CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #533
 

You have to be a little nutty to make it this week!

The scores after the last round:

And the picture:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/12656

As always, the deadline is nominally Saturday at midnight Eastern.

Go!

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The "lightbulb moment" when you realize that you have the answer to the problem...


...And it is to get picked by Beatty, which will only happen when pigs fly.

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This praying mantis robot is going to scare the bejesus out of my little sister!

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Student: "See, we have to make sure it will work in bright lights, because of the arena lighting."
KLUNK
Mentor: "Maybe not quite that bright, I bashed my head because I was blinded."

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Mentor: "A little of this, a little of that, and boom! done!"
Student: "Aren't you supposed to be fixing the robot? Why are you making sandwiches?"
Mentor: "You expect me to fix it on an empty stomach?"

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Mentor: Just give it 2 more minutes, Im sure it will turn on eventually...
Student: But the battery is over here.

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Student: "I lost my watch!"
Mentor: "Where did you lose it?"
Student: "Over by the Drill Press."
Mentor: "Then why aren't you looking over there for it?"
Student: "The light's better here."

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Time to break out their secret weapon. A theremin to distract the other robots and drivers!

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I am not a doctor, I just play one on TV!

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Ah ha! I've found the problem that's been plaguing us for the past five matches! It appears to be ...
...
...

A Junior Mint.

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Ah the good old days of FRC, no bumpers, wedges, alliance lights, no safety glasses...... wait what?

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Mentor: "For a number of years now, work has been proceeding in order to bring perfection to the crudely conceived idea of a transmission that would not only supply inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors, but would also be capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters. Such an instrument is the turbo-encabulator.

Now basically the only new principle involved is that instead of power being generated by the relative motion of conductors and fluxes, it's produced by the modial interaction of magneto-reluctance and capacitive diractance.

The original machine had a base plate of pre-famulated amulite surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in a direct line with the panametric fan. The latter consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzlevanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented.

The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-delta type placed in panendermic semi-boloid slots of the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a non-reversible tremie pipe to the differential girdle spring on the "up" end of the grammeters.

The turbo-encabulator has now reached a high level of development, and it’s being successfully used in the operation of novertrunnions. Moreover, whenever a forescent skor motion is required, it may also be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocation dingle arm, to reduce sinusoidal repleneration.

It's not cheap, but I'm sure the government will buy it."

Student: " A Turbo Encabulator! OK, yeah I get it."


Note -- It's even better in the classic Turbo Encabulator video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag

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"OK, we bake it at 350 for 17 minutes, so the greens wilt and we get that flavor..."

"But all we have is this EZ-Bake oven!"

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"We can make it better, stronger, faster ..."

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It's still Monday as of when I started--I blame the NASA Grant and SCRIW hitting within the same two-week span!

First place goes to:

(I have to give him the points just for transcribing that!)

Second place goes to:

Honorable mentions go to:

1) DonRotolo
2) efoote868
3) rsisk
4) dodar
5) EricH

And the burn award goes to:

Which means the scores are:

Onward!