CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #117

[Billfred]

Now guaranteed not to depict things that happened on Antarctica!*
*offer expires at midnight on October 7, 2006

Here's the scores:

Steve W 39
MissInformation 38
Rich Wong 35
Boiler 30
Koko Ed 26
Jay H 237 25
Wayne Doenges 23
Al Skierkiewicz 22
Mocat1530 22
EddieMcD 22
T. Hoffman 20
Jane 20
KathieK 19
Lukevanoort 19
Hiteak 19
Andrew Blair 18
Cody C 18
Skimoose 18
InfernoX14 17
Cuog 16
Greg Needel 15
GaryV1188 15
EricS-Team180 14
Nehalita 12
Arefin Bari 12
Dorienne 12
Jgjedi10 12
Rohith Surampudi 11
Dylan 10
Kyle A 10
Michelle Celio 10
Goober!!! 10
Andy Baker 9
Joe Matt 8
“Big Mike” 7
Dhoizner 6
Elgin Clock 6
Artdutra04 6
Dave Scheck 6
anna~marie 5
KarenH 4
Rick Tyler 4
Tytus Gerrish 4
Alex Cormier 4
Conor Ryan 3
Thegathering 3
Budda648 2
Calhounian 2
Icurtis 2
Imajie 2
KelliV 2
LordTalps 2
Matt Krass 2
Mercury Rising 2
Tkwetzel 2
1derboy 2
Astronouth7303 2
Bcahn836 2
Danielle H 2
Freddy Schurr 2
Lil' Lavery 2
Schnabel 2
Adam Richards 1
AtalanteStar25 1
Brandon Martus 1
Daisy 1
Dlavery 1
huff_dragon 1
KenWittlief 1
Killerofkiller 1
Miketwalker 1
Ogre 1
Team1591 1
Worldbringer 1
Xzvrw2 1


And the picture:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/20492

As always, the deadline is Saturday at midnight EDT, unless you pull a fast one on me.

Go!

[Steve W]

Darn! The human has another pulled hamstring. If we ever get that bug fixed I know that we will have a killer human.

[Joe Matt]

And the circle is now completed.....

[JaneYoung]

383's demo robot:

I am NOT a control freak!
This is robot meditation.
Repeat after me,
'be one with the robot - ohm...
control the inner drive to operate without your team mates.
be one with the robot....'

[Koko Ed]

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/img/930/9309b116a0dd6c165973f2a04b885e33_m.jpg
It was inevitable that humans would be deemed obsolete to even be able to compete against robot run teams in FIRST. My God, what have they wrought? WHAT HAVE THEY WROUGHT?

[Arefin Bari]

Well somebody told me
You had a ROBOT
Who looked like a Driver
That I had in last build season
It's very confidential
AND my team got potential

[Jay H 237]

Unhappy with the way robots have been generally treated by humans, Johnny 5 took matters into his own hands.

[GRaduns340]

Still convinced robots aren't taking over the world?

[tkwetzel]

While the team struggles with the game robot's autonomy code, the controls team takes autonomy to the next level so humans are unnecessary.

[KelliV]

What do you mean the robot gets disabled for me touching the controls? I am autonomous aren't I?

[Cody Carey]

First it was babies having babies, now it is robots driving robots... What is this world coming to?

[Schnabel]

Now this is what I call autominous mode! :D

[Taylor]

Coincidentally, the driver pictured also was the producer of a certain Styx song that I'm quite sure you all know....

[not an entry] Is this Johnny 4? And where exactly does the driver badge go? [/not an entry]

[GaryVoshol]

The team from Porto Alegre demonstrates how they won the "Most Photogenic" award back in 2000. Quite the clothes hound there.

[Kyle A]

This robot was the prototype that didn't get used. He decided to take the matters into his own hands and smash the other robot into pieces the day before ship. Now they would have to ship him as there robot,and he thought that he had gotten away with it, but before the other robot was destroyed it captured this picture. Now he sits on a shelf brainless.

[Goober!!!]

OH the autonomous mode didn't work now I have to re-program the Human!!! :D :D :D

[KenWittlief]

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/img/930/9309b116a0dd6c165973f2a04b885e33_m.jpg

When they reviewed the surveillance camera video, they were shocked when they learned what the robot had been doing, alone at night by himself.

(good taste prevents me from posting what I want to say :^)

[PS: hey Billfred, what happend to my accumulated score on the caption contest?!]

[Billfred]

[PS: hey Billfred, what happend to my accumulated score on the caption contest?!]
<obviously not an entry>
The scores get wiped at the end of a year of caption contests, most recently after #104.
</obviously not an entry>

[Josh Goodman]

I thought i saw this in a movie once...

[Cuog]

Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto,

Mata ah-oo hima de
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto,
Himitsu wo shiri tai

You're wondering who I am-machine or mannequin
With parts made in Japan, I am the modern man

I've got a secret I've been hiding under my skin
My heart is human, my blood is boiling, my brain I.B.M.
So if you see me acting strangely, don't be surprised
I'm just a man who needed someone, and somewhere to hide
To keep me alive-just keep me alive
Somewhere to hide to keep me alive

I'm not a robot without emotions-I'm not what you see
I've come to help you with your problems, so we can be free
I'm not a hero, I'm not a saviour, forget what you know
I'm just a man whose circumstances went beyond his control
Beyond my control-we all need control
I need control-we all need control

[Hiteak]

Number 5 is doing the drive!

[raymaniac]

AHHH! :ahh: I crashed! :ahh: Ctrl+Z! Ctrl+Z

[skimoose]

Hurry up and plug in that tether cable. I want to see how well that human works! :ahh:

[Wayne Doenges]

Team 383's driver was disqualified when it was discovered, with the use of a fluoroscope, that he was a robot dressed in human clothing. "He was heard to say "It worked for the wolf."

[ewankoff]

FRCFR

(First Robotics Competition For Robots)

[Cynette]

During Dave Lavery's trip to Antarctica, he suffered from severe frostbite and required extensive constructive surgery. The doctors were overheard saying, "Dave Lavery, FIRST Mentor extraordinaire. A man barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first robotic man. Dave Lavery will be that man. Better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster. And we're sure he won't mind if he resembles his other car on Mars."

[Andy Baker]

In search of the world's best iced donut, Dave even searched in Antarctica.





(not an entry: yes... pretty lame for a Friday afternoon)

AB

[dlavery]

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/img/930/9309b116a0dd6c165973f2a04b885e33_m.jpg In search of the world's best iced donut, Dave even searched in Antarctica.
Realizing that even the world's best engineers sometimes forget to look at the calendar, Andy Baker developed a personal assistant robot to handle some of the more mundane clerical tasks required to keep him at the right place at the right time on the right day (and with the right photo for the weekly caption contest). Here we see Baker's Assistant Robot (known as "the BAR") preparing to remotely start up his vehicle, so Andy will remember to go to work so he can earn a paycheck and fund his robotics Technology Acquisition Baccalaureate (known as his "BAR TAB").



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[Andy Baker]

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/img/930/9309b116a0dd6c165973f2a04b885e33_m.jpg
Realizing that even the world's best engineers sometimes forget to look at the calendar, Andy Baker developed a personal assistant robot to handle some of the more mundane clerical tasks required to keep him at the right place at the right time on the right day (and with the right photo for the weekly caption contest). Here we see Baker's Assistant Robot (known as "the BAR") preparing to remotely start up his vehicle, so Andy will remember to go to work so he can earn a paycheck and fund his robotics Technology Acquisition Baccalaureate (known as his "BAR TAB").



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Awww... crap. It is a Friday. I'm goin' home.

AB

[Rich Wong]

Awww... crap. It is a Friday. I'm goin' home.

AB
(hmmm... inspiration! Thanks Andy.)

Entry:
New from 2026 AndyMark, Inc. catalog!
The Andy Auto Pilot Robot - Mark II (model # AAPRM-II-2026).

This auto-pilot robot is FIRST legal and will come pre-program with the new 2026 FRC game on a simm card. It is a big improvement from last year AAPRM-I model. The new model will talk back less, will work more than 8 hours a day and will not ask for weekends off.

Price:10 easy payments of only $49.95.
But wait….. if you order now you’ll also receive a copy of the Handly-Dandy Andy Best FRC Team Joke Book for free!
It is almost a best seller in Indiana.

[Travis Hoffman]

Are you a nerdly robot operator?

Does your next FIRST competition coincide with that can't miss "Star Trek - DS9" Marathon on Spike TV? Or perhaps your first date with a *real female*?

Then worry no more! For the cheap price of selling your prized D&D collectibles on eBay, you too can have your own iRobot RoboDork!

It pilots! It co-pilots! It browses Slashdot - all at the same time!

Act now! Operators are standing by!

[MissInformation]

Former driver for 383: "I don't really mind that they replaced me with a robot, but if says 'nanny nanny boo boo' one more time, I'm going to short its circuits!"

[EddieMcD]

"Not pictured: a human lying on the floor of the field in pain. When asked what happened, the pictured robot said that he couldn't find a port for the tether cable, so he used the next best thing."

<not entry>Just use your imagination. :p</not entry>

[lukevanoort]

383's new driver was told that over time a competition driver should become one with the robot. Unfortunately, he took that literally.

[Andrew Blair]

In today's "Man Behind The Music", we see who really made "Rapper's Delight" happen...

[Al Skierkiewicz]

And now we see the secret 383 driver tryout program. Someone heard "we must beat that robot!" and the rest is history. And I thought our driver tryouts were tough.

[Billfred]

FACT: The weather in Columbia inhales audibly right now.

ALSO FACT: This week's captions didn't.

First place goes to:

Realizing that even the world's best engineers sometimes forget to look at the calendar, Andy Baker developed a personal assistant robot to handle some of the more mundane clerical tasks required to keep him at the right place at the right time on the right day (and with the right photo for the weekly caption contest). Here we see Baker's Assistant Robot (known as "the BAR") preparing to remotely start up his vehicle, so Andy will remember to go to work so he can earn a paycheck and fund his robotics Technology Acquisition Baccalaureate (known as his "BAR TAB").
when opportunity knocks...

Second place goes to:

What do you mean the robot gets disabled for me touching the controls? I am autonomous aren't I?

Honorable mentions go to:

1) lukevanoort
2) Steve W
3) Arefin Bari
4) boiler
5) Kyle A
6) Rich Wong
7) T. Hoffman
8) MissInformation
9) mocat1530
10) Wayne Doenges
11) raymaniac
12) skimoose
13) Al Skierkiewicz
14) Graduns340
15) Joe Matt

And the burn award...

"Not pictured: a human lying on the floor of the field in pain. When asked what happened, the pictured robot said that he couldn't find a port for the tether cable, so he used the next best thing."

Which means the scores are...

Steve W 41
MissInformation 40
Rich Wong 37
Boiler 32
Koko Ed 27
Jay H 237 26
EddieMcD 25
Wayne Doenges 25
Al Skierkiewicz 24
Mocat1530 24
T. Hoffman 22
Lukevanoort 21
Jane 21
Hiteak 20
Skimoose 20
Andrew Blair 19
KathieK 19
Cody C 19
Cuog 17
InfernoX14 17
GaryV1188 16
Greg Needel 15
Arefin Bari 14
EricS-Team180 14
Jgjedi10 13
Nehalita 12
Dorienne 12
Kyle A 12
Dlavery 11
Rohith Surampudi 11
Goober!!! 11
Andy Baker 10
Joe Matt 10
Dylan 10
Michelle Celio 10
“Big Mike” 7
KelliV 7
Dhoizner 6
Elgin Clock 6
Artdutra04 6
Dave Scheck 6
anna~marie 5
KarenH 4
Rick Tyler 4
Tytus Gerrish 4
Alex Cormier 4
Conor Ryan 3
Thegathering 3
Tkwetzel 3
Schnabel 3
Budda648 2
Calhounian 2
Graduns340 2
Icurtis 2
Imajie 2
LordTalps 2
Matt Krass 2
Mercury Rising 2
Raymaniac 2
1derboy 2
Astronouth7303 2
Bcahn836 2
Danielle H 2
Freddy Schurr 2
KenWittlief 2
Lil' Lavery 2
Adam Richards 1
AtalanteStar25 1
Brandon Martus 1
Daisy 1
Ewankoff 1
huff_dragon 1
Killerofkiller 1
Miketwalker 1
Ogre 1
Team1591 1
Worldbringer 1
Xzvrw2 1


Onward!

[dlavery]

First place goes to:
Realizing that even the world's best engineers sometimes forget to look at the calendar, Andy Baker developed a personal assistant robot to handle some of the more mundane clerical tasks required to keep him at the right place at the right time on the right day (and with the right photo for the weekly caption contest). Here we see Baker's Assistant Robot (known as "the BAR") preparing to remotely start up his vehicle, so Andy will remember to go to work so he can earn a paycheck and fund his robotics Technology Acquisition Baccalaureate (known as his "BAR TAB").
It is so nice when Andy gives me such easy material to work with! :)

-dave

[Andy Baker]

It is so nice when Andy gives me such easy material to work with! :)

-dave


I think that Billfred needs to give me point for the assist. Or... he should give me a penalty point for posting a caption in the wrong week. Ah... maybe he did that! +1 for the assist, -1 for the error = 0. I'm a zero this week. I can deal with that.

AB

[dlavery]

I think that Billfred needs to give me point for the assist.
That would seem reasonable. You set 'em up, I'll knock 'em down!

-dave


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[Al Skierkiewicz]

I want to know how long you were waiting to put this one out there Dave.