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I'm not sure if I should be mortified or laughing my rear end off...

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You know, Dave has been such a good sport about this. I mean, all these jokes and he's only said eight words in response. Such a doll...

(I've figured it out--next year's game will involve robots popping balloons shaped strikingly similar to my head.)

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Just wait until January. I want to see the look on your face when the announcer says: "Welcome to the 2006 FIRST Robotics Competition, and this year's game 'Whack The Billfred'"

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Does that mean all these pneumatic cannons ive been seeing are going to be legalized for game use?

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Yeah, but they are not near strong enough to be allowed to use on the billfred balloons. Those 'balloons' are going to be soo thick that you need a spike in the spud to pop the balloons, and the spud needs a gasoline propellant.

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i saw pneumatic cannon, and immeaditly went to potatoe cannon.
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In that case, someone's going to have to pass the hat around for a plane ticket and room in Manchester--the finances (and a little bit of team structure this year) are keeping me in Colatown for kickoff.

(By the way, a piece of advice to all those who haven't gone to Manchester for Kickoff before: Go. It's something you have to do at least once in your time in FIRST.)

<edit>Wait--how are teams going to play Whack The Billfred? There's five regionals going on at once, and only one of me (thankfully, some would say). And I kinda have to take classes and such. I sense a red herring.</edit>

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Not to worry Billfred, Ohmies are here for you with our Development of Outstanding Mechanics (DOOM) group. Here's a picture of our latest project.

(Note: not the fire hydrant) We can guaranty a Billfred for all the regionals! :D

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Heh heh heh - yeah, sure...

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Define "whack". Do you mean "bop him on the head", or the mafia definition that we're not supposed to know about? :p

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You mean DAVE knows a photoshop program? Or did Heidi do this one? If it was Dave who did this, then why don't we see more "altered" views of Heidi?

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Now I'd pay to play that!

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Ohhh, I'm sure we will soon... ;)

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Now that's cold.

Although the image (which I somehow missed--what the heck?!) does give me hope for this year. I mean, if Dave's got 13 as the score, then that can just be 12.93 with rounding, riiiiiiiiight? :D

(Or maybe I'm missing something--the address for Preston College is 1323 Greene Street. Perhaps we're getting a green alliance as well?)