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We let Nate one of our programmers play with the autoadjustable wrench for a few minutes

Nate: "ahh. I closed it on my nose.!"
Me: "This is why we do not let you play with the powertools, Go back to your laptop,"

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Student at the competition to a random team

"Do you have any canned air? We got saw dust in the control system?"
*Very weird look.*

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Student: what ya doing?
Mentor: bending lexan
Student: by melting it?
Mentor: by heating it untill it acheaves plastic deformation
Student: right melting it because its made of plastic
Mentor: yes and at the same time a great big no

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Our build site is in our school chemistry lab
Mentor: "Why is there a drill bit in this syringe?"

Marshall: "Well I am going to be honest here. Amanda looked like she was getting dehydrated again so I saw the syringe. I took some water from the sink and squirted her with it. Well at least I think that it was water. Actually I hope it was water. Well anyway I pushed the plunger thingy down with so much force that it cracked."

Mentor: "So there is a drill bit in it why?"

Marshall: "I wanted to make sure it was really cracked so I stuck a drill bit in it"

Mentor: "OOh that makes a lot of sense *rolls her eyes* come on guys you have to pay attention. we are in a chemistry lab and what if that was not water that you took out of the sink. You have to watch what you are doing and where you are putting things and move things that can be harmful. (turns around and almost knocks over the 6.0 M hydrochloric acid)

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on saturday at the oregon regionals, one of our team members [Keaton] brought in a Mr. peanut suit :yikes: and the shortest team member [Ian] had to wear it. then when our boeing mentor Kyle said "Hey Ian, I heard on a news report that there was a giant squirrel out to get you!" :)

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"Mrs. XXX told me not to by any paddle balls, so I ordered 4 dozen! She told me not to buy any hacky sacks, so I got 4 dozen. She told me not to buy any more boas, so I ordered 50! She told me not to buy any more aliens, so I bought, I don't even know how many!"

MARS is gonna have lots of goodies to give out in Orlando.

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"I think I might be a robot stalker. I sit around on Chief Delphi waiting for teams like Beach Bots and Pink to release photos of their robot."

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On our packing of the controls we withheld-

"It looks like a demented Missile Silo decorated for Christmas, but it'll hold."

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A student during Bacon's social "I met people who are like me"

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over the DC pa system... "attention in the pits, team 365 needs hugs, team 365 needs hugs."

Monday after we got back, Kevin sat down at the lunch table and said, "I felt like I fit in there." All I could think for a minute was, 'this is so cool- I feel like it's my fault he said that'

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well today our coach, myself, and a couple of other students were cleaning up our work space. we were in the process of sorting through some scrap metal when my coach pulls our a piece and begins to say what we could've used this for...
my teammate john grabs a similar piece and goes...

John-what is this, aluminum?
coach- no its metal.

of course we craked up:D

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student to mentor: "we're in twelfth"
mentor: "cool"
a little while later....
student to mentor: "we're second!"
mentor: "I don't believe you, go take a picture"
she does, and shows him....
a little while later...
student to mentor: "we're first!!!!!"
mentor: "Nooo....."

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"Back in the days when my friends and I used to hack satellites..." Chad Miller our technology mentor, we promptly closed his office door so he wouldn't get arrested.

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As he is telling us some of the "stupid things we've done."
Chad: "There was a bridge..."
Cody: "Did you blow that up too?"

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"Hey, that shooter setup looks like it could potentially break the limit switch..."
"Let's test it!" (proceeds to bang shooter arm as hard as possible against the piece of 80/20 which it normally rests on)

"Ok, new plan. We duct-tape the programmers to their chairs until the camera tracking works."

"How's the flyweel shooter working?"
"We've renamed it. It's now the duct-tape and ziptie shooter."
"Why's that?"
"It shoots duct-tape and zipties."

"Robotics is really preparing us for jobs at NASA. Look. We're past deadline, overweight, overbudget, and our [project] doesn't even work!"

"There's a small bug in my password changing script: it won't change the password unless the new password is the same as the old one."

"The harvester almost harvests, the shooter almost shoots, the robot almost drives, and the code almost compiles!"

"Looks like we have to reset our 'number of days without killing a speed controller' counter again. It was up to 4!"

"What smells like smoke?"
"Hey guys, first fire of build season!"
After a few minutes...
"So what happened?"
"A freshman wired four victors backwards and we tried to run a motor in reverse. They shorted and caught on fire."
"Wait, so you killed four victors at once?"
"Yes."
"New high score!"

And my sig.

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YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On our robots shooter "ARE YOU STILL THERE???" and yes that is a portal quote

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I feel compelled to contribute.

Mentor: *checks rankings* That last match bumped us up to 6th. For our first event, we're doing pretty well!
Student 1: ...That's not right. We can't be THAT far up on the first day.
Student 2: What day is it?
Mentor: Uh, Friday the 13th...
Student 3: That explains it. We're just immune to everyone else's suffering.

------
*digging through the electrical bins*
Student 1: *pulls up a tightly wrapped object* Uh, what is this?
Student 2: Lead. Don't ask.
Student 1: Uh...Isn't this kinda dangerous to have in here?
Student 2: We like to imagine it makes the electrons go faster.

------
Marketing Leader: Ooo, I always wanted to solder! Wanna teach me?
Electrical Leader: Sure. We need to find the tips of my fingers and shreds of burnt flesh and we'll set you up.
Marketing Leader: Uh...I'll go work on Chairman's.

------
Programming Leader: Chris!
Chris (Pneumatics Leader): What?
Programming Leader: Robot go "psssh!" Fix!

This later turned into "Beepu" for programming, "Ga-lunk" for drivetrain, "Chrff" for chassis, "Vrrrrk" for gamespec, and "Biz-zit" for electrical.
------
*after weighing the robot for eliminations*
Inspector: Yup! You're fine. Dropped from 119.6 to 118.9.
Mentor: Grea-...Did we lose weight? What? How?
Student: We didn't take anything off...
Mentor: We're going to interpret this as a good sign.
Student 2: I'll go get the duck-tape and the lead block.

------
Sensors Leader: ...Did we just blow a year's worth of Victors?
Student: Uh...
Sensors Leader: ...And how far are we into the build season?
Student: 40 minutes?

------
Mentor 1: *finishing up weight meeting* Haha! And if we need more weight, we'll take it out of programming.
Programming Student: Namun, make your code lighter!
Namun (Programming Leader): *smashing at his computer* I'M CHUNKING AS FAST AS I CAN!

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Driver: Its ROBOTICS!
*activates shooter and smacks a student with a moonrock*

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Student: Should we be worried that the only blood spilled this year is from programming?

------
Sensors Leader: Who're we with next round? Anyone we know?
Scouting Leader: Mr. and Mrs. Stationary Trailer.

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-said by me while designing a T-shirt cannon to mount on the robot for use in a spirit assembly-

"if this injures anybody, we're totally getting arrested for illegal building and use of a mortar":ahh:

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One programming meeting:

Me: We build codes to work not test!
Brandon: Yeah!

Mentors: 'Laughing to hard to respond'

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"In theory it will work"

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One student is deburring a piece of fresh cut metal in our machine shop and slices his finger on a bur.
Another student sees this, "Mr. Kreiger, your son's spewing blood all over the machinery!"
Mr. Kreiger runs into the shop, "Quick, someone get the blood off the lathe and cover the mill."

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"I don't have the brain power to do that."
Needless to say I have said some pretty stupid stuff during the season.

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"All your CH₃CH₂NH₂ are belong to us. You have no chance to survive ha ha ha ha."

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"Yet another mallet with a personality." said when a student found a mallet with smilies drawn on each side.

"That is some of the worst human-playering I ever seen"
"That is the worst grammars I ever heard."

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"We're number 60!"
"We're number 60!"
"We're number 60!"

After epically phailing in our qualification matches...

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"I see your 2x4 is as big as mine."

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Mentor:
"Sparky get of the table!"
"Sparky your not Mr.T!"
"Sparky do the electrical!"

Mentor:"ok break the chain here"
me:"ok wheres the bolt cutter"

"Im hungary"

"its inhumane to be awake this early!!"

"When in dout blame luke(mentor)"

"just burn it off"

"o thats suppose to be on fire"

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When I was fixing our 2008 robot's steering feedback system for a demonstration. The robot is sitting on the ground so that we can test the effect of friction on the Ackermann system:
New member:So what funny stories do you have about this robot
Me:I don't know, they're not usually all that funny since they usually end in people getting hurt
*3 minutes later*
New member:What does this do?(picks up joystick)
John: DON'T TOUCH THAT IT'S THE THROTTLE!!!!
Me:Okay, that one was kind of funny

"You know, if we tweaked the color parameters, this could become a humane substitute for bullfighting"--while I was testing the color tracking by wearing a pink shirt and getting chased around by the robot

"The robot might oscillate slightly"--me, about 5 seconds before the robot starts spinning around at maximum speed(it turns out gyros are harder to use than I thought)

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Me: "Okay, the robot should turn about 90 degrees now."
<robot spins around three times, I look at the code>
Me: "Oops, I told it to turn 900 degrees."
Mentor: "Well, at least it was working on it."

Mentor: "Okay, everyone needs to pitch in to pay for the pizza."
Student: "Would you like this five or this ten?"
Mentor: "The five is fine. You donate whatever you want."
Student: "I'm asking you; do you want the five or the ten."
Mentor: "I'll take the ten."
Other Student: "That's five dollars closer to Atlanta!"

Student (excitedly): "I got someone to donate $100 for Atlanta!"
Mentor: "Great; now you can fly first class."

At least one scouting sheet each day: "Sorry; watched Kilroy."

Our favorite Apples-to-Apples plays:
-Lazy: creamed corn
-Perfect: my friends
-Sensuous: largemouth bass

"They haven't updated it yet?"
-Repeated by members of various teams roughly once every five seconds as we waited for the rankings to be updated with the latest matches.

Mentor: "Let's take the shooter mechanism off the robot."
Student: "We can't do that; we're sixth in the bullpen."
Mentor: "We're not going to play in the elimination tournament."
Student: "It's always possible."
Mentor: "No; it's not. Take the shooter off."

<pop> "Awww."
-Everyone in the stands each time a balloon popped at Chesapeake.

Programmer: "So, can someone tell me why 'The Idiot's Guide to Amazing Sex' is in the Computers and Technology section?"
Builder: "They knew who would need it."
^And that's a true story; sighted at the Border's in the mall in Annapolis.

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Pit Admin: "Team 1675 is willing to trade jaguars for cougars"
Pit Admin: "Team 1675 is looking for a universal pneumatic actuator"
Pit Admin: "Team 1675 is looking for a Schroedinger Cat Wrench"
We like to do one Pit Admin joke a regional. But the student we sent for Schroedinger's Cat just said Cat Wrench cause he couldn't pronouce Schroedinger.

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HAPPY HILLTOPPERS POST!!!

its post 1732!

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We have little pieces of tubing that stick out on our intake that we call "fingers", and when we were first testing the concept we only had one of them. Someone lost the finger, but my team was working on the intake design and I needed it. I then began yelling "SOMEONE GIVE ME THE FINGER! I NEED SOMEONE TO GIVE ME THE FINGER!"

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I don't know where they came from, but at VCU they were handing out little stress-reliever moons. One of our mentors had a bunch in his backpack when he went out for lunch. When he came back, they checked his backpack, and the lady said, "You have a lot of balls"

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Programming Student: "It's that tan thing..."
Programming Mentor, also the student's dad: "It's not tan, it's beige"
*continued debate about the differences between tan and beige*
Mentor: "I hope you two aren't discussing makeup"

They're all guys.

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"Let me get the whatchamahoosit..."--Me

Watchamahoosit--my term for the bumper measuring device used at the L.A. Regional. It could measure: bumper height, trailer hitch height, and tongue clearance. With a little ingenuity, you could also check the length of a bumper segment.

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During build season:
"Wait, are you duct taping PVC onto 80/20?!"

"Does PVC rust?"

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This is in the pits.

Corey-"Richard, go ask for 20 inches of chain at pit admin"
*I go up to the table wearing this hat*
Me- "Hi, 1793 nee-"
Pit Admin Lady- "OOhhh those ears are so cute!"
Me- "yeah, can I ask for the part now?"

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"I have tried nothing! and i am all out of ideas!"

"remember to unplug the battery before you stripp that.....zzaapp(sparks go flying)....$@#$@#$@#$@#$@# you practically welded the wire stripper to the power wire!!"

"why are you doing electrical?" "cuz i dont want him to do it!"

"Thats what she said!!!!"

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Mark was trying to explain what had happened during alliance selections at what I believe was Cass Tech:

Mark: "So you've got 67 and 217, who else would you choose?"
Me: "Well, who was there?"
Mark: "That doesn't matter"
Me: "67 and 217...Well, in that case, I'd choose 1902. I want to see Exploding Chicken!"
Mark: "One big FIRST barbecue..."

Edit: My 217th post. Loving how the Thunderchickens are mentioned in it.

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Can't remember which team...but at pittsburgh, a team asked for a flux capacitor at the pit admin table. I wanted to go over to that team and say that we have one in 1985.

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Pit Admin (at Dallas): "Team 476 needs a shift register"

Hey, us programmers need to get some humor in now and then.

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"Err guys, is there supposed to be liquid here?"

"So all we need to do is put the plastic thingy on and finish building the robot, right?"

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Said to me: "You should ignore the voices in your head."

At Wisconsin some team asked for a FTL drive, right before me
Me "I WAS JUST GOING TO ASK FOR THAT"
Student: "Think of somethign else."
Me: "How about a Cylon detector."
Student: "Oooh, I have one of those on my iTouch."

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Me: Hey Sandra you might not want to turn the robot on yet.
Sandra (Mentor) - Why would that be?
Me: Becaus we haven't gotten all the sawdust out of the control board yet. :)

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MC at FTC regional: "...and you guys know what you're here for..."
Student: "Robots!"
<audience laughs>

Mentor to judge: "Nice to meet you...and I do know the physics!"
(entire team had just finished explaining to the judge that "our head mentor is a history teacher")

Me: "Would you like to run autonomous in second gear?"
Mentor: "I would like to run it in fifth gear."
(we only have two gears)

On the bus to Chesapeake:
Student: "I have to go to the bathroom."
Mentor: "Go knock on the door of that bus in front of us; its a charter bus and probably has a bathroom."
Student: "No!"
Mentor: "Then you'll have to wait fifteen minutes."
Student: "Okay."

On the bus from Chesapeake:
Student: "I have some bad news."
Mentor: "Hold it!"
<everyone laughs>
Mentor: "You've got fifteen minutes."
Student: "But will we get there soon?"
Mentor: "That would depend on whether your definition of 'soon' includes fifteen minutes."

Safety captain at Pizza Hut: "I have a safety announcement. Everyone walk slowly, no trampling, and save me more than one piece of cheese pizza."

Driver: "The drive system seemed to get worse and worse as the match went on; also, the pivoter doesn't work."
^After this, I look at the code and realize I left the robot in tuning mode, which uses the pivoter switch to adjust a traction control constant.

Mentor: "What value are we sending to the motors?"
Me: "I don't know; let's print it out."
Mentor: "Okay, what's the value?"
Me: "The value is dollar-sign dee."
Mentor: "I think you meant to type percent dee. Try again."

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Saturday, at the end of week 4:
Me: We're running out of time, and we still have to perfect the drive system and write autonomous.
Andrew (programming leader): It's okay, we'll finish teleop and drive this week, then write autonomous next week.
Me: Oh, I didn't realize it was so simple!

Friday night/3:30 Saturday morning, end of week 6:
We have to ship the bot, and the practice bot for a scrimmage:
Me: Okay, the drive should work, what now?
Andrew: I'm tired, lets go home.
Me: What about autonomous?
Andrew: We don't really need it until Chicago (Midwest Regional). We have two more weeks.

Wednesday, week 8:
The day before we leave for the Midwest Regional:
Me: So, what do we have for autonomous?
Andrew: Nothing, but it's fine, I'll write it on the care ride up.

Thursday morning, 10:00ish, week 8:
We just arrived in Chicago:
Andrew: I fell asleep in the car, could you please write autonomous?

Saturday afternoon, Boilermaker Regional:
Alex (Qbranch): How's the autonomous work? I does something different each time.
Andrew: It's supposed to drive forward for 2 seconds, then drive in circles. I have no idea what's going on, it can't even be weird encoder values, it's based entirely on timers.
Me: IT'S BECOME SENTIENT!

We used LabVIEW this season, despite much of us wishing we were using C.
Mr. Kelly is a teacher Andrew and I have, not at the same time.
Me: So, none of us knew LabVIEW going into the season, but all but 1 of us knew C.
Mr. Kelly: Who, Andrew?

Andrew: One of the biggest things I miss about C is that you look smart doing it. You even look smart typing out "Hello World." In LabVIEW no matter what you do, it's just linking pictures together with lines.


*using aluminum pipe to sword fight with Andrew*
Mentor: Hey, why aren't you coding?
Me: The code's deploying.
Mentor: Carry on then.

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These are all funny, but I think the Greatest Quote of 2009 Award must go to Team 177. From a thread on Chief Delphi:

2884: "DUDE! Check that you don't have the wires in the jaguars/victors inverted..."
2883: "I think that might have been our problem....thanks"
2883: "we switched them around and it still doesn't work....do you think we could have fried the jags?"
177: "If you didn't before, you have now..."

I know its probably mean, but I just had to laugh at that one. If someone from 2883 is reading this: don't worry, I know it was an honest mistake (albeit a funny one). :)

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I've got a bunch. And they're all from about an hour or two time span...

Mentor talking about how he went to a Smashing Pumpkins concert a long time ago.
Stoldt: I don't know why people throw shoes. Then they don't have any shoes.

Wishing our lead mentor was here. With our electronics so we could test. This has become a regular quote in the Programming Room.
Cody: We write our code to work! Not to test!

Brian: Documentation is a very important way of life.

(Mentor)Brian: What would you do if you didn't have an answer to everything?
(Student)Brandon: That will never happen!

Brian: I was really impressed there for a second.

Brian: Is that an Xbox to PC adapter?
Chad: Yes
Brian: That takes all the fun out of it!

Cody: Our current speed is 2.32831, which is perfectly exceptional, except it's 2.32831 x 10^-10 power, in inches per second. Continents move faster!

A mentor and I filing down corners on masks for the younger siblings on the team.
Stoldt: Here Cody, run your hands all over the edges and tell me if it makes you bleed.

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Candy: KODY! TURN YOUR PANTS OFF!
Kody: I like my pants being turned on...

Doc: A total piece of stuff on wheels

Candy: Did you just get dressed in the closet?

Candy: How cheap do you think I am?
Waage: I can afford you so...

Candy: I dont get you. Ever.

Josh: Angry whopper is coming!

Hook: Im using the redneck engineering system, if it doesn't work, use a bigger hammer

Ray: Im gonna dance till my voice is gone!

Kody to Candy: Would you like to hold my wood?

(Waage hits his head on a drill press and some type of cutting oil looking stuff starts leaking from his nose) Me: Was that cutting oil or your brain?

And our team celebrated National Thats What She Said Day, but for the girls (like myself), we celebrated National Thats What HE Said Day

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Mentor picks up our human player grippers and starts waving them around.
Mentor "This reminds me of one of those bug sci-fi movies. Where the bug's like 'anghanghangh' and you're like 'ahhhhhh' and the bug is like 'anghanghangh' and you're like 'ahhhhhh' and the bug is like 'anghanghangh'."
Student "Just like that Bryce?"
Mentor "Just like that."

Mentor looks at the loose chains on the robot's pickup.
Mentor "This is all foohgoley."
Other Mentor "Is that a technical term James?"

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Alright guys, this one is from a mentor that works for our sponsor Flexicell. It's half a joke, but still depicting reality with amazing perception.....

"Guys: Measure with a micrometer, mark with a chuck, and cut with an axe!"

:yikes: :D :D :D

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Just got another one from our head mentor:

Student: "Is this the final design for the new shooter?"
Mentor: "It's not a shooter; it a 'pffft'er."

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"Real men don't need master links, they connect chain with pliers and vice-grips."

"Wait, wait, wait. We're 4.5 pounds UNDERWEIGHT?"
"Hey, did you remember to take off the antigravity device before weighing the robot?"

(Sign in our pit) "Danger: 5,000,000,000,000 pV at high impedance!"

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"cut the CERO in half to save on weight"

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Judge: "so whats so special about you robot?"
Me, small pause: "well.... we redesighned our robot in 8 hours..."
Judge:"...."

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"So let me get this straight - you want the Chinese-American to speak Spanish to the Portuguese-speaking Brazilians?"

There was a Brazilian team at the regional that we wanted to talk to. There is a Chinese girl on our team that speaks Spanish pretty well, so someone suggested to have her translate...then our coach Earl said this in response.

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At the midwest regional we were being pinned by 1675 and the MC said "Team 1625 is being pinned in the corner but they dont seem to care" and on the screen our drivers are just kinda standing there not trying to get out.

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[While walking through DC in the snow]
<student looks up>: Agh! It got in my eye!
Student (who always wears prescription safety glasses): That's why you should wear safety glasses.

[Once more walking through DC]
Student <steps onto grass instead of sidewalk>: Ah! I'm walking on not-ground!

[Fixing a kitbot after utterly destroying it during driving practice]
Mentor: You guys are still working on that after… what? Two hours?
Student: No. You missed it. We destroyed Blinky. (A kitbot)

[At the end-of-meeting meeting]
Mentor: Wait, didn't you guys have all of the kitbots fixed?
Student: Yeah, that was before you all broke them again.

[While discussing what we need to do]
Head mentor <wiggling the PVC pipes on the trailer>: Round table. Anything you want to say?
Student: Would you all please stop grabbing the trailers by the pipes? They break.
Head mentor: Like this? <begins shaking trailer vigorously while smirking. Pipe breaks off> Oops.

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"RUN TREVOR RUUNNNN!"

I said this while Coaching in Finals Match 3 to our teams driver. It was the last 4 seconds in the match and 330 was coming straight for us with balls. Thankfully he reversed in time, none of them scored, resulting in our first regional win!

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Friday night scouting review
"Don't pick (Team #) their human player gets pushed around way to easily"

Right before the 3rd match of the finals in GTR they start playing the Beach Boys "Be True to Your School"
Mentor - "This is hardly the time or the place for such a song. You think they could come up with something a little more epic!":D

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Sam: So whenever a scout asks us whats special about our robot, everybody immediately says "bumpers."

(The president decided that the cloth would be black with white flowers and have our team number painted in gold)

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"Guys, I think my afro fried our control system!"

Long story short, we spent a match dead because our control system reset itself or something... somebody suggested that it might have been a static problem. Someone later asked our mascot/coach/president (yes, he's all three) if the afro wig he was wearing built up a lot of static, leading to the above quote.

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"We're not going to be overweight on ship day. I am of course talking about the robot." - A mentor, I forget who.

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The first time I walked into a team meeting, it was the end of 2006; the team had just gotten back from the VA State Fair...
Me: "Umm, guys, the robot is...askew."

During alliance selection at the Chesapeake Regional:
4th Seed Captain: "We would like to invite team 768 to join our alliance."
4th Seed Alliance Member: "Who are they?"

Similarly, at the 2007 Chesapeake Regional, one of the seeded alliances had no clue how to select their third member. After deliberating for ten seconds, every team in the stands began "helping" the alliance captain by shouting their numbers.

Our 3ds Max animation: "It's like the Internet - on your face!"
^You've got to watch that one. It's called Frame It! on FIRSTBase. The way our narrator says it is what makes it funny.

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"no you can not cut a perfect hexagon out of a perfect square" me explaining the dimensions needed to build the trailer.

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I recently had a conversation that went something like this:

Student: I refuse to believe pi exists.
Me: Why? Its just like, say, the number 3.
Student: But you can give me 3 apples; you cannot give me pi apples.
Me: So, you're saying for a number to exist, it must be perfectly expressable in terms of apples?
Student: Yes.
Me: Alright, what if I could give you pi apples. Would pi exist?
Student: Yes.
Me: What about pi oranges?
Student: Yes.
Me: Pi circles?
Student: Yes.
Me: How about pi radii of a circle?
Student: I see where you're going, but you'll never get it exact.
Me: You give me a perfect circle, I'll give you a perfect pi of a circle.
Student: Okay, I'll do that. How do I make a perfect circle?
Me: With pi...
Student: Bah! I'll draw a circle close enough, then.
Me: Okay, but my estimate of pi will be only as accurate as your estimate of the circle.
Student: Stop it! You still can't give me pi apples!
Me: I could give you apple pie.
Student: Mmm, pie.
Me: Mmm.

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"This takes the cake, the pie, and the special brownies"

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WHERE IS THE TAPE MEASURE!!!!

How do you use the drill press? (me)

Adam, why are you wearing safety
glasses during lunch?

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This isn't funny, some of us have a real problem forgetting that we are wearing safety glasses, ;) I once picked up my prom date (a fellow FIRST alumni) while still wearing mirrored safety glasses. Yes I was wearing a suit and tie and mirrored safety glasses. There may be a picture around somewhere of it but it is a pretty funny mental image without it.

The question however is, is it not better the be safe all the time? :cool:

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I used to have a problem with safety glasses; I would spend several minutes looking for them when they were on my head. After doing this several times, I got into the habit of periodically checking my head for my safety glasses to make sure hadn't lost them.

Now, I have a different problem: I will check my head for my safety glasses, realize they aren't there, and think I've lost them...when the glasses are on my eyes.

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I picked up my prom date in 07 in a '57 Bel Air, 2 months after Atlanta wearing this:

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After a bunch of speeches in Seattle that were either encouraging "competing isn't the point" or "put in all you've got":

our programming captain: "So winning isn't everything. It's just the only thing that matters."

Then we went on to lose our next match. Thus proving that Don is never wrong.

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Cody is sorting our drill bits...in a different room, we're yelling this to each other.

Cody: I need a seven. Later I've got a 15. There's no 15!
Me: Cut it in half!
Cody: Then it's 7 1/2. It's still too big!
Me: It doesn't matter! It'll work!
Cody: That is so going on "Quote from Build Season"!
Me: I'll beat you too it! (He's got dial up)
Chad: That's just not fair... (in the same room as me)
Cody: No fair!
Me: I'll give you an hour head start!
Cody: I'll beat you then!
Me: No you won't!

Now, this was few days ago. I gave him more than enough time to post this. You lose Cody. :D

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Student: "Is that really an accurate cut?"
Mentor: "We're not a precision machine shop, accurate to within 4/1000 of a inch.
Me: "We're within four inches!"
Other Mentor: "Until it gets bent..."

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Tim and Jim are two mentors. Jim does drive train and Tim did the ball system.

Tim: "If you're going to be a Killer Bee, you either have to a) know how to dance well, b) pretend to know how to dance well, or c) look like you know how to dance well."


Me: "According to the CAD drawings, the belt you want to put at the back of the robot runs through where Jim's chain wants to be."

Tim: "You've got it all wrong, My belt does not run through Jim's chain, Jim's chain runs through my belt."


Old Killer Bee saying: "Never use the right tool when the wrong tool is more closely at hand"


Me: "Woody, aren't you supposed to drill pilot holes first?"

Woody: "1/4 inch holes are my pilot holes."

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This one isn't from build season. This took place while we were giving out peer awards at the Michigan State Championship. We were presenting the "Sorry We Damaged Your Robot" award or something like that to a team we had crashed into pretty hard in a match the previous day. I can't remember what team we were giving the award to but 33 (The Killer Bees for all who don't know) was right next door...

Girl From Killer Bee's: "Hmm, I've never seen a Sorry We Hurt Your Robot Award before"

Me: "Really? We give out a lot of them..."

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All these quotes are on our STLOUIE regional trip...
except for the last two are when we were supporting 1981, who are joining our team in the 2010 season, during the KC regional


"No mosh pits on the bus!" - Josh

"I screw many things with it." - Josh

"Rachel burned off my man-part with a straightener!" - Kody

"...and I need to control my legs" - overheard voice

"Kody! Put your pants on! Candy is getting hot!" - overheard voice

"It feels like jeans when you take them out of the dryer" - Jacob while someone was getting their hair done

"I'm not wearing any pants!" - overheard voice

"Your hair is tripping'!"
"Don't say that!"
"Yeah, dont listen to what I tell you to say. Im pasty white" - Candy, Felicia and I

"I have freaking monical aviators!" - Jacob talking about his day old sunglasses

"High fives give you cancer..." - random guys from Van Horn

"Im gonna dance till my voice is gone!" - Ray

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"It's called gracious professionalism Jack a$$!"

"what do you mean you didn't bring chopsticks!"

"i think mcguiver would be proud"

"oh leading? it's like hearding cats"

"ECO BOT!!!"

"it's X-bot the destroyer of dreams!"

"new rule, don't taste the robot"

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Now, I wonder what the inspector would've said if you actually did that.

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"This is MARTA!"
-Said at the MARTA station here at Atlanta two years ago by a since-graduated team member. We all remember him for this quote.

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"could me the mayor, could be the principal, it could be the guy from McDonald's with the little hat, you just never know..."

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"MDF sucks. You can't screw into its side or it splits."
"Drill pilot holes, then."
"It splits when you drill pilot holes."
"Then drill pilot holes for the pilot holes?"
"MDF sucks."

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Caius: What do you mean Dean's done talking!? Did I pee forever!?

Said after Dean introduced someone. We thought it was a speech from him and we were amazed that it was so short. No, it was a long introduction...

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"I can't wait untill mr. kober sees that we teepeed our own room!"

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5:58 - "OMG! We won!"
5:59 - "Alright everyone, we've got a plane to catch."

Said when we won the Delphi Driving Tomorrow's Technology award at Atlanta. We had decided in advance we were leaving at 6:00 to catch our flight - fortunately they announced our award just two minutes before then. We must have seemed a bit rude, taking our award and leaving so quickly.

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My team was sitting on the Mezzanine level at Nationals after losing in the Finals at Curie, and a few of us happened to look to the left and think we were seeing things, we weren't... The wave was in slow motion.


___


One day we surran wrapped our advisors truck, his response "But we needed that for shipping!"

___


In Antlanta-
"Hey Mooney, we found your twin"
"And she's on robotics -twilight zone music-"

"You know your on robotics when your scouting for fun in your dreams"
"You were scouting in your dreams? Freak."

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"And they wait an appropriate interval before starting another! Perfect!"
-Mentor watching the team at the left end of the Mezzanine level repeatedly start waves.

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lol, you mean trying to start waves. the other teams were usually paying attention to the other side waiting for a return wave to notice our consecutive ones, so they wouldn't make it more than a team or two over

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This one came up at dinner on a friday at the LA Regional

I was eating a slice of chocolate cake. When I asked a question about Varun hes from India.

ME: Hey guys whats the difference between Varun and my cheesecake?

Everybody: I don't know?

Me: what do you think Varun?

Varun: Hmm, One's delicious, and one's a cheesecake?

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Some of those are pretty darn funny. Does any one have some funny lines from there CAD Team?

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"Mike, restack the wood pile"
"Okay"
"Amber, could you help Mike with his wood?"

1793!

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"That robot is a MACHINE" - Me
"They're ALL machines!" - everyone else

At our scouting meeting in Atlanta.

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Okay, this one isn't really robotics-related, but it involves our head mentor. He is a social studies teacher. Once I was in his U.S. History class and we were talking about the American Revolution:

Mentor: "And where did the French officers come from?"
Everyone: "France!"
Mentor: "I'm going home..."

This was an AP class, too.

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As far as the CAD Team goes here's a good one.

"The CAD isnt bad. It's just not constrained well!"

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After waiting for drawing from the engineers so we could start building I said" There comes a time in every project where you should shoot the engineers and start production."

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but if you shoot the engineers who will make you a drawing set explaining the dangerous end of the gun, best aiming practices and how to pull the trigger

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So this isn't really a quote but during build season Jonell decided to fix a battery. As she was fixing it, someone came up and started doing something to the battery along with her and they made a spark and it burned Jonell. Everyone yelled at her and said what the heck did she just do, and she just bursts out, "It wasn't me!!! It was Michelle!!!" We always had a way of blaming each other when we did something wrong :) Last year no matter what, it was all Jonell's fault. Now this year it is all my fault even if i'm not there.

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That is because you were not there to prevent it from happening.

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"Let's Dance" - text on our team's OI during auton...

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