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L: "Why is it called a Female Port?"
J: "Because it has a opening."
L: "What?"
J: "Yeah a male is like a piston"
L: "Repeat it again."
J: "Yeah its like a piston!"
Je: "This is when a piston is turned on (Extended) and this is when a piston is turned off (retracted)"
etc......

Me: "We have weird students...."

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My Students:
"Lets name the robot Chewbacca!!"
"No! Steve!"
"Lets just name the robot 'Chuck Norris'!!!"

Me:
"oy vey... here we go again." :rolleyes:

(we're a rookie team, if you haven't guessed! :P )

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Ah yes, explaining the difference between male and female connectors. Engineers are clever, aren't they?

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So clever that they have a male electrical connection inside a female insulation connector. So what to call the thing, eh?

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Team captain: "It's really nice to come home with a towel holder." *Holds up award*

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"Can I call my own methods?" - Kyle M.

And an old one...
"Friendly advice: If you crash with the cRIO, you might as well keep driving... right off a cliff" - When we were talking about driving the cRIO over to a programmer's house.

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This looks dangerous... Lets do it!!

-an electrician
-(me)

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This conversation ensued after our new parts had just come back from being made spiffy (can't remember the name of the process), and amongst a large amount of other talk:
(Romar is last year Robot)

"Romar is looking at the new robot parts with jealously."
"Maybe it's not jealousy! Maybe it's something... else."
"These parts are really sexy after all."
"What gender is the new bot?"
"Male!"
"See? Romar doesn't lust after him then."
"No way! The new bot is female! Lala designed it in CAD!"
"No! All robots are male!"
"THEN MAYBE ROMAR IS GAY!"
"No way!"
"Hey! Enmar, is Romar gay?"
"No."
"See?"
"The new bot could still be a girl."
...and then it just continued until the food arrived. xD


And another, one from my years on team 1432:
"Why is this wire labeled 'Don't Ask'?"

...One more edit. A reject sentence from our Chairman's essay:
"We massacred their brains with knowledge and shot them up with logic..." (In referance to hosting a FIRST Lego League)

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As for robot orientation, I think robots are like ships, always female... So I guess straight males / gay females can call parts sexy if they really want? I dunno.

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One of my favorites:
[quote='Josh']Why do you call (electronics or code) sexy?[/code]

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Carrying on with the theme of this page...:D

About a week ago, we got a new pair of wire-strippers:

Student 1: "Ooh! New strippers!"
Student 2: "What should we name our stripper?"
Student 1: "I know how to find out!"
<student 1 goes to online "what is your stripper name?" quiz>
Student 1: "Her name is Crystal!"

So those wire strippers are now called Crystal. Today, we got another new pair of wire strippers. These are the automatic spring-loaded kind.

Student 1: "Aww...but we already have Crystal."
Student 2: "These can be the male strippers!"
Student 1: "Awesome!"
<student 1 checks stripper quiz>
Student 1: "His name is Dave!"

So those wire strippers are now called Dave.

My team actually named every one of their batteries. 'Nuff said.

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My team has named EVERYTHING this year. The chassis frame, gearboxes, wheels, wheel brackets, bumpers, camera, battery cart, and most of the team members' stomachs all have names. The best part of that is all of the mentors know all of the names and refer to the pieces by name.

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"Stop messing around over there!"
"My codes compiling."
"Oh, ok then...carry on"

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We do have fun with the label maker. Most bots have a common "If you can read this flip me over" on the bottom, as well as reasonable part names ("the beak" from 2007), but others have no purpose. Examples:
"You spin me right round baby right round" - 2009 crab pods, 2006 ball sorter
"Handicapped Entrance" - 2009 sucker, 2004 sucker
"Wheeeeeeeeeeee" - 2009 shooter wheel

Some parts are also named, generally not with actual names. Most ball collectors are named "Ball-O-Fiers", we once had a tubulator (2007), the initial shooter in 2006 was the "flingificationator", and the ramp-climbing feet on the 2003 robot were named "happy feet".

Some names originate in "chetspeak", the way Chet talks. Ball-O-Fiers are a great example.

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We have a Carl too, he always goes "You haven't done it right until you have taken it apart and put it back together 3 times..."

Also, someone else said today "The 'shooter' isn't going to do anything if y'all hide from it"