"Quotes" that were said during build season

[thatoneguy23]

"How can we trust you to build a robot when you cant put together your own chair?"

[HaleyMortensen]

do you want me to hit you with these cups again?

[The Megan 2207]

Mechanical captain: Don't make me hug you, [mentor's name]!
Mentor: Oh, dear God, don't do that!

[JIMBO4341]

"Wiki Wiki" - faster faster in Hawaiian - mentor
"it's programming's fault" - team motto
"pulling a gus" doing something dangerous or foolhardy, first done by the aforementioned
"sherwynn" - the new gus, when ever there's screw up we call out his name even when it's not his fault
"there is nothing time and money can't fix" -evil mentor
"thats unfortunate" - Tom Dix R.I.P.

There's oodles more but that's for now.

[carolynn4848]

I had a good one last night, but I forgot it. I need to remember to have a pen in hand at all times.

[Cow Bell Solo]

I had a good one last night, but I forgot it. I need to remember to have a pen in hand at all times.

That or find a white board near you. Last year I think our white board had more quotes than designs, or plans, or any official positive direction work. Just qoutes.

[Boxxybabee]

All of these quotes are unfunny, and useless.

[NorviewsVeteran]

In FIRST, we KISS.

(Keep It Simple, Stupid)

[FRC4ME]

<calls his programmers over to the computer>
"Hey look guys! I've got the 2010th reply! :D "

[Refresh]

"KISS it!"

Reminding our mentors to keep our plans simple.

[Twoinone1]

Doug: hey theres a part called the 'ball nut part'
Kyle: the what?!
Doug: ball nut part
Kyle: hahaha!!!!
Ross: the what?
Doug: Ball nut part
Ross: eh-eh-ehe
David: what?
Doug: ball nut part
David: haha!!!
Doug: who ever knew they had so creative names!!!!!!
(there was more then likely more that asked)



[LATER]

(when mech person was describing kicking mechinsim to cad person)
Kyle: okay im stupid lets move on.

[O'Sancheski]

Me(Driver): Hey Corey, here is a picture of my failing at being a human player
Tim(Human Player): Yeah I didn't do so hot driving that day
Corey(Mentor): See that's why Tim handles the balls and Sanchez handles the sticks


We all laugh


will post more later on.... only week two, still got along way to go

[Cody Michl 2811]

Game field construction meeting today, here are a few quotes for you, the other students are CADing, and since I don't know the software, I get to do this instead!

1)
Lead Mentor: 12+17+17
other mentor: 41!
student: 36!
other student: 46...
[the right answer... finally...]

2)
Student #3 to another student: Are you having a 'moment?'

3)
Mentor to schoolteacher: you should just give the kids your password!

4)
Student #3: It's the language of dimension...ing...

5)
Lead mentor: Oh well... It's taxpayers' money!

6)
Student #3:[posting on blog] Tonight... we thought about stuff... o.k... done...

7)
Lead mentor: no skill saws were harmed in the making of this tunnel

8)
Me: 6 is such a boring number...
student: unles you multiply it by three... and by that, I mean add two more sixes... after that first six...
-----
Student #3's count of the word 'stuff': 9

[The Zevling]

Whenever we have safety lesson:
"The band saw was originally created to chop meat. Do you know what you are? Meat!"

"Look! A distraction!" (after I had written 'a distraction' on the whiteboard).

[ezpkns]

Woah! samosas!

[viper110110]

The crio is rated to 50 g, but the cartriges are only rated to 5 g
my iPhone is only 3g

[Phoenix Spud]

Don't worry, it just that my brain is mostly dead.

[1522_Kira]

Member of the Team: " So what did we work on yesterday? "
Me ( Team Capitan ) : " Oh, we got the frame finished, and a prototype drive train working. "
Member of the Team: " Oh sweet! What does it do? "
Me: " It climbs the hump and strafes it. "
Member of the Team : *Cracks up laughing*
~
Me: " I am FIRST, and so can you! "

[kc2pix]

"Do you know what happens when you eat NetBeans? You get eFarts!"-our Mentor Kevin

[Team Hero]

"Stop Looking I Found It"
"Wait Before You Cut That"(after you already cut it)

[ringo115]

Usually everyone on my team just shouts left4dead quotes all the time

[-42-]

"So how are we mounting that? Because, as you have it drawn, that piston is floating in midair."
-Me, on a prototype drawing

Programmer: "So where are we mounting the laser?"
Me: "Three feet above the frame, mounted on the antigravity platform."
Programmer: "Very funny, no seriously, where is it going to go?"
Me: "You're talking about the IR aren't you?"
Programmer: "Oh yeah, so that's what it's called..."

"It's really funny when your face twitches like that."
-Fellow design team member, on my compulsive twitches of frustration.

[MARS_James]

Steven: I have returned
Shane: That's what Jesus said

[cooldude8181]

"Believe it or not, i think that we actually made negative progress today."

[Bill_B]

At kicker prototype operating trials:
"Now I get why the guys in the videos were cheering. It works!"

[The Megan 2207]

We were eating pizza and a mentor and I were discussing whether pepperoni was made of pig, cow, or both (it's usually both, by the way). Another mentor joined the conversation:

Mentor 2:What are you doing?
Me: We're discussing whether this is made of pig or cow.
Mentor 2 (shoving a slice of meat-lovers' pizza in his mouth): Who cares? It's really freakin' good!

[BradMello]

"We must have over 100 clamps here"



"..I love clamp"

[fordchrist675]

The teams coach and I were having a discussion with a couple students. One was a little out of it. We were talking about our Aim High robot that we cheese holed.

"We need more cheeze-its?!" "....ok?"

[nitneylion452]

We were working on the circuitry (i.e. connecting wires to the power distribution board) when one of the guys looked at one of the wires and said:

"Wait. How'd that get there?!"

[FRC4ME]

Today we began working on the CAN interface...

"CAN we fix it?"
"Yes we CAN!"
"You guys need a CAN opener?"
"Guess what the serial-to-CAN interface is called: The 2CAN."
"The CAN isn't working? Well how unCANny!"
"CAN we stop these stupid jokes now?"
"No, I don't think we CAN."
"CAN it you guys..."

[MARS_James]

Ryan: WOOT My computer just died......It is the blue screen of death!!!!!

[BJT]

One of my all time favorite quotes that seems to come up every year,

"It's going to be easy to stay under 120 pounds this year"

[MARS_James]

Sal: Let me put it this way. You know how Batman gets all his powers from the suit? Well the Chairmans Binder is my Batsuit. Can I trust you with my Batsuit?

[Karibou]

"Think of it this way...entanglement is like sexual harassment: it's unwanted contact"

[Kaushal.K]

While designing something...
A: So your saying, if that connection doesn't work... just add another one?
B: Yup..
A: :eek: Aren't we supposed to simplify the design?

and then after the designing was finished;
A: We have 3 mechanisms.. and 8 connections..
B: Should be fun to make! :D

[NorviewsVeteran]

Cam: One of the guys from Blue Cheese walked by me and he smelled like cheese.
James: Monterrey Jack?
Me: No, Glenn Allen Swiss.

[Tony.Wu]

"Doonside" that is all...

[dqmot17]

A: [installing photoshop] "what did you do when it said "you need vista or Service pack two?"
B: "Well i had Service pack two."
A: "Is It free?"
B: "Of course!"
A:"How do you get it?"
B: "and your supposed to be the photoshop god in residence here"
A: [looks extremely confused while i download SP3 from Microsoft.]

[GamerKT]

"There's too many stickies!" - referring to the forums.

[HaleyMortensen]

I want to scrub your feet.- creeper

[Rion Atkinson]

"And your are our team captain?!?" - Said to me after one of the new kids learned that I tripped and broke a wall last season.

(Don't worry. Not one got hurt. And the wall was fixed up quickly. :D )

[demosthenes2k8]

Mentor: "DO NOT THROW THINGS AT THE PROGRAMMER!"

Student 1: "We want Chopshop prom dresses and shirts!"

Student 2: "I could feel the aftershock of the PWN rippling through the room."

(Explaining 3d pointers)
Me: "I AM NOT DRAWING A THREE DIMENSIONAL ARRAY!"

[Refresh]

"we're 8/24th of the way into the build season. This makes it seem like we have more time than 2/6th into the build season."

[whackedwatchdog]

We're a rookie team, and we don't have a notebook of these quotes, they're all from memory.

Student A: Why is there a sign on the robot saying that it'll fall apart if we touch it? *Reaches out and pokes it*
*Numerous parts of the gearbox fall out*
Student B: Because I haven't put the gearbox back together, yet---*notices the destruction* -- I hate you :(

While carrying in a half sheet of plywood today:
Student A: It sure is windy!
Student B+C (Carrying the plywood): We know! This thing's like a giant kite!
Student A: .... Then turn it?
Student C: No way! This is more fun!

After the I had traipsed through our computer lab for the twelfth time, grabbing a part or tool. The backroom of the computer lab is where we keep everything, and the room next door is where we had the robot.
Student A (My girlfriend, the only female on the team): Why do you keep coming through here?
Me: I have to grab parts and tools.
Student A: But.... You're the captain, delegate!
Me: I've tried. There's just too many shiney things back there.
*Goes into the back and starts looking for things, and gets distracted by the person working on our wireless*
Student A: Where'd you go? Student B is looking for you!
Me: Uhm.... Sorry. Shiney.....

And as everyone else says; there's more, I just don't remember it!

[Nigel]

"holy crap! they built a robot and they're a bunch of ritards!"

--our mentor... nuff said

[dirkpower90]

Our team mentor-
"I see a lot of faces that say "Crap I dont know what I'm doing."
Team Member-
"So what are we building?"

[basicxman]

Me: Hammertime!
Team: NOOO!

[ALTrammell818]

"Hey guys we can't use these washers because they are broken!"

http://img.alibaba.com/photo/50499742/DIN127_Spring_Lock_Washer.jpg

I laughed so hard... He is a senior and has been on the team for 4 years. He also happens to be my best friend.

I just couldn't believe he had never seen a lock washer before.

[timytamy]

Make up your mind... Just don't kill me in the process.

[Phoenix Spud]

Do you want some cheese with that wine???

[The Zevling]

"Where did you get those fruit snacks?"
"They're in the Cheez-its box"
"Wait... What?!?"

[Sincrum]

Me: Hammertime!
Team: NOOO!

Lol sounds like my team...... just look at my sig. ::ouch::

[teshazman]

"Hes like superman. Everything he touches turns to magic!"
"Wait what?!"

--Dan

[RookieWookiez]

"C'mon Muscles, pull it!" - Mentors

"Cookie!!" - One the students on the team.

[Sincrum]

Jordan "And this a cookie"
Ryan "Did you just pull that out of your pocket?!"

[hipsterjr]

Programmer coming out into the shop for the first time: "So..what are you guys building?"

Team:"A robot! duh"

[Phoenix Spud]

I will get a life, after build season of course!

[Diserasta]

After trying for half an hour to mount a single bolt - "I can't Take it Anymore, GET THE MALLET!"

[Phoenix Spud]

So we had an unofficial vote, and it said that you are team captain. Now we get to blame you for everything that goes wrong, but we all get the credit!!!

[whatabouteve]

today we had a revelation

Keahn to me:Forget getting the camera to work! We can't even get it to turn on.

Me: Well at least it tells us it exists.

[Karibou]

"Is there anyone in here that we could borrow to get high?"
*blank stares* "...what?!"
"Yeah, Voog (mentor) needs someone to climb up on a ladder for him, what were YOU guys thinking of?"

[The Zevling]

"An amoeba is not a caterpillar."

or possibly "A caterpillar is not an amoeba." I forget which.

[Keveng]

The "room" the programming and electronics work in is actually a indoor balcony with like a 5'9" clearance at its lowest, which doesnt help when a lot of the members are very tall.(im 6'1")

Student: "Lets count how many times this season i hit my head on the ceiling", current count is 17 times

We also left sarcastic notes on the low hanging pipes,

Note #1. "For (student #1), stand under here and jump" (supposedly on a day i wasnt here she broke a light bulb that way, she wasnt injured)

Note #2. "For (student #2), walk into this" (taped on another low hanging pipe with a peice of foam from our last bumpers attached to it)

We really need to invest in some hard hats

[coutantcheese]

"When in doubt, use more lube." --Zack

[Chath Maral]

*zap*
"AH man! I love electricity! It's like a defibrillator and makes you feel ALIVE!"

[Cyn]

"QUICK! pull it out its hurting my inner thighs!!!!!"
-Cupcake



(Said, while holding a mock up between his legs.)

[Phoenix Spud]

You don't have to go home, you just have to go ~Lead mentor

dihydrogen-monoxide, its' deadly, deadly, stuff! It is a main component in Cancer, Nuclear Power Plants, and Acid Rain. IT CAN KILL YOU!!! :yikes:

[The Zevling]

"There are more errors than code? What did you do?!?"

And to the same person:
"How did you get your foot trapped in a chair?"

[simpsonboy77]

"Why is the programmer taking a hammer?"

Me: Don't make me throw this battery at you. It's a bowling ball.... with corners.

[Zholl]

Yesterday, while organizing a mass Chipotle order for about 16 people:
Mentor: If you guys worked on the robot this hard, we'd be done already
Student: Well, if we made the robot out of food....

[ALTrammell818]

You don't have to go home, you just have to go ~Lead mentor

dihydrogen-monoxide, its' deadly, deadly, stuff! It is a main component in Cancer, Nuclear Power Plants, and Acid Rain. IT CAN KILL YOU!!! :yikes:

I once got about 50 people at my high school to sign a petition banning H2O for these reasons :).

[Mrtrom]

One student to one of our female mentors: "You reminds me of my mom." So, her new nickname is Mom.

This one happened last year, me, as well as the other animators were stopped by the chairman's group and asked us; "What's the first thing you hear about when you think about trees?" One of the animation people said; "Some trees are big."

[aatuck]

One student to one of our female mentors: "You reminds me of my mom." So, her new nickname is Mom.

This one happened last year, me, as well as the other animators were stopped by the chairman's group and asked us; "What's the first thing you hear about when you think about trees?" One of the animation people said; "Some trees are big."

Heh, before the Trenton regional in '08 our team president sent an email reminding everyone to pack underwear and go to the bathroom before we left. Ben (incidentally our current president) replied "Who are you, our Mommy?" It stuck. Having graduated, she's now officially (and referred to as) Mommy.

[timytamy]

"I don't know, it's FIRST... It doesn't have to make sense."

[Phoenix Spud]

One student to one of our female mentors: "You reminds me of my mom." So, her new nickname is Mom.

This one happened last year, me, as well as the other animators were stopped by the chairman's group and asked us; "What's the first thing you hear about when you think about trees?" One of the animation people said; "Some trees are big."

My team says "Team Captains are like moms, they tell you what to do and clean up after you."

[Refresh]

Me: "Why did you guys let the Magic escape?"

This is after magic smoke came out of our robot.

[Team2191]

'The other day I was thinking about what i want to do with the rest of my life. But then I realized, for the next six weeks, it doesn't matter'

[Twoinone1]

*in a space where there is 3 guys with a hat on, a baseball, stocking with camo, and one that goes down the ears thats camo*

David: You know that annoying guy with the hat?
Ross: wich one
David: the one in the camo, not you Doug
Doug: thanks...

[Adadora]

Just happened

"this isn't lining up how did you measure it?"

"I measured it with my thoughts"

[machetemonkey]

To our safety captain:

"hey brian, is that thing safe? It looks likely to break"

Safety Captain turns to me, and in the manner of a communist dictatorship poster, just says "Safety hinders progress" and goes back to work.

He was joking of course. But that's now what we say whenever we build something slightly sketchy looking.

[Phoenix Spud]

That can't be good
~our lead software mentor after the robot ran into a wall under its' own control while in tele-op mode

[Karibou]

"I have made corporate death! MWAHAHAHAHA!"
-Team member who filled an empty Coke bottle with Pepsi

"What would you use to attach a pi-"
"DUCT TAPE"

[TNT280Staff]

Freshman: I think the whole team is suffering from ADOS!
Senior: What the heck is ADOS?
Freshman: Attention defecit ... Oooooo Shiny!
Senior: I agree, and there is no cure

[Samheartsrobots]

"When in an awkward situation, MORE COWBELL!"
-Said when our mentor walked in on me and my friend imaginary cowbell-ing.

"THAT'S NOT SAFE!" "But I'm wearing safety goggles!"
-Said when anyone is doing something stupid, but not pertaining to robot an power tools. AKA one person carry five sheet pizzas.

[FIRSTgirl675]

Student A: "What should I do with this partially stripped screw?"

Student B: "Strip it all the way."

Student A: "Why?"

Student C: "Because things aren't as fun when they're only partially stripped."

[Phoenix Spud]

That is going on Chief Delphi! (whenever someone says a good quote!)

[Thing2_1723]

Me: "Josh! Let me see your wallet!"
*Josh flips my safety glasses down from my head and his down too*
Me: "Ok, now we're both protected. Let me in your pants!"


Our head coach had his 3-year-old-son with him on Saturday because his wife was having a baby shower for their daughter-on-the-way and so we had shifts watching him...
Anelia: "We found out how to keep a 3-year-old entertained!"
Hook (the coach): "How?"
Anelia: "Give him a water bottle to throw at an idiot"
Me: "Im gonna do that with my kids!"
Hook: "You gonna marry an idiot?"
Me: "Nope, Candy is gonna be my babysitter!"

[FRC4ME]

Heh, before the Trenton regional in '08 our team president sent an email reminding everyone to pack underwear and go to the bathroom before we left. Ben (incidentally our current president) replied "Who are you, our Mommy?" It stuck. Having graduated, she's now officially (and referred to as) Mommy.

On my high school team, our safety captain during my senior year, just as we were about to leave a regional:

"Okay, now before we leave, be sure to go to the bathroom - everyone at least try."

[Vermeulen]

Me: Why is the battery labeled "battery"?
Student 1: I don't know, get back to work
*10 seconds later*
Me: and why is the duct tape holding it to the testing board labeled "duct tape"?

I labeled the label "label" then.:D

[Karibou]

We were discussing possible robot names on our team forums...

Mr. Pockets: "Edward, for when the bot starts sparking up on the field"

[Phoenix Spud]

While having a conversation about the Wizard of Oz and how it is NOT about Australia...

Me: I saw this great signature on CD, it said "if Dorthy were to find a place today where people had no brains, heart, or courage she wouldn't be in Oz, she would be in Congress."
Mentor: ...and surrounded!

[Diserasta]

"If we're not back in 5 minutes, Avenge Our Death!" - Mentor

[timytamy]

"If we're not back in five minutes... AVENGE OUR DEATHS!!!"

EDIT: Sammy beat me too it ;)

[timytamy]

Sarah: "My fashion sense, is robotics t-shirt, is good."
Me: "My fashion sense, is clean, is good."

[timytamy]

"That's not a wire, that's a cable tie."

[Bill_B]

Q: What did the tie say to the hat?
A: You go on a head, I'll hang around here.
While discussing hanging on the tower.

[select all to see answer]

[zachav39]

"We MUST hang ourselves, it is vital to winning if we hang OURSELVES first and then hang EVERYONE else on your alliance, that will win."

The CRio is not working.
Really?
Yes.
WELL, what did you do??
I do not know.
WHAT DID YOU DO??
O, the battery is not plugged in....
WOW.................

[cooldude8181]

"We have to plan a way to deal with Trent next year"
-Austin

[Sincrum]

Make sure you use plenty of lube!

me to someone about to cut metal

[spacegy4]

Programmer: "Does programmer have 2 Ms?"

[Refresh]

Mentor: "I don't want Jam I want Jelly!"
~Said while trying to fix our piece of junk of a printer.

[cooldude8181]

"Google Trends is a good way to see how much the world really cares... take for example Haiti."
-Will

[Ahnxlazyman]

Dave- "so tell me about Comfort Zone Camp"
Amy- "well it's a camp..."
Dave- "well I figured that.
'here have this box!
No I can't it's a box!' "

[apalrd]

"umm. That's bad" ~The NI tech support guy

"So we will need an uber sprocket..."~Jim

"Back in my year... The robot entered autonomous and drove straight into a wall " ~Carolyn telling stories from 2003

"This is a 13" CG 6WD robot going over the ramp. This is a 13" CG 6WD robot face plant" ~Isaac's ppt on why not to build a 13" CG 6WD robot.

[Duncan Macdonald]

The day of a 60's themed semi formal a student arrives to robotics wearing a vest.

Teacher: Why are you wearing that now?

Student: Its a teaser for tonight.

[nitneylion452]

From today:

Programmers: It must be a mechanical issue.

Engineers/Mechanics: Well, maybe you should look over the code again.

[Karibou]

"So I just saw the back of your head, and I immediately thought 'Why the heck is Kari Byron here?'" -Mentor

[-42-]

"Well that's a programming problem"
"Well that's a drivetrain problem"
"Well that's a fabrication problem"
"Well that's an electrical problem"

All said by me, in my never ending quest to shirk responsibilty.

[MrWibbles]

Coach: "So it's a software problem?" (referring to two motors being inverted)
Me: "Well, it can be fixed in software, but..." (glancing at a teammate busy with a screwdriver) "...it's already being fixed in hardware, so we're okay."

"..and 'O' stands for 'Owesomeness'"
--Team member struggling with a backronym

"Red lights are okay?" [on the Jaguar]
"Well, solid red is okay; that's full reverse."
"What about flashing?"
"Fast flashing is just partial reverse."
"And slow flashing?"
"Fault condition...."

[timytamy]

It doesn't break... It's electronics.

[timytamy]

"Whatever you say... As long as I don't have to move."

[SavtaKenneth]

My friend:"What are you doing?"
Me:"Looking for a screw"
My Friend:"why?"
Me:"Tziporen asked for it"
(Tziporen being the most cute and innocent girl on the team.... she still doesn't understand it :P)

"Let's find the equation of the line tangent to the pita bread..."

"Legally you can rape me but that won't be harassment"

That's all for today, I'll check the list for more tomorrow

~Kenneth
team #2212 The Spikes

[MrWibbles]

I wrote a simulation of a robot (with holonomic drive) moving around and grabbing a ball.

Later:
Me: "So, do we have lasers on the robot?"
Coach: "...no..."
Me: "Do the balls try to escape?"
Coach: "I don't think so."
Me: "I may have outdone myself on this simulation."

[Flyboy_u92]

-Student1 "I really think he can phase through walls!"
Student2 "For reals?"
Student1 "Yeah...I think he has a powertool fetish."
*Deep buzzing and chattering*
Student3 "Did someone say powertools? Please be the drillpress!!!"

[Zholl]

go away mr. autodesk tutorial guy!

autodesk needs a button that says "obey physics"

[The Megan 2207]

I was rewiring an old robot for code testing purposes:
Me: Hey Maria, could you come over here and strip for me?
Maria: Well, that might require some mood music...

[svenw]

We have this very gullible girl on the team since last year. We have convinced her that 1: chickens have 4 legs, and the wings are processed meat (thats why there is more wings than legs).
2: I drive a party tractor to school with a trailer that fits 150 people
3: laptops can be dishwashed as long as you use the proper detergent
Any way to protect her identity i will use the name klocksy, (she named the clock).

Mentor: pop rots your teeth.
Klocksy: Unless your Superman, and IM superman
Mentor, James, Brady and I talk about putting quote on chief delphi
Klocksy: What are you guys talking about, popRocks?
James: yeah, we are making a shopping list.
Klocksy: I'll buy!
James: yeah were going to buy it on chief delphi
Klocksy: Ok
She later went to name the white board poprock.

We get on the topic of how cameras are not water proof
Klocksy: I bought a new camera.
Brady: Is it Water proof?
Klocksy: No but I am.

These were just 2 of at least 20 quotes that were said by her today. We limited ourselves to recording 2 or else we would never actually get any work done

[Phoenix Spud]

We decided to double software's weight limit for this year since we think that we are going to be under weight.

[Cody Michl 2811]

You don't have to go home, you just have to go ~Lead mentor

dihydrogen-monoxide, its' deadly, deadly, stuff! It is a main component in Cancer, Nuclear Power Plants, and Acid Rain. IT CAN KILL YOU!!! :yikes:

actually, its more like Hydrogen Hydroxide... but... nice try though :)

[RoseJ]

"Hey, Joe, where are the super uber grippy thingies?
-Me asking one of our awesome mentors where the super clamps were-

Along the lines of:
"So you diverced her, and he's somehow my father?"
-Some of the mentors were talking about an ongoing joke that our team has-

ADAM - American Divorce Association for Men.
-Adam is one of the guys on our team-

"You gotta blow harder than that!"

"I don't get it..."

Along the lines of:
"I'm bringing back the word swell."
"And I'm bringing back the word groovy."
-Two of our mentors talking-

Mentor - "It won't work for you because you're a woman."
Me - "You know what..." -glare-
-The drill press wouldn't stay on for me when I pressed ON, but when one of the guys pressed ON on their first try, it stayed on.-

"I need more lube!"

[2522BanMonkey]

Quote from last year.

"I'll put my balls in your trailer"

"I just lost the game"

[Zach O]

"Show me your joystick."
Said in a room full of high school students. You can guess the outcome :P

[Jibs]

Teacher/Mentor: Name one person in this room who's not a creep.

Entire programming and marketing team: UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.........

[Master_T]

what did i just do ? - Zach

[Jibs]

Mentor/Teacher: That's a creepy picture of Dave, guys.

Me: What picture of dave isn't creepy?

[The Megan 2207]

"Why couldn't there be deaf prostitutes?"

We were discussing how some words in sign language look extremely similar, but mean entirely different things (shy/prostitute, work/rape, research/murder, etc.).

[_Tanto_]

T "dude its not going far enough" (discussing our autonomous mode)
E "its supposed to be going 12 inches"
T "then make it go a foot!"
....
*burst into laughter*





"The truthiness will set you free" -Stephen Colbert

[Karibou]

"We're going BALL-istic!" -Dan

"...no, our new team cheer is NOT 'we're all pregnant!'"
(result of my coming into a conversation at the wrong time and hearing the wrong words XD)

[Cody Michl 2811]

Student#1: there's a difference between white... *points at student#3* and white... *points at xerox paper*
me: Wha? you mean... like shutins?
Student#1: no... it's not SKIN color, it's state of mind... like clean... ness
Me: OH!!! and then there's the kind of white that only exists in trailer parks...
Student#1: well... that's just because they sniffed to much bleach...
me:... wow... ...nice...


Student#3's stuff count: 29

[Joe Schornak]

Me, while trying to grease our gearboxes:
"I can't find my lube!"

[KC1AJT]

(while programming vb)
Me: oh crap what did i just do
Fred: um idk your the one programming vb

[kriskav1207]

"Holy Crap its 3:45 I have to go to school in 2 and a half hours"

Chip-Team 271 Bay Shore, New York

[ISGOI Howie]

we had a typo on our website that was "The robot this year is required to meet certain requirements." that we all got a kick out of

[Qthestuntman]

Lubrication is the key to life!

[NinjaWithBurnin]

" we just need to twang that thingamabobber, and quax the whats-E-doodle"

[nathanww]

"Remember, meeting on Sunday"
"What? But it's Super Bowl Sunday!!!"
"No, it's fix-the-accelerometer Sunday"
"That doesn't sound quite as catchy"
"No. But nonetheless, we are going to fix the accelerometer"

[demosthenes2k8]

Software freshman: "It's working. I'm scared. Oh God, did it work? Maybe it reverted my changes..."

Mentor (my dad): "Aww, you broke the thingy!"

Same software freshman: "So the students are saying, 'We need help! Let's ask the mentors!', and the mentors are saying 'We need help! Let's ask the students!'"

Me: "Someone get the scissors away from Ryan."

Mech lead: "You're on Electrical and you think you plug the battery into the Jaguar?"

Software member: "Burning smells are bad, right?"

[Bethie42]

Working on interviews for Chairman's Award video:

Team member: ...and FIRST has taken my desire to be an engineer and, uh, cemented it....

Mentor, later: Cemented it? What about 'took my desire to be an engineer and cemented it, dipped it in epoxy and wrapped it in non-functional Duct Tape?'

[Kimmeh]

While working on the essay for Chairman's award:

Me: What have we done to "commit ourselves to spread the word of FIRST?"
Brandon: Wear our shirts...?

[samir13k]

...working in the shop at 9pm with a limited crew of mostly mentors,

samir in the background "anyone know where i put the other half of the cRio?"

...i really couldnt find it for like 3 minutes :( i lost the casing lol :eek:

(its all good though, i found it eventually) :rolleyes:

[Cody Michl 2811]

1.Student #1: Why are you listening to my pants?

2.Me: hey Vic... you now have one quote demeaning you on CD, you don't want like seven.
Student #1: Yeah Vic!
Me: Hey, you have 7 so I wouldn't be talking.

[another person on another sub-team told me this that happened in software]

3. Software student: STOP BANGING THE ROBOT INTO THE TUNNEL!! :ahh:

[hipsterjr]

Electrical student while holding a battery from 2007 (no longer legal): "why can't we use this one? Is it AC?"

[wirsingrl]

"Only you could hit a tree indoors..."
"Look! its Abraham Lincoln!" [as she pointed at a bitten apple].
"Make me a sandwich, bot"

[Vermeulen]

Me: "It's about yea wide by yea tall by yea deep"

Also me: "Wait, so if we're building on talented students, does that mean I get infrared vision?"

[PAR_WIG1350]

the other day, a freshman and a sophomore on the team looked at each other and one randomly said "piggy back ride" and the other replied "yes" in an unusually casual manner, they then ran into the hall and gave each other piggy back rides while everyone else laughed and wondered.

[V_Chip]

After working on the transmission and chains lunch came and one of the mentors grabbed a piece of pizza without washing hands.

Student:"You got some grease on your pizza."
Mentor: "Duh. It's pizza."

[nitneylion452]

"This bottle of acetone says 'Use by: 1984!'"

(We were building the trident)

[Newo95]

One hilarious quote from us at team 540 was, "That's so sweet! It actually works!" this was said during prototyping, and we are considering putting it on a t-shirt.

[Newo95]

"Don't worry, it's just a prototype."

[kmcclary]

[Mechanical] Student A, smugly: "You electrical guys are really sick... You keep shouting 'Let's get the Strippers and Dikes over here'..." ["Dikes" = Electrician's slang for "Diagonal Cutters"]

Not to be outdone, [Electrical] Student B says: "Yea, but WE think you mechanical types are even sicker... You all get excited whenever you talk about 'Trannies and Chains'..."

[Student A shuts up and goes away]

(...and I almost fell out of my chair laughing when I heard that exchange...)


- Keith

[nitneylion452]

[Mechanical] Student A, smugly: "You electrical guys are really sick... You keep shouting 'Let's get the Strippers and Dikes over here'..." ["Dikes" = Electrician's slang for "Diagonal Cutters"]

Not to be outdone, [Electrical] Student B says: "Yea, but WE think you mechanical types are even sicker... You all get excited whenever you talk about 'Trannies and Chains'..."

[Student A shuts up and goes away]

(...and I almost fell out of my chair laughing when I heard that exchange...)


- Keith

OMG that's hilarious! :D :D :D :D :D

[Captain banana]

"hey guys are we fundraising for our annual robot ball?"

"We don't have balls!"

"...no comment!"

[FRC4ME]

Me: "Eric, get me a hammer."
<Eric goes to get hammer, returns with a crowbar>
Eric: "I couldn't find a hammer because Ross was using three."

Oh, and the programmers have proposed we call this year's robot, "LongShot." The builders think it's a complement to their kicker, but it's actually describing the programmers' thoughts on whether we will finish by ship date. :D

[Dragon Princess]

one from tonight

Guys we ship in two weeks! wait what happened to the robot?
--we took it apart
Why?
--dunno
i swear i'm about to scream

---would have been funny except now we have to rebuild a chassis tomorrow

[Dragon Princess]

the best from this year was
"whoa!!! nifty! you can make cookies in a microwave!!!"

it was truly a marvelous experiment with wonderful results, who doesn't love cookies during robotics?

[eeeeweeezeee]

Here's two that were said just now.

"Who got hit in the cheese?" -Lucian


"Beauty is in the eye of me, who is doing the beholding." -me

[apalrd]

"Dew me, Dew Me, Dew Me." ~Katherine on wanting Mtn. Dew, also takes a "Do Me"

"I think we should make the whole robot out of steel so when we drill lightening holes it actually looses weight"~Chet

"Maybe we should learn to harness the magic in magic smoke to make our robot fly. Its simple really, just have an air nibbler mounted above a Victor, and program it to turn on when you want to fly. Metal Shavings + Victor = Blue Chernobyl + Magic Smoke, then the magic will be available."

[Cody Michl 2811]

I wasn't really there, so I don't have much... and Student #3 was gone... so this is kind of the pit & crate subteam quote...

1. Someone, usually Student #1: *screws a screw too far into the piece of wood*
Someone, usually Lead Mentor: Uhhh... you made it a little too perfect...


2. Student #2: *hears a loud noise or turns sharply to see something next to her head* Whoa, hi there...

3. Student #2: LOOK AT THIS GIANT PILE OF DUST!!!!11!!!

4. SEVERAL "that's what she said" jokes

[dragon72950]

"lets put a tazer at the back ofour robot"

"It's not legal"

"well if they don't catch us it's legit"

.....

[dragon72950]

"What happened to the electronics?"

"We had to take them out"

"Why?"

"So we can work get the wires in the right spots"

"alright wheres the switch going"

"I don't know. Probly on the kicker"

[apalrd]

"lets put a tazer at the back ofour robot"

"It's not legal"

"well if they don't catch us it's legit"

.....

We have a phaser in the botcave. It's actually part of a cordless drill, modified to accept a robot battery and output a pair of test leads instead of a motor. It gives us reversible variable speed control in a handled package, quite useful. No tazers though.

[dragon72950]

We have a phaser in the botcave. It's actually part of a cordless drill, modified to accept a robot battery and output a pair of test leads instead of a motor. It gives us reversible variable speed control in a handled package, quite useful. No tazers though.

my idea was minigun gauss cannon firing white phosphorus shotgun shells but that was brought up as being not legal

[BradMello]

Someone questioning our kicker - "Why is it red?"

Me- "It goes faster"

[Cody Michl 2811]

So a couple from last night, let's see if I can remember...

1. [Mechanical students are working on computers]
Mech Student: *makes chicken noises for no reason*
Me: Aww... and I JUST logged off...
Mech Student: ...logged off of what?
Me: Chief Delphi...
Mech Student: Ohh! *goes back to making his chicken noises*

2. [so I'm done with my Pit & Crate duties, so I'm hanging out with two Programming Students, one of which is Student #5, the below happened, as well as more "that's what she said"]

Me: do I need to kick you Student #5?
Programming Student: YES!!! PLEASE KICK HIM!!!

[keehun]

No! Don't put too much lube on the shaft!

That's what she said.:]

[dodar]

Zac(sportzcrazy on here and our Drive Coach and I using a lathe): did you put any lube on that bit?

Me: i put some on there...

Zac: well put more on there

Me: but that'll be too much!

Zac: you can NEVER have too much lube! :D

[Joe Schornak]

"Hey guys, what time is it?"
"It's business time."

"So... what's The Situation with the robot?"

[NorviewsVeteran]

"So..."
"-A needle pulling thread."

[Puffin]

"Why isn't the cRIO's light blinking?"
Programmer: "Errr... not my fault, hardware problem."

[Bananna]

"So how is this going to go THROUGH the electronics board?"
"Oh, that's programming..."

[Cody Michl 2811]

I have a few... but first...

[[Me: I'm a guy who usually wears an army-style hat with my safety glasses on it, Glasses, and a knack for 'that's what she said.
Student #1: tall male P&C member with a semi-afro and tough guy syndrome
Student #2: Short female P&C member, horribly psychotic and overly... creepy...ish
Student #3: Average-hieghted Female P&C member, says 'stuff' alot
Student #4: ...there... isn't... a student#4
Student #5: short male annoying programming student... who has an overly violent nature.
Vic: A guy who is virtually indescribable... P&C]]

1. Student #2: If I'm not wearing my safety glasses, slap me on the face...
Me: But... why not on the back of the head like Gibbs on NCIS?
Student #2: NO! The face... always...

2. everyone at one point: Let's screw theese holes! :D

3. [Backstory time! So... I've come in with several physical injuries several times... so... yeah... [oh... and I say 'so... yeah...' a lot... so if you hear that at the Oregon Autodesk regional... ask me about Student #3's stuff counter!] heh heh... now for that quote...]

Student #2: Geez... you're hurt alot...
Me: Yeah... I'm less stable than Plutonium!

...Student #3's stuff counter: 152

[FallenMithos]

"Go grab me the strippers in the cabinet."
"You keep your strippers in a cabinet?"
"Yes, where else would they go? In my pants?"

[jirosinlove]

"You can only do stupid stuff when I'm around." said our advisor.

[Cody Michl 2811]

a couple I missed last night.

1. Student #2: DON'T SIT ON ME LEAD MENTOR!!

[apalrd]

"We have a policy against male harmonizing. Stop singing. Violators will be shot."

"I blame everything on Katherine. Until it works, then I take responsibility"

<typing article>
"The Killer Bees productively work at the Chrysler Tech Center, Chrysler's world headquarters, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday"
"That dosen't sound right. It sounds like this is only the headquarters on those days"

Tim: "Now we need a large quantity of wooshers (washers) for this."
Jim: "Remember that robot with a whole 2' axle full of like 200 washers?"
<freshman laugh>
Jim: "You laugh like that's never been done"

[FRC4ME]

"If anyone believes a significant discrepancy to exist between a speaker’s and listener’s interpretation of a single statement, he or she may require both parties, beginning with the speaker, to restate their interpretations of the statement using the most explicit, unambiguous language possible, with reconciliation of the interpretations to follow if they are found to differ." - The Clarity Clause

In a shop full of nuts, screws, springs, balls, rods, and wood, too many "that's what she said" jokes were interfering with our ability to get work done, so I instituted this. Basically, if you make an innuendo and get called on it, you have to publicly state to the rest of the team exactly what you meant in the most explicit terms you can think of. After this, the sex jokes stopped almost instantly. :D

[archer003]

One of our mentors is Russian. "In the soviet Russia, Computer program you!"

"When in doubt, zip-tie it."

"Guys, why is there a statue on the robot?"

"He destoryed one of the old bots again!"

"If you hear the robot tick, Pyro-boy was doing the wiring."

"Why are the Jaguars upside down?"

"GUYS! THE SOLDERING IRON IS ON THE FLOOR!" "Teacher won't like that..."

and best of all:
Programming Mentor: "The light isn't blinking, theres no connection! All the wires are plugged in, WHY ISN'T IT WORKING?"
Me: "Because I haven't turned it on yet."
PM: "Oh. Alright, lets do it."

[AcesJames]

"If we have to stay the whole night to finish programming the robot, I call dibs on napping in the deflated trackball."

Builder #1 - "It won't fit, it needs a bigger hole"
Builder #2 - "Alright, I'll get the Red Baron"
(The Red Baron is our power drill)

"Why do we have a red microwave named Mother Russia?"

"Who put a label on the label maker?"

"Yeah, we named the development platform Debbie"

[_Tanto_]

J "whats wolfman alpha"

E "you've never heard of the WA"

J "ya thats y i ask"

T "its how i do my homework"

J "you dont do your homework"

T "yaaa...."

[ChrisP]

No no, thats under advanced mates, your only intermediate at solidworks, you cant do that yet.

[Cody Michl 2811]

[[the main quote]]

1. Me: HEY EVERYONE!!!

I won't be saying 'That's what she said' or posting a bunch of useless crap on CD if YOU CALL ME CHIP!!!!

(so far only one person's gone for it...)

[The Megan 2207]

Apparently we needed to borrow a motor from a previous robot to do some testing, but we were too lazy to actually remove it from the robot so we had to connect the two bots. This was the conversation preceding that event:

Mentor 1: We're going to mate some robots now.
Everyone: [Assorted responses of "WHAT?" or "HUH?" or "...like with CAD, or in real life?"]
Mentor 1: If you're curious, come and see.
Student: ...I think the real question is if the ROBOTS are curious...

As many of the students were leaving to see the robots mate:

Mentor 2: When you're done with that, come back here and we'll talk about these screws and how they went wrong!

[thatoneguy23]

"We know we have a good machine. The soccer ball hit him in the face and now his lip is bleeding."

[Egg 3141592654]

"Wow this is a really nice joystick, it's a pain to code (all axis are really messed up) and it doesn't center well, but who cares, IMMA FIGHTER PILOT PEW PEW!" *robot drives into wall*

"This code is epic," I say, "That's why it doesn't work."

"WHERE'S MY JDK AND WHY DID IT GO AWAY!!!!!" "Calm down, we have pizza." *I go to get a slice of pizza to find an empty box* "NOW MY PIZZA IS MISSING, MY LIFE IS EVAPORATING!"

[The Megan 2207]

CAD student: Umm... does anyone know what a .vi file is? There's one on this flash drive and I don't know what it is.
Me: That's for our programming.
CAD student: Oh, good! I thought it was some kind of virus or something.
Me: No, .vi does NOT stand for "virus."
CAD student: Phew!

[Phoenix Spud]

Me to a mentor: You have had a bunch of Chief Delphi-isms tonight.

[FRC4ME]

"What if the sun is moving at like light speed, and the Earth is moving at like light speed, and that's why it makes the ellipses around the Sun, and then if we slowed the Sun down, we would age slower."

-One of our student's discussing his knowledge of special relativity

[Vermeulen]

(Discussing robot names)
Me: "Well, Casper kinda counts as a girl's name, since it's of indiscriminate gender"
Jon (just entering the conversation): "No, he's white!"

[MARS_James]

Erin: Awesome I have my own category of joke!
Shane: That isn't a good thing Erin.
Erin: Hey the only thing worse then being talked about is not being talked about.

[Argon27]

"Ow! I just poked myself in the eye with my safety glasses!" ::ouch::

[nathanww]

Electrician:What does PWM stand for?
Other electrician:Uh, I don't know..periodic menstrual...
Programmer(from other side of the room):THERE'S NO W IN MENSTRUAL!

[The Zevling]

"Ow! I just poked myself in the eye with my safety glasses!" ::ouch::

My friend has done that.

[EthanMiller]

"Stop throwing the safety glasses!"

And,

"Hey, monitors have pretty colors inside!" - After the robot knocked an LCD monitor off a desk. I think he was kidding...

[HaleyMortensen]

"JUKEBOX HERO!!!!!!!!!" yelled behind a freshman who really freaked out

Whoop Weoo!!

I'm a flamingo!

J: (Hiding) SCREECH!!!!
Teacher: J where are you!? Why is he in the computer!? J get out of the computer!! O what did you do? Why are you a cat in a taco suit?!!??!?!?!?!?

Sweater Now!!!!!!!!!!

We need those sticky tab thingies.

"Its a barrel of monkeys."
"Where are these monkeys?"
"Their invisible."

No I will not make you a sweater!!!!!

[ohmightyred]

"Wait! Jake! Come back!"
"Why?"
"I still have to highfive you in the face!"
*runs away*
*runs after*

"You're adopted!"
"You're existance is adopted!"

"You're just so happy with those mickey mouse hands."
"I know...I can write with them too!"

[Phoenix Spud]

Are those for an enhanced computer viewing experience? (Mentor said to me while I was in the computer lab, and hadn't taken off my safety glasses yet.)

[Phoenix Spud]

What's my Chief Delphi Password? (The same mentor)

[Captain banana]

"We have to get this robot done now!"

"Dinner's here!"

drops everything"Coming!!!"

[Dancin103]

"I knew that was the answer, but I couldn't tell you at the time." (After we looked up the answer)

[Dancin103]

Animation Advisor: What's the name of the animation?
Me: You're asking me?

[jarcrazy]

Me: "hey ydon't touch that i just finised screwing it on".
Scott: "You just screwed it together without a sprocket you know"
Me: "God bless it thats the fourth time"

[hyperdude]

"We've gotta lube 'er up!" (and a handful of lube-related other quotes)

Said by our team "coach", pertaining to a bushing on our kicker-latch pin.

[[TBT] Phoenix]

".... I think that's the wrong port.."


(and before anyone pulls anything, THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID)

[12fitzjon]

"It's compiling"

[[TBT] Phoenix]

M:"what if it explodes?"
E:"well, that would suck."

[ttakashima]

L: "Why is it called a Female Port?"
J: "Because it has a opening."
L: "What?"
J: "Yeah a male is like a piston"
L: "Repeat it again."
J: "Yeah its like a piston!"
Je: "This is when a piston is turned on (Extended) and this is when a piston is turned off (retracted)"
etc......

Me: "We have weird students...."

[3195mentor]

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

My Students:
"Lets name the robot Chewbacca!!"
"No! Steve!"
"Lets just name the robot 'Chuck Norris'!!!"

Me:
"oy vey... here we go again." :rolleyes:

(we're a rookie team, if you haven't guessed! :P )

[FRC4ME]

L: "Why is it called a Female Port?"
J: "Because it has a opening."
L: "What?"
J: "Yeah a male is like a piston"
L: "Repeat it again."
J: "Yeah its like a piston!"
Je: "This is when a piston is turned on (Extended) and this is when a piston is turned off (retracted)"
etc......

Me: "We have weird students...."

Ah yes, explaining the difference between male and female connectors. Engineers are clever, aren't they?

[Bill_B]

Ah yes, explaining the difference between male and female connectors. Engineers are clever, aren't they?

So clever that they have a male electrical connection inside a female insulation connector. So what to call the thing, eh?

[supermarth64]

Team captain: "It's really nice to come home with a towel holder." *Holds up award*

[buddyb]

"Can I call my own methods?" - Kyle M.

And an old one...
"Friendly advice: If you crash with the cRIO, you might as well keep driving... right off a cliff" - When we were talking about driving the cRIO over to a programmer's house.

[Da Kid]

This looks dangerous... Lets do it!!

-an electrician
-(me)

[onecoolc]

This conversation ensued after our new parts had just come back from being made spiffy (can't remember the name of the process), and amongst a large amount of other talk:
(Romar is last year Robot)

"Romar is looking at the new robot parts with jealously."
"Maybe it's not jealousy! Maybe it's something... else."
"These parts are really sexy after all."
"What gender is the new bot?"
"Male!"
"See? Romar doesn't lust after him then."
"No way! The new bot is female! Lala designed it in CAD!"
"No! All robots are male!"
"THEN MAYBE ROMAR IS GAY!"
"No way!"
"Hey! Enmar, is Romar gay?"
"No."
"See?"
"The new bot could still be a girl."
...and then it just continued until the food arrived. xD


And another, one from my years on team 1432:
"Why is this wire labeled 'Don't Ask'?"

...One more edit. A reject sentence from our Chairman's essay:
"We massacred their brains with knowledge and shot them up with logic..." (In referance to hosting a FIRST Lego League)

[Chris is me]

As for robot orientation, I think robots are like ships, always female... So I guess straight males / gay females can call parts sexy if they really want? I dunno.

[NullEntity]

One of my favorites:
[quote='Josh']Why do you call (electronics or code) sexy?[/code]

[FRC4ME]

Carrying on with the theme of this page...:D

About a week ago, we got a new pair of wire-strippers:

Student 1: "Ooh! New strippers!"
Student 2: "What should we name our stripper?"
Student 1: "I know how to find out!"
<student 1 goes to online "what is your stripper name?" quiz>
Student 1: "Her name is Crystal!"

So those wire strippers are now called Crystal. Today, we got another new pair of wire strippers. These are the automatic spring-loaded kind.

Student 1: "Aww...but we already have Crystal."
Student 2: "These can be the male strippers!"
Student 1: "Awesome!"
<student 1 checks stripper quiz>
Student 1: "His name is Dave!"

So those wire strippers are now called Dave.

My team actually named every one of their batteries. 'Nuff said.

[The Megan 2207]

My team actually named every one of their batteries. 'Nuff said.

My team has named EVERYTHING this year. The chassis frame, gearboxes, wheels, wheel brackets, bumpers, camera, battery cart, and most of the team members' stomachs all have names. The best part of that is all of the mentors know all of the names and refer to the pieces by name.

[third2102]

"Stop messing around over there!"
"My codes compiling."
"Oh, ok then...carry on"

[apalrd]

My team has named EVERYTHING this year...

We do have fun with the label maker. Most bots have a common "If you can read this flip me over" on the bottom, as well as reasonable part names ("the beak" from 2007), but others have no purpose. Examples:
"You spin me right round baby right round" - 2009 crab pods, 2006 ball sorter
"Handicapped Entrance" - 2009 sucker, 2004 sucker
"Wheeeeeeeeeeee" - 2009 shooter wheel

Some parts are also named, generally not with actual names. Most ball collectors are named "Ball-O-Fiers", we once had a tubulator (2007), the initial shooter in 2006 was the "flingificationator", and the ramp-climbing feet on the 2003 robot were named "happy feet".

Some names originate in "chetspeak", the way Chet talks. Ball-O-Fiers are a great example.

[TomH]

Me: Woahhh Carl waht are you doing don't pull on that
Carl (mentor): I know what im doing. Id rather it break here then Annapolis
Me: How bout we just don't break it at all, theres a thought for ya..


Needless to say he wasn't too happy with that remark

We have a Carl too, he always goes "You haven't done it right until you have taken it apart and put it back together 3 times..."

Also, someone else said today "The 'shooter' isn't going to do anything if y'all hide from it"

[Phoenix Spud]

My team has named EVERYTHING this year. The chassis frame, gearboxes, wheels, wheel brackets, bumpers, camera, battery cart, and most of the team members' stomachs all have names. The best part of that is all of the mentors know all of the names and refer to the pieces by name.

Our team has Frankenstein, Bruce, Saturn V5 rocket, and a shell, all of which make up Wombot!!!

[nathanww]

We've named our mallets "the fine-tuner"(it's this giant sledgehammer), and "the hand of Rag"(whch used to be the Hand of Rage until the E got smudged off.

See also:hackersaw

Also:
"Kick the kicker!!!"
--said while testing the pot that measures the position of the kicker

"I need more robot bait!"
The robot bait is the person who moves the target around, so named for the occasional tendency of the robot to just attack them

"Our robot is done sucking balls. It's going to kick balls now"

[The Zevling]

"Stop messing around over there!"
"My codes compiling."
"Oh, ok then...carry on"

Our code takes far to short a time to compile. It's quite annoying.

(Alright, I lie. It's nice not having to wait around for the code to compile)

Rebooting the robot, on the other hand...

[NoQuestions]

My team's got a couple. Slightly paraphrased in some cases.

Head Mentor: *While collecting lunch money* Jeeze. You guys need to carry more ones around with you. Go to more strip-clubs. *Pause* Wait. No.

Noah (The team's Freshman): Robotics is kind of like a zombie video-game. Fun, but hard. And when you run out of ammo you die.

Someone: Well, the good news is the arm will work. The bad news is we need a very small person inside the robot to make it work. So... Any volunteers below 40 lbs?

Noah *After making his first Human model in 3ds Max* Wow! It looks better then the graphics in Runescape!

[scottydoh]

"Wow this is a really nice joystick, it's a pain to code (all axis are really messed up) and it doesn't center well, but who cares, IMMA FIGHTER PILOT PEW PEW!" *robot drives into wall*


Its alright Eric, we have pizza! haha

[sami9145]

There hasnt really been that many good ones but I do have one...

JRO - "Why isnt this... Oh... A battery might help..." (While trying to work on programming the joysticks)

I will post more later :)

[mayde]

..."haha, i would totally laugh if you knocked that over with my face!"

[Phoenix Spud]

Our team has come up with a plan just in case our robot doesn't clear customs in time. (After all, we are attending a week 1 regional...) We are going to take pictures of the robot from every side, print them out big, and put them on a cardboard box. Then we will take the two youngest kids going to the USA--they are 6 and 7 years old--put them inside the box. One will be called the "kicker/ball control" the other will be the "lifter." We aren't sure if this would be a legal robot, but in a pinch we think it might be OK. ;) :rolleyes: :cool:

[onecoolc]

Two from this morning:

Programmer: Why is everyone gathering around the robot?
Head Mentor: Gee, I dunno why. Maybe because we're building it?

Build Team: Dude! It actually fits!
Head Mentor: That's what happens when you design it first.

[Karibou]

"Hey, do you have any Tylenol?"
"No, but I can go get some..." (leaves the room; returns 5 minutes later)
"Here, you go, I found some in Kara's purse"
"HEY!"

[hurtzmyhead]

"Those who cannot play soccer build a robot to play it for them" - My Brother After the unveiling
"Those who cannot build a robot play soccer" - Me :)

[apalrd]

Week 2-3 ish:

(Jim is busy folding the first piece of sheet metal for the chassis)
Tim (founding mentor):Jim, we need to discuss a bot beautification plan
Jim (lead mentor): Look out in the hallway and tell me what you see
Tim: I see robots from 2002 to 2009 with clear plastic and honeycomb on them. What should we do this year?
Jim: Why don't we do what we always do?


Two Saturdays ago:
"Mom" (Carolyn): Hey, Jim, look at this!
(Mom motions to large bee-hive shaped 8-sided display board, roughly 4 feet by 4 feet square)
Jim: That isn't going in the pits is it?
Mom: No, its for Chairmans.
(Mom wheels bee-hive to cad room)
Eric: That isn't going in the pits, is it?
(everyone assumes it will go in the pits)


This Saturday:
"We tested the lifter. We estimate it can lift 1 yharmatter. (Eric)"
"Wow. That's alot."


Norman: You post on that quotes thread way to much.


"I had an idea for chairmans. Since we are over on words, lets remove some spaces and combine words. We could make the whole essay one big German word."


Mom: "If anyone isn't doing anything, they can come with me and make antennas."
(everyone asks mentors if there is anything to do)

[cbudrecki]

One of our junior female members picked up a tool wondering what it was. We gave her a hint that it was the opposite of a tap (which she had become very familiar with). Her next clue was "It's something you do when you get very, very old.". Her response was then "diarreah?"

[Michael Ogden]

Talking about a tape measure...
Me: It's a 10-footer.
Charles: That's what she said.

[cbudrecki]

We were discussing music one night and the previously mentioned junior member claimed to like classic rock. So one of our mentors started rattling off names of bands, none of which she was recognizing. Then the artist Stevie Nicks came up, and our junior member pipes up, "I know him!"




If you need to Google the artist before getting the joke then I guess I'm getting old.

[Liu_yiang]

"Wait, that means that if you rub it, it becomes a superconductor!:eek: "
We had a voltmeter and a metal cart for the robot. Rubbing it gave off negative values...

[Al3+]

Student A: "I'm really paranoid about lifting the robot up by 4 points."
Student B: "If they're properly secured..."
Student A: "It doesn't paranoi you even a little bit?!"

paranoi (v) - to cause to become paranoid of.

[sami9145]

I wrote these down so I could remember them...

"Why does that hole fit now?"
(trying to line up a piece to drill the holes)

Me - "What are you doing?"
Other person - "It feels weird..."
(He had a drill and his hand and yeah... it was interesting...)

[O'Sancheski]

ok so tonight at the build site a freshman girl asked one of the mechanical mentors a question... i wont reveal any names, but everyone on Team Paragon knows who i'm talking about...

Freshman: "So how do blind people read lips?"
Everyone else: "I don't know, how?"
Freshman: "They don't, they just listen."

So whenever a freshman asks you a question don't push them away or ignore them... you just might get a quote worth posting on CD

[AnibaS]

I don't know if this is funny or sad, or both.

Student A: "Are we meeting tomorrow?"
Student B: "Nope, asbestos cleaning in the school."

Another one:

Mentor: "Are you taking home a wrench?"
Student S:" ....a wench....wait, WHAT?"

Shows where their head was :rolleyes:

[FRC4ME]

Me: "97% of all statistics are made up on the spot."
Student A: "Yeah yeah, we've all heard that one many times."
Me: "It's true."
Student A: "Which is why it's a different number every time."
Student B: "No it's always 97%."
Student A: "No, I've heard it with other numbers."
Student B: "Well, 3/4 of the time it's 97%."

He was serious, too. :D

Me: "This CAN cable isn't wired right. One of the ends needs to be reversed."
Student: "I'll fix it!"
<student spends about five minutes cutting, stripping, and recrimping the cable>
Student: "It's fixed!"
Me: "Hmm...it still doesn't work. Are you sure the wiring is right now?"
<student grabs cable and looks>
Student: "Yes it - oh sh*t." <facepalm>

He had recrimped the cable in the same (wrong) orientation as before. :D

Our lab has two rooms: a really small computer lab for the programmers, and an open machine shop for the builders. There is one door into the computer lab. I was standing in the small room with the programmers:

Me: "Where did <other student> go?"
Student: <points at door> "That way!"
...later...
Me: "Where, other than this room, could the wire cutters be?"
Student: <points at door> "That room!"

[O'Sancheski]

OK, so the Mechanical subgroup has about 85% of the tools at our build site... Electrical has the other 15%... So every time that we can't find a tool we say those three magical words "It's in electrical."

[NinjaWithBurnin]

Our team is stationed in the basement of a club, and the programmers are shoved off in a corner. After much frustration and grumbling about this from the only programmer in our team one of the younger students suggested to him;

"Oh why don't you just crawl back to your Pit of Despair."

Needless to say this has now become the official name of the programmers station... no matter where it is.

[onecoolc]

"Stay out of my drawers, don't play with my balls, and get away from my muffins!" - Sal
You'll never hear another teacher say that.
(Although all of those items could be taken in the literal sense as well. We had been stealing the label maker out of his desk drawers, playing with the soccer balls, and begging for the muffins he was giving to his kid)

[Akash Rastogi]

"If your kids don't have shards of metal in the tips of their fingers by the end of build season, then you're just not doing it right."

[BradMello]

No trouting (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=trouting&defid=4683477) in the cage, but if they're not wearing safety glasses they're fair game.

[Phoenix Spud]

Head Mentor "Let's rebuild a robot guys!"
Student "After I go to the men's room..."

[[TBT] Vampire]

Me - "I'm learning to speak Braille."

Haha :)

[[TBT] Vampire]

"Stay out of my drawers, don't play with my balls, and get away from my muffins!" - Sal
You'll never hear another teacher say that.
(Although all of those items could be taken in the literal sense as well. We had been stealing the label maker out of his desk drawers, playing with the soccer balls, and begging for the muffins he was giving to his kid)

Hahahah I laughed so hard. :D

[[TBT] Vampire]

Me - "Hey Sal, where are the wheels (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=82304&highlight=wheel+envy)?"
Sal - "We gave them back to Mike, we decided we didn't need them. We're gonna go with our kit wheels."