Favorite Robotics Quotes 2004
 

I know that there have been threads like this in years past, but since last time I checked some of those, they were in the triple digits pages, I thought I would start one for just 2004 robotics quotes (I'm sure there'll be plenty!) I'll start off

From Dane, president of the HOT Alumni Association:
"-Gas Money to go to GM for 3 weeks......... $100
-Time spent away from friend and family to build a robot............................................. ..........3 weeks
- Money spent on the robot..........................$750
- Looks on the kids faces when winning an award and making it to semifinals............................PRICELESS"

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One of our guys, Dave, got hit in the head at Chesapeak when our robot ran off the cart. He went to the hospital and got 6 staples and is fine now (and was back later that day and the next), but durring the final ceremony the guy from the naval base said: "I know your heads probably hurt by now..."

Dave said "You dont know the half of it!"

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We had these platforms that went over a vehicle lift and they weren’t very strong. One of our mentors stepped in a spot that he was not supposed to step on because it was so weak. We told him "Brian, you’re not supposed to walk there." He quickly replied...

"I'm a FREAKIN' mentor, I can walk on FREAKIN' water."

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The 2004 FIRST Robotics Competition will always boil down to one quote in my mind:

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hmm favorite quote other than "dave says....." well that honor would have to goto steve shade, and what he put on my shirt.... "A-Team Shade 1111" but then again that would be somthing that very few would understand

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We had 3 good quotes...all somehow applying to programming...

"It's all in the programming"
"Our robot is a BIT overweight"
"I have no faith in our program" -- this one was actually a fraudian slip from one of our mentors...he ended up being right, in the end.

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Well, I'd have to say that one of my favorite quotes this season would be either:
"Blame Tom!"-Everyone on Team#66 during bulid season.

or

"Maybe thatwasn't the best idea."-Me watching a qualifying match at GLR.

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Prolly...
Wink Tom Wink
Why can't I do everything...
I can drive with my feet, shoot with my hands, and i'll program inbetween after i fix the robot...
Wink Tom Wink

Always wanting to do EVERYTHING...

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Our best quote would had to have come from while we were working on programming in our pit. We were testing our X2 ball grabbing arm, when it unexpectedly flew out. Our lead mechanic happened to be standing in front of it, eating a Boston Cream doughnut, which the arm caught and threw across the pit. There was chocolate frosting and cream filling everywhere, on the arm, on the tool chest, and for some reason, there was a huge amount on a can of WD 40. Everyone stared in shock for a moment, wondering if he was hurt, while he just stared at his hand. "My doughnut!" was all he could manage to say, and everyone just burst out laughing.

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One of our team members recorded a whole bunch of quotes from this season, but the only one that comes to mind right now (besides a couple from our team leader involving her kidneys) was from one of our alumni: "I'm a safe driver! Look! I'll even wear my safety glasses!" Too bad I didn't write down any of the quotes from when a few of us were bouncing off the walls...

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My team's advisor thinks this is the funniest thing said in our team:

"Why drink Pepsi when you can program and drink Pepsi?" - Me

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Well, if it was your breakfast, that had just been ripped out of your hands, you'de be a little upset too. I mean, so I was bleeding on my right arm, all I really cared about that early in the morning was my doughnut, which was freshly baked I might add. mmmm doughnut.

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Ohh man, that just made me think of a whole bunch of qoutes made about programming on our team.
"It might work. Lets try it! Just select that and...uh oh.

BTW all of our teams student programmers are registerd here, Hey Mike! remeber when we were trying to get that autonomus code working?

"[i]AUTO_MODE_MODE can be a constant, and by 'can be a constant' I mean it can't be."-Crop-Circles(MIKE!)

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One of the funniest quotes at the time of UCF this year was said by Mr. Griffith after one of my team's matches, in which our aliance was tipped and rammed. Every one thought for sure it was a penelty. But the judges said it wasn't. We all respected this call and went back to the pits. When I over hear Mr. Griffith and an Engineer whom I can't recall discussing the match. Well soon I hear Mr. Griffth say: "Well you know, I'm not one to argue with the Empire." I was drinking a Dr. Pepper at the time, and I nearly spit it up I was laughing so hard. :D

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Maybe not as funny as other quotes here, but I think all of us can relate:
Programmers: "It's the mechys fault!!"
Mechys: "It's the programmers fault!!"

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What if you're a mechy and and a programmer, do you blame PR? :ahh:

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Hmm.... I think I would blame the animators, despite the fact they probably never touched anything.
Finally thought of a good quote... And it was right in my signature the whole time.
There happens to be a super-intelligent seventh grader on our team who is also an awesome programmer. One night during pre-season, when we were teaching new programmers, C, this kid answered all the questions right. So finally, we got really annoyed with him and told him that from then on he had to speak in C. It didn't really stop him, so our head programmer said "Joe, from now on, you can only speak in tertiary, binary, or octal"

The quote in my signature happened another time for the same reasons...

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joe is a cool little dude.

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Right before one of our matches, our compressor died. I (the programmer, who was naturally blamed for this as we did not know that it was in fact the compressor going kaput) had finally found 10 minutes to grab some food, had the hot dog in hand, sitting on the RV, about to take that 2nd bite, when I see Hung, our Manipulator guy, running at the RV, waving his arms like mad, yelling.....

"NEAL! THE COMPRESSOR'S NOT WORKING!!!!!!!"

at which point I throw down my lunch, pause only half a second to grab my safety goggles (dont leave home without 'em), and flew out of there to go and help debug the problem.

(if any of you are wondering, we did not have time to really hook up the new compressor, but had to clip the wires to the old one to drive the new one hooked directly to the tanks before the match, clamped down on the tubing, and inserted it back into the old compressor to keep the 70 psi we had in there from escaping. Even though we have many pneumatics in our robot, it was just barely enough to get our robot up on the platform and hang on the bar......just barely :-P)

That was one of several humorous quotes from our travels, and quite possibly the most memorable for myself.

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I can always find someone saying something stupid or funny on our weekend meetings. One Particular Meeting was when I was sitting working on some Chairman's Award stuff. As a mentor came and walked towards where we were working. I look up and so does the Student President. The mentor named Dennis had a weird look on his face. The next thing I know unprovoked he says...

"I know I know Gay Dennis"

It was the funniest thing... We always have fun and get alot of odd comments from people its great...
Nate

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"It's doing 'kill felix mode' again!" <- The strange problem we come across when we boot the controller and it runs the first cylce of autnomous mode. Our engineer felix just happens to be ALWAYS standing right in front of it while the robot attempts to take him out. We think the robot's angry at him...

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FIRST Robotics is a horrible influence. it teaches the drivers that if there is something in your way while driving, bashing into it will make it get out of the way.

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There is a very simple way to determine fault. If its on fire, its an electrical problem. If its not on fire, its a software problem.

Although we all know that the programmers will get blamed either way...

Just like Michigan drivers!

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And, of course, if it doesnt move, its drive train's problem.......time to build another gearbox guys? :p

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In the Quarterfinal match 2, it is was our goal to keep a team from hanging. After they got up onto the platform, I told Korbin (our driver) to try and use the arm to block theirs from reaching the bar...

It worked, and the audience named it the 'no-tactic' because it looked like a mother slapping a child's hand and saying no :yikes:

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The best thing that someone said this year was from Dean Kamen. We were at a demo thing and he was making a speech and he said something along the lines of, " When you complain, you don't get anything done so just don't complain." Thats not it excatly but thats basically it.

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Yar, that he is...

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One of the funniest things I heard this season was by one of our mentors kids. For no reason that I can recall, he told one of my team mates that "he smells like dead otter breath".

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about week 1 of build season:
What if we put the balls in sideways?

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"Robotics made me fat!" - Said at applebee's after LI regional

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When asked how fast a pneumatic cylinder would lift our wheel assembly:

"How fast will it go?"
"Well, not BANG, but definitely WHOOF."

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Hmm, fraud for Freud... Is that a Freudian slip? ;)

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814 actually kept a list of quotes from build season...

"Great, now all I need to know is the square root of 3!" -- Greg (when trying to make a hexagon base for the mobile goal)

"Posey! Get your fingers out of there!" -- Anthony teaching Posey how to use the grinder

"I get yelled at when I touch things..." -- Anthony

"I'm not even going to try. I'm just going to wait until I screw up." -- Fred trying to get into the quote book

"Alaina, strip for me...I mean...strip these wires." -- Kevin

"Whoa! This sprocket is way lighter than this one!" -- Max holding two sprockets of equal size
"Max, one of them has holes in it" -- Me
"Oh. I totally forgot about that." -- Max

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List of 527's best qutoes of 2004:

Mentor: "It's too much heavy."

-"There's something wrong with the code."
-"The code was working when I left, and nobody else changed it since then."
-"Well we'll have to fix the code."

"So the idea is to fix all mechanical errors with software errors?"

FIRST Crew Member hands me several nuts, bolts, and washers after a match..."I think these are yours."

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"It wasn't me, I didn't do it, you can't prove anything!"~ Everyone on Team 66 at one time or another.

"Eww...Doritos cause cancer"
"Oh well, pass the cancer please"
And so Doritos have become known as cancer on 66.

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It's TRUE, anyways.

Best quote I can remember was at regionals: "Your misguided sense of chivalry just cost me a shoe, moron!"

I might be biased, though, since I said it. (It did make sense in context.)

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Here's an oldie but a goodie that was uttered more than a few times during the elimination rounds in Long Island.

"Ugly can win"

Those who saw matches 2 and 3 of the finals will understand completely. Final scores of 35-30 and 35-15. It wasn't pretty, but it sure was sweet.
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I just found this one in my journal from January 19th, right when Ian Mackenzie and I (mostly Ian) were finishing the design of our gearboxes.

"Ian hasn't slept for 34 hours. In this time he has threatened my life about 6 times. This is not a positive ratio."

I guess that's what happens when you live with someone who you work with on a FIRST team.

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a couple of the many conversations had on this subject (better quotes later when I can actually find them):

"I've gained so much weight because of build..."
"Well what do you expect? It's the GRT 15. Instead of gaining 15 lbs freshman year in college, we gain 15 lbs every time build comes around."
"... That's so true! Man, I have to stop eating lunch and dinner here."

[later on in the build period]
"I haven't weighed myself recently but I can just feel the weight gain."
"'Cause of pants?"
"Oh my god! Yes!"

[still later on in build]
"I have to get new pants... Darn GRT 15."
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh wait, actually, I do too... Want to go shopping this weekend?"

Those aren't exact, but they're close enough.

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"why ride a bike when you could ride a trike?!"

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"Did you bring your gracious professionalism?" -Me reading sign by the entrance to the field at BAE
"I think we left it in the pit. Somebody's gonna have to run and go get it." - Kevin, 121's driver.

Well I thought it was funny.

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No complaints here. ;)
Pretty robots playing ugly.

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Here is a couple that we used a lot.

"It's only temporary unless it works."
"Blame the freshman" When things would go wrong you have to blame the freshman for the error.
"It's close enough for governments work or it's close enough for the shop this size." We said that one quite a bit.

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Last year we played with allot of carcinogens (sp?). and we called one person now the team operations leader cancer guy.

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talking to the printer: "You better work. [incoherent muttering] What the?! Don't make me eat you!" And now it has a smiley face sticker that says "I failed today!" on it, when in fact, it actually fails most of the times we try to print something. :D

"Go 'way or I'll eat you like the orc that I am."

"At least we're being productive in the middle of not being productive!"

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"I am a non-functional decoration!" (bumper sticker placed on several of our team members)

-dave

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Our's definately is, "Building robots...Livin' the dream."

Blair said that before announcing us at Annapolis, I think he thought it was hillarious.

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or blair calling Hasley Field House, the house of luvvvvvvv. that was a little weird

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That is fantastic!

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Hahahaha that's classic... and so true sometimes!

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Well, we were testing out the program on our robot, when charles, the programmer, headed off to grab a drink and come back. Unbeknownst to us, the processor in the oi blew while he was gone. The robot ceased to move right as he came back, invoking one of the greatest quotes ever, "Lets see, I was gone for 45 seconds. If we can get it to go for another minute and 15 seconds without doing that, I think we'll be good."

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Do you max?
IMAX!!!!!

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"keep it simple"

i think thats said at least 100 times over build season by our mentor to us.

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"That picture has infinite possibilities in the hands of a madwoman." said just last Saturday at the Chesapeake Regional.

Heidi

<=========>
I'm not mad, I'm even.

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"Banjos may look friendly, but if you leave them alone together they will fight to the death."

"If you smell your hands right after you touch a bunch of pennies, you can pretend for a seccond that you are really a robot."

"Jesus pied for your sins. mmmm pie."

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"Can't Talk, Can Cheer!"

At UCF I had completely lost my voice by Saturday. However I was still able to cheer loudly if I screamed from the pit of my stomache rather than from my chest and throat. (If you can some how understand what I mean). So anyway, we had a dry erase board that we were keeping in the pits to organize our match times. After QMs we brought it up to the stands. So eventually I drew a little anime styled picture of my self in my team shirt with a speech bubble saying "Can't Talk, Can Cheer!" And that's where it came from. I think a few girls on S.P.A.M. saw it and complimented on it, as well as various other random people. :)

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"No Bleeding on the Electronics!"

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hahaha .. we had that .. one of our engineers started bleeding thanks to the pneumatic drill ... my first question was "are you okay" and then it was "could you move away from the robot please?"

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After the practice day in Annapolis, I asked one of the team, "so what did you learn today?" He answered, "don't listen to the engineers." :)

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I know that it's not exactly an original quote but in the past our team has had some problems cooperating with one another, so now whenever someone gets mad or upset we start singing, "Just keep swimming!" from Finding Nemo. :p

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My favorite was by a mentor. We were trying to get the robot rolling for a parent meeting that night, and all the kids had already left. I asked what polarity the motors should be hooked up as. He replied, "Any polarity, we'll fix it in software."

Five minutes later, he said, "Bobby, can you pull out that soldering iron..."

That kinda became our motto for the year. "We'll fix it in software."

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I think my favorite quote this year would be "Your the stumpiest one of all" after "stumping" Julie at UTC and having the best score: 2:03 score by the timekeeper. She then had a really embaressed look on her face, and laughed.

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I loved Dean's "This is a Line" speech at the Kickoff, personally...

"The big news is this year, don't go to law school.
We use words to mean what words mean.
This is a line.
Now I'm straddling it.
Now I am not straddling it.
I am still not straddling it.
I'm still not straddling it.
I'm straddling it.
The words mean what they mean.
It's clear.
I'm straddling the line and touching the wall.
That's all you need to know."

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i'll ad more to this post once I find our official list but my most memorable one right know is

"We arn't building a church here" -Mentor
"Yea, but let's just put some wheels on this chapel" -Student

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my most embarassing....near the end of build season...
as mentor enters room "...Oh my gosh, its just so darn sexy...everything i EVER wanted..." *pertaing to the robot that is*

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About 1 week after kick-off and into planning and designing one of our programmers said: "I think our robot should have wheels."

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i no someone who is just like that person u call TOM he wants to do everything for the team

my fav quote is
a penny saved is a penny more than i have

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Said today at the Buckeye:

Me: "Ooo, ooo, I'll plug in the battery"
Davis: "If you touch that battery, you die"

also:

Davis: "Oh yeah, I hafta drive the robot"

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Well, anytime I get an excuse to post this...

• "random? well I could be random, look just watch me be random. I am so random I have said the word random 4 times so far. Well 5 now. See I am not boring I can be random... Now 6!" -Sean McDermott from 271
  
• "When in doubt, duct tape, duck tape, duckt tape!" -Mike Rosalie from 375
  
• "Life is short and so am I!" -Becky Allen from 356
  
• "VVVVVVVVV" -Lenny from 375
  
• "Okay Eddie, from now on, we're calling you Woodie." -Dave Ferera from 121
  
• "What can I say? The light goes on...the light goes off...Enough Said!" -Lora Knepper from 177
  
• "Nobody should miss the National Clogging Competition.....lol" -Clark Gilbert from 45
  
• "I became a member of the Duct Tape Club today. I think everyone else should. It would be cool" -David Kelly from 234
  
• "Woah..what's a life? I've never had one of those before" -Angela from 180
  
• "Life is like a party and parties weren't meant to end!" -Elgin Clock from 237
  
• "What's a sponser? Oh, you get money from those..." -Andrew Costka from 419
  
• "I can't wait for college.... cause when girls are drunk.. they can't see how ugly i am!!!" -Tom Schindler from 177
  
• "don't ask me, I'm not even sure if I met you =)" -Kristen from 180
  
• "but if she's in a state that doesn't exist, then how could i have met a person who doesn't exist" -Pat Dingle from 639
  
• "I was wondering if pepper spray would be considered "ungracious professionalism"" -Matt from 69
  
• "I woke up early one morning and found an elephant in my pajamas, how he got in them I will never know" -Kristen from 180
  
• "jessica simpson.. bad music.. hot body..lol" -Kyle Gilbert from 45
  
• "TODD JUST FIGURED SOMETHING OUT :D" -Todd Derbyshire from 88
  
• "Nice of you to put me in your signature, Eddie" -Caitlin from 126
  
• "Ahh! Eddie's startin the playlist again!" -Joe Ross from 73
  
• "so, you can just be a one headed monster from the planet Mars? That seems to make more sense. I always knew you were too weird to be from Earth anyway. Yes, and all of the sudden things seem to make more sense about you. :)" -Christina from 271
  
• "glad I never say anything stupid =)" -Kristen from 180
  
• "Britney Spears video on TV........YES!!!!!!" -Clark Gilbert from 45
  
• "WOOHOO! I AM THE ONLY ONE LORA HATES!" -Bill from 70
  
• "I'm sleeping... You're welcome to come sleep with me if you a member of the club called 'The Opposite Sex" & If you pass the test..." -Sean from 330
  
• "I don't remember saying anything funny." -Michael from 271
  
• "i am mike oleary. i am not an impersonater. i am a rambot. NINNY PRIDE!" -Mike O'Leary from 419
  
• "They told me that a crazy kid with long hair and a ton of buttons stopped by. I assumed it was you, Eddie" -Lora Knepper
  
• "Why doesn't anybody ever listen to me?" -Carolyn Duncan from 86
  
• "Robot on board, baby at home" -Andy Baker from 45
  
• "i was very tempted to say somehting about eddies retreating to his corner..." Mike O'Leary from 419
  
• "I think its time to lock this thread....." -Clark Gilbert from 45
  
• "They're kind of small-ish, and they're plastic. That makes them ripe for becoming victims of our robots tank tread, I think :-)" -Michael Krass from 271
  
• "That has been said 55 times... How much more must we live through?" -Brett from 201
  
• "If the women dont find you hansome, make sure they find you handy!" -DJ from 45
  
• "who's a nutball?" -Dan from 550
  
• "why do ppl enjoy picking on me? lol" -Kristen from 180
  
• "you don't have any good ones from me, Eddie" -Joe Ross from 340
  
• "And you just know Eddie is going to quote that out of context..." -Jessica Boucher from 237
  
• "Wow, I've got to be careful about what I say around Eddie." -Brian from 365
  
• "you still don't have any good ones from me" -Joe Ross from 340
  
• "Our meetings consist of trying to convince people that spiking a soccer ball over the opposing alliance station wall to knock out the opposing drivers, while technically legal, is not a good idea." -ahecht from 992
  
• "nate: I think you are crazy" -Angela from 180
  
• "hot chick alert on Fear Factor..lol" Clark Gilbert from 45
  
• "I think their the same person and they are both evil" -Joe Ross from 340
  
• "lalalalalalalalalalalalalala robots! weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" -Ken Leung from 192
  
• "name that NUT!!" -Clark Gilbert from 45
  
• "wow me replying to QOTW 2 weeks in a row.... i feel so dirty" -Mike from 25
  
• "what we learned from Chesapeake: Ashlee is 3 SHU tall" -Steve Shade
  
• "well Ian: she was wrong once but then it turned out that she just thought she was wrong and she was really right :p" -Cory from 100
  
• "Out of boredom, the 'better things to concern myself over' has become what time Eddie will log on and post today's question." -Stephen from 122
  
• "i supposedly was pulled over because my license plate light was out (which it was)...but did it really take the 4 police cars to handle the situation..... so what did we do while the one cop was searching my car.........we talked about robots to the other ones....lol" -Kyle Gilbert from 45
  
• "MOMMY IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" -Sean from 1197
  
• "is it pathetic that i spent a better part of my life just looking at people's away messages?" -Mike from 25
  
• "me yelling "Tomorrow I can buy Pornography!!" through the house wasnt such a good idea ;-)" -DJ from 45
  
• "I was wondering why our robot wasn't working, then I realized that it helps if it has a battery." -Moe from 88
  
• "Well Mr. Ian you are sentenced to be kicked until you take a shower" -DJ from 45
  
• "like, not to be mean ash, but were you high that night or something? :p" -Ian from 810
  
• "the water in rhode island tastes funny..." -Mel from 86
  
• "that annoys me too, when people assume i know everything, and yell at me for something that i have no idea what they're talking about..." -Ian from 810
  
• "hmm if you had my robot in your car complete with control system, and batteries, would you be talking online right now?" -Mike from 25
  
• "weee... my old train set is running! round and round and round it goes... weee.... fast! yall are boring" -Jon from 186
  
• "Mike!!! You killed it again!!!" -Jeff from 201
  
• "i thought philosophers were supposed to be quite sound of mind... do you sit in bathtubs and say things like "Eureka!" alot?" -George from 1083
  
• "dj, guilt? that would mean he would have a conscience" -Kristina from 691
  
• "Or would he be locked into an elevator with 20 gassy monkeys and the only music playing is that Macarena song?" -Heidi from 116
  
• "I honestly think I got stupider (is that a word) from reading this thread. Its like a bad version of photoshop phriday. AHHH!" -Patrick Duffy from 108
  
• "'confused gorilla'!!!! Why, I am insulted! I am never confused. Startled, not-yet-decided, still-making up-my-mind, still-need-morning-caffeine, perhaps. But not confused. I was thinking more along the lines of an 'optimistic orangutan' or something similar. Or perhaps a late-60's refugee 'assuming the position' for 'illegal display of a party hat in public.' Or perhaps, 'mild-mannered bureaucrat rejoicing over the wanton destruction of PaintShop Pro software vendor facilities and loss of all active copies of the program.' But, what ever..." -Dave Lavery
  
• "I almost never choose sides, good or bad. I prefer neutral (chaotic of course)." -Heidi from 116
  
• "My boyfriend did that to me... I text messaged him 'I <3 you' and he returned... 'aww, I less than three you too.' I cracked up so much, and it was an inside joke of ours. But now I understand that it's not too uncommon. (erin shrugs and lowers head in disappointment) now it's 'I < x u (x = integer sqrt4 < x < 4)'" -Erin Rapacki from 125
  
• "*Looks at Trivia forum. Sees last post is by Eddie* *Thinks to self* 'Oh, it's the question for today and no one's responded yet! Maybe I can get it!' *Open thread. No question.* Evil, evil, evil. :p " -Katie Reynolds from 93
  
• "Look! It's a bird, it's a Mars Rover! It's, it's... SuperDave! Will he be in time to stop the Evil-Eddie from polluting the world with Dunkin Donuts? Find out next week in the continuing adventures of SuperDave..." -Heidi Foster from 116
  
• "*looks out the window* watch out Eddie its the Lavery Signal, defender of truth juctice and the Krispy Kreme way!" -Mike from 25
  
• "My recent donut adventure - kidnaping KK's, and having them travel over 400 miles to New Hampshire with me in trade off for slurpees!... and, well, there has been some other adventures before too! ;)" Ashley Weed
  
• "This thread has 'Dave Lavery' written all over it." -Amanda Morrison from 1020
  
• "Wow, I was so confused by that statement until I looked at the lineup and the team name was actually "Your team name". I guess I'm truly living up to the ValleyGirl name. And Patrick...you mean it will be funny WHEN I beat Cory. Oh man, my cockiness is going to get me in trouble with you guys." -Kristina from 691
  
• "Eddie, do you have a little too much time on your hands?" -Mike Murphy from 88
  
• "whoa... there are people here?" -Jeff Waegelin from 201
  
• "I find it hilarious that 1 can of Miller Light has more benifits for you then 1 can of Coke. so instead of giving your kids a coke, give them a miller light...lol" -D.J. Fluck from 45
  
• "hola! and i'm glad to be an NU student. at my DEKA interview me, dean kamen walked past me in the lobby. he recognized me. turned and said : why does your face look so familiar?! lol the interviewing engineer was like: woah he knows you? normally that doesn't happen... lol." Erin Rapacki from 125
  
• "Who else besides me reads these trivia threads not for the question Eddie asks, but moreso for the clever reply Big Mike comes up with?" -Andy Baker from 45
  
• "There is a lil' Lavery~?!?!?!?!?! 0_o May God have mercy on all of us.... -_-!!!" -Ken Leung
  
• "This just in: The latest NASA research vessel has just crashed into Palo Alto, California. Reports of damage and injuries are still coming in, but it is believed that Ken Leung, long time participant in the FIRST Robotics Competition, was the only fatality." -Jim Gold from 258
  
• "NOOOO!!! Not KEN!! !Eeeek.. sucks for the research vessel too" -Dan Richardson from 710
  
• "You know, when I worked at APL, I always joked that the TIMED folks were going to get fed up with us (the Satellite Tracking Facility) and deorbit it directly into our building." -Matt Leese from 73
  
• "Thank you Dave... I don't know if your post made me smarter or dumber. :D" -Erin Rapacki from 125
  
• "Dave, for some reason, i dont see you sporting "Quzi-Futuristic Clothing", being bald, holding your pinky to your lower lip, or plotting to take over the world..... but in the off chance you are..... who is austin powers..... *realizes he gave someone a photoshop idea*" -Big Mike from 25
  
• "Let me just tell you, having two Lavery's is just mind boggling. This will bend the fabric of time and all that stuff." -Joseph M. from 384
  
• "Is anyone as confused as I am? <goes to get some advil>" -Michael Lee from 125
  
• "haha, an outhouse can fly" -Lee Machado
  
• "But if FIRST followed a 'truth in advertising' philosophy for the registration kits, they would contain six cannisters labeled: 'Stress', 'Anxiety', 'Confusion', 'Insomnia', 'Dietary Inadequacy', 'Unbalanced Priorities' And a really big seventh one labeled 'Fun' :)" -Dave Lavery
  
• "Where's team 1337?" -Duke from 862
  
• "Immediate, smart-alecky, knee-jerk, wise-a** response: 'hey, you think it is so easy operating a stupid rover in the middle of a planet-wide sand storm from 300 bazillion miles away with a communications pipe just slightly better than two cups and some string, then let's just see YOU do it!' :D " -Dave Lavery
  
• "i mean who would leave there computer on and then go die... i mean Think of the Electric Bill WONT SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE ELECTRIC BILL!!!!!!" -Mike from 25
  
• "BICYCLE! BICYCLE! i want to ride my BICYCLE!" -D.J. Fluck from 45
  
• "yeah. i just watch it for the sarcasm and the chicks ;)" -Brandon Martus
  
• "My suggestion; Don't rob the bank in the first place and if you absolutely must, check with an English professor beforehand." -Erin from 365

You know, when in Rome...

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At the Southeastern Michigan Kickoff...

"FIRST is like a bean burrito... You are the beans, your mentors are the wrapping, and your sponsors are the lettuce, providing the greens."

i Yo quiero FIRST !

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Oh my gosh! I remember that, but I thought that the mentors were the beans because we were making fun of our mentor who we've banned from Taco Bell?

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Do you mind if I borrow this?

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"LEDs: The new FN light."

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pratice match at buckeye:
"Did you turn on the robot?"

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We have a few over at 696.

Hoses. (we have them on our wheels)
How much?
Over There. (in strange middle eastern accent)
Chris, come... (in strange middle eastern accent)

Some Sort of Something. (in strange middle eastern accent)

Biznatch!
OOOOO.....my truck. (King of the Kill)
Yes you are. (emphasis on words)
Yes I am.(emphasis on words)
Yes it is.(emphasis on words)
I Fix Broke Thing. (in strange middle eastern accent)

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Said to HP after being asked to help crunch some numbers and he grabs a pad and pencil

"What are you doing!!!! Get a calculator and give your fingers some exercise!!!! Youre our HP and you need strong fingers!"

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On the door to the shop, there's a sign that says "Swimming Pool Closed."

When you're exiting the shop, taped to the wall is a piece of paper that says "If your underwear doesn't smell like cutting oil, get back to work!"

And then there are the various posters on the walls w/pics of little kids with things like: "I sit when I eat," or "I brush my teeth."

A couple weeks before build, when we were prepping, one of our members went into the shop wearing his bike helmet, and I pointed out the poster in the shop that showed a kid wearing a helmet (for safety), and one of us said something to the effect of: "I like how YZ is doing what the poster says..." ::shrugs:: Hey, he was being safer than the rest of us, since we weren't wearing helmets. :D

Another time, we were looking through the posters, and read out loud: "I brush my teeth." One of the seniors then exclaimed, "Oh crap! I forgot to brush my teeth this morning!"

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My favorite quote of 2004 is... "Red, White, and CyberBlue..." That was how we were presented our 2004 Chairmans Award at the Midwest Regional...just amazing!!! :]

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I'm very surprised that my team hasn't posted here...yet. (Yes...I doubled checked...just to be sure.)

We're at the NJ Regionals...sitting in the stands...listening to the awards being given out when they finally get to the Judges Award. I can not remember the exact speech but the woman giving out the award is holding a paper and she is reading. Our team, known for its bright neon green jerseys, is being announced as the winners. The paper says "Different shades of Green" but what came out of her mouth wasn't exactly the right s word. "Wearing different *beep* of green..." as the crowd starts rolling and my adult mentor happily starts clapping his hands together and singing out her mistake. The poor woman turned many shades of red.

"We're all about customer service here. We have keep John happy" - Jake (talking about our team leader, John Larock, and a video we are editing)

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"Dave says 'That's Pimp'" -even tho its been said b4, it's still good
"...Waffles... " by some dude on 102.9 on the Thursday drive to Drexel

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"There he is, running"

Doesn't make much sense as a one liner, but here's "The rest of the story"

At Great Lakes Regional, we had all piled into the bus to go to lunch. We have absolutely no organized method of attendance, so someone asked if anyone saw anyone missing, and we all said no. As we we're pulling out of the Parking lot someone asked "Hey, Where's Ross" and then someone in the back of the bus turned around and yelled "There he is running." We had almost left him. :D It was highly amusing, but maybe you had to be there.

Oh and another one, at Midwest Regional the Sixth Seed (sorry don't remember number) aked the seventh seed to ally with them and the seventh seed was obviously not sure what he should do so he took the mike and said "um, I don't think so" and started to walk back when he grabbed the mike again and said "graciously."
Allison

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My favorite quote was at the NJ J&J Regional when the judge who was presenting the Judges award to my team said "who aren't afraid to wear bright green ****" but wat she really meant to say was "who aren't afraid to wear bright green shirts. When she said that my whole team couldnt stop laughing and all the other teams were laughing too. lol

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ya, one of our mentors, SCOTT TUPPER, is a real funny guy and has a lot of awesome quotes. These are just a few -

*knock knock* I'm in the shower
*knock knock* Don't come in, I'm naked
Don't worry, its a rental car
maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaary
BCR-butt crack robotics
blame aaron
I'M A REAL BOY
where did mark go, polo
Scott: Do u know Mary?
Mary: Ya, I know
Scott: YOU DONT KNOW, YOU THINK YOU KNOW, BUT YOU DONT KNOW
sharing

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Team 525 requests the assistance of team 217, The ThunderChickens!

::After much hesistation and furious head shaking by Paul Copioli, giving hand signals on the sideline::
"Little" Swando: um, I don't think so!

::After crowd gasps, Little walks away, then comes back to mic::
Little: ....Graciously.


Best quote I've heard all week! I couldn't stop laughing for about 10 minutes.

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hmmm...well our quote of the year from the engineers was "It's custom"...this was during the fourth weekend while we were working...there was a lot of hammers being used :ahh: - how else are you supposed to align bushings? ;)

unfortunitly its hard to make replacement parts when our robot is custom :(

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*sighs* Scuba Steve...had you bothered to read the page before posting you would have seen I had already posted that quote. And I think it was suppose to be "who aren't afraid to wear bright SHADES of green." though I may be wrong.

It's ok though, I still love you!

Oh yes..I had forgotten. A kid on my team, Alan Threefoot, is one of the few people on my team who speaks French and since I take french is school...I will occasionally talk to him in french. I think it was last year that I started to tell Alan I loved him because he always got this weird serious look on his face, raised one eyebrow, and shook his head. Once I learned he could speak French I began to yell...randomly..."Je t'aime, Alan!" which is I love you, Alan. It's one of my favorite quotes.

Erin Z. is an amusing person when it comes to things she'll do/say on camera. I think most of my favorite qoutes come from her...here are a few..

"I love pneumatics. Pneumatics is my life. I want to spend all my time on pneumatics"
"Once they got the Dr. Pepper rolling, the brain started working..."
"My window overlooks the bird feeder so I was looking out my window one morning and I was like...Ooo look, a bird....and then it was like...ooo look, my cat. And it was like umph *Erin makes a motion of shoving food into her mouth* and then...nooo! The poor birdie."

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alright, this isn't really a quote, but it's a funny story nonetheless...

Myself and another girl from our team (for this purpose she will be referred to as Kendra. She's the other girl in my pic.) were sitting in our hotel in Wednesday before the CO Regional trying to keep up with the SoCal regional. We were on the phone with two people from 980.

I was talking to Justin, who was trying to get everything packed, and Kendra was talking to Andy who was driving home. Justin was trying to find a soldering iron, and had been for at least ten minutes. Eventually I asked Kendra to ask Andy where it was and after much correspondence it was found. We were told to stay on the line just in case they couldn't find anything else.


Quote from the finals in Colorado (after we lost radio connection with our robot): "What's wrong with the robot?"
"Oh. It has cancer."

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The one thing that sticks out in my mind:

"Well, if Dean doesnt agree with this, I'll just start my own robotics competition and call it SECOND"
-Our field coach, when we were debating robot setup rules.

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AHAHAHAHAHAHA Oh wow.... :yikes:

SoCal -
"1 in 350 million mile hole in one! Take THAT Tiger Woods!" - Dave Lavery

At dinner:
"Eat the fruit of life covered in sticky white cream." "I need to go wipe my pants." *groan* Robotics guys are so immature :p

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My future rookie team is holding a competition this summer for FIRST veterans, current and future rookies, and undergraduate college students, and we've been trying to think of names, and one of my friends said how about

SECOND: Science and Engineering Continuing Onto New Directions
(after some deliberation of course)

but we didn't think that the O sounded right, and the only other O words that we could think of (Orange, Orangatang, Onomatopiea, Oprah, Oscar, Oval, Ogre, you get the idea) didn't seem to fit either, so we're back to square one.

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During build season a person on our team was asked about what she thought about this years game. She said "I like it.." Then said "Never mind I don't like it.." Then said "Okay I do like it." and followed up with "You know I used to be indicisive but now I'm not so sure." :D

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A teammate Kristi and I are standing near our pit at LI when a member of another team comes up and takes a picture of our robot while commenting to someone with him, "Wow, that's one hell of a robot."

At the time, the robot was like, completely broken, so Kristi and I are avoiding eye contact with each other in hopes that we won't crack up. After the guy leaves:

Me: "Wow. I wonder what that guy is on because [Ryan decides to start listening at this point] I want some of that!"
Ryan: "What, Joe?!"
Me: "No! Not Joe! Drugs! Drugs!!!"
Ryan: "Wow Joe, look at that. On Laura's list, you're second only to drugs."

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ucf regional QUOTE..

Tytus: DAN, iF yOU HANG wE will wIN

repeat 3 times....

Ryan: Dude! thats like the 5th time you've said that

match is played... 179 and 710 win....

Tytus: I told you!

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Towards the end of the build season, one student was assebling something and needed an Allen wrench. When it was given to him, he asked if it was English or metric. The student who gave it to him said "Does it matter??" We haven't let him live that down yet.

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At the end of the NYC Regional. As we were packing the robot and loading my car with bags a student came running to the pit and said: "umm... I think your car is getting a ticket!!"
BTW, I did get a ticket and I learned never to leave the car parked on a bus stop.
OK, this may not funny or anything but it's definitely something I'll remember.

oh, but here is one that is funny that was uttered at team 555's pit during NYC Regional:
"ok, take the casters off!!"
"no, no, put it back on!"
"alright, then... take it off"
"what? it's off? put it back on!!"
"fine, it should come off!"

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Team 525 requests the assistance of team 217, The ThunderChickens!

::After much hesistation and furious head shaking by Paul Copioli, giving hand signals on the sideline::
"Little" Swando: um, I don't think so!

::After crowd gasps, Little walks away, then comes back to mic::
Little: ....Graciously.



That was definetly the best quote I heard. It was funny that as our team was talking about it in the bus were we stopped in michigan, guess who pulls up in there bus- none other then those unmistakable green shirts. I would like to add my friend stevie's quote there,
" why did the chickens cross the road........... to get to Burger King!" (had to be there)

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"Looks like we found the secret to success... less suc and more cess!"

"Go Blue! Go Blue!" "We're the red alliance this time!!!" "But our team captain is named Blue!"

"You're security check came through, you're an official adult now."

"I should be called Super Joo, I'm more Jewish than Larry."

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I don't remember which team it was, but at the Buckeye regional, some team had "Team X is in need of a new robot" announced. :ahh:

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"You're my boy BLUE!!!!!" was quite the popular random saying this year :p

This year I also got a lot of "You wanna trophy/award/prize?!!"'s however I have yet to see one of them and am starting to get agitated!!!! :mad: But they prmised me i'll get mine and whats good for me after Nationals! :D