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Oh I forgot one that everyone says about me all the time!

Student (or mentor): "Where is a marker or something?"
Another student: "Oh!!! I know! Ask Ashley... she has every sharpie under the sun!"

It is true... I have a lot of sharpies and they come everywhere with me :D

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Last years build season was great. We had tons of them but i only remember a few
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"Duct tape it!"
"SEVEN DAYS" (Inside Joke)
"We shoulda went with the giant fan idea"
"Look to see if were againt the triplets"

I miss last year and the year before. I cant wait until this season :)

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Our team has been keeping a "quote book" for a couple years. They are both available on our team's web page.

The 2006 quote book: http://www.mechanicalmayhem.org/quotes-06.asp

The 2005 quote book: http://www.mechanicalmayhem.org/quotes-05.asp

One of my personal favorites is from our rookie year:

I think all we need now is a robot. David G (two days before ship date)

But most of the team like some of the other ones better...

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I'm sure there were a number of people at Chesapeake saying that. They wished it was a rule based on how badly robots hitting theirs during autonomous mode.

One took off a chuck of sheet metal and dented the other robot while the other....well, lost a good deal of metal from somewhere vital but not life threatnening

Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season
 

Our robot broke itself in autonomous mode. It went flying across the field and hit the wall, bending in the front bar. But that's not what it was programmed to do... but that wasn't at Chesapeake, at Chesapeake stuff worked.

"Why is it that when you put something that works in a box and send it to Atlanta, it doesn't work when it gets there?" various members of my team when fixing things in Atlanta

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-Looks over at smoking camera unit-
"Hmm... that's not good..."

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"Is something burning?" was one that was used when something metal accidentally connected some battery terminals it was pretty funny.

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"WTF WAS THAT!!!" - When I was out of the room and the robot went out of control and hit a fesk at full speed

"I think somethin broke..."

"I don't care how, just build the $@#$@#$@#$@# thing already, we ship in 2 hours!!!"

"Duct tape is allowed on an air duct"... Our ball hopper was an air duct, and we used duct tape to hold parts of it together... The inspector at the San Jose Regional allowed it...

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We're 3 pounds over. Drill until the hole saw is too hot to touch, then go find something else to cut off while you wait for it to cool down.

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"Hey guys we got the shooter working! WHo wants to test it?"
*Slience*
Me: "Hey Ken you catch the ball"
Ken: "ok"
Miner: *Turns on the shooter*
"Ready?"
Ken: Yea
*ball hits ken down low"
Ken: *falls to the floor*
"OOOOUCH!!!!"

__________________________________________________ ___
"Almost done with the code"
---week later---
"just one more thing"
---last day---
"uhh guys... im not where close to done... i have only got three of the ten auomonous codes done..."

-Me (I think i went too far)

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"We cant drive the robot down the ramp, NO MATT YOU CANNOT DRIVE THE ROBOT DOWN THE RAMP! IT WILL TIP OVER"

*I drive the robot down the ramp with perfect stability.*

"Designers are to be seen and not heard."

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While proving to mentor the robot wouldn't get stuck on the foam balls.

"I am Poof Ball, here me roar!"

At Championship, mentor promised us we could go to walmart and get airsoft guns if we won three matches. When we won out third and got off the field we yelled

"YES, WE'RE GOING TO WALMART"

Other teams around looked at us quite strangely.

Working on the big CIM motor.

M: Hmm, why won't this stupid pulley come off?
Me: I don't know, use the learning tool to get it off.

(The learning tool is a 5lb bar of aluminum)

At the regional, the driver of our bot accidentally drove the bot to the other teams ramp and tipped it over.

After:
Mentor: Why did you do that?
Driver: Duh, it was to block the other teams from getting on the ramp.

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(very early morning of ship day)

Person 1: Hmm, we need that part by tomorrow, don't we
Person 2: dude, it IS tomorrow

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my quote ....."Thats Incredying", meaning incredible and terrifying at the same time.. every one used as a sign of excitement and scared that it actually worked....

quote said to me alot "Shut up Zoe!!!!!"

quote to students that did mistakes "dude you did it wrong", now u have to do it over..

Quote bye every one "Im Hungry"

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Two stand out in particular to me.

"Interesting strategy. Let's see how it plays out."

"I'm afraid if we keep calling them balls, we may get too many suggestive comments out of you guys. From now on we're calling them SGO's (spherical game objects)."

I have some others, but they aren't exactly appropriate :rolleyes: .