"Quotes" that were said during build season

[Shelabot]

Alright guys, this one is from a mentor that works for our sponsor Flexicell. It's half a joke, but still depicting reality with amazing perception.....

"Guys: Measure with a micrometer, mark with a chuck, and cut with an axe!"

:yikes: :D :D :D

[FRC4ME]

Just got another one from our head mentor:

Student: "Is this the final design for the new shooter?"
Mentor: "It's not a shooter; it a 'pffft'er."

[Oblarg]

"Real men don't need master links, they connect chain with pliers and vice-grips."

"Wait, wait, wait. We're 4.5 pounds UNDERWEIGHT?"
"Hey, did you remember to take off the antigravity device before weighing the robot?"

(Sign in our pit) "Danger: 5,000,000,000,000 pV at high impedance!"

[XANA]

"cut the CERO in half to save on weight"

[dragonrulr288]

Judge: "so whats so special about you robot?"
Me, small pause: "well.... we redesighned our robot in 8 hours..."
Judge:"...."

[Alex2614]

"So let me get this straight - you want the Chinese-American to speak Spanish to the Portuguese-speaking Brazilians?"

There was a Brazilian team at the regional that we wanted to talk to. There is a Chinese girl on our team that speaks Spanish pretty well, so someone suggested to have her translate...then our coach Earl said this in response.

[Fuller]

At the midwest regional we were being pinned by 1675 and the MC said "Team 1625 is being pinned in the corner but they dont seem to care" and on the screen our drivers are just kinda standing there not trying to get out.

[vg674]

[While walking through DC in the snow]
<student looks up>: Agh! It got in my eye!
Student (who always wears prescription safety glasses): That's why you should wear safety glasses.

[Once more walking through DC]
Student <steps onto grass instead of sidewalk>: Ah! I'm walking on not-ground!

[Fixing a kitbot after utterly destroying it during driving practice]
Mentor: You guys are still working on that after… what? Two hours?
Student: No. You missed it. We destroyed Blinky. (A kitbot)

[At the end-of-meeting meeting]
Mentor: Wait, didn't you guys have all of the kitbots fixed?
Student: Yeah, that was before you all broke them again.

[While discussing what we need to do]
Head mentor <wiggling the PVC pipes on the trailer>: Round table. Anything you want to say?
Student: Would you all please stop grabbing the trailers by the pipes? They break.
Head mentor: Like this? <begins shaking trailer vigorously while smirking. Pipe breaks off> Oops.

[Matt Howard]

"RUN TREVOR RUUNNNN!"

I said this while Coaching in Finals Match 3 to our teams driver. It was the last 4 seconds in the match and 330 was coming straight for us with balls. Thankfully he reversed in time, none of them scored, resulting in our first regional win!

[scottmacdonald]

Friday night scouting review
"Don't pick (Team #) their human player gets pushed around way to easily"

Right before the 3rd match of the finals in GTR they start playing the Beach Boys "Be True to Your School"
Mentor - "This is hardly the time or the place for such a song. You think they could come up with something a little more epic!":D

[JHay]

"And you think that I can cut those measurements?" -- Brett Kolk (although it probably isn't exactly what he said :D)

"What's FIRST?" -- Halfway into build season, Tyler Siersma (of course he didn't join until a couple weeks in :p )

"I'm on a boat!" -- Jack Brock

Wayne: Who cut this board?!?
All: Brett...

Me: Where's Lucas?
Brett, "Tapeworm", Hailey: Right beside you...
Me: Oh my god! Lucas is a ninja!

Judge: What made you think of the design you have today?
Lucas: ... (he is the quiet one)
Judge: Don't you know?
All: Sorry, Lucas is the quiet one...Talk to us.
(sorry Lucas :D)

"We have limited-edition, black and white buttons today! Only for a limited time!" -- Jack Brock

Ethan: Finally, I made the mascot...
[Puts on costume]
Me: What is that? A sun and a circle with our name on it?

Well, that's all I can think of right now...some or maybe most of these happened at competitions or during build season. If I remember more (or find more at state) I will list them as another reply :D.

[XD_bring_it]

Sam: So whenever a scout asks us whats special about our robot, everybody immediately says "bumpers."

(The president decided that the cloth would be black with white flowers and have our team number painted in gold)

[Abra Cadabra IV]

"Guys, I think my afro fried our control system!"

Long story short, we spent a match dead because our control system reset itself or something... somebody suggested that it might have been a static problem. Someone later asked our mascot/coach/president (yes, he's all three) if the afro wig he was wearing built up a lot of static, leading to the above quote.

[Chris is me]

"We're not going to be overweight on ship day. I am of course talking about the robot." - A mentor, I forget who.

[FRC4ME]

The first time I walked into a team meeting, it was the end of 2006; the team had just gotten back from the VA State Fair...
Me: "Umm, guys, the robot is...askew."

During alliance selection at the Chesapeake Regional:
4th Seed Captain: "We would like to invite team 768 to join our alliance."
4th Seed Alliance Member: "Who are they?"

Similarly, at the 2007 Chesapeake Regional, one of the seeded alliances had no clue how to select their third member. After deliberating for ten seconds, every team in the stands began "helping" the alliance captain by shouting their numbers.

Our 3ds Max animation: "It's like the Internet - on your face!"
^You've got to watch that one. It's called Frame It! on FIRSTBase. The way our narrator says it is what makes it funny.

[Anders Horn]

"no you can not cut a perfect hexagon out of a perfect square" me explaining the dimensions needed to build the trailer.

[FRC4ME]

I recently had a conversation that went something like this:

Student: I refuse to believe pi exists.
Me: Why? Its just like, say, the number 3.
Student: But you can give me 3 apples; you cannot give me pi apples.
Me: So, you're saying for a number to exist, it must be perfectly expressable in terms of apples?
Student: Yes.
Me: Alright, what if I could give you pi apples. Would pi exist?
Student: Yes.
Me: What about pi oranges?
Student: Yes.
Me: Pi circles?
Student: Yes.
Me: How about pi radii of a circle?
Student: I see where you're going, but you'll never get it exact.
Me: You give me a perfect circle, I'll give you a perfect pi of a circle.
Student: Okay, I'll do that. How do I make a perfect circle?
Me: With pi...
Student: Bah! I'll draw a circle close enough, then.
Me: Okay, but my estimate of pi will be only as accurate as your estimate of the circle.
Student: Stop it! You still can't give me pi apples!
Me: I could give you apple pie.
Student: Mmm, pie.
Me: Mmm.

[surferacf]

"This takes the cake, the pie, and the special brownies"

[AbeEzell1]

WHERE IS THE TAPE MEASURE!!!!

How do you use the drill press? (me)

Adam, why are you wearing safety
glasses during lunch?

[Andrew Schreiber]

Adam, why are you wearing safety
glasses during lunch?

This isn't funny, some of us have a real problem forgetting that we are wearing safety glasses, ;) I once picked up my prom date (a fellow FIRST alumni) while still wearing mirrored safety glasses. Yes I was wearing a suit and tie and mirrored safety glasses. There may be a picture around somewhere of it but it is a pretty funny mental image without it.

The question however is, is it not better the be safe all the time? :cool:

[FRC4ME]

This isn't funny, some of us have a real problem forgetting that we are wearing safety glasses, ;) I once picked up my prom date (a fellow FIRST alumni) while still wearing mirrored safety glasses. Yes I was wearing a suit and tie and mirrored safety glasses. There may be a picture around somewhere of it but it is a pretty funny mental image without it.

The question however is, is it not better the be safe all the time? :cool:

I used to have a problem with safety glasses; I would spend several minutes looking for them when they were on my head. After doing this several times, I got into the habit of periodically checking my head for my safety glasses to make sure hadn't lost them.

Now, I have a different problem: I will check my head for my safety glasses, realize they aren't there, and think I've lost them...when the glasses are on my eyes.

[Matt Howard]

I once picked up my prom date (a fellow FIRST alumni) while still wearing mirrored safety glasses. Yes I was wearing a suit and tie and mirrored safety glasses.

I picked up my prom date in 07 in a '57 Bel Air, 2 months after Atlanta wearing this:
http://a186.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/32/l_bcad9c349fcad940496a64a261a47189.jpg

[miggit999]

After a bunch of speeches in Seattle that were either encouraging "competing isn't the point" or "put in all you've got":

our programming captain: "So winning isn't everything. It's just the only thing that matters."

Then we went on to lose our next match. Thus proving that Don is never wrong.

[Kimmeh]

Cody is sorting our drill bits...in a different room, we're yelling this to each other.

Cody: I need a seven. Later I've got a 15. There's no 15!
Me: Cut it in half!
Cody: Then it's 7 1/2. It's still too big!
Me: It doesn't matter! It'll work!
Cody: That is so going on "Quote from Build Season"!
Me: I'll beat you too it! (He's got dial up)
Chad: That's just not fair... (in the same room as me)
Cody: No fair!
Me: I'll give you an hour head start!
Cody: I'll beat you then!
Me: No you won't!

Now, this was few days ago. I gave him more than enough time to post this. You lose Cody. :D

[FRC4ME]

Student: "Is that really an accurate cut?"
Mentor: "We're not a precision machine shop, accurate to within 4/1000 of a inch.
Me: "We're within four inches!"
Other Mentor: "Until it gets bent..."

[Norman J]

Tim and Jim are two mentors. Jim does drive train and Tim did the ball system.

Tim: "If you're going to be a Killer Bee, you either have to a) know how to dance well, b) pretend to know how to dance well, or c) look like you know how to dance well."


Me: "According to the CAD drawings, the belt you want to put at the back of the robot runs through where Jim's chain wants to be."

Tim: "You've got it all wrong, My belt does not run through Jim's chain, Jim's chain runs through my belt."


Old Killer Bee saying: "Never use the right tool when the wrong tool is more closely at hand"


Me: "Woody, aren't you supposed to drill pilot holes first?"

Woody: "1/4 inch holes are my pilot holes."

[carpenma]

This one isn't from build season. This took place while we were giving out peer awards at the Michigan State Championship. We were presenting the "Sorry We Damaged Your Robot" award or something like that to a team we had crashed into pretty hard in a match the previous day. I can't remember what team we were giving the award to but 33 (The Killer Bees for all who don't know) was right next door...

Girl From Killer Bee's: "Hmm, I've never seen a Sorry We Hurt Your Robot Award before"

Me: "Really? We give out a lot of them..."

[Thing2_1723]

All these quotes are on our STLOUIE regional trip...
except for the last two are when we were supporting 1981, who are joining our team in the 2010 season, during the KC regional


"No mosh pits on the bus!" - Josh

"I screw many things with it." - Josh

"Rachel burned off my man-part with a straightener!" - Kody

"...and I need to control my legs" - overheard voice

"Kody! Put your pants on! Candy is getting hot!" - overheard voice

"It feels like jeans when you take them out of the dryer" - Jacob while someone was getting their hair done

"I'm not wearing any pants!" - overheard voice

"Your hair is tripping'!"
"Don't say that!"
"Yeah, dont listen to what I tell you to say. Im pasty white" - Candy, Felicia and I

"I have freaking monical aviators!" - Jacob talking about his day old sunglasses

"High fives give you cancer..." - random guys from Van Horn

"Im gonna dance till my voice is gone!" - Ray

[germanystudent]

"It's called gracious professionalism Jack a$$!"

"what do you mean you didn't bring chopsticks!"

"i think mcguiver would be proud"

"oh leading? it's like hearding cats"

"ECO BOT!!!"

"it's X-bot the destroyer of dreams!"

"new rule, don't taste the robot"

[keehun]

"cut the CERO in half to save on weight"

Now, I wonder what the inspector would've said if you actually did that.

[FRC4ME]

"This is MARTA!"
-Said at the MARTA station here at Atlanta two years ago by a since-graduated team member. We all remember him for this quote.

[shgshgshgshg]

"could me the mayor, could be the principal, it could be the guy from McDonald's with the little hat, you just never know..."

[Oblarg]

"MDF sucks. You can't screw into its side or it splits."
"Drill pilot holes, then."
"It splits when you drill pilot holes."
"Then drill pilot holes for the pilot holes?"
"MDF sucks."

[Kimmeh]

Caius: What do you mean Dean's done talking!? Did I pee forever!?

Said after Dean introduced someone. We thought it was a speech from him and we were amazed that it was so short. No, it was a long introduction...

[J-Brock]

"I can't wait untill mr. kober sees that we teepeed our own room!"

[FRC4ME]

5:58 - "OMG! We won!"
5:59 - "Alright everyone, we've got a plane to catch."

Said when we won the Delphi Driving Tomorrow's Technology award at Atlanta. We had decided in advance we were leaving at 6:00 to catch our flight - fortunately they announced our award just two minutes before then. We must have seemed a bit rude, taking our award and leaving so quickly.

[Mish Mooney]

My team was sitting on the Mezzanine level at Nationals after losing in the Finals at Curie, and a few of us happened to look to the left and think we were seeing things, we weren't... The wave was in slow motion.


___


One day we surran wrapped our advisors truck, his response "But we needed that for shipping!"

___


In Antlanta-
"Hey Mooney, we found your twin"
"And she's on robotics -twilight zone music-"

"You know your on robotics when your scouting for fun in your dreams"
"You were scouting in your dreams? Freak."

[FRC4ME]

"And they wait an appropriate interval before starting another! Perfect!"
-Mentor watching the team at the left end of the Mezzanine level repeatedly start waves.

[Zholl]

"And they wait an appropriate interval before starting another! Perfect!"
-Mentor watching the team at the left end of the Mezzanine level repeatedly start waves.

lol, you mean trying to start waves. the other teams were usually paying attention to the other side waiting for a return wave to notice our consecutive ones, so they wouldn't make it more than a team or two over

[steelerborn]

This one came up at dinner on a friday at the LA Regional

I was eating a slice of chocolate cake. When I asked a question about Varun hes from India.

ME: Hey guys whats the difference between Varun and my cheesecake?

Everybody: I don't know?

Me: what do you think Varun?

Varun: Hmm, One's delicious, and one's a cheesecake?

[chiquita77]

Some of those are pretty darn funny. Does any one have some funny lines from there CAD Team?

[NorviewsVeteran]

"Mike, restack the wood pile"
"Okay"
"Amber, could you help Mike with his wood?"

1793!

[Chris is me]

"That robot is a MACHINE" - Me
"They're ALL machines!" - everyone else

At our scouting meeting in Atlanta.

[FRC4ME]

Okay, this one isn't really robotics-related, but it involves our head mentor. He is a social studies teacher. Once I was in his U.S. History class and we were talking about the American Revolution:

Mentor: "And where did the French officers come from?"
Everyone: "France!"
Mentor: "I'm going home..."

This was an AP class, too.

[steelerborn]

As far as the CAD Team goes here's a good one.

"The CAD isnt bad. It's just not constrained well!"

[Wayne Doenges]

After waiting for drawing from the engineers so we could start building I said" There comes a time in every project where you should shoot the engineers and start production."

[Ryan Caldwell]

After waiting for drawing from the engineers so we could start building I said" There comes a time in every project where you should shoot the engineers and start production."

but if you shoot the engineers who will make you a drawing set explaining the dangerous end of the gun, best aiming practices and how to pull the trigger

[*Michelle*]

So this isn't really a quote but during build season Jonell decided to fix a battery. As she was fixing it, someone came up and started doing something to the battery along with her and they made a spark and it burned Jonell. Everyone yelled at her and said what the heck did she just do, and she just bursts out, "It wasn't me!!! It was Michelle!!!" We always had a way of blaming each other when we did something wrong :) Last year no matter what, it was all Jonell's fault. Now this year it is all my fault even if i'm not there.

[Cow Bell Solo]

...matter what, it was all Jonell's fault. Now this year it is all my fault even if i'm not there.

That is because you were not there to prevent it from happening.

[ZInventor]

"Let's Dance" - text on our team's OI during auton...

-Z

[FRC4ME]

Last night, while we were cleaning the lab:

Student: "I finished mopping half the floor."
Mentor: "So, uh, which half did you mop?"

[hurtzmyhead]

"forget duct tape and zip ties! tech screws are the new thing!:D"

[RobertG]

FIRST is trying to change the culture. Let us start by making it grammatically correct. For example, the title of this thread should be "Quotations" that were said during build season and not "Quotes" that were said during build season This change needs to be made because to quote is a verb, but this title needs a noun quotation.

A note: since this thread currently doesn't have a correct title, I don't need to follow its instructions.

[Chris is me]

I believe that's why the word is in quotation marks. The quotations are colloquially referred to as "Quotes", and thus the thread becomes more recognizable as a thread for amusing banter.

[ttldomination]

Sunny: "Logan the new VEX game is out"
Logan: "What the hell. Didn't they just have their championships"
Sunny: "Yeah. They announced it there"
Logan: "Crap. There goes my summer"

[lady lighting]

"Tim we are never leting you touch the band saw again!"

"Holy Macaroni it works!"

:)

[pacoliketaco]

gahhh, i missed #1807! dang...

as for a memorable quote: people on our team would try to identify how many places on the robot i had bled. the "find pace's blood game" as it was so called. haha

[lady lighting]

I just remenbered another one

Noah: "Michelle, your a pineapple."
ME: "whats a pineapple?"
Noah: "brown hair but blond all the way through."
ME: "ha ha very funny no im not!"

[idk]

Team: Mr. Kelly, a seagull just crapped on your head!
Mr. Kelly: I guess it's good luck.

The next day Mr. Kelly won the Woodie Flowers award.


Here's another one.
Josh: Did you know that if you lick a gummy bear and throw it, it will stick to a wall?
The next day I said: Josh did you know that if you left a gummy bear stuck to the wall over night, it will peel the paint off?
The hotel loved us for that one.

[FRC4ME]

FIRST is trying to change the culture. Let us start by making it grammatically correct. For example, the title of this thread should be "Quotations" that were said during build season and not This change needs to be made because to quote is a verb, but this title needs a noun .

A note: since this thread currently doesn't have a correct title, I don't need to follow its instructions.

http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=quote

"NOUN: •S: (n) quotation, quote, citation (a passage or expression that is quoted or cited)"

[gallo26]

Mentors: Ok, lets tether the robot and run a function test
me: Alright...
*powers on robot*
Mentors: Hey! whats taking so long!
me: sorry, it takes like 40 seconds to connect, give it a minute
*motors go full forward*
me: Hey! i think its connected....

Or there was an embarrassing one on the field.

So we were waiting for all the robots to connect. and ours wasnt. So we reset our DS and still didn't connect. They reset the field and told us to turn off our robots... Well.... lets just say the field wasn't happy when i said

"OH! theres the problem! i forgot to plug in the radio!!" :D

[delsaner]

"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOD MORNING PIONEERS!!!" -Mr. K

(record 31 seconds)

[Joe G.]

"During competition, everything that can and cannot go wrong will go wrong." -- I've had to say this at least once a year, every year, since I was in 6th grade in FLL. It seems that we always have new problems develop, or problems that seem more like freak accidents than anything else, things that simply cannot go wrong, at competitions. It was upheld this year, when a vex remote battery somehow got bits of its leads stripped, and it shorted out and leaked inside our controller, minutes before a match at the vex world championship.

[rotolomi]

"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOD MORNING PIONEERS!!!" -Mr. K

(record 31 seconds)

gotta love that, every saturday morning during build season and the mornings during trips :)

(when we arrived at the hotel in atlanta)
sabrina: "hey guys, you might wanna come see the bed."
danielle: "what do you mean, the bed?"
me: "bed, as in the singular form? like, one bed?"
sabrina: "yes. bed. one king-sized bed. for the three of us."

(thursday night, at the team meeting)
mr. k: "so we'll have three freshmen joining the chairman's meeting. shaffy, mickey, and michelle."
me: "nooo!"
mr. k: "this is a good thing, michelle."
me: "but i'm tired and i got 3 hours of sleep because danielle kept me up because aaron and dobbs and peveler were next door watching the movie and we were on facebook and then there was the cockroach but it was really chocolate matzoh and there was only one bed for the three of us and they never gave us a cot and can i at least change into my pajamas first?"
mr. k: "uh, sure. you can wear pajamas."

[The Zevling]

Those I remember from the past couple years:

Alex: Hey Yoo!
*I look up*
Alex: Not "You" you, "Yoo" you.
I knew exactly what he meant, too.

From a sign that was up for most of 07-08:
"Stuffed Animals are friends and erasers!

Not a quote, but just the same:
A student on our team throws a hackeysack across the room, aiming for a friend (I forget why her friend was being targeted), but misses and hits an unsuspecting rookie in between them on the side of the face. After the commotion dies down and our teacher figures out what happened, he proceeds to give the rookie the hackeysack and then hold a whiteboard behind the student who threw the sack.

[misspunk]

This was at the Ann Arbor hands on museum last Saturday.
Chealsea: Have you hugged the robot today?
Me: No
Chealsea: (backs up the '07 bot right in front of me) Hug the robot.
Me: (hugs the robot) Have you hugged the robot?
Chealsea:...
She never did hug the '07 bot...:( Or not that I knew of.

[FRC4ME]

"For glory and whatnot!"
-Common team motto originated from www.ardentgov.org

[Cody Michl 2811]

I never saw anything wrong with the title...

and I have spellcheck and grammar check...

SO TAKE THAT RobertG!!!

[Lemonyfresh]

"What do you mean the camera's mounted wrong?"

Me after our team discovers that our camera mount was constantly pressing the reset button on the camera halfway through the Milwaukee Regional...

[Yoel2630]

"is this ok?"
"well, it's not on fire. It must be" =]

was said to me after connecting a few wires several minutes after a fellow team mate closed up a circuit of pure 24V and wires went on fire lol

[FRC4ME]

"What do you mean the camera's mounted wrong?"

Me after our team discovers that our camera mount was constantly pressing the reset button on the camera halfway through the Milwaukee Regional...

Similarly, in 2007, we spent thre hours each on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday trying to figure out why our camera wasn't working. I couldn't attend the Saturday meeting, and wished the team luck getting the camera to work. The next Tuesday, I walked in:

Me: "So, did you get the camera working?"
Mentor: "Yes."
Me: "What was wrong with it?"
Mentor: "It was mounted upside down."

Yes; when the camera tried to make a slight correction to the left, it actually went right, causing a larger correction to the left, which went even farther right...yeah, that didn't work.


This year, after a match:
Me: "Any problems with the robot?"
Driver: "The drive system was acting weird."
Other Driver: "And the pivoter didn't work."

The build team went to work fixing the pivoter while I checked out the drive system programming. I couldn't help but laugh when I realized I had left the robot in tuning mode, which used the pivoter switch to change a drive system PID constant. No wonder it was acting weird; the more the second driver tried to make the pivoter turn, the worse the drive system got.

[demosthenes2k8]

"Guys? The floor attacked someone else..." (The floor of the Robolair has a strange curse...people seem to bleed on it randomly.)

We have a certain girl on our team who is great for comic relief:
Mentor: "Don't run with sharp objects, or things with sharp objects on it."
Trish: "Oh, or scissors!"

Trish: "No, you don't eat the NON-FLAVORED chapstick!"

Trish: "So Asian's a kind of Chinese?"
(The same day, when asked what continent China was in)
"South America?"
(Much later)
"Is it Europe?"

Mentor: "I know what we can do!"
Everyone: Some sort of variation of "Oh $@#$@#$@#$@#."

Mentor: "No female daughter of mine is going to Lowell!"
Mentor's daughter: "What about a male daughter?"

[FRC4ME]

Programmer enters the room: "Hey guys..."
Entire build team in unison: "No. No. No. No. No..."
<programmer leaves room>

[ehochstein]

"Uh... What color is battery acid" -me
"Clear usually" -Mentor
"I think we have battery spillage" -me
"I'll get the PH paper" -mentor

The battery started to leak after we charged it

[Fro]

For a while we had a whiteboard sitting on a shelf that read "Days since last accident: cos(pi/2)+1". One of our adults continually asked "What if it's not an accident? Mabye they want to be hurt."

[Lemonyfresh]

Me-"We should have a robo camp where the campers have to make robots out of squirrels and sticks!"
Evan or Dave-"lets also get crabs to attach to the squirrels so they can move stuff!"
discussing post competition season ideas for our team after Michigan regional last year

"Bobby put the microwave back."

"APPLE SAUCE SHOULD TASTE LIKE APPLES NOT PEARS!!!!!!!!"
me

[dqmot17]

Student: "Duct tape can fix everything"
Mentor: "it can't fix everything. it can't fix a broken heart"
Student:"It would fix my broken heart"

[Shelabot]

Out coach had given our School Newspaper an interview and they just slaughtered everything he said. They pulled this epic FAIL out of a hat:

"YOU RIP WHAT YOU PUT ANYWHERE!"

Completely out of the blue. We read the article, but didn't notice it at first due to it being the very last sentence. Eventually someone read the whole thing diligently, and brought it to our attention. We had a good laugh afterward, and still occasionally use it as a pun...

[The Zevling]

Out coach had given our School Newspaper an interview and they just slaughtered everything he said. They pulled this epic FAIL out of a hat:

"YOU RIP WHAT YOU PUT ANYWHERE!"

Completely out of the blue. We read the article, but didn't notice it at first due to it being the very last sentence. Eventually someone read the whole thing diligently, and brought it to our attention. We had a good laugh afterward, and still occasionally use it as a pun...

Our school has done the same thing, although not nearly as horribly. Their mistakes were limited to the grade of one of our students, the days we meet, and they implied that the Vex competition was called Overdrive.

[NorviewsVeteran]

Our school has done the same thing, although not nearly as horribly. Their mistakes were limited to the grade of one of our students, the days we meet, and they implied that the Vex competition was called Overdrive.

There are a couple of pictures in our yearbook this year of members that graduated last year.

[EdwardP]

Our yearbook has only last years member list on it and the championship picture...

from our offseason event back in October that very few people went to and even fewer are in.

[The Zevling]

The only thing I know of that our yearbook has done was demote a member (and others) to a lower grade. Twice!

[The Zevling]

Not really during build season, but said by a team member:

"I have an army of marmots, and you don't."

[demosthenes2k8]

True story from Biology, where me and 2 other team members are in the same class:
(We're trying to find the switch for a light for a lab. Bear in mind it's dark.)
Me: Where is it?
James: It's right here. But it's not working.
*I try pressing it*
Teacher: Are you guys still having trouble? *twists knob*
Me/James (Forget who said it first): How many robotics kids does it take to turn on a light?

[kellyerin91]

haha... even a rookie team has their fair share...

"Thats what she said!!" - Everyone at some point or another
"Can I get some Linux on those fries?" - Mike
-We were at dinner during the competition, at Ruby Tuesdays or something, and one of our programmers asked for Linux on his fries as a joke. Responses from the waitress included "Lemons?", "Lettuce?", and things like that. Good times, 3044!! :D

[Mr. Pockets]

I was amazed that the robotics team had a picture in the yearbook (not that I should have been, just was). They had all the people in the picture listed but misspelled one of the last names :rolleyes:

Quotes from our build season:
-four mentors were all trying to get a conveyor shaft into place
Student: "Adult assembly is required"

- Student: "Could someone please explain what 'That's what she said jokes mean'"?
Other student: "You'll understand by the end of build season"

(Karibou already posted all the others I remember)

[The Zevling]

"Let's sing happy birthday... And everyone try to stay on the same note as I am." - One of the few memebers of the team with any musical talent.

"Why do you look so disturbed... Don't you want cake?" - Mentor birthday card to our teacher, which included pictures of two of our college mentors after digital gender-altering surgery. It wasn't pretty.

[hurtzmyhead]

haha... even a rookie team has their fair share...

"Thats what she said!!" - Everyone at some point or another
"Can I get some Linux on those fries?" - Mike
-We were at dinner during the competition, at Ruby Tuesdays or something, and one of our programmers asked for Linux on his fries as a joke. Responses from the waitress included "Lemons?", "Lettuce?", and things like that. Good times, 3044!! :D

Actually for our team, we probably had the most during the first year lol :)

[bladetech932]

this was said during the building of our drive train
"don't force it! get a bigger hammer.

[bobwrit]

"//no comment"-a label we put on our control board.

"that's what she said"

1(build)-"What are you doing?"
2(me)-"Programming realtime Calculus into the robot"
1(build)-0_o-"..."
*1 and the other programmer walk out of room*

[Karibou]

I was amazed that the robotics team had a picture in the yearbook (not that I should have been, just was). They had all the people in the picture listed but misspelled one of the last names :rolleyes:
Hey, WE didn't get one in the North yearbook! Not fairrrrrrr >.<"


(Karibou already posted all the others I remember)
Yep, that's what I'm here for :D Didn't you always notice me writing stuff down after hearing an explosion of laughter?

-My team award (read: paper plate award) this year was "Paradigmatic Performance as a pulchritudinours Patroness of Pits, Pies and Punctual Postings Award plaudits Kara Bakowski" (upon receiving the award, my response was "I don't know what half of those words mean!")

[Shelabot]

"SWAT TEAM!"

Was commonly yelled as we were tossing something around in our rare free time, and the student who yelled the phrase intercepted the tossed object (usually a hackey Sack) and smacked it to the ground.

[Finleym]

"SWAT TEAM!"



WHOOO! 1806, S.W.A.T. Team!!!

That reminds me of one:

-"It took S.W.A.T. and The Bomb Squad to take us out." (said by numerous members of last year's team.)

We lost to an alliance containing S.W.A.T. Team and The Bomb Squad last year. They ended up winning the regional.

[Chris is me]

"SWAT TEAM!"

Was commonly yelled as we were tossing something around in our rare free time, and the student who yelled the phrase intercepted the tossed object (usually a hackey Sack) and smacked it to the ground.

You yell out the names of your 2008 Newton alliance partners too? :P

[delsaner]

Our coach to new drivers: "You need to shake the robot to shoot more balls, so remember to shake it."

Our coach now singing out loud: "Shake, shake, shake, senora, shake your body line."

I started cracking up when he said that.

[FRC4ME]

Oh yeah, I forgot about labels!

"BACKWARDS"
"until we fix it"
-Two labels, one above the other, on a sensor cable that we had soldered backwards and didn't want to spend the time fixing.

"maybe bad"
-Written on any battery that fails to hold a charge. Or, more accurately, any battery that we think cannot hold a charge because we think its charged when its not and try to use it.

"(really) (really) stupid light"
-Label on the yellow diagnostic light on our robot. Every time we have to spend two hours tearing apart our wiring to fix said nearly useless component, it gets an additional "(really)". We actually refer to this as the Stupid Light in general conversation now, capitalizing and pronouncing it as if that is its proper name.

"this is not a toy"
-Label on the disable dongle after someone broke it by toggling it back and forth all day out of boredom.

"Auto Brake: Arm/Disable"
-Label on a military-style switch on our custom control box, meant to imitate an actual switch found on a Boeing 747. We also have flight simulator joysticks, so this is appropriate.

"magic/more magic"
-XKCD switch labels on our teleop/autonomous switch. We wanted to use "order/chaos", but the programmers and drivers couldn't agree on which mode got which label.

[Katie_UPS]

Told to our programmers on a daily basis during build;

MAKE MORE TYPINGS.


MAKE DO THINGS

[The Zevling]

"(really) (really) stupid light"
-Label on the yellow diagnostic light on our robot. Every time we have to spend two hours tearing apart our wiring to fix said nearly useless component, it gets an additional "(really)". We actually refer to this as the Stupid Light in general conversation now, capitalizing and pronouncing it as if that is its proper name.

We call ours the "Doofy yellow light".

[demosthenes2k8]

We have a similar switch, only it has one label and one of those epic protection thingys on it...don't ask me to describe, I'm software.

"Win Button" even though it's a switch. I don't know why.

Both this year and last year at awards banquet: "THE CAKE IS NOT A LIE!"

And some old ones:
"Do you think we'll get extra points if we have it do a barrel roll?"
"The output of the one shot is the clock for the flip-flop."
"Those cheerleaders have to die!" //I fear for them...
"I know what's wrong" //Followed by panic

[rotolomi]

Our coach to new drivers: "You need to shake the robot to shoot more balls, so remember to shake it."

Our coach now singing out loud: "Shake, shake, shake, senora, shake your body line."

I started cracking up when he said that.

:eek: im seriously glad i never went to that drive team meeting. just imagining coach k saying that is slightly disturbing, but not quite as shocking as it should be.

[kogarasu]

Mentor: "Here, let me show you the really irresponsible way to do that."

[FRC4ME]

Our FTC team place 49th out of 50 at Atlanta, 2009 (FRC fared better, BTW). We lost all six of our matches. The 48th seed was 5-1.

Student: "Hey, at least we weren't the worst. We seeded higher than one team who also lost all six matches."
Mentor: "That's because we let our opponents score more during our six losses."

We all thought about this for a second, realized he was right (rank by RP fails when you have more losses than wins) and that we were the worst performers on the field that day.

[~Mike()]

"You don't need food"

"We have plenty of time before ship date, all of Sunday"

"Our radio just got snapped in half"

"Well we took apart the CIMs, and ever since, one always seems to be hotter after driving practice."

"OK we need thirteen sprockets, and a ten foot length of chain, don't worry, it's not what you think."

[J93Wagner]

Team 93's 7 points for a successful build season.

1. Build

2. Eat food

1. Back to build

3. Drink soda

1. Back to build again

4. Sleep

1. Build

This was done as a spoof for the team banquet and nice pictures and video clips accompanied them.

[Chris is me]

I think you're missing a few "build" steps.

[Kimmeh]

Brandon: I know how to drill holes, I don't drill holes!

[marke]

Heard at various times during the season:

"What's the difference between a pit bull and a robo mom ??? - safety glasses"
(from a Robo Mom ...)

"I don't know what you're talking about ... everything below the belt is works
fine ..."

[demosthenes2k8]

void build(){
WorkOnRobot();
Eat();
WorkOnRobot();
Sleep();
build();
}

Yes, build season is recursive. Why? Because we do the above repeatedly and never seem to stop!

[~Mike()]

" We should all become programmers and make our robot self-aware; at least then we wouldn't need to worry about fitting in driver practice, which we don't fit in anyway"

[Katie_UPS]

Me: I WANT CRAB DRIVE
A kid from another team: Its not worth it. It breaks a lot. We lost GTR in 2004 because of it.
Programmer: We don't need crab. We have ze awesome mecanum algorithms.
Kid from other team: >_>
<_<
>_<
I retract my statement. Go crab. :P

[Chris is me]

Overheard on AIM:

Katie:If shakesphere were still around, he'd prolly write a KILLER chairmans.

[FRC4ME]

Student 1: "Guys, I'm going to get the kickball."
Student 2: "He's going to blow up the kickball?"
Student 3: "No; he'll probably get someone else to do it."
<everyone agrees and laughs>
<five seconds pass>
Student 1: "Hey Tyler, come here!"
<laughter>
:D

[SushaK]

"you're like a giant blueberry!" - overdrive

"that's what she said" - over and over and over again and it finally turned into:

"that's what he said!?"

[youngWilliam14]

"This is why we can't have nice things!"

"It's the programmer's fault"

"When you give me a part drawing to C.N.C., please include ALL of the dimensions, preferably all based off of the same point" (we use xyz g-code)

[FRC4ME]

Myself and two other students who are going to UVA were talking to a mentor:

Mentor: "So, you three are going to the same college?"
Us: "Yes."
Mentor: "What will your majors be?"
Me: "Electrical Engineering"
Student 2: "Computer Science"
Student 3: "Computer Engineering"
Mentor: "How many majors have they got?"
Me: "They also have electrical science, BTW...okay, that was a joke."

[Nick Lawrence]

"Leanne, could you please get your face out of the robot? Thanks."

and

"You have to be a really good machinist to screw up that badly."

[NorviewsVeteran]

At the VA State Fair I was taking a break from the field they have setup as a demo with some teammates, as a family entered the technology building...

Dad to son-"okay, you can watch the robots fight each other"
Me- "they don't fight each other"
Dad- "then what do they do?"
Me (needing a quick answer)- "they get you into college"

[afowl]

Our coach right before we went on the field to our human player.
"Don't forget to check your [orbit] balls before you grab them!"
We just walked away laughing.



And our scouting meeting.

"(INSERT TEAM NUMBER HERE)"
"SCAg!" "NaSCAg!" "SnCAg!"
And our coach does a triple take.

I love our scouting system

[youngWilliam14]

"SCAg!" "NaSCAg!" "SnCAg!"

now i'm trying to figure out what it means! XD

[afowl]

now i'm trying to figure out what it means! XD

And you may never know... <evil laughter>

[demosthenes2k8]

Each of them has SCAg...

[J-Brock]

from Michigan to Atlanta:

"So when are we going through Wisconsin?"

[byteit101]

Me: Ok, I think it should stay 3 feet away, and track the target.
Programming Mentor: ok. Turn it on with the part of your body you can most easily do without.
(I get up to turn it on)
Programming mentor: No! you're important, you know about the new system. have someone else turn it on!

[FRC4ME]

Programming Mentor: Quick! Run it again before it breaks!

On the way to Tunkhannock on year:

Mentor: "Alright everyone, this town coming up is really small; you might miss it."
Student: "Where is it?"
Mentor: "Behind you."

[Ranana_Prussy]

Is it possible to alphabetize the channel list on the upload page? I have done it on the channel page, but can not figure out how to do it on the upload page.


Thanks,

Brian

[Kimmeh]

Talking about modifying the 'bot for an offseason event.
Josh: How many wheels can we use?
Brandon: As many as we want.
Josh: Lets just put them all on! Screw these tough boxes!
Brandon: Well there is a weight limit. *Goes off on some comment about antigravity*
(Mentor) Brian: Now you've gone from the practical to absurd.


Cody: If I stick this allen wrench into this ground socket, will it electrocute me?
Me: I wouldn't do that if I were you. There's not wood...All I see is metal. And that means no one is going to try and stop the current. You're screwed. Haha.


Cody: I might not be able to go to Relay For Life. Marc is then. I care more about Marc than saving people from cancer.
Me: Glad to see your priorities are right.


(Mentor) Brian: [I'm here to make] snide motivational comments.

[demosthenes2k8]

"Is it a sport?" Asked quite frequently today...

also, "If it compiles properly, recompile. You did something wrong."

Pokey: "The phases of build season...well...we find out about the game, then we design it..." *pauses for a long moment, trying to remember the mentor's exact wording* "and panic. Panic supercedes all of those."

[Karibou]

"If you can't impress them with driving, baffle them with BS (bad shooting)"

[Chris/Fish]

"We designed the cart!"
"Oh yeah? we designed an entire religion based around the cart"

Sadly, this is true.

[demosthenes2k8]

Does it beat Kamenism? Kamenism even has holy water! (Dean's purified water at GSR)

[Akash Rastogi]

Air leak incident

me:"Did you find the leak in the system yet?"
sophomore:"what system?"
me:"......the pneumatics......you know....on the robot... -.-"
sophomore:"...ohhh....wait...what robot:confused: "
me:"OURS!!!!:mad: "

[samir13k]

Chris Elston to me at the stands in IRI when i was contradicting him: :rolleyes:

"Put your safety glasses on so i can hit you in the face" lol (in a joking manner of course)

[Chris is me]

"Why are you wearing your safety glasses to breakfast?"

"Exploding bacon."

[youngWilliam14]

"be careful, the feet on the bottom of the trophies fall off"
*knocks feet off of trophy*

[LadyinthePit]

Clint:"Oh, demin master!"

Clint was one of our new recruits. He worships Dean Kamen. I'm not even kidding.

Jennie:"This is driving me crazy!"
Paul:"Nice pun."

Sometimes I really hate our team name...

[FRC4ME]

There's this kid named Rachel on our team (just graduated) who talked constantly about everything you could imagine. The following has been written on our blackboard for the past three years:


NORMAL
A O-------------------O B
CONVERSATION
/\
|
|
RACHEL /
A O-------/ /-----O B
CONVERSATION /
|
|
\/


She gets her very own asymptote. :)

[Karibou]

"..Rode on the Cobot" -Me
Let's just say I was a little stressed at the beginning of our demo today...this is what happens.

[Millory]

"Oh, I get why we have Toy Story band-aids!!! The character Woody, and then in FIRST, we have Woodie Flowers. Woody = Woodie? I get it! I GET IT!"

-Me during a moment of enlightenment regarding first-aid equipment found in an arbitrarily placed safety-supplies box.

[gr8dragon]

During physics class with other non-team 188 students.
The class is just fooling around because the teacher left the room and is next door. Few minutes later he walks in and points out what each and everyone of us was doing during is absence. It was magical how he saw us while in the other room.
*student from team* "Man it's amazing how he knows"
*random student* "Mr. ___ sees everything man..."
*me* "...but can he see why kids love cinnamon toast crunch?"
It was quite funny in the moment.

[FRC4ME]

"That's not necessarily necessary."
-339 programming mentor - gotta love him :D

[Tom I]

Mentor: "That grinder smells terrible!"
Student: "I can make a worse smell than that!!"

[Cody Michl 2811]

[[...just... wow... some of these quotes... just WAY over the top...]]

[delsaner]

Im not sure how... but this Spongebob quote reminds me of build season.

"So you mean they've taken what we thought we think and make think our thoughts we've been thinking our thoughts we think we thought... I think?"
:D :D

[DezNacario]

D: Hey, there's a hole in the wall that looks like someone kicked it!
E: Nah,*pulls up pant leg* it's about as high as the bruises on my leg are. That's definitely from the cart. This is the work of robotics kids not paying attention.

[Jake Wiedemann]

my offical postion on the team 1787, the flying circuits..."the mechanical lad person thing"

"how many rolls of duct tape did u guys use?" Opfer (mentor)
"well...2 for the cart, 1 for the right side buper, and i think shebs, (the programer) took 2 home to help him program tonight." Fernandez

[FRC4ME]

I'm a mentor for 619 now! Which means at least four more years of fun quotes to come!

Me: "At what angle should we tilt the wheels outward?"
Programmer 1: "35 degrees"
Me: "Can we make it 30 degrees so the trig is easier?"
Programmer 2: "Let's compromise: 32.5 degrees."

[FRC4ME]

Me: "Hey guys, turn on the computers."
<two students punch the power buttons on each computer>
Mac user student: "You guys turn on your computers in such a weird way!"
Student: "We...press the power button? :confused: "
Mac user: "But it's a power button on a big ugly black box!"
Me: "And you press the power button on a small pretty silver box?"
Mac user: "I know! It's so different!"

Student: "...and then my computer got like a thousand viruses."
Mac user: "Well I use Macs so I don't have to worry about that."
Student: "You will soon; Mac is becoming more popular, and hackers are going to start targeting it."
Mac user: "Hey, at least we'll always be pretty!"

Me: "Does everyone remember what I told you about the joystick methods?"
Student 1: "Oh yeah, that zero one two thing."
Student 2: "They return -1.0 for forward and 1.0 for back."
Student 1: "That's what I meant."

[Samheartsrobots]

One of team members has a really bad vocabulary. He didn't know how to spell "cautious", spelling it "caucus". He also pronounced "queue" kway-you. So now when we are getting ready to queue up to the robot, someone will say "Be caucus on the 'kway-you'!"

[ehochstein]

man-daids. The greatest invention since band-aids.

refering to duct tape band-aids.

[FRC4ME]

One of team members has a really bad vocabulary. He didn't know how to spell "cautious", spelling it "caucus". He also pronounced "queue" kway-you. So now when we are getting ready to queue up to the robot, someone will say "Be caucus on the 'kway-you'!"

Some people actually pronounce that word "kway," while most pronounce it "kyew." I think this kid was just being politically correct by including parts of both pronunciations. :p

[Kimmeh]

Team meeting after school. We've got some kids taking the 2010 online safety test, while a mentor and I are talking about things that need to go in Chairman's and what else we can get the team to until build season.

Mentor: What's that thing we use? ...To do stuff? Program the robot..?
Me: LabVIEW?
Mentor! Yeah! ...It's a Wednesday.

[Salbert]

"This thing is a smoldering pile of fail" - using resin to patch a wheel

[Karibou]

"All I want for Christmas is a clean shop..." -Mentor

(we moved the location of our shop at the beginning of this year, and it's STILL not organized enough for build season...)

[BrendanB]

"Grace Kelly, Grace Kelly"
"The back of you head is redicilous."
"Can I have it, Can I have it?"
and sooo much more.

Pathetic as it sounds, a bunch of our students watched "Can i have your number" for the first time in January. That line and any other line in the clip were said either A. To start a conversation, B. Break an awkward silence, and B. to just say whenever.

[Akash Rastogi]

"Remember what I always tell you kids- whatever you do, don't get blood on my machines. Got it?" - team founder and mentor:D

"I don't always talk about FIRST anymore, sometimes I just let the actions and accomplishments of my students speak for themselves"

[BrendanB]

"Remember what I always tell you kids- whatever you do, don't get blood on my machines. Got it?" - team founder and mentor:D



HAHA that just reminded me of one of the biggest MAYHEM quotes.


"Well then do what you want but just don't break anything." Team founder, permanent residence, and owner of the tools or more known as the coach whom lives upstairs.

[Phoenix Spud]

Do you want some cheese with that wine?

[NorviewsVeteran]

New peep, looking at cardboard & duck tape mock up: "Is that legal?"
me: "Is what legal?"
New peep; "The cardboard"
Me: "Um, no, why?"
New peep: "Then why is it on the robot?"
Me: "It's a prototype."
New peep: "You're using cardboard?"
Me: "Well, yeah, cardboard is awesome."

[byteit101]

mentor 1: I need more alcohol. Alcohol solves all problems!
Me and another kid look at her.

Mentor 1: wait... did I just say that in front of students?
mentor 2: yes.
mentor 1: well, the funny thing is I am not really like that

Mentor 1 was cleaning some sharpie off with rubbing alcohol

[electron]

"Once the magic smoke comes out, you can never put it back in." :p

[unobtainium-42]

Our troupe attempts to drill a hole.

"Why are we doing this?"
"Practice. You can see that we need it."

[demosthenes2k8]

Me: "You will be visited by three Software members tonight."
Captain: *laughs*
Me: "The member from the past is *Senior on the team*"
Captain: "Shouldn't that be *alumni*?"
Me: "I'm only counting people who are on the team and about to leave."
Captain: *laughs again*
Me: "And the member from the future is *annoying freshman*. I'm sicking him on you."
Captain: *stops laughing*

[Karibou]

From a team forum discussion about sponsorship:
"Start by thinking about what we want, then look for sponsors who make that product. "Hmm, we could really use some gelatinous blobs. Silly Putty and Play Doh make gelatinous blobs. I'll call them, and also look for gelatinous blob suppliers in the Detroit area.""

[Joe Schornak]

"Wait...what?"
-As spoken by the team's programmers. You can always tell when they're almost done; they start making confused noises when things should work but don't.

[Salbert]

"So then the next step would be to put the sea creatures on speed so they grow their shells faster."

[TheIndian771]

finally everything almost, kind of, works

[NorviewsVeteran]

"-ish."

"Nominally speaking, of course."

[Mr. Pockets]

So at a team meeting our fundraising head was telling us about a new website fundraiser:
"The music for the gallery makes it sound like we'll be be creating world peace one our way to cure cancer. If you want to go back, mute your computer, or it will melt your brain"

[WhiteShadow1474]

"so hypathetically.... this should work..."

[chris 545]

"I'm glad that the game wasn't battle bots. If I had to watch a robot that I spent 6 weeks building destroyed in the first round, I would cry."

"That's what she said!"
- Most said thing in all of the electrical team.

"Our robot is so strong that it can push a fat obese kid on a stool."

"I hate you guys"
- Said by a short member whenever we make short, emo, and $@#$@#$@#$@# jokes. Also when me and Donna stand on both sides of her and have a tall person conversation.

[Zach O]

Two of the biggest and most fun ones for our team,

"BOOM! LEFTED!"

"Your killing me!"

[Rion Atkinson]

"um. Guys, we have a problem"

"Wrong, we have an issue."

[Bananna]

Not technically from build season, but...
(Reading from a scouting sheet, under collection system)
"Sucks balls? Hey, that's not very graciously professional!"

[ICntIHaveRbtics]

"The stripper bit me!"

one of the students cut his hand with the wire strippers =D

[FIRSTtm134]

Me: Uhhh... Kelly...
Mr. David Kelly (Mentor): Yes Jeff?
Me: Uhm... I cut the wrong cord....
Mr. Kelly: WHAT!?!?:eek:

[Karibou]

While playing Pokemon...

"Chris is me: to avoid a <g14> I play a pokemon to your bench"

(^why he is awesome)

[BEEKMAN]

"The stripper bit me!"

one of the students cut his hand with the wire strippers =D

hahahahahahahahahahah

i read this and went, hay, that happened to me! started posting saying the same thing happened on our team,.....tean realized it was you

[RoseJ]

Where's the punch?
Check Rose's pockets.
or
Rosie, where's the punch?
(^^Me; I love to use the punch.)
~
Joe, your taxes are due.
~
Hey, -insert name here-, gullible is written on the ceiling.
(There's a piece of tape on the ceiling that actually says 'gullible' on it.)
~
Hey, Nic, go get me the left-handed screwdriver. (20 mins or so later after him looking for one) Nic- Hey, wait, is there even a difference?

[Thuvishan.R]

This was said from a team mate

Person1:"WHY DID YOU JUST DRILL THAT HOLE YOUR 2 INCHES OFF!"
person 2: " don't worry about it it will just be a lightening hole"

another

"THIRTY SECONDS!!"

[Brandon_L]

"go get that piece off of last years bot"

*30 min later*

"Dude you took apart the entire thing!?!?!"

[basicxman]

"We need a floppy drive!!" "You mean the one I just threw at you?"

[AcesJames]

"We need more zip ties"

"Alright, get me some pink ones, Derek hates them"

Derek (Drive Team): "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO"

[Ben_R_R]

"But it's not intentional if it happens accidentally every match!"
- Student, pushing it. :p

"So they use the robots to pick up the mummies and put them in the pyramids?"
"That's the idea, yes."
"Right, because the ancient Egyptians used robots to entomb their mummies all the time." :rolleyes:
- Conversation about a VEX game

[demosthenes2k8]

Me: "What if we put [freshman] in the robot?" (I ask this every year at some point)
Student: "But-but-but, all decorations need to be friendly!"

[thurston2619]

"basically we want to build a sexy sandwich"
- mechanical/CAD team member

"i'm so excited if i had a ..... i would have jizzed in my pants"
- the quietest girl on our team after a brainstorming session

"if you are making people angry you are leading correctly"
- mentor when telling the leadership why it's okay to not make everyone happy

"wait... I'm allowed to have a personal life?? when did this happen??"
-me talking to a mentor about why i was stressed and couldn't leave robotics

[Karibou]

"Here ye, hear ye,
The almighty strategy team has declared that the realm's royal robot must adhere to the following conditions:

The robot must:herd balls,loft balls,go over the bump,go through the tunnel,be crab'ly steered,&hang from the vertical bars.

If royal rules declare: deflect balls from return.

If time is gracious: control steering/orientation via camera, and unravel a guest ramp for visiting robots.

So it has been written, so it shall be done."

^This is the decree of what our robot will be doing. It was intended as a summary of the strategy meeting today, but the wording got a little out of hand. It's very fun to read in a heralding tone.

[Joe Schornak]

"Should we try to find a way to hang ourselves?"
-Heard during our brainstorming session regarding suspending the robot from the bar.

[Thomas Bayhi]

Aaron: I made something in CAD and tried to rotate it
Eric: Famous last words

Thomas: Folders take the sticker off you new pants
Folders: No, his name's Ted and I like him

Eric: This year's game is pretty cool with the soccer balls and all, but I don't like that they added three team alliances

[carolynn4848]

Hey, -insert name here-, gullible is written on the ceiling.
(There's a piece of tape on the ceiling that actually says 'gullible' on it.)


Ha! We have the same thing in the classroom we meet in.

[yoshibrock]

Member- "Our design looks like this *projector shows a bunch of part files that aren't assembled*.....what the heck?"
Alumni- "It's his fault!" *Points at adult mentor who was supposed to assemble the CAD*
Mentor- "Hey! Don't throw me under the bus!"

The alumni had run into a bus the day before in our parking lot. :rolleyes:

[ras103]

First day of Kick-Off 2010. Hungry manufacturer pops his head in the door.... quizzically he states, "Dinner?" The people working in the room, simply say back, "Already? it's the FIRST day!"

[kristenliz_28]

"basically we want to build a sexy sandwich"
- mechanical/CAD team member

"i'm so excited if i had a ..... i would have jizzed in my pants"
- the quietest girl on our team after a brainstorming session

"if you are making people angry you are leading correctly"
- mentor when telling the leadership why it's okay to not make everyone happy

"wait... I'm allowed to have a personal life?? when did this happen??"
-me talking to a mentor about why i was stressed and couldn't leave robotics

Haha, it's always the quiet ones that surprise you ;D

[RoboMaster]

"Do your homework!"

Our meeting started at 5:00pm and so some people stayed after school where we provide time and space for them to do homework. Needless to say, the above phrase was said a lot that day....:yikes:

[kjolana1124]

Me: Ethan, what's the name of the demo we do at the Hublien Tower?
Ethan: Which one?

There's only one tower...and he's the one that works there...sigh.

"Go make me a sandwich, woman!"

The first time it's been said this build season, it's like a daily thing on our team. XD

Me: Why does the laptop look like a purse?
Ben: It's not a purse! It's a very manly bag
Tom: It's a satchel! Indiana Jones had one

-other incident concerning same computer-

Taylor: She's so beautiful! *about said laptop*
Me: ....
Justin: She's the sexist laptop I've ever seen!

-About a grant-

Matt: So we can say the number of female members increased dramatically over the past few years
Ben: That makes it sound like they join and don't do anything
Me: Fine, active female team members?
Ben: No then it seems like a lot join and do nothing
Me: So we have a lot more girls than we used to?
Ben: Still makes them seem like they don't do anything
Me: I think you're overthinking this.
Matt: You think?! What about female members increased over the past few years
Ben: Yeah that's okay
Matt: So we just spent five minutes arguing only to put down what we already have written down?

Welcome to build season. I feel that last line pretty much sums it up. :rolleyes:

[Cody Michl 2811]

About the elevation... thingy that we can do to get 2 more points.

"how's about we DON'T try to hang ourselves!"

Everybody laughed, of course, and for a while... I couldn't figure out why...

[kylelanman]

"The programmers get blamed for everything that doesn't work and the mechanical team gets the credit for everything that does."

Student A. "I don't think mecanum wheels will make it over the ramp."
Student B. "Well were using them so we will just have to hope they do."
Mentor A. "Hope? Now were relying on Obamabotics."

[Jordan. Z]

"Rail assisted magnetically accelerated soccer balls!"

Design is always a strange time around here...

[ras103]

"He's Flamboyant!" says one student
"WHAT! He's not flammable!!" yells another.

[kjolana1124]

"I just have to tune the PID loop!"

"It's still downloading!"

We say that one a lot xD

Also a favorite from last year's pep rally:

Parent: And what happens if the mentors find out a human player throws a moon rock into your own trailer?
Matt: Ohhhh there will be yelling...

It became almost a catchphrase and even went onto our shirts for the mentors.

[Jreed129]

While brain storming for our animation, the head animation mentor said:
"Animation is like the illegitamate red-headed step child that nobody wants."


this is really amussing with all the speculation about animation and how long it will be around....

[Brian Ha]

Ours is... Acutally we dont have 1. I feel so left out... Shades!::safety::

[kjolana1124]

"I don't know what we're doing but we're going to build something!"

I'm at a meeting right now and just overheard a mentor saying this while typing something. I had to get it on here before I forgot.

[xloriloo]

"For this year's game I think we should build a Robot!"

[cbeavers6790]

How about " The programmers will kill you if you want that done on the robot!!!" this is what our camera man/ animation mentor Frank told us whenever we wanted something complicated for the robot

[Liu_yiang]

Someone was testing a suction mechanism. When asked what he said he was doing, he simply replied: "Sucking."

I get the feeling this isn't the first time this has come up :P

[Team 2811]

We would use a pneumatic air system with compresses air that would push a rod through the hole and like WHOOOSH!!!! - Josh Cook

[demosthenes2k8]

Freshman: "What has being on the Chop Shop taught me? Well, I've learned to drill and screw."

(after relaying this story)
Student: "Did she mention pounding?"

(We're announcing the ConOps, and our teammate is on a friend's laptop through Skype)
Student 2: "Guys! John's raising his hand!"
(After we put our heads down for voting)
Mentor: "John, did you just have your head down?"

[Bananna]

"Hm...maybe we should actually measure this..."
[Overheard last comment] "Wait...ACTUALLY measure?"
"Well, we've been measuring this whole time...just in Anna's"

Anna's is a unit based off a ruler I made, where the half inch between 2.5 and 3 was larger than the 2" increment between 4 and 6, and other such...markings. Basically, measuring in Anna's is employing the "That looks about right!" system.

[cooldude8181]

This wasn't in build season, but it counts:

"Uuuuh... Why isn't the bot moving?"
-Pneumatics Head

And:


Mechanical: "We don't need programmers!"

Programmer: "Well then lets just watch your hunk of metal sit on the field!"


And while we were doing our strategy matrix:


Programmer: "We need a really easy bot to build!"

Mechanical: "Why?"

Programmer: "Because we need you to build it fast so we will have time to program it!"

[Artur Gaca]

"We need some strippers over here!"
Said alot when we were wiring up the bot...

[ALTrammell818]

"I still think we should build a boat..." - Everyone on our team at one point or another

"It's been two days and we still aren't done building the bump..." - Me
"I still don't think it's stable enough" - Jovan
"You covered the inside in two by fours though." - Me
"Here guys I'll test it!" - Coach/Physics teacher
"Wait a second how much do you weigh!" - all of us standing there
So he just jumps on the bump and determines its good enough for us.

"Oh my lord we are going to use pneumatics and mechs this year!?" - Jeff
"This is like a dream come true for you isn't it?" Coach

"So guys when are we going to begin piecing the boat together?" Various team members again.

[Sincrum]

Stop stroking the laptop!

[maximiliano519]

While finishing up the day we say what I said what I accomplished:

"gearboxes assembled, spare gearbox part ordered, figured out how to levitate"

She believed me for a minute.

[maximiliano519]

Me: "You don't know what you are talking about."
Him: "But"
Me: "You don't know what you are talking about!!!"

[staloch]

yesterday a member wanted a quote for mechanical and a quote for electrical so i came up with use rubbers for electrical and use lubricant for mechanical.

[Flyboy_u92]

During work times, we like to play music in the room.
Coach:"No loud music today. We really want some drawings done."
Student reaches for iPod.
Coach:"That means NO metallica Richard!"

[rulesall2]

- Does anyone else look at the clock and associate the time with FIRST team numbers?
- No, the rest of us are normal...



-(me)Mesh, you really look good working on that chop saw, has anyone considered you for modeling in a power tools catalog?
-(chris)Yeah Mesh, you really work that chop saw... you look professional over there,
-(mesh) Come on guys, just because I look cool using the chop saw doesnt mean you can make fun of me.

[Chris is me]

- Does anyone else look at the clock and associate the time with FIRST team numbers?
- No, the rest of us are normal...

...I do.

My oven has a digital thermometer. As it goes up, I read off the team numbers. It drives my family nuts.

"I'm not worried about weight." - Mr. Wittman :)

[Twoinone1]

Trevor: I know a guy named Harry Johnson

Trevor: Prolonged eposer to a tree gives you cancer

Doug: Why does are reaserch keep leading to cancer?
Trevor: cause radiation is everywhere
Doug:AHHHHH!!!!!

Kyle: chair bang

:]

[demosthenes2k8]

(After we learn Camera-tracking code + twitchy controls + no camera = trouble)
Drive mentor: Well, you almost ran me over. Don't try out for drive.
Kirstin: That makes two.
Me: Oh, yeah, I forgot that guy.
Kirsten: ...I meant me.
Me: Sorry, three.
(Two other people mention I've almost run them over at some point)
Me: ...so with the other two, that makes six.
Several people: SIX?
Me: The guy at Budweiser, and possibly someone at Cinemagic.
Drive coach: NEVER TRY OUT FOR DRIVE!

(I'm not touching joysticks again. Ever.)

[Horsegirrl]

"You can't insult me with words I don't know!" Sophomore
".....yes i can" Senior

"Can you get me the hammerfore" Mentor
"What?" Freshman
"THE HAMMERFORE" Mentor
"Whats a hammer for?" Freshman
"NAILING NAILS!!!!" Mentor
"Thats not funny." Freshman

[Karibou]

(I'm not touching joysticks again. Ever.)
Oh, don't worry, it could be worse. I've driven the robot into a large artificial Christmas tree. Twice. And into a table, and into some chairs, and rammed a practice bot...I don't work well with 6WD, apparently.

[google]

"You get the Dykes, I'll get the strippers"

At which point a few freshman shot us some great looks :)

[Nin_estarSaerah]

Annoying sophomore during design selection, "I think treads get a 6 in traction"
I reply with "we're on a scale of 1 to 5, that means 1,2,3,4, or 5, sweetie."

"Screw wheels or treads, I vote hovercraft!"

"That's a job for the kids in the programming cave, I just build it."

"Isn't that going to be expensive as crap?" "I thought crap was cheap."

"I don't have a CAD program, so I drew up some designs in Paint."

"I'm pretty sure an internal combustion engine is prohibited in the manual."

"We can't turn off gravity."

"We have another vote for big wheels. From the kid who had to leave early to go feed his cows. Surprised?"

"The tunnel is 18 inches." "No it's not, it's a foot and a half"

New girl: "Why am I here with all these guys?"
Me: "It's better to be with these guys now where they get to know you for how awesome your mind is and respect you for how you handle tools than if they were watching you be a cheerleader."

[Boydean]

During brain storming the first day, we were coming up with things that we wanted to do on the field.

In the middle of it all one of the mentors said, "I think we should score."
the team captain leading the meeting: "Ummm, score? you mean make goals?"
mentor: "I mean score"

Now whenever someone is asking something about the robot in a meeting we just say: "Well, don't worry we're going to score."

[rulesall2]

...I do.

My oven has a digital thermometer. As it goes up, I read off the team numbers. It drives my family nuts.


Yeah, our school gets out at 2:17, so when the bell rings i think of the thunder chickens, every day. People think I'm nuts because i know most team numbers and they say who cares about the team number, just call them Shen.

[MrWibbles]

Re: Team numbers: After I read the xkcd about it, I started factoring the time. I still do it when I'm bored.



"So we can expand to 90" tall if we're touching the tower?"
"Yup."
"Even if it isn't the finale?"
"Yeah."
"What if we're in the tunnel and touching the side? Does that count?"
"...I don't think we're going to want to extend to the finale configuration while we're inside the tunnel..."

[Nigel]

We were at another school to watch kickoff with them, and after kickoff we were drawing things out on a white board, and to figure out angles for something we were using trig functions... one of their members walks over to our area, says "Oh snap, they got Cosine" and walks back over to their area...

[buddyb]

"You can't be men! You're reading directions." - Mr. Boyd

[dqmot17]

Head mentor for build walks in with a table full of people at laptops:
"What are all these nerds doing here?"

"These are the nerds that are going to model your robot and make sure that when you hit forward, that it moves forward"

[FRC4ME]

Me: "What is the motor diameter?"
Student: "Two point five."
Me: "Units?"
Student: "Yes."

Me: "Square root of hertz? That's an interesting unit."
Student 1: "What should we call it?"
Student 2: "Squirts?"

Today the programmers got into (yet another) Mac vs. PC debate. Apparently the OS gods preferred Mac today...
Mac user: "Mac boots up faster."
Me: "No; you can't beat Windows 7's boot time."
Mac user: "Oh yeah? Prove it."
Me: "Okay, I will."
<I take out a stopwatch and punch the power button on one of the programming PCs>
PC: "One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency..."
Me: "What? NO! DARN IT!!!"
Mac user: <insane laughter>

I was unable to recover my argument after that.

[kcreager]

This quote was said about five days before kickoff by a friend of mine who had just joined robotics. Even though it was before build season I though this was hilarious.

Student: "Kevin,did I miss kick off because I heard it was last Saturday?"
Me: "No it was last Saturday last year but it got moved this year".
Student: "Did Fleck (Our adviser) move it back this year?"
Me: "No, FIRST did."
Student: "Who's FIRST?"

This quote was said by the same person two days after kickoff and he didn't go because he had to work, so he didn't know what happened that day.

Student: "Do we have a robot built yet?"

[nathanww]

"Actually make a full design. Don't just say you'll use a sensor or something"
mentor, during a design session.

Then a few days later:

"How's that going to deploy?"
"Sensors"

Also, after I got a nasty gash on my wrist from working on the electronics board:

My dad:What happened to your hand?
Me:I'm not emo, the breakout boards are really sharp!
dad:How did that happen?
Me:I was stripping and...
Dad:Stripping?
Me;Stripping WIRES. Like taking the insulation off of them
Dad:Isn't that dangerous to take the insulation off the wire?
Me:*looks at wrist* Apparently.


Needless to say, my parents to not have a very firm grasp of what goes on in robotics.

[mybluedecember]

Student: (completely serious) "Well, the electronics don't really need to be protected in the last 20 seconds..."
Mentor: -starts cracking up- "Um, look at Jennie's face."
-Student looks at me. I have just about had a heart attack-
Student:....Just kidding!

[ras103]

"It starts with a 'k'!" on team member

"CAT! ..... oh wait...." a response to the hint.

laughter erupts.

[alicen]

just now...

"okay matt, come out in the hall with me."
said by thisone girl on our team.

[111208]

"Come on guys, let's Busta Hump!"

[Cyberphil]

Monica: "So, what does this big chairman's clock thing do?"

Phil: "It keeps time Monica. That is what a clock is."

[FRC4ME]

"Aww...the Internet got tired."

[Rion Atkinson]

"Rion. You BETTER not shut off my internet!"

Said by a student on facebook during build season. I was having fun kicking people off the internet using the wireless router settings that weren't building. :D

[Karibou]

"...point something...point five eight eight"
"-TWO THREE HUNDRED, EMPIREEEE"

[FRC4ME]

This one may end up being our quote of the year...

One of our students got hit in the head with a soccer ball:
Student: "Ow! He hit me in the ball with the head."

[MishraArtificer]

"...point something...point five eight eight"
"-TWO THREE HUNDRED, EMPIREEEE"Your robot is not allowed to have carpet.

[wasc14]

- "I'm compiling" -Head programmer while sitting around.
- "Where's the duct tape?" - almost everybody at some point

During competition while a scout from another team came to talk to us:

Scout: "Where's Your Robot?"
me: "What do you mean? It's right there"
Scout: "What?..... omg i thought that was your crate!:yikes: "
me: "don't worry you're about the 6th person to say that."
our robot really did look like a crate that year, lol i miss the wooden sides.:)

[dag0620]

God I have none :( - Gonna make sure I have a pen and pad around tonight!

[viper110110]

Let's use a combustable engine
you mean combustion?
No, combustable

I need something to throw
most teams use a battery
we aren't most teams. Get me the gokart

[Refresh]

"If weight & size were not an issue, it wouldn't be a problem." -Chad, CHAOS Mentor.

[Captain banana]

"We spent 6 weeks creating a robot that sucks balls!"

[Salbert]

"I just posted the 2000th quote"

[waterfreak#1]

"lead lead......like element 83 lead"

and yeah i know it isnt element 83 and thats the joke....a kid said it last season