Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

If you have a team number more than 10, you translate your team number into binary in order to be able to do a team number hand signal

i.e. 573 = \_ _ _/ \| | _/

(The slants and the lines are fingers that are up, and the underscores are fingers that are down)

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

ah, awesome song, the real name of the song is "we like to party" by the venga boys, its the theme song for the "various name dance", it has various names since i yoinked it from team 195 and since it didn't have a true name, varius others gave it names, all of which can be used, here they are: the bernie dance, the 195 dance, the MOE dance, the bernie-stole-this dance.

we did this dance at nationals, i got 6 teams to do it. we were the bright green, red, yellow, and other colors mob that did the dance during the finals when they played the song, that was so awesome. :yikes: :D ah the perfection.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

.....When you can wear a First related shirt (a random team or event shirt) each day for 2 Months+ and not have to do laundry or wear the same shirt more then once!!!

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

When you take your senior picture in your team shirt, along with your controls, awards, and your "kids" .

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pictures.php?s=&action=single&picid=3122&direction =DESC&sort=title&perrow=4&trows=3&quiet=Verbose

and http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pictures.php?s=&action=single&picid=3319&direction =DESC&sort=title&perrow=4&trows=3&quiet=Verbose

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

...when at work you are appauled and wonder why anyone would return a perfectly good pack of zipties
...when you are excited that you get paid to play with zipties

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

...when you're heartbroken by questions like "Who is JVN?"

...when you get irritable at your friends who are telling you that they're so busy 'packing for IRI' just because you can't go.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

....every number you see, whether it be on a billboard, piece of paper, etc., you can relate it to a team name, and picture the robot in your mind.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

When you met your best friend through FIRST (up there^) :D

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

.. when someone asks you for your number so you give them you combine your team number from last season with the one from this season to make a phone number and give it to them ... this is my new fake number ...

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

You read the "Chief Deli" thread and know the story behind each sandwich.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

...When you have 2,500 posts on Chief Delphi

(my 2500th post :))

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

when you dont have any internet conection and still keep up your posts

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

When anyone (specially your non-FIRST 'friends') asks you "what are you up to?" and you're ONLY answer is: "i'm on CD" .... every single day of the week, every hour of the day, every minute of the hour, every second of the minute ... oh yeah! YOU get the idea!!! :D

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

You know you're addicted to FIRST when...

- you spend several hours reading 1138 posts that list common symptoms of a FIRST addict!!! :ahh:

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

... when you come back home at 2 in the morning and sit down infront of your computer to see whats new on chiefdelphi... :)