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Its been a fun season! I m already set for the next!
:D

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Not as much a quote but more of a story:

After we powered up our bot last season at the competition, for some unknown reason after its been sitting idle for about a minute, the code error light turns on (requiring an RC reset to work correctly). So sometimes when we put the bot out on the playing field right before a round and the judges are taking a long time to introduce the teams, we got that annoying code error light and would have to reset it (using the button on our OI), otherwise our autonomous mode would not run. So every round the drivers and I (field coach) would helplessly stand there praying the code error light didn't turn on again before the round officially started.
Several times I sprinted back onto the playing field while the judges introduced the teams (with the judges permission of course) to power down the bot and power it back up and hope that darned light never came back on.

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Me (mechanical team) to a programmer when we realised we were a few ounces from being under 120 pounds...


Z- hey, i was wondering, do you guys think you could make your bits lighter?
CS- i'm not sure, but that seems like it's a hardware problem, the chips are physical objects aren't they?

we then realised that we had used 1/4 inch lexan as a shield for our control board... yes, it's overkill, yes, it weighs 5 pounds, and yes, it's important to bullet-proof the control board...

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One day our team was eating KFC for dinner. Kate is sitting next to the Mountain Dew.
Matt and Joe are seniors (or were, they have graduated since), Kate is Joe's younger sister.

Matt: Hey, Kate, is there any Mountain Dew left?
Kate: Yes.
Matt: Hey, Kate, Dew me!!!
At this time the entire team bursts out laughing.
Joe (after a half second): That's my sister!!!!!!!

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We were voting on how many wheels the robot should have at the beginning of the build season. Our mentor gave everyone a slip of paper and told them to write how many wheels they thought the robot shoud have on it. After, we were counting votes. This is not exact words.

Mentor - Six, six, four, six, ... Apple Pie! What the...!!!
Team starts laughing
J.Z. - that was me.
J.H. - What the ****!!! I voted for that too!!!
Mentor - What the!!! You two were across the room from eachother!!! And who voted for unicycle?
Team laughs even harder
C.G. (my BFF) - *raises hand*

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you forgot the part where a senior looked at me and said

"You.... are a genious"

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"There's something you know that I don't. Which closet did you lock it in?"

This was said a good while ago, just before our last Bayou Regional. Just remembered it. =P

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from our about 50 year old engineer: "We pimped it good!" (shortly after we got our articulating chassis working from last year)

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Me: "We need to find a girlfriend for Eric."
Eric: "What? You need to find a drillpress for me?"
Me: "Yeah, lets go with that. We need to find a 'drillpress' for him."

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"But that would have required planning ahead"
--answer to any idea that would have made our lives a lot easier if we had thought of it a month ago.

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Go to Woooork! - Josh Sjorsma

I dont know how to use the bandsaw... - Student not to be named:]

Lenny: so how heavy are our balls? (Track balls)
Ollie: We have 10 pound balls lenny
John: no. our balls are 8 pounds
Ollie: HE mite have 8 pound balls but we have 10 pound balls

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"Anything's a nail if you have a big enough hammer"

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"Whats a Track ball?" asked one of the second year members.

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"It didn't work so i just deleted it." -- rookie programmer(code folder befor: 2mb after:16 kb)


"steerings broke! fix it!" "why you telling me? i program. i can make you a manual of how to fix it though."

"we need more pot!"--me forgetting to add the "entiometers" at the end.

"let me go! i did your work now let me eat!"--me being ducktaped to a chair to finish the programming(time in chair: 8 hours) now we have 5 programmers instead of one *me*

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Samir, don't electricute yourself!

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we have this freshmen who is constantly breaking things, his name is jon. (now he is a sophmore) so now we rate things around the shop at how many jons they can take. for instance the cieling tiles are 1 jon, the miter saw is 15 jons, the air drills are 8 jons, the microwave is 3 jons, and so on. (yes he somehow broke a cieling tile)

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On our team and I'm sure its the same on others, we have lots o failures. And we will always rate things that happen using different levels of fail, like "wait for it, borderline fail, minor fail, fail, epic fail, major epic fail" and soo on. So this year we have created a large poster sized "Failometer". It is awesome I will try and post the document once I get my hands on it. We will have it up in our shop and have a marker that will mark what level of failure we are currently at, kind of like the fire warnings or the security threat level stuff.

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"we're spreading the gospel of engineering."
-our team president

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"A new scratch a day means a robot will soon be at play"

Goes back to the hands paradox of the build season.

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A bit of wood filler and it was as good as new. Referencing when our chain broke and scratch the gym's floor.

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"Me: Chiefdelphi is like facebook, except everyone on it is just as obsessed with robots as me!

other person: oh..."

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something we saw taped to the robot a couple of times....

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"More purpler"

and

"Work harder on a program that works!"

(more to come as I remember them)

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kid walking into the physics class room where we work:
"Wow, smells like... physics"

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That's pretty funny/clever.

It would be cool to see another meter rating achievements/successes alongside.

Edit: so as not to hijack the thread - in response to Andrew's Bacon Scale posted below - I was thinking along the lines of daily successes as well - looking at team-building development, organizational development, development of a business plan, developing a safety plan and practicing it. A big slice of bacon could be awarded to the team if they make it through build without any safety accidents or injuries - possibly rating it week by week. That way every team qualifies for the bacon in their shop. Not just CA winners or robot competition winners - although those certainly could earn a slab of bacon. :)
Just a thought.

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I would vote for this scale being called the bacon scale. This is X slices of Bacon, this is Y slices of Bacon. Like winning a regional would be 100 slices of Bacon, winning Chairman's would be 200, hearing your physics teacher sing Superbeast by Rob Zombie would be 500 slices.. etc etc

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Programmer:
"Oh no, now i have to try programming it while its spinning"

Me: "hey, could i please use your BBQ to heat my hammer?"

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Team member: We need a team bonding activity.
Team member 2: Bowling!
Team member 3: Paint ball!
Mentor: Fishing... :rolleyes:

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Last year's best line:

"2x4's aren't two by four, you moron!"

All-time best line (circa 2005)

"Mr. I, can you can you come down here, preferably running?"

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"So the Ultrasonic is going to determine what color the track ball is!"

"One divided by zero is zero, right?"
Everyone else: "NOOO!"

Mentor- "Don't mess with success guys..."
Us- "No, we're messing with FAIL!"

Me and Coach to Driver:"No! Get the blue trackballs!"
(This was in Atlanta, and we had had 5 red alliance matches in a row, so our driver was confused when we were on blue alliance.)

Edit: "EPIC FAILURE! *clap clap, clap clap clap*"

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Mentor: Be careful with the T-Handle wrench especially, it gives you a lot of torque.
Student:T is for Torque!

He was so excited too.

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The first of the pre-season!

"Did she just projectile hug you!?" - Itchy

"Required = Have to do it!" - Josh (Talking about mandatory meetings)

"As I know, teenagers are habitual time wasters." -Will

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When cleaning out our closet:

"Sporkets" --label on the Sprocket box

"Ahh! I have internet on my head!"--our president, getting his hair caught in an ethernet connector

"I have added safety" --Me putting a "Duck" sign on the cable

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"Stupid hose" --James getting frustrated installing pressure lines during our first year with pneumatics

"Corey doesn't like the strippers because they're flat?" --Me responding to a student telling a coach not to use a pair of wire strippers


OMAIGAWD THERES MORE

Camoryn- "Its a random fluctuation in the space-time continuum"

Camoryn- "go into the shop and tell them the popcorn's ready"
Me- *walks into the shop* "guys, the popcorn's ready" *two newbies walk out* "knew it"
Sam(freshman)- "I didn't come here for the food"
Me- "THAT'S what I want to hear, THAT'S the attitude I'm looking for!"
*Sam begins walking out from behind the workbench*
Me- "NOW GET BACK OVER THERE!!"


This is from the InvenTeam season, I guess it still counts...
Coach(referring to me)- "you, um, gah... sketchup kid."
Me(looking up from computer with a certain level of wtf)- "what?"
Me(later that day)- "Hold on, if I'm 'sketchup kid', whats that make him(Cedric)?"
Coach- "you, the black one!"


And one from game design class with 'the black one'
Cedric- "Someone said Riu from Street Fighter could beat Scorpian from Mortal Kombat. I said no way, Scorpian could take Riu any day of the week."
Me- "ANY day? Dude, he could take Riu EVERY day of the week: GET OVER HERE!"

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Also one that was written on the whiteboard during the FTC season (anyone who saw the 'gnomes' episode of South Park will get it):

PHASE 1: Build robot
PHASE 2:
PHASE 3: WIN


...and it was later written over by the teacher:

PHASE 1: Build robot
PHASE 2: rebuild robot the night before competition so it works
PHASE 3: WIN

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:D This one actually found its way onto our Chairman's Award video.
person 1: "the problem is that these holes don't line up"
person 2: "holes never line up"

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Minions are like cats- they only come to you when they want something and you're working. Other than that they just sit there and eat.

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I heard this one on ship date

"It's only temporary, we'll fix it later"

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"That's a software problem"--said by our mechanical leader after a bunch of gears fell out of our drivetrain


"Hey, let's put a gyro on it!"--said at the end of the first day of a regional
*two hours of hacking later after the gyro screwed up all our analog inputs*
"Okay, I think I've removed all the tentacles of gyro.c from the code"

"It's the PneuMetal!"--our driver noticing that the "Pneumatics" and "Metal" labels got stuck together

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a quick said quote, that is now our team motto

"Tats to easy"

where if you know our team, it fits right in, we just seem to make everything much more complicated that it should be!!:rolleyes:

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"Team 470 Alpha Omega Robotics is looking for a blue bumper, if any team has an extra blue bumper please return it to team 470"

At Kettering kickoff in September someone from another team stole one of our bumpers and we still haven't gotten it back, but that was the announcement made.

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We used red superballs on the end of our forklift, and they tended to fall out... so when they did fall out the MC at Philadelphia said

"And 1727 has released its rolley red apple things onto the field"

Needless to say we just got rid of them after it happened a second time.

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"Water game? Ice field? ROBOTS ON ICE! It's a new musical coming to a town near you!" :yikes:

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"Oh we changed that...You didn't know?"

"Its Robert's fault./ Robert did it."
(He is a senior from last year and everything was always blamed on him, though it was rarely actually his fault.)

"Go ask Mr. Epp."
(He's our mentor.)

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Someone had marked the location for a bolt, and it needed to be drilled out. They asked Justin, one of the fabricators, but failed to think before they spoke.

"Justin, Drill my Hole."

Laughter ensues.

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Me: ".............."

After I sanded my fingers down and just walked out the door ;_;

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Hey, so we're NOT the only team who has problems with spelling! Our cart for "Finished Atlas Parts" (Atlas is our 2008 bot) was labeled "Finshed Atlas Parts" instead :D

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We have a spot on the board (and now a program) dedicated to stupid remarks one of our mentors likes to make.

Our shirt said last year "You may not know this, but I'm kind of a big deal". It was meant as a joke (which got passed around the rest of the daY0, but the person ordering the t-shirts didn't realize that

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"So, how was the Build season?"

In unison: ".........................."

During the elevator ride up to the top of the Hyatt at 2007-2008's competition in Milwaukee.

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What do you mean 2007-2008 competition? the Overdrive competition was 2008, the Rank and Roll competition was 2007. Neither overlapped.

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lol...thats bound to happen after build season ;)

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some of our team had to try a couple of times with a label maker.

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Rather than the classic "Madness? This is robotics!"...
..."Madness? This is Lunacy!

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agreed :D

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"Every board is smart, in the right hands."- one of our mentors

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"If you mess up in life, you can always make it better, but if you're drawing with Sharpies and you mess up, you gotta start over, man!"

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Along similar lines:
"We don't suffer from lunacy... we enjoy every minute of it!"
- Me

"Okay, for practice, we're playing basketball."
- One of my advisors

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"It has to suck up the balls effectively and NOT suck balls.":P

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"I know what I'm doing because I have the sharp pointy object!"--our president
"what if we have an inflatable robot?"-Fish

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"You are the ARCTIC Warriors. You are playing on an ICY floor. You HAVE to call your robot "The Zamboni" - Me to my old team, 174 the Arctic Warriors on this year's game.

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This is a list of quotes we have from one of our mentors. Its actually on the back of a t-shirt that we made.

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddh2h7fc_2hdkm8rgp

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One of my presonal favorites:
"are you sure we cant make a bot that gives the crowed a seizure?"

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Two of my favories:

"2x4's ARENT 2x4, you Moron!"

"A spark? Where? Turn it back on and show me... Thats not a spark, thats a FLAME!!"
(this quote is where our robot in 2007, Sparky, got its name!)

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this was when we were discussing how rule g14 stinks.

"if your robot stinks, it stinks. if your robot rocks it rocks, get over it." -coach 1
"no you mean moon rocks"-coach 2

*slaps head*-me

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"Its a series of tube"-said alot more that once most of the times in context and some of the times just because we cant get it out of our heads :p

"Lets just ship the 06 bot...it was a champion"

*Looks at a really tiny netbook computer:"Its the new ipod"

OLDIE: "Its the WWE for smart people"---never gets old.

Bonus point for knowing the joke behind the first quote.

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lol...thats funny our team got the name back in 1999 because our 1st robot sparked ;)

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Well i can't think of any quotes, but here are some funny things that happened at some of our meetings, most of which iI heard through word of mouth.


1. the team is working on our '07 robot, and while they are huddled around the robot one of the other members starts "flying an x wing" with the controllers nearly decapitating the entire team.

many more but too tired to type, just got home from a meeting...(2. I was riding a trash can.:D )

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Sometimes people just set themselves up for the perfect quote...

C: -stands up and looks down- Aw man, I got wood...-pauses to wipe off his shirt-

-the rest of us look around, waiting for someone to laugh first-

C: ...all over my shirt. -is just now realizing what happened- No! I have wood on my shirt from cutting!

-by now the whole class is cracking up-

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"Quick grab the donuts so we can bribe the janitor into letting us stay longer!"

"It doesn't have to work, it's only a test!"

"Hey, where there this many pieces left over last time we put it together?"

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*at kickoff* "Ahhh robotics events...the only places where the men have a line for the bathroom too..."

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"Stop Shooting Those Staples At Me!!!!"

"I wonder if they knew they were going to run out of balls." - regarding FIRST's decision to use the orbit balls

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"Where are your nuts? Tell me where your nuts are!" -tonight at the meeting

"So we got a new working camera for the robot, and you're using it to film Alex's butt?" -tonight

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Someone on our team had a problem with writing, she wrote the numbers on our front bumper upside down.


Another one I said last year which I didn't realize I had, and I'm glad the other person did.

(me working on the robot)
"Hey Grace, Screw me"
(she reaches for a screw, then stops, hesitates and says)
"NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!"

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One I've heard quite a bit this year, "That's what she said"

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One of the girls on my team while we were brainstorming said "How do we get from that to the robot"

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We had something similer to that but our mentor asked

Mentor: "So how good is your basketball team"
Me: "Runner up in the state championship"
Mentor: "So what is the chance that some of them would come to the competition"
Me: "That's not happening"
Mentor: "So how good are you at basketball"

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When discussing how to decide how to build the robot:
Student: What do you guys do at Medtronic?
Mentor: What do we do at Medtronic? We dance! :)

During a strategy discussion:
Mentor: So what I want you to do now... *tools clatter to the ground* ...is laugh at Stolte because he just dropped that...

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I take offense to this. I say the numbers were right-side-up and it was the bumper that was built upside-down. Also, in 2007 the bumpers didn't really have an upside-down or right-side-up. I was not used to the new system. Besides, our robot was the best upside-down-team-numbered robot ever!

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My robot's number was painted upside-down on the front bumper. :P

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YAY! It's not just me!!! I must share this information with my team! :)

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I was picking my friend up on the way to Kickoff...

"KICKOFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!"
"SHHH! MY MOM IS SLEEPING!"

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Well does it help you to say that the bumpers were built first BEFORE they were painted?:rolleyes:

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Thats ok, we put these big stickers on our side panels for out bot last year. I put them on upside down....

*mentor drops pen*
Mentor: $@#$@#$@#$@# gravity

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YES THE GREEN LIGHT'S BACK ON! said right after finally getting the cRIO to detect itself.

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Person1: "Why are the router and the gaming adapter on two seperate logical networks?"
Me: "A) Define logical B) Because it's not logical"



2008RobotInspector:"Quick put out the fire before the judge comes!" -this was one that the inspector told us he heard one year.

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Freshman: "How would i go about cutting this?" (Holds up object)
Mentor: "with Hopes and Dreams"
Freshman: "I don't have any of those...."

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We have created something in robotics called outside jokes. They are jokes that no one gets. It would be too confusing to explain that one. At any rate, I tried to explain the concept to someone else on the team earlier.

"Inside jokes some people get, but not others. Outside jokes no one get. Inside out jokes some people don't get, but they get why they don't get it, and other people don't get it, and don't get that they don't get it. Outside in jokes one person gets it, another gets that they don't get it, and someone else doesn't get that they don't get it. You get it?"


Got that?

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at our meeting today:

J: "it was so cool, I was walking through the mall with my shoes on..." -trails off-
-laughter ensues-
G: "As opposed to...?"

A Few Months ago when we made a goal-height measuring-block for VEX Elevation:
R: "but you see, mine is 21 inches tall, and yours is only 9"
-laughter around the room-
R: -smirk-

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Mentor: "Here keystock keystock keystock! *whistle* Here keystock keystock!!!"


Mentor: "It's an itty bitty part"
Captain: *sings* "Itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini..."
Mentor: "Ok, I didn't need the visual for that one...thanks"


We were talking about the music that we had playing at the time...and we got on the topic of an Alice Cooper concert that one of our designers went to a while ago.
"...and there were a lot of older people there who thought it was still the 70s"
Mentor: "It's not?"


Student: "BOO YAY!"


*hilarious joke is made, student begins laughing hysterically*
Me: "I think we killed him"
Student *recovers from laughing spasm*: "I've been dead for three years"
Mentor: "Well, that explains a lot of his behaviors"

Mentor: "Ten minutes until cleanup!"
Other Mentor: "Ya--I mean, nooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

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I got that xD I like it.

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"I just slapped you in the face with physics, and you still disagree with me!" me.

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Force dump.

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"It must have been a teacher who did that, an engineer would never do that."

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Coach: "No software, no sensors, just motors"
Captain: "Ok, software can be our backup"

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This one was at the Cleveland Regional in 2008.
A fellow mentor and I were talking with a mentor from another team in his pit area. While he was talking to us, he turned around and said to some of the students on his team "Tards, stop that!" My fellow mentor said "Why do you call them Tards?" The mentor replied "Because they can't be retards until they do it again."

We were quite amused.

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Charlie: "I keep getting called Mam on the phone" (While calling Wal - mart asking about the orbit balls)
Kostas (Mentor) - "Don't worry people will take you seriosly eventully."

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This really isn't a quote but it is really funny

Alex and Billy are two of our mentors who are mechanical engineers. Most of our mentors are enviornmental engineers. Alex and Billy don't usually come but one day they were helping us (since I was the only student there) we needed a triangle shaped piece of lexan and they offered to help. (Alex is Billy's boss and he knows that he could not do what he does without Billy and Billy knows that too.) So they tried to cut the triangle out and you could hear them arguing
Billy: That is not right are you a idiot"
Alex: "No I am not trust me I know what I am doing."
They come back with a triangle shaped piece of Lexan and try and fit it in. It won't go in.
Billy: "See I told you so nw it is my turn to try"
Alex: *growls*
Billy comes back looking smug and he tries his it does not fit either. They try 18 more times and on the 21st try they fially get one that fits. Then Billy goes
Billy: "See I told you I could do it"
At that point Sandra (one of our other mentors) are on the ground laughing. The team now has so mny inside jokes about that exprience

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While building a trailer:
Mentor: We're going to make sure the wheels go roundy-roundy first.

During robot design discussions:
"I don't think we can fit the cRIO into a soup can."

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its half cat half cat - nick decker

50 dolers!!!! ( thats the way it was pronounced) - santiago the guy from spain

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Once my friend on the team was like "I hope there's no hidden mines on this course!" lol! gotta love her