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.

LOL LOL LOL LOL

now if only we could have gotten mike into my bikini.... :p

"Holy crap holy crap its brandon martus!! *giggle*" - Me and Amanda Morrison when we saw Brandon

"Did you guys bring the rest of your team" -andy baker when the 4 of us that drove seperately from my team walked in

"Okay i'll bring you a 6 pack next year" - JVN

"Yah and this kid wants his montain dew.." -JVN

"And then I walked by and i could see him towering over me, and just watching me with his eyes as i walked by..." -Anonymous

"How about in 20 minutes?" -Amanda Morrison

"And tomorrow i want you to wear your OWN teams shirt!" -Mr. Noble from 71

"Josh everytime i see you, you look different! Stop changing" - Libby Ritchie

"Did you have anything to do with my car being moved?" -DJ

"You just beat Beatty"
"No we didn't"
"Yah you did, look at the field..."
"Oh my god."
- Conversation between Amanda Morrison and Myself

"Should we throw something at Ken?" -Me

"Dude lets do a JVN and Ken!" - Me

"Eyes up here not down here!"
"Dude you have a blinky light on your chest and i just noticed that!"
-Me and Amanda

"You guys are all about having a clean brake aren't you?" -Someone in 71's pit but cant remeber who

"Theres a chief delphi picture for ya... Boxes cant fit under the bar! someone take a picture!" - Amanda

"Your one angry dwarf aren't you!" -Lots of people
"Are you one angry dwarf? I didn't recognize you without your big mohawk" - Lots of people

"were not sure if that smell is something burning or the plasma its creating." -1020 kids playing with the transformer from a microwave

"Honestly i cant tell the difference between you and a high schooler so i dont see why you couldn't be human player" - Andy Baker

"My mom wont let me do robotics anymore!" -Molly

There is one more that i wanted to post, but i cant remeber...

QUOTE]now if only we could have gotten mike into my bikini.... [/quote]



I like my eyes. Don't make me burn them out.[

there will be a definate lack of me in bikini tops ;)

and too my defense, in NJ, it was 2 somthing

"I slept with Andy Baker!!" - Libby Ritchie


"Davy, you lay on the bottom and I'll sleep on top of you" -Libby Ritchie


"Andy, can i sleep with you?" -Me

"Libby Lee, can I sleep between you and Megan?" -Me

Woah, it took me a minute to register that correctly, LOL.

This weekend was insane. And for John's and Ken's delight, we almost did a "We Love Ken" and "JVN" cheer... but I chickened out. Sorry. Some other quotes:

"I'm missing my foreign kid. Where's my foreign kid?" - me, in self-proclaimed Field Trip Mode

"Andy never called. *sigh* Don't you hate it when you give them your number and they still never call? I feel so shafted." - me

Josh: "Why don't you take a break?"
me: "We're still broken."
Josh: "Alright, when aren't you going to be broken?"
me: "Gimme like 10 minutes."
-ten minutes later, and after a match-
Josh: "Are you ready to get lunch?"
me: "Well... we just broke down again."

That set the precedence for the whole weekend.

"Let's just 'Office Space' the whole thing."
"No, let's just beat it to pieces with it's own battery!"
"Well, I've always wanted to send it flying off a flight of stairs. How cool would that be?"
- kids from 1020, deciding how to destroy this year's "learning experience" and start from scratch

...and then, the best quote ever - "What's a hog?" - Shrutish from 1020

Josh and I felt like the newbies of CD amidst a sea of oldschoolers, and for the most part stuck to ourselves. Hopefully next time I won't be running around in a blind panic for most of the competition, and I'll actually have time to sit around and talk to some CD'ers.

This thread needs to die...
Remember, everything attributed to me is... horribly out of context... yeah. ;) :D

You mean you don't like the quotes, John? You should feel honored to have your words enshrined in this thread :p Aren't you glad I had that pad of paper all night?

"So do you have everything undercontrol?"
"Yah, were doing great, your not really needed, might as well head home"
- Discussion between our fearless leader and myself when he finaly got there.

"Hah i put a bandana on my head, now they cant ask for pictures of my hair!" -me

"HAve you ever driven a y-cable style drive with one joystick?"
"No"
"I have now..."
-Conversation between me and rufus from 447

"I'm andy bakers strong arm" -JVN

"I'm so old."
"Uhm your only 4 months older then me.."
"I know but i feel old!"
- Me and Amanda

"So ditch your team, you cant fix robots anyways, and lets go get some lunch"
"I cant i have to be responsible or something"
-Me and amanda

"You should just tie the robot to a car and drag it around, that'd be a good way to destroy it"
-Me

"Argh they are going to make me drive the robot, I cant drive robots!"
-iheartlinux

"Want me to go lay down the law on the aux gym?"
-Libby

boy, do i feel left out.:(
you guys should move IRI to somewhere closer to me.
like florida.

Another good one said by Brant Bowen during the practice matches - "Red side, you ready? Blue side, you ready? Ken, you ready?"