Famous Last Words

[Joe_Widen]

What are your famous last words?

"given enough time, resources, pizza, and Dew... "

This is pretty much team 1675's motto.

[Morgan Gillespie]

What do you mean by last words?

{First post of the day! On the east coast!}

[Tytus Gerrish]

"Heh!, that didn't work.... Whats plan B?"

[Matt Krass]

"It's alright, the dongle's set to disable"
followed by
"What do you mean the labels reversed?"

and my favorite:
"You got the camera to track my what?!"

[Hiteak]

"I bet it will be underweight when we weigh it"

"What do you mean its 40 pounds overweight!!!!!!"

[Joe Matt]

"He has a competiton and a girlfriend, you have nothing, you're editing."

[Jeremiah Johnson]

"We ran out of places to put holes??!!"

"Have no fear, Budda's here!"

[Timmyd]

TIM! SHUT UP AND CAD!
(i got that one wayyyy too many times)

"see this is why you cannt have a girlfreind , and if any of you think of getting one next year forget about it"

"yeah im sure it will work"..."if it doesnt you're fixng it"...(a long while later) "good job Donnelly"

[Arkorobotics]

"Are you sure it's unplugged?" ZZZZZ!!!!!

[miketwalker]

"Don't worry about putting it on blocks, I only changed a minor line in the code."

RJ at the 2004 design meeting on ComBBAT: "I've got an idea, let's have large flaps open to catch all the balls."

[NoodleKnight]

"Hey guys, watch this!"

-or-

"Woah, that was weird... let's do it again!"

[KenWittlief]

"Dont worry, we can fix that in SW"

or

"Dont worry, we can fix that at the regional!"

[Tazlikesrobots]

"Don't worry. I know what I am doing!"

"Hey y'all watch this!" followed by "Is his hair supposed to smoke like that?"

[Cuog]

"oops" need I say more?

[ChucKZiM]

i guess this one is the most used
"it wasn't me, i swear"

[Koko Ed]

"Gimmie a number two with fries...."


It'll be the end of us all.

[Nuttyman54]

"That is SOOO going on the Cheif Delphi quotes thread" followed by my being pummelled with POOF balls until I say I won't do it.

[ScoutingNerd175]

"It'll just mean a little weight reduction"

"Don't worry, I've done this hundreds of times."

"We've been using the same roller system since 1996, we know how to do it."

"I'll be right back, just keep wiring while I'm gone."

"Don't worry, I'm sure I got the code right this time."

"You'll only be missing a few students."

"I don't need to label it, I'll remember what it does."

"We don't need a list for picking, we're seeded 12th."

[Morgan Gillespie]

"Why isn't it working!?"
"AOL has encountered an error"

[anna~marie]

PC load letter?? What the *beep* does that mean?!!

No, for real, my famous last words are more or less:
wow, that looks fun! or I wonder...

[Rosiebotboss]

"You can't fix everything with a keystroke." --John Burns

[Nuttyman54]

Though of some more:
Half listening "yeah....yeah....just go do it"
...5 minutes later...
"WAIT WHAT???"

[Rick TYler]

"More speed holes!"

"Don't sweat it -- it's only software."

"Does the display read 8.4 volts again?"

"We're too close for tetras, switching to Poof balls."

"Shut up, we've already decided how to do it."

"NO HOLONOMIC DRIVE THIS YEAR!!"

[Joe Troy]

"That'll never break!"

[Mr. Freeman]

"Of course it'll work" - Anyone

"I can't find my diet wild cherry Pepsi" - software mentor. (Work tends to slow down when this mentor doesn't have diet wild cherry Pepsi, kind of like everyone else with mountain dew)

"You did make sure you commented out the call to the shooter function right?" -mentor
Followed by: "Yeah, of course" -Um... not me ;)
Followed by: "HEADS UP!!!!" -Whoever turned the bot on

Last one actually happened at our regional, we never found the poofball that landed in someone's pit across an isle. Good thing is, no one seemed to notice.

Another famous quote I read somewhere was from someone sitting on the electric chair about to be executed and when asked for any last words said "I did not receive my spaghetti-Os last night, I received spaghetti. I want the papers to know this"

[Joe J.]

"Doesn't work? Well, crush it in the vice and call it a day!"

"I'M A FREAKIN' MENTOR I CAN WALK ON FREAKIN' WATER" -Not2b

"Hey guys watch this."

"Aaaaaaaaand your done"

"Whats the worse that could happen?"

[prettycolors91]

"What do you mean you forgot to save the chairmans submission??!???"

"You did WHAT in the break room?"

"What do you mean bretts arm is stuck inside the vending machine?"

[anna~marie]

"What do you mean bretts arm is stuck inside the vending machine?"
"Anna, you have long arms. We need you in the break room"

[Branden Ghena]

"It'll be close enough...won't it?"

[JaneYoung]

"Anna, you have long arms. We need you in the break room"

This is great, Anna!

The one that I always ask is:

"Who is tall? I need someone tall for just-a-minute."

[hoorayforpink]

'you ever get that feeling that your team lost and when ypu look at the scoreboard your like whoa and then darn'

that was sad day :( :yikes:

[ducttapehaxor]

"Your sure this is wired with the correct polarity, right?"
"Which motor was left side again?"

[Wayne C.]

"I bet you I can beat it"

"What's this button for?"

" Awww- isnt it cute?"

" No, it isn't loaded."

" Only the red ones are poisonous"

"I'm sure I cooked it enough"

"No pain, no gain"

"Of course its locked"

"Sure I'm passing"

"Is it supposed to be moving?"

:cool: WC

[Koko Ed]

Sitting here in Avalon, looking at the pouring rain
Summertime has come and gone and everybody's home again
Closing down for the season, I found the last of the souvenirs
I can still taste the wedding cake and it's sweet after all these years

These are the last words I have to say
That's why this took so long to write
There will be other words some other day
But that's the story of my life

There's comfot in my coffee cup and apples in the early fall
They're pulling all the moorings up and gathering at the Legion Hall
They swept away all the streamers after the Labor Day parade
Nothing left for a dream now, only one final serenade

And these are the last words I have to say
Before another age goes by
With all those other songs I'll have to play
But that's the story of my life

And it's so clear standing here where I am
Ain't that what justice is for?
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a $@#$@#$@#$@# anymore

Stack the chairs on the table tops
Hang the sheets on the chandeliers
It slows down but it never stops
Ain't it sweet after all these years

And these are the last words I have to say
It's always hard to say goodbye
But now it's time to put this book away
Ain't that the story of my life

[JulieB]

"Okay guys I am enabling the robot. Honestly I have know idea what it is doing to do. SO MOVE!!"
-Amos 538's programmer

Then the robot drives of the cart not the smartest thing we have done before.

[santosh]

"The robot WILL be completely finished by week 5"
"The robot WILL be completely finished by VCU"
"The robot WILL be completely finished by Peachtree"
"The robot WILL be completely finished by Championships"
"The robot WILL be completely finished by the 1st outreach event..."

"WHAT, you got into the shop through the roof?!?!?"

[Hiteak]

It looks like Lexan, so it must be Lexan.

[Rohith Surampudi]

"I'm going to need a Sawsall(reciprocating saw) and lots of Duct Tape"

[JC-75]

"dont worry, i do this all the time"

[Cptn Patches537]

::Mentors arguing about what design to go with::, students come in "Uh Jeff, we just ordered the parts"

"FIRE!!!",...."why isnt it firing"

"waddaya mean were building without a final design"

"thats how weve always done it"

"when the robot is on, all hands are to be out of the drivetrain"

[Pat McCarthy]

"Hmm, gimme a minute to CAD that out..."

[RoboMadi]

"We are shipping our robot on a prime odd numbered days where the distance from the earth and the sun can be divided evenly by the square of the distance between the moon and the earth. Someone said after six weeks, but thats just sounds weird."

[prettycolors91]

"Anna, you have long arms. We need you in the break room"

"Darn, the magazine isn't long enough. Megan, go steal a hanger and we can untwist it and maybe then it will be the right shape to get the coke out. Anna, quit complaining, we'll get your arm out of there in a minute. No it won't bruise! TRUST me!"

"Just trust me...I KNOW what I'm doing"

[DonRotolo]

"Yeah, it's switched off"

[santosh]

"OH MY GOD YOU ARE ABOUT TO HIT THE SCHOOL BOARD SUPERINTENDANT WITHT THE ROBOT, DISABLE"

[Not2B]

"We don't have any steel - It's all aluminum sheet."

Ah, the reason the 2003 robot was so heavy...

[ChuckDickerson]

"Hold this a second for me, I've got an idea."

"I think this will work. Ooops, I guess not."

[Mr. Freeman]

"Of course I'll be careful with the torch"
-Can't quite remember who said that

[jparkteach]

"We would have definitely won that match if the battery hadn't fallen out!!"

[John Gutmann]

"We would have definitely won that match if the battery hadn't fallen out!!"

"This one little change NOT change the robot. It will work perfectly after this."

"We totally would have won if the robot was on"

[Qbranch]

. . "the hopper weighs 15lbs? thats ok, we'll build a new one out of cardboard"


and

. . "the camera's tracking!! oh no. there it goes looking at the floor again."


and, at nationals, after the robot was at the floor:

. . "WHAT?! you didnt put the set screw back in the shooter wheel?!


and, from the off season repair of last year's robot:

. . "we don't need the target light anymore... let's put the cathode lights under the robot!!! :D "

great thread idea whoever started this

-Q

[RoboMom]

"Don't worry Ms. Jenny, of course the robot will fit in the [RoboMom] van." (Actually it did, in about 4 pieces)

[Billfred]

Actually asked by a member of M.A.R.S. at the Mission Mayhem drivers' meeting:

"Are we gonna have a rain delay?"

(He then asked me that again once all heck had broken loose. I threw my penalty flags at him.)

[artdutra04]

"Really, this'll only take five minutes!"

[DevilChild]

"So, you're a cannibal."
"The odds of that happening have to be a million-to-one!"
"Pull the pin and count to what?"
"Which wire was I not supposed to touch again?"
"I've seen this done on TV."
"This doesn't taste right... ah! Aluminum shavings!"
"I've got a bad feeling about this."
"I've got a good feeling about this!"
"I can do that with my eyes closed."
"Well, we've made it this far."
"That's odd."

[Fumbling Pirate]

"At least I don't think its set to autonomous..."
"Its okay, I'll just take it apart and put it back together again"

[Daisy]

"Of course, I sautered. Why wouldn't I sautered? I always sautered! I know how to sauter"

"Did you turn it on?"

"...Of course I turned it on"

<-- Explaining the reason why our toggle switch wasn't working.

[DevilChild]

I forgot my personal favourite...
"What do you mean you can't put lightening holes in the transmission?!"

[Mike Schroeder]

i am suprised no one said this yet.....


famous last words:

Ouch
or
Yipe

[Athleticgirl389]

As a mentor on our team told myself and my friend...

"I'm Not Approving... But I'm Not Disapproving. Ya Do What Ya Gotta Do."

[Donut]

"Are you sure you want to try the suicidal ramming mode autonomous? I haven't tested it yet." -2004 at Nats, we proceeded to ram the ramp at full speed and bend a caster that took 30 minutes to hammer back into place

"Of course the camera lens is off."

[Gabe]

"Who put Loctite on this?"

Another good one...

"Ouch!"
"Are you okay?"
"Of course not! Didn't you hear me?"

[Kyle Love]

"HEY YA'LL! WATCH THIS!!!!"

[Rohith Surampudi]

"ummm do we have a fire extinguisher?"
"your sure this is safe right?"

[mechanicalbrain]

"Coarse I wired it correctly"
"Darn, dropped the screw driver in the disposal. Hey Hun, could you hit the light?"
"Hey lets test the new programming!"

[hoorayforpink]

'I think theres a drain underneath the field right here'-one of our mentors before it started raining at mission mayhem :yikes:

[jcatt]

Some of our team favorites

"We don't need no stinking...(Place item here)"
"Sure...the animation will be finnished"
"Becuase it looks cool"
"I'll make it fit" ....runs for hammer
"I think the battery is charged"

and when the entire team does something stupid our mentor goes:

"Thats my team"

[Joe J.]

"Whats the worse that could happen?"

Not2b informed me that I didn't finish the quote...

"Whats the worse that could happen? It falls and hits some kid?"

Good enough for goverment work!

"Don't worry- the animal crackers are safe."

"The next person who says duct tape I'm comming over to and kicking" -Not2b

"I am like an all powerful warlord" -Not2b

[Rohith Surampudi]

"I wonder if we can get it to lock onto MOE" :p

-Just kidding, we still still love you guys

[Wayne C.]

for those who like last words (although topical)

http://www.eclipse.net/~srudy/flw/flw0250.html

[Kyle A]

The robot is off, right.

Don't worry I'll caught you.

(after power goes out) Dang it I didnt save 4 hours of work.

[Libby K]

"yeah, it[the robot]'s off."

"OF COURSE i tested the autonomous!"

[note: NJ regional practice rounds....we took the middle position and slammed another team's robot straight into the corner goal during autonomous, disabling their robot, delaying the schedule while field crew had to remount the sensor.]

[JoeXIII'007]

"It wasn't me." (after I had plugged in an IR sensor wrong back in 2004, and officially burnt it out).

edit: oops, that one is taken, I'll have to try another one

"NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!" and I go insane. (after last year, our robot almost capped center in autonomous)

under breath: **** (after any bad news that may take a long while to fix to good. Pick any four letter word at random)

[irishninja]

Yeah it works. Well, at least, it should work. I programmed/built/designed it to work. It works.

[Nuttyman54]

While sitting in the pits after the robot was taken to the queue
Person A: "You put the setscrew back in the transmission, right?"
Person B: "I thought that was your job....."

[Athleticgirl389]

"So we can't get the door open. Jon, grab the smallest freshman you can and let's throw em through the window!"

Shockingly enough, the smallest freshman raised his hand and throught we were serious :D

[taylort]

"Hey, you, catch!"

"That's not my camera, is it?"

Just a few from the pre-season. :]

[Éowyn]

Asking a mentor to do something X 5 times in < 30 minutes = instant death. :D

[=Martin=Taylor=]

"Of course an AC motor will run off of DC..."

That was the last thing that motor heard :(

[JBotAlan]

Me as a freshman - "Oh, I forgot to zero out those PWM outputs. Let me do that real quick" followed by "Okay, reset it" followed by ZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzz and a bunch of screams--the first time my program ever bruised anyone...

"Heads up" - our captain (when I was on 1140) was shaking the tether cable, which was faulty because it got caught in a chain. We got power to the OI but no signal. After shaking it for a few seconds, we got signal, and our joysticks were so far out of calibration that the arm came to life and our claw swiped a scratch right across the back of the safety judge's hand. "There goes our safety award"

"Let's see if this works"

"It should work"

Our team leader "What will this autonomous do?" followed by me "Umm....I think....no wait....ummm...let's see"

"This auton will be sweet" ten seconds before the bot flies at 12ft/sec into the opposite end of the field, literally throwing the main battery out onto the field. It was supposed to shift down.

"Yeah, I charged up the pneumatics!"

JBot

[team1852]

"why won't it move?"

- followed by -

"details ... details"

[Travis Covington]

"Eh, good enough!"

[Pavan Dave]

"PAVAN@@@@!!!!!!"

"PAAAAAA-VAAAAAA-NNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"I wonder who that was?"


Those are common to our robotics team. I am Pavan. Although I can break anything on our robot, I can fix everything on it as well, because if I couldn't, I would be in a lot of pain. ;)

-Pavan

[Gabe]

"It seemed like a good idea at the time..."

Classic!

[Viper37]

"Yeah we beat last years Hotel Jacuzzi record by 1 person!"
"Maximum occupancy 4..."
"Guys, why is the bottom of the Jacuzzi feel like its bending?"
"Because we have 11 too many people in this thing!"

[Viper37]

and my favorite:

"Matt you've gotta push that thing out of the way!"
"$@#$@#$@#$@# THE TORPEDO'S, FULL SPEED AHEAD!"
15 seconds later - "Michelle why isnt the camera working?"
"Because the camera is busy tracking something.."
"What is it tracking Michelle...?"
"The robot that just ran it over..."

I stare at Michelle then turn back to the match. "Hey that was my camera.. RAMMING SPEED!"


too much fun.

[Eric W. Jones]

of course I fixed the code! It'll work now!

[Billfred]

(This happened while queued for a practice match at Palmetto this year)

1293's programmer: "Quick, connect this up to the program port!" (He tosses a program cable from the laptop over the arena floor's wall)
Me: "What's this?"
Programmer: "It's the camera code so we can shoot."
Me: "We're about to go out for a match!"
Programmer: "Just connect it up!"

(We connect the cable and download the new program, then angle the robot so the camera's not pointing directly at the center goal just to be sure it's doing what it's supposed to do. As the match begins, the drive team watches with horror as Chomp speeds off full tilt in a straight line, ramming 1618's robot that happened to be there. The damage was minimal to both robots, thankfully. We ran the second match with the robot pointed at the field barrier behind us for autonomous.)

[underwood]

'leave the drivetrain, its fine!'
'wait, I was supposed to use steel rivets?!?'

surprisingly, one that didnt end badly:
'meh, close enough.'
(i'm a precision engineer :yikes: )

[Stuart]

"ok I fixed the problem"

[sarcasticmadnes]

"Why won't you (the robot) work?!!" (while kicking the crate) :D

[GRaduns340]

Oh, you meant that code?

[James1902]

Florida Finals: "Yeah the wheels look great"
Archimedes Finals: "The wheels wouldn't break twice in one season"

"I can't figure out what's wrong, Robbie get the hammer"

[IraJason]

Student 1: Are you sure it's ok that I use this peice of driveshaft for my physics catapult?
Student 2: Sure. Nothing will happen to it...

Later that day

Student 1: Um... Kressly, do you still want this driveshaft now that it's bent?
Kressly: What driveshaft?

[Eric W. Jones]

what do you mean the motor's getting hot?

[underwood]

"wait, I dont think those are the power pins..."

explanation: my laptop died, so i borrowed a hardrive-usb adapter cable from our head of electronics. while setting it up, he plugs the power clip over the wrong pins!*bzzt* shorts out the adapter....luckily, somehow fixed the hardrive.....

[JWSnedden]

"A truck!"

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"I could have sworn bone could stop a chainsaw..."

[Kellen Hill]

Oh look it's a dolphin!

[Charger_07]

"It wasnt me" as some 80-20 fell off the table, and then i ended up knocking some on the floor

"I will be fine in flip flops" before dropping the vice grips on my foot

[Kyle A]

talking to lego kids.
"You really should test that on the floor"
"NO it will be fine on the table"

[65_Xero_Huskie]

"We need more Zip-ties!!!!!!!!"

[underwood]

"its too heavy! quick, we must cheesehole the pneumatics!!!"

>.<

[KDawg]

"What does this button do?"
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"The robot is moving, but I'm not controlling it!"

[Gboehm]

"WTF are you doing!!!"

[EStokely]

(Great topic for those of us that can't wait for January)

Famous last words from Washington would include
""All these plugs are separate from the IT stuff so we can't mess them up"
"Cut this wire" (moments later the IT Dept's servers are all down because we blew a breaker)

"It will look better painted" (Never depend on friction to keep chains tensioned)

[Jeremytice]

"Uhh why isnt it moving.....Did anyone turn it on?"

[Kyveck]

"We need you to code for a panning, tilting gun with an attatched camera module, which can fire while moving." -Device Team, day 8

"Done." -Programmers, week 3

"Forget the tilting part. Just change the gun speed ot adjust for distance" -Device team, week 3 1/2

"Forget the panning part. Just turn the robot." -Device team, week 4 1/2

"Umm... We cant' give you a sensor for gun speed." -Device Team, night before ship

"We accidentally drill pressed though the last drive train encoders" -Drive team, at regionals

Controls team just about killed a few people last year...
Our solution was to give some controls people machine shop training and put them on device teams next year. We still have 5 programmers, and hopefully this year the robot will live up to the code.

And of course, at regionals, "We're going to have to rebuild the drive train."
We heard that at nationals too... if only we had gotten it right the second time...

[Qbranch]

me: "you did remember to wrap electrical tape around the battery posts, right?"

ben: "uh..... no...."

me, with electrical tape in hand, running: "ho-ly-crap...."

robot: "ZAP SPARK ARC ARC CRACKLE..."

me, right hand burned, laying on the floor: "grrr always, always insulate metal used to hold batteries down... and wear mechanic's gloves."

yes, its true, the robot was just like a ford pinto, you rear end it and all heck breaks loose :rolleyes:

well i learned some lessons that day, 1, never let a new guy on their own when they're just screwing something together, 2, always wear gloves if you even remotely think you should, 3, sparks are really hot and burn/hurt like heck, and 4, you can cut aluminum with a 12 volt battery :ahh:

-Q

[teh_pwnerer795]

"Hey you put plastic washers on the camera rite :eek: "

"Errr.. no"

Camera == fried:p

[eshteyn]

"floggings will continue until morals improve" - note to freshman

[clean399]

"The hole don't line up, don't worry we can fix it in programming."

[trilogism]

"I've got it"

[GRaduns340]

"Hey Gary, get that soundboard for me. Be careful of the... loose outlet mount"

While I'm sitting on the floor with no feeling in my arm. Luckily, they put electric tape around it, but one layer of electrical tape doesn't do a whole lot when it's the only insulator on a live outlet.

Another playing with electricity:

"You jumped 10 tiles. xxx volts? [checks cell]. Yep, get that one every time."

"You want to unplug the sound rack? Just be careful. We put brass outlet plates on a non-grounded circuit."

[Protronie]

Butch, you reckon you used enough dynamite? :eek:

[dtape]

I know that i say this every year but we will finish on time this year

[Kendal Reed]

"Oh ****! We just ran over our alliance partner!"
"Relax... it's Dulaney."

(his was last year at Chesapeake. Their autonomous code was awesome. Ours was not. They didn't exactly cancel each other out. As an upside, for some reason most of our team (excluding me) has some irrational dislike for those guys. However, a couple of my best friends from elementary school are on their team and... they weren't too pleased.)

[dgonza36502]

We shipped our robot where?:yikes: :yikes: !!!!

[supertinni]

"Dude, Sigmon, your jacket is like bigger than you, yeah, the robot is over there..." over there was where he was chased down an entire hallway because the camera was tracking his very red jacket...

[supertinni]

" Hey guys, I told you not to put the 15 pound ziptie on the robot"
-after coming in 15 pounds overweight

[MasterZahn]

"Sleep... whats that?"

[Cuog]

"Ok stand Back, I'm not really sure what this thing is gonna do..."

[Compnerd]

"I just picked it up by that support, and it just snapped off"

"Whoops."

"My Bad"

"THAT WAS NOT MY FAULT!!! I WASN'T INVOLVED!"

[alphaone]

"oh..."

[MishraArtificer]

"Sleep... whats that?"
Oh, I've heard of that! It's something you don't get when the last days of build season are the start of EXAM WEEK!

[triggerhappy336]

Don't worry, compressor's off.

Don't worry, it's disabled

Don't worry, the fuse is pulled

[Twirler]

"I bet it will be underweight when we weigh it"

"What do you mean its 40 pounds overweight!!!!!!"

Haha, that's what we said with last year's bot lol.

[DonRotolo]

"Don't worry about the weight, we're still under by a lot" (first weighing: 131.6 lbs...)

[vivek16]

"NO WE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO HOT GLUE THE GEAR BOX TO THE FRAME!!"

"no more designs with saws, hydraulics or hot rod flames"

[Aratarin]

Okay.. hit the switch to test the autonomous.....SHUT IT OFF! NOW!!

or another one that came along a bit

Smely91, hit the kill-switch on the control panel so that we can fix this problem..... AHHH! STOP IT BEFORE IT DRIVES OFF THE TABLE!! HIT THE OTHER SWITCH! NOW!!!

After other things like that.. we went and labeled our switches so i wouldn't get run over again.

[Cuog]

"oo whats this switch do?"
"don't touch it"
"I suddenly feel compelled to touch it..."