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During a Skype chat between me and two of the programmers:

Programmer 1: Here are the parts we got...resistors <tosses bag>...capacitors <tosses bag>...perf board <tosses bag>...<silence>...

Me: When you tossed that perf board did it happen to land on your mute button?

Programmers: <smiles followed by laughter as the audio returns>...whoops :p

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While watching fireworks:
Me: "I kind of want to yell "OINK OINK" before one of these goes boom"
Alex: "Oink oink"
Firework: BOOMMMMMM *shower of orange and green sparks*

...and then my normal friends gave us the most confused looks you have ever seen.

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"we be homie leaning like WHOA!!!!!!"

we were planning on having a hanging bot and whenever it hung it did it on it's side. so one of the mentors just said it and it stuck. unfortunately for us we took off the item for it to hang but the joke never went away

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Mech: "I don't wanna spill oil on the robot."
Me: "BP?"

Chairmans team member to my dad: "Are you a girl scout?"

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Programmer: "the code is NEVER "wrong", its just not "exactly whats desired". Even then it comes with "extra free functions""

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Me: <some request involving difficult programming solution>
Programmer: "But thats hard, I'm not sure I can do that..."
Me: "You have six weeks to figure it out, and we aren't doing swerve so you could do this stuff...I have faith in you, and if you want I could try and help you!"
Programmer: "you need to build the robot, and ill make it move and stuff"

the classic software v. hardware debate...

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Me (Programmer): I'll write the auto-aim when you make a ball possessor that actually works (My response to anyone complaining that some other team has an auto-aim)

"The robot's doing exactly what I told it to do...I just left a bit open to interpretation"

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Software. Mentor to student. Code writing can get a little heated:

"I'll static your face!!"

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"______ drilled a hole in the table!"

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"The red alliance has three of the best robots IN ALL OF FIRST, but THE BLUE ALLIANCE HAS TWO TRAMPOLINES!!!!! THE BLUE ALLIANCE HAS TWO TRAMPOLINES!!!!!!"~Karthik @ IRI 2010

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If we're going into Karthik @ IRI quotes, then here's one I heard today that I liked when he was pleading to the FMS while a Ke$ha song was playing:

"Green light, your love is my drug!"

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This was a real chat taken from Steam just now: (I'm demosthenes, another programmer is Bot190)

2:29 PM - Bot190 {166}: So, i have an idea for using the ultasonic sensor
2:29 PM - [8Db] Demosthenes {166}: oh boy
2:29 PM - Bot190 {166}: hehe
2:29 PM - Bot190 {166}: And encoders
2:30 PM - Bot190 {166}: Basically, the robot moves forward, and takes a reading with ultrasonic facing left, then it turns so its facing right, takes a reading
2:30 PM - Bot190 {166}: move forward, repeat
2:30 PM - Bot190 {166}: Logging all the info to a txt file
2:30 PM - Bot190 {166}: Then have a program that takes this data and makes a vmf
2:30 PM - Bot190 {166}: Which is a map file for the source engine
2:30 PM - [8Db] Demosthenes {166}: oh god

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In the hotel room at IRI, we were discussing reasons to not open the door to let our roommate back in.

"You're not supposed to talk to strangers!"
"But what if he has candy!?"
"YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO TALK TO STRANGERS!"
"But what if it's Dave Lavery?"
"Why in the world would you let him in!?"
"KARA WHAT IF IT'S A ROBOT???"
...or something like that.

"We have five robots and one vacuum on the field..."

There was a mentor sitting in the stands behind us when I was sitting with 2337 during the mentor matches at IRI, and he liked my "gearrings."
Mentor: "Those are really neat! I guess that makes you kind of a gear head!"
2337 mentor: "Actually, she's on the Gearheads. The team, the Gearheads."

(looking at one of the alliances on the field, with 1902 and 1114 on it)
"Oink oink...Canada?"

"I hate how cold aluminum gets when it gets cold, and how hot aluminum gets when it gets hot"

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My best friend hears ALL about FIRST...including all the inside jokes [non-functional duct-tape and all]...he wants SO bad to be on an FRC team but lives on the other side of the country, way out in the hills....anyways. I was talking with him about FIRST, and how awesome the sense of community is, and he says, 'Like one big geeky duct-tape covered family!'
...there should be a Facebook group for FIRST Robotics Wanna-be's.

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Saints win the superbowl!- victory saying
Wov!- another victory saying created during a game of scrabble