IRI 2003 Quotes
 

Here are some quotes from the 2003 IRI, most coming from the Saturday night gathering of random FIRST people in Big Mike’s room at the OMNI. Most of them come from “Big Mike” or JVN, so I guess they were the funniest ones there.

“Even small boats have trouble getting away from me.” – “Big Mike”

“What is it with the boys on this team and coming on to me?” –“Big Mike”

“It’s funny to look over there and see Clark and Kyle together. It’s like Baker’s cloning people to work the scoring table.” – JVN

“Go work with 229 like everybody else in FIRST!” –“Big Mike

“229 takes all kinds, as long as they’re not stupid.” – JVN

“I’ve said some of the stupidest things in the world, and I’m still allowed on 229.” – “Big Mike”

“Mangia, you’re not allowed on 229.” – “Big Mike”

“How does a sign turn into a lady friend?” – Anthony Mangia, Team 25

“And you wonder why people come to our team? It’s obvious – poison.” – JVN

“Mommy… girls like me now.” – JVN

“There will be a definite lack of me in bikini tops.” – “Big Mike”

“But Ricky actually looked good in that” – Chell

“If you call going to the movies a date, then I’ve gone on dates with Anthony and Keith lots of times.” – “Big Mike”

“Chell, you’re like the Darth Vader of all chicks” – “Big Mike”

and last, but not least:

“$@#$@#$@#$@# you all to hell, or what I like to call the Midwest.” – “Big Mike”

"Daah this milkshake is so thick, that the napkins wont soak it up!" Aaron Lussier - commenting after Erin Rapacki dumped her milkshake all over the table at Steak'N'Shake

Yeesh, I spend two nights hanging out with you guys and you call me Kevin. :ahh:

The name's Keith.

And who could forget WHY our dear Mangia is banned from 229 unlike everyone else:


"Doesn't optional stop signs ruin the purpose?" -Anthony Mangia, team 25.
Yes, the same famous Anthony, called Aignam on CD, who during Duel on the Delaware, threw a ball into the plexiglass window, both temporarily paralyzing all drivers in laughter and hitting him in the face.

OOPS!! I transcribed it wrong... sorry... I saw your post, and thought "I wouldn't do that," then I looked and saw I typed it wrong. My notepad was a little messy... I couldn't read what I wrote. Sorry, Keith. It's fixed, now.

"Are you the Chaz?" - Lots and Lots of people

The explanation behind this- For the IRI Chairman's Award you had to take a picture of Charlie Moorhead(see here), a soon to be Sophomore on our team. Well somehow his nickname is "The Chaz", and it said to find and take a picture of a person on 234 w/ the nickname "The Chaz". So, throughout the competition many people were asked "Are you the Chaz?" such as Sam Harding, Libby Ritchie and many others.

Are you the Chaz?

Here's another from around 9:30 Saturday morning:

"Hey John, Im down the street at a robotics competition, would you like to join me?" - Andy Baker

For those of you that didn't notice John's... absence... he was a bit late waking up Saturday morning. :p

"@##$%^&! Oh My God!!!! What am I gonna do?" - Me after my laptop decided not to work literally less than an hour before Chairman's was due!

Thanks again to Neal(? I think...if i have the wrong name, let me know) of the Prank Monkeys for providing a laptop, and to Amanda Morrison, Brandon Mensing, and Libby Ritchie for helping to keep me sane.

Not quite a quote, but Paul Copioli called me "Mr. Flag" or something like that for all the flags I threw for Human Player violations. There were quite a few...

"...and then you've got people that come here and win awards when their team isn't even here!" - Andy, said to some other people at the end of the day as I came by to talk to him.

Kev

Quote from Chris Byam, Kokomo Area Career Center CAD Teacher:

"Hey Clark, your music sounds just like a FIRST regional.......crappy!" <said in serious looking but joking way>

:D


"Some of us are grandfathers, so could you turn the music down a little." Stu Bloom, IRI Referee and Team 1018 Engineer

"KYLE!! Turn up the MUSIC!!!!"

-me saying that every 2 seconds to Kyle Gilbert because it was too low :p

[list=a][*]The wall got bigger![*]Lest we forget the infamous "What are pneumatics?" post ;)[/list=a]

Who could forget this one?

"There is no way to be gentle with DJ." - Chelly
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Or our nice gum rubber conversation:

Steve: "Do they have any more (gum rubber wheels)? I want to cut them into strips and put the gum rubber on the bottoms of my shoes so I can say, 'there, no one can push me'."

Everyone: "...."

Steve: "'Cause, they're always saying they no one can push them because their wheels are gum rubber ..."

Big Mike: "... Do you know what's on the bottom of your shoes? Gum rubber."

Steve: "... Shut up!"
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Between all of our good quotes and singing in the sauna (Bohemian Rhapsody, anyone?), the stay at the Omni was wonderful! :D

- Katie

It was the concept of the idea, ok!?

let's not forget that anything can be funny at 1 am, especially when you've overstayed your welcome in Mike's room.

Hence the following:

Mangia: It's too early.
Everyone: ...
Mangia: It's either too early or too late.
"Big Mike": It's too something.
Sara: *looks at clock* Actually, it's one something.