others: "omfg really?"

Alec: "oh yeah but its bent"

others: "darn...maybe we can still use it...bring it in"

Alec: "oh yeah...im not coming"

others: "mock...dude youre a freshman! You dont even have any hw!"

Alec:"hmm yeah true"

others: "then why dont you come"

Alec: "I dont want to!"

others: "wow.. so you dont want to"

Alec: "Yeah...oh and I also have to read my book type up a 6 page summary on my book for mr. martinak"

others: "so why the hell are you here"

Alec: "Good question"

[KarateDog171]

" Why did you join robotics?"
"I like power tools."


"Why don't we just steal a shopping cart, put a Hemi engine in it and call it a robot?"
"I like it!"

[The Megan 2207]

"Fire is fun, but the robot is important!"

Mentor: "I think I've made this foolproof. Stolte (student), get over here! I need you to test something!"

[JackknifeJustin]

Mentor: "Make sure so wear safety glasses when you use the grinder."
Me: "I know. I have them on."
Mentor: "You should wear gloves too. Just in case."
Me: "I know. Already have them on." *Starts grinding*
Second Student: *walks up without safety glasses on to see what I am doing* "OMG I THINK THAT JUST HIT ME IN THE EYE!!!!!"
Mentor: "Thats why you aren't Safety Captain"

[EricH]

Mentor: "Make sure so wear safety glasses when you use the grinder."
Me: "I know. I have them on."
Mentor: "You should wear gloves too. Just in case."
Me: "I know. Already have them on." *Starts grinding*
Second Student: *walks up without safety glasses on to see what I am doing* "OMG I THINK THAT JUST HIT ME IN THE EYE!!!!!"
Mentor: "Thats why you aren't Safety Captain"A word of warning--gloves are not a good idea when grinding. Use vise grips or pliers to hold a part, and dip the part in water to cool it off.

My Aero Design team has a set of our own quotes, but most are not appropriate. A few that are:
"Miss Behavin" -- last year's prototype
"Haulin' Mass" --Last year's competition plane
(the planes live up to their names)

And the usual jokes about the wire strippers (which like to disappear)...

[JackknifeJustin]

A word of warning--gloves are not a good idea when grinding. Use vise grips or pliers to hold a part, and dip the part in water to cool it off.

*I did use vice grips and a C-clamp to hold it. The grinder I was using only had half of a guard on it so if it throws sparks they went on your hands. We have a new one now.*

S1: "We should hire Chuck Norris, paint him silver, and send him in as our robot."
S2: "Why?"
S1: "Because with Chuck Norris it is impossible to lose."
S2: "WE HAVE A NEW ROBOT DESIGN!!!!"

[StephLee]

"Uh-oh, it's in crazy mode again. Hit the button!"

~about five minutes ago, right in front of me, where the programmers are working with the drive train prototype...


(My family, in the car on our way to an FLL event this weekend in Baltimore)

Brother and sister: *argue* *bickerbicker* *SMACK* *yell*
Mom: You two are not being GP! Stop that!

[flamefixed]

ay, grab me the (wrench or allen) !

what size?

common size!!!

[Hito Seika]

"what ever u say Mr. ***."

[Sarah Moore]

"THEY THINK WE NEED SAFTEYGLASSES FOR EVERYTHING, EVEN BREAKFAST!"
"Yeah, those spoons are dangerous, Travis. You could poke out your eye!"
"Yeah, well, I'm not wearing safety glasses while I eat cereal, because I like to live on the edge."

[Jethr0]

"We will create a kind of primordial ooze."

(To Me): "Door. Blockage. Can you solve for X?" :confused:

[Hiteak]

Freshmen: If a tree falls in the forest when no one is around, does it still make a noise?
Mentor: Yes it does
Freshmen: What sound does one hand clapping make?
Mentor: Thats a question used for meditation
Me (while looking at code): What does code sound like going though a complier?

[Alex Cormier]

Freshmen: If a tree falls in the forest when no one is around, does it still make a noise?
Mentor: Yes it does
Freshmen: What sound does one hand clapping make?
Mentor: Thats a question used for meditation
Me (while looking at code): What does code sound like going though a complier?

hey rob....

"You make a design and i'll make it work in programming"

[Mufasa1111]

S1: I can't do that since then I would miss next Saturday
Mentor: We would have to fire you
Me: What would it take to have me fired
Mentor: Nothing
Me whispering to another student: Either I am untouchable or on notice
S2: I think both

[GUI]

*Our CAD/Animation computer's case has a motherboard tray that folds out so you can work on it. So today i was working on the chassis and one of the mentors tells me i'm needed in the design room, so i go over there.
teammate: Hey Gary, the animation computer isn't working.
me: What happened?
teammate: We were modeling a motherboard, so i had the case open to look at the one in the computer, then when i closed the case like this (pops motherboard tray closed rather violently) it stopped working.
needless to say, someone is buying the club a new motherboard...

yesterday, we were putting the chassis together:
teammate:Gary, why is this wheel so close to the frame?
me: *looks at the wheel* umm, i designed it that way.
teammate: well, there's no clearance (he exaggerated, there was about 1/32" of clearance...)
me: that's called precision engineering!

[tanmaker]

It was kinda late one night last week and we were trying to work but were way too tired. About five of us decided that George Foreman signs every single grill he makes, so I said "When I get home, I'm gunna tell my dad that we learned in robotics that George Foreman works in a Chinese sweatshop building and signing grills next to little Asian kids"

[przdj918]

"Now Imagine a 3rd one..." - Originally Said by Nunes...Reused by ME
"Don't Touch thine face." -Said by me

[Deepthought2491]

"do we have tiny springs?"
"of course not. remember, this is the school's garage. It may look well outfitted, but if we didn't buy it then we don't have it."

Mentor: "hey, come here a minute!"
student: "what? I didn't do anything?!?!"
mentor: "what? you aren't in trouble."
Student: "oh, sorry, it's just the michael factor."
(michael is our math teacher, who teaches in the garage most of the time)

"reed fails the battle, but andrew fails the war!"

[christina_omg]

"where'd all the bread come from?"

[ShotgunNinja]

"Power Cables! You can never have too many power cables..."

"Well, technically, it wasn't IN the kit, but it was IDENTICAL to the one in the kit..." (Last year, oops!) :yikes:

"Quit wasting time, go yell at Aaron to get off the forums!" (As I'm the website guy)

"Um, about that..."

Me: "No, that's an array, not a function."
Other Programmers: "What's a function?!?!?"
Me: "Oh boy. (Grabs C programming book from 1992, hits guy over head) Read!"

"You forgot to factor in the Triforce Mechanism..."

"Only when... NO!"

"IT'S WORKING! FINALLY!" (Hears sickening snap of steel bars in background)

"Dude, I *LOVE* Cartoon Heroes!" (Everyone else: :confused: )

[ShotgunNinja]

"How do I get the site to figure out which words are inappropriate?"

[ShotgunNinja]

(NOT A QUOTE)

How do we nominate quotes to show up at the top of the Chief Delphi site?

[EricH]

(NOT A QUOTE)

How do we nominate quotes to show up at the top of the Chief Delphi site?The spotlight list randomly generates nominated quotes. To nominate, there is a spotlight in the top right of each post. Click that and follow the instructions.

[ShotgunNinja]

The spotlight list randomly generates nominated quotes. To nominate, there is a spotlight in the top right of each post. Click that and follow the instructions.

A-ha! :o

[MARS-CJ]

"Button madness!" (smashing down on button-making machine)

Here's what happens when the programmers gets bored:
if (6 < 5)
{
// robot spins around in circles, shoots off fireworks,
// and plays 'The Star-Spangled Banner'
}

[ShotgunNinja]

"Button madness!" (smashing down on button-making machine)

Here's what happens when the programmers gets bored:
if (6 < 5)
{
// robot spins around in circles, shoots off fireworks,
// and plays 'The Star-Spangled Banner'
}

Oh yes, I know all about that...

But there is already another thread for what people do when they're bored.

[ShotgunNinja]

Me: "Hey, Freshman!"
Other: "I'm a Junior!"
Me: "That doesn't matter."

Something to the effect of:
"And that right there is the Sharpie line between right and wrong. Guess which side you cut on?"

And randomly, to justify what we are doing: "Because its more sexy now!"

Pertaining to the Sharpie comment:

The left side?

[Herodotus]

Student: I don't like inductive reasoning, therefore I don't like any reasoning.

Electronics Cpt. :So where am I going to put my electronics?

Me: WEll you can put some of them here, and some more over here. Oh, and there is space in the wheels too. Just run the wires through the shafts.

Electronics Cpt. : Well, I guess since the shaft is a dead axle I could actually do that, I would just have to make sure that the victors float within the wheel.

Me: We think to hard about these things.

[sloteera]

Every year.... brazilian teams need to say:

Everything's gonna be alright (as my tattoo)

You guys, can't imagine how hard is building robot in Brazil.
We get our KOP on the last saturday... :/

[Chris Fultz]

"well, it worked in inventor"

[jtdowney]

Programming Mentor: You know, I saw on Chief that someone did their whole electrical board (insert certain way here)
Electrical Student: Yeah, well this ain't Chief

[Uberbots]

"Its lovely that we have the entire weight of the robot supported by that one bolt..."

[Blue_Mist]

"My angry Chinese mother is angrier than your angry Chinese mother!"

"Well, Iraqi mothers can get pretty angry..."

This was said while I was slow to leave while there is still cleaning to be done at the end of today's build session. My and my carpool buddy's mothers are Chinese, my other friend's mother is Middle Eastern.

[thatmorman]

so this short conversation was between a robotics student and a physics teacher when we were calculating the torque that a ball and manipulators would put on a fork lift...

"you know what that thing torque is right?"

[BanksKid]

"Not my problem."

[Betty_Krocker]

"You want how many cheesburgers ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?"

this was said by the person at the counter at McDonalds...
she then proceeded to yell HALO at the top of her lungs... (HALO is the "code" word for a really large order)
it took them half an hour to get the order right...

[1086wulf]

"FIRST it!!!" y'all can probably guess what that means

[sayso_411]

Saumir: "Lets just paint the prototype!!!"
Me: "Not"

[Durza16]

Hey guys time to take apart the Chassis.......again.
12 minutes later...
Hey guys time to take apart the Chassis.......again.

Repeat until you reach 63

[Durza16]

Launius, Hands in your back pocket.

His nickname is L.T.D.
( Launius the Destroyer)

or T.O.D.T.B.T.

(That One Dude That Breaks Things.

[Durza16]

We need the Biggest Stroke on that to smack that ball over.

[Guntank]

NO!! Down there on the Balls!!!!!

(in reference to a braclet that a member had that had ball bearings on it and we wanted to know if they were magnetic)

(i am L.T.D. by the way)

[Betty_Krocker]

Well interactive physics says it would....

[CarpeNoctem]

"Ya'll watch this!"
It involved the big red ball and a baseball bat
end result- stitched up lip, and a visit to the dentist

[StephLee]

*two students start wrestling*
*mentors turns around*
1: Now boys, no PDA here...
2: *blank look*...oh, you mean Public Displays of Defection? I mean affection...

[joshsmithers]

"Well, geez, I can't figure this out. I cut the piece three times and it's still too short!"

[synth3tk]

DS: "We would just lay the board down flat"
AL: "No, it was designed with hinges in mind!"

[otomerobot]

"It just came off!" -Josh F
"Well thats what happens when you drive" -Mike A


In reference to a part of our manipulator that broke off while Josh was driving (recklesly, might I add lol). Then he was trying to fix the manipulator, and once he grabeed it the thing snapped off! :ahh:


:D

[christina_omg]

-oh yess, because i am just floating in the sea of wrong as you drive by in you ship of right.
-no, i drive trough the sea of wrong in my truck of right.

[Ross340]

"Life, is all about speeds and feeds"

"When you know your speeds and feeds, you're good to go in the real world. You know it all."

[Herodotus]

Student: Don't worry, only if this part is off by a half degree, and it is, will the robot fail.

[horoponhorr]

"I want the clear air lines, not the opaque ones. I like to watch the air go through the lines!"

[Nin_estarSaerah]

(someone gets done grinding a piece of metal)
freshman-"that looks hot, can i lick it?"
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"i made an uh-oh"
"not with that robot you better not have"
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"calien, why are you dancing?"
"why aren't you dancing?"
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"rule number one, freshman, don't bug the programmers. they will make your life miserable"
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"rock, paper, scissors, ziptie, i win!"

[hipsterjr]

Me: "I threaded my finger:eek: ! Wow, that looks like it is going to hurt very soon." (This was after getting my finger jammed in a hole with a large tap bit. I literally "tapped" my finger:o ).
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Me: we need a way to gauge how high the ball is going.
Mentor: wait, how tall is Quinton?
Quinton: 6' 5".
Mentor: Perfect, stand in front of the robot while we shoot the ball.
Me: 3..2...1.. fire.....ah, it hit him in the face:(. Lets just call that 5 1/2 feet:D.

[MR T 1923]

I hear alot of "Mr T can you please put ear muffs on? I can't say this in front of you..."

[Shivang1923]

"It doesn't work"
"I did it last night"
"Don't worry about it"
"Zaboomafu!" (Don't ask)
"I has?"

[Betty_Krocker]

"...arent you going to wash up?"
"...naw, the wd40, 3 in 1 oil, and locktite add the needed flavor..."

[danshaffer]

Guy, marveling at our new mill cabinet: Can we ship our robot in this? Then we'd have all the endmills we need at competition.
Me: And how many is that? None.
Guy: No, we'd have way more than none.

[Éowyn]

Me: "I threaded my finger:eek: ! Wow, that looks like it is going to hurt very soon." (This was after getting my finger jammed in a hole with a large tap bit. I literally "tapped" my finger:o ).
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Me: we need a way to gauge how high the ball is going.
Mentor: wait, how tall is Quinton?
Quinton: 6' 5".
Mentor: Perfect, stand in front of the robot while we shoot the ball.
Me: 3..2...1.. fire.....ah, it hit him in the face:(. Lets just call that 5 1/2 feet:D.

Ha! I broached my thumb. That didn't feel too good.

The second quote was hilarious! I could see that happening on many "shooter" teams . . .

"...arent you going to wash up?"
"...naw, the wd40, 3 in 1 oil, and locktite add the needed flavor..."

You forgot aluminum chips. :D

[C222]

"Why are using a hammer? You're an engineer now! Use a torque wrench."

[Mrtrom]

"Mana"

[Mrtrom]

"If you get hit in the head, STOP STAYING SO CLOSE TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[Zack Briggs]

After carrying the ball from our practice field to our lab in the rain...

"oh no, I got ball juice in my mouth!"


Our team's new slogan:

"Team 360...We go do make robot!"

[Akash Rastogi]

"There's no such thing as friction!"

an oldie (team slogan sort of) that was reiterated today when I was done on the mill
Me:Hey Ed, is this good?
Ed:Its not just good, its good enough.

[TubaMorg]

Student: Mr. Morgan, what parts should we use for the pneumatics?
Me: As much of the new stuff as possible...new compressor, new fittings....everything

Overheard 5 minutes later:

Student talking to other students: NOOO...Mr. Morgan said to use the pneumatics, not the OLDmatics!

[Aren_Hill]

mmm i love the smell of burning WD-40

"hey, toss me the holy water" in reference to wd-40

a man needs two things in life, duct tape for things that don't stick and there supposed to, and wd-40 for things that stick and aren't supposed to.

"yay for garage sale carbide endmills"

"Dad, what kind of garage sales do you go to..." after he bought a lathe at one

[iwashere1990]

"all of you freshman are nubsicles because you guy can't do anything!"
"But I am doing something"
"What?"
"Living"
"You PHAIL, with a PH"

[Libby K]

"rock, paper, scissors, ziptie, i win!"

On 1923, rock paper scissors has turned into

"Mallet, staple gun, razorblade"

(We were making bumpers...)


I hear alot of "Mr T can you please put ear muffs on? I can't say this in front of you..."

Yeah, we definitely do that.

Also, with the bumper material (and Mr. T):

"Oh, man, when we finish the bumpers, I'm totally making a skirt out of this material."
"Libby, I think your mom would kill me if I let you wear that as a skirt"
(it's black and silver-sparkly vinyl)
"I can totally hear her voice rain down from the sky like an angry god...
'T!!!!!!!!!!!!!' "

[Joe G.]

P1: That's stupid
P2: *starts to explain*
P1: It makes sense, but it's...stupid.

[cloud_254]

random one i came up with.

"not a snowball's chance in a desert"

[synth3tk]

"Everything looks so wierd through this. So Alex, you look normal!"

[sea_master]

our programmer: (after he put last year's code on the new robot for the driving test ) OMG OMG it cant be true..
everybody in the room: what happened?
programmer: no camera data!
that was funny

[ShotgunNinja]

Well, we could do it in the programming, or we could do it in the robot...

A member of our team walks in halfway through that, and replies...

"I don't think you two would fit inside the robot! :yikes: "

We pwnt him in the face for that.

[JAZAD1]

Just b/c you lose it dosen't mean that they lose

[The Megan 2207]

Team captain: "A foot is 3.28 meters."
Mentor: "No it isn't!"
Team captain: "Yes it is!"

Student: "Is it ten or one, zero? Wait, that's the same thing..."

[PizzmasterP27]

"come on guys we need to find the steel stretcher and the re-burrer."

[BHOP]

my buddy vijay said this while working on the electrical board:

"my finger got stuck in the stripper"

haha i love it

[christina_omg]

jeff's mom-so sam, what happens if you let go of that?
sam-this falls and hits jeff.
jeffs mom-so jeff dies?
sam-yes.
jeffs mom- interesting.


" i need a string of rope"

[christina_omg]

heres a sky hook. just take this, attach one side to that side of the robot and this side to the other right here and tie it to a sky beam. it's a ton easier and you can work on it at eye level.

[fuzzy1718]

We need females. How much are they?
That battery looks dead.
Do we get 75% of the 50/50 raffle?
We are taking him to the salvation army.

[The Megan 2207]

"PAT (mentor)! My creative juices aren't flowing anymore!"

[spacegy4]

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!"

That doesn't sound very nice.
I wouldn't say that to anybody. How can that be funny?

[Josh Fox]

"get your head out of the robot"
...
turns out thats not a safe thing to do when tuning a PID loop

[robro2102]

Mine is "skissers arent sketch"

[MasterMkanik]

It would be slower than molases on crutches

if i could be any person in the world... i would be a yettie

it is not a catch phrase... its a life lesson.

[Sqwigy]

Jason-mentor "GRR, It's an inch to short!"
Dave "Murphy is laughing at you right now"
Me- "that would have made an amazing quote for CD if you said 'story of your life huh Jason?'"

Mentor "We can not risk a premature actuation!"

[ShotgunNinja]

"If you have the parts, use them!"

-Combined with the previous posts, it just seems THAT much funnier.

[Dasistmeinmoped]

"Every thing scott touches brakes"

"...thats what she said" -its amazing how often it fits, and even ends bitter arguments-

me: "think skinny robot, like paris hilton robot"
Jim: "well we dont wanna be puking nuts nd bolts all over the field!"

"that kid works so slow, it actualy hurts me.. IT HURTS ME."

[robro2102]

A:I wish people had service packs
B:Its called puberty

[robro2102]

Screw the screws; where are the nuts

[synth3tk]

I understand that, but it's gonna smell like a marshmallow in the electric chair.

[Nin_estarSaerah]

"whatever happens this last match, we know that the real goal of FIRST is not for this robot to win, but that we learn something. If i was on robotics to win, it wouldn't be nearly as fun."

[The Megan 2207]

"The wheels suck."
"No they don't!"
"Then the programming sucks!"
"The ARM sucks!"
"Well, something sucks, and it needs to be fixed!"

[Drew Hopman]

A new student to the team said something to the tune of "Who the heck would buy a box full of broken washers?!?!?!????" Referring to a box of lock washers....lmao.

[Karibou]

Ok, so our mast mast wouldn't stay on the chassis when we were trying to measure height.

Me: "It won't stay!"
Mentor:"Just tape it"
Me:"We're not allowed to use tape"
Mentor:"Wow, notice how she didn't question the tape, but said that we're not allowed to use it. Ok Kara, what rule is that, then?"
Me:"I dunno...it's an <R> rule...maybe in the 30s?"
Mentor:"At least she knows that it's an <R> rule, which already makes her better than most of the team"
Other Mentor: "And she's a frosh..."
*mentor goes to check rulebook*
*he comes back*
Mentor:"It's rule <R38>"

[mormannoob]

best response i think from this years Q and A

http://forums.usfirst.org/showpost.php?p=14723&postcount=2

[JYang]

p1:How is the status of the robot?
p2:A pain in the battery

[Rinaldi 427]

the new quotes this year are "thats what she said" and "your moms a joystick"!

[JBotAlan]

An engineer, referring to my computer: "What you've got here is not a computer, but rather a high-gain mistake amplifier. Sometimes it's an infinite gain mistake amplifier"

We've had it with the "your mom*" jokes, so those are gone--I get punched if I say them. Not exactly a robotics quote, but I was online and realized that my friend could not punch me through Xfire...so I used like 20 of them...and he punched me 20 times the next day...:D

I had quit shaving for awhile (somewhere around a month) and so I was known as "Wolf man"...I shaved and now I'm "hairless poodle"...:p

JBot

[Drwurm]

"There are about 1000 quotes in the chief delphi quote thread, I'm willing to bet 500 are stripper jokes." -me today