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After realizing that we were running short on time for buiding a bot this year Mr. Clarke made the comment that is now our slogan "Roll or die".
Other randam quotes.

Mr. Clarke: Leprechauns Woody, leprechauns, we will get you in your sleep Woody.
Woody: Ahhhh "crap" my finger. Ahhhhh it cut my finger off.
-refrence to when he got the tip of his little finger cut off.
Woody: Where the heck is Mark running to.
-refrence to me when I took off to go get the trainer when he cut off the tip of his finger.
Mr. Clarke: Crooked

Seen from when I got my nickname.
Mr. Clarke: It's dremle.
Scott: No, it's too nice.
Mr. Clarke: No, EggBeater, that's it.
Scott: No, it doesn't work.
Mr. Clarke: Straight, it's Straight.
Scott: What the heck?
Mr. Clarke: Look how he cut's it's so straight it will make you sick.
Scott: Ohh I thought it was in refrence to something else. I didn't think he batted for that team.

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At Buckeye last weekend, this is something I said to John:"Go to the pit admin table and get me a 5/8" drill bit, a bottle of No-Doz, and a woman. Don't worry, all the ones here exceed my unrealisticly high standards."

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"We're not building robots, we're building engineers."

This has been said by a few members of Cyber Blue at our competitions.

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Hey, I forgot my mentors favorite: "Fail early, fail often" :)

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Steve Butler on the way home from the Midwest Regional:

"Ooh, now it's time for the happy V8 noise!" :D

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respect(3 hour meeting)

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How about Science and Engineering Continuing Onward in New Directions?

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" PUCKER!!! PUCKER!!!" *Stunned look from ref* "No no no.. the carpet! The carpet!" -The great Tom Nader

" Whos are we against next? 67? Oh sh*t, its the wedge bot" - Heard some random person say that this weekend at Buckeye, lol :rolleyes:

(Looking at pneumatic parts) "What makes these work?" "Uh, air I think, Jim..." - Me to mentor Jim Meyer

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from my boyfriend, who also happens to be our team, in reference to the number of FIRST related couples...
"i'm tellin' you, its a cult!"

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I had to say this after winning the Chesapeake regional...

Not only are we going to Annapolis... Dean Kamen...
We're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico! We're going to California and Texas and New York! Then we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan! And then we're going to ATLANTA to TAKE BACK THE TROPHY!
YYYAAAAAAAHHHH!

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Classic...

An old one from our team (from 3 years ago) "We can't go left... then go right (a whole lot)."

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Just today, a fellow programmer and I were writing code on his dad's Gentoo box. I felt the urge to update the copy of nano on that computer. My friend, who is an Emacs snob, looked at me, chuckled, and said "Bleeding-edge nano, eh?"

Well, I thought it was funny...

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"Who's your daddy, who's your daddy!"
-Some random kid in hypnosis at UTC.
I guess you probably had to be there.

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After SPBLI ended while we were waiting to load onto the bus:

Robot Mommy: "You know, every time I look at you, you're talking to a different boy. This is not the place to be picking up boys."
Me: "Hey! This is not only a place to be inspired to go into science and engineering, it's also about expanding ties with other teams and schools! I'm expanding my ties!"
Robot Mommy: *silence* That is the most creative excuse I have ever heard for picking up boys.

:rolleyes:

After a team member was "interviewing" teams (mostly girls) he was accused of "macking it," which sooned turned into having something that sounds like a venereal disease.

"Do you have mackinsons?

And of course...

IMAX!!!

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One person on my team said, "It do work... it do work..." how did he make it to eleventh grade is beyond me. :rolleyes: Anyway, I want to read more!

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Today, walking into our meeting:

Nick: "It's not our fault we're late. We hit a dog on our way over and got a flat tire. Here's the pieces" ::holds up plastic bag::
Me: "Ewww, you brought pieces of the dog?"
Nick: "No, these are pieces of my car!"

Ok, so it wasn't quite so funny as the fact that there were 3 animators stuck who didn't know how to change a flat tire and called the meeting. Yay for the HOT pit crew! :D

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I'm a big fan of the MC's line at Opening Ceremonies at the Colorado Regional last weekend:
"I feel HIGH right now...mile HIGH"
*Note that his face was red and he was slurring a few too many words at this time.
*Also note that he works for NASA

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Last year at Nationals the team in the pit next to us wasnt doing very well. To brighten their day we decorated their pits and gave them our Never Say Die Robie award. They were so happy. But thats not the funny part. That day while we were in our pits they were eating lunch, pizza. When one of their team members, who was very tall and bulky, looked into the box of pizza and yelled "Hey! Theres no more pizza!!!" All I can say is that it made my day. If it doesnt seem all that funny, I guess you had to be there.

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When speaking of the bad days our coach was having, or maybe problems that came up with various FIRST related projects this season, one mentor said this:

"Some days, it's like doing dirty laundry...no matter how much you get done, there's always more."

(We don't get it either)

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Someone called me up and said the team needed some comedic relief since we lost our medals :rolleyes: . Seriously, it's not my fault that I was the only one there who'd ever seen a tire get changed, much less change one. We were actually doing good, once we figured out that in order to get the jack out of the trunk we had to take off the bolt holding it in. It also didn't help that I had to convince Alex and Eric that the jack didn't go under the axel. That was just a bad day for my car. Still, it was pretty funny when everbody thought I was carrying the remnents of a dead dog. (In case you're wondering, the dog is fine).


Moving on . . .
Another funny quote from this year would have to be at the Detroit regional. A few people from team 67 (including me) were helping team 406 prepare for alliance selections. As we were compiling a list, Mr. Nader said "Ok, we'be got the multiplier ball handlers, now all we need are some good hookers." (reffering to hanging bots)

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Yeesh C.C., I feel VERY appreciated now... I only said it once! You and Steven fed off that! Besides, it's "IT DO WORK!!! IT DO WORK!!!" put some feeling into it! :D

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Favorite quote? I'm not sure, but the quote I heard the most this year had to be, "Well, can't you make that work in the code?" or, "That has to be a coding issue." Seeing as I'm the programmer, it got old REAL fast.

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Ben..you are the slowest stripper I've ever seen!

--things slip late at night

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Ooh. I like. Now the question is do you think it's to "punny" to use as a name for a competition.

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"There is only one team I'm afraid of here (canadian regional), and their standing next to us." - me, while refering to Delphi Elite just before the start of the elimination rounds

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So this one is from Buckeye, our drive team has waaaaaaaaaaay too much time on their hands:

"You know you are a robotics geek when you throw a water balloon out the 10th floor window and then calculate its velocity just as it hits the ground (which happens to be about 55 mph)."

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one of our mentors who is 25 went to go put in a work for one of our parts that broke and the FIRST rep told him he need a mentor to go out to the trailer with him.

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so me and one of the mentors walked over to Smithtown (810) on Thursday of SBPLI Long Island Regional to see how they're doing. They were adding lightening holes or something about being over weight so of course my mentors like "hey we got a sawsall if you need one"...he just likes cutting things up - his favorite tool is the grinder :)

i found it funny at least ;)

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"look on the field two hookers on their back"

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"Oh my god! The hat just ate a chair!" - Erica upon seeing the big Woodside (100) hat steal (more like engulf) the Jesuit (1097) Marauder's chair at SVR.

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After six hours at the laithe, I went over to the mill where one of the advisors was cutting away at something. It was pretty late at night and it was me, another student or two who were in the programming room, and a few mentors.

Me: "Maybe it's just my eyes, but I'm not sure I'm reading that right." (the piece of metal in the mill)

Mentor: "*exasperated sigh* It's says slot"

Me: "Oh s***"

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our drive team in cleveland
"you know your a robotics geek if you throw a water balloon out of a tenth floor window and calculate the speed before it hits the ground"
- Davis and Chadderdon


The answer is 54 m/s

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"measure it with a micrometer, mark it with chalk, cut it with an axe, this is not an exact science" ...

i dont remember where i saw that

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we need to cut some stuff off. go borrow a tool that might be faster than a hacksaw from one of those teams that seem to have everything they need.
...comes back with a reciprocating saw...
everyone>oh sweet!! now cut here!
.......
go give that back... or find a battery for it...


sorry, i know its not funny but hats because im a horrible writer. it was really funny at the time...

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During the fall, I asked our drivers to if they would ike to come to Lockheed Martin because we were going to be showing off the robot at an event called "Women in Engineering day".

A few weeks later at an off season competition, one of the drivers (a 17 yr old boy)came up to me and said "When was the day you wanted me to be a woman?"

This would be the same driver who responded during a session on basic physics to the question, how much does a gallon of milk weigh with "$3.49"

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Our team motto is "No loose screws...we're all nuts!" Well, one of our coaches gathered the team around to practice the cheer (One student would say "No Loose Screws!" while the rest of the team would respond, "We're All Nuts!") and the coach says, "Okay, let's try it. No loose nuts, we're all screwed!" And of course, everyone burst out laughing and we haven't let him forget about that mistake.

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In the spotlights on top of Cheif Delphi. Jim Meyer, one of our mentors, said it.

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"FIRST is our business... and business is GOOD!"

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After the first practice match:

"No wonder it wasn't moving. The PWMs weren't plugged in."

(and yes, it was the programmer's fault)

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Babe, yep this is your girlfriend, I was reading random threads, came across this one and read the "Blame Tom" quote. I had to look up, and yep it was you. I love you, Vicki :)
-fyi - For everyone else we weren't on the same team, so when I read this I burst out laughing.