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"This isn't Burger King, you can't always have it your way"

-Said by our coach over who would be on the drive team.

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offseason to parents:
‎"For the most part imagine buying food for a 6 year old and that is what the team normally snacks on"

- Allen Gregory

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At a demonstration at Union Station in KC.
We are working on the robot in the pit.
A young son and his father walk by. The son says to his father
"Daddy, thats a DEAD robot"

Seconds later an uninsulated wire touches the frame and begins to smoke... REALLY bad.

Crew member yells "SMOKE"
Another says "Turn it off"
Another "Just unplug the battery"
All of us once power is cut off "DEAD robot!"

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FIRST is where all the good jokes are made.

• We got free donuts from a company. Unfortunately a mentor finished a whole box in under 5 minutes. From now one, whenever she calls ahead to tell us she is coming, we hid all the food.
• Our safety manager isn't allowed to use the power tools, because he used a drill as a pointing device.
• Safety FIRST, [verb] later!
• This one isn't ours, but a safety sign said, "Caution , this sign has sharp corners!"
• Student who didn't know anything about computers: "So if I delete all the .exe files, I'll have less space on my computer. I don't know why there are so many excel files anyway..."
• "Why do her bumpers look so much better than mine?"
  -"It's because she's a girl!"
• "You can't use a drill press to create a keyed shaft!"
  -"I reject your reality and substitute my own"
• You know, there's such a thing as too much spirit...
• We met a rookie team once... unfortunately they thought the robot was to be built during competition!
• Driver: "The robot doesn't work"
  Programmer: "But it worked less than 20 seconds ago!"
  Driver: "Look (flexes controls through all positions)"
  Suddenly, the robot (which was lagging), flies off the bridge!
  Programmer: "I call lag..."
• At our team banquet after the competition:
  Mentor: "Why weren't you there for the awards ceremony"
  Student: "Well, we decided that we couldn't have our dinner and have HALO party, so something had to go"
  In reality, our coach who drove the bus had to leave early.
• Student: So we have a mill, but no cutters, and a lathe, but no parting tool. It's there for looks right?
• Student: So we're building a minibot deployer for a minibot that doesn't exist.
• Student 1: "Where did you put the 7/16 wrench?"
  Student 2: "I left it inside the robot"
  Student 1: "During a match!!!"
• Student 1: Look at these chopsticks I made using the sander and jigsaw! Now I can eat.
  Take out is popular here.
• Student 1: "You know, the robot looks sort of like a Dalek"
  (a few minutes later) "wait, what do you mean you don't watch Dr Who!"
• Is this an original problem, surely it's been solved on Chief Delphi!
• Student 1: "You're late, the pizza is cold."
  Student 2: "No problem, I'll just use the shrink ray (heat gun)"
• To spirit person: "Why are our shirts black this year? When they were yellow, you couldn't see the grease stains!"
• To programmer: Dividing by 0 will not make your robot self-aware, but it will make you feel stupid.

I could go on for a forever, but there's this thing called time that keeps interfering. It's more obvious during build season.

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~Facepalm~ ::ouch::

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Here's something I heard but it wasn't during build season;
"The lowly snowflake is very fragile, but look at what they can do when they stick together"

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Too many to choose from...
My personal favorive:
-"Lets put Adriana Lima's picture on the robot so the other drivers get distracted!"
-"We can't, it's illegal to interfere the driver's actions."
-"They can drive with their left hand..."

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Oh geez... :P

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Talking to a FTC freshman:

Me: "Hey J! Are you going to build the best robot ever IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD!"

J: Sure, it will be a box with an arm, but sure.

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What a mentor said to me after taking apart the drive train gearboxes about 10 times for adjustments:

"He is geary and small,
and doesn't work well at all.
He is your best Friend."

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You just described our entire media, and animation team including the mentors........

Some of ours:
Teacher Sponsor: *confusion and anger* Monty Python and The Holy Grail is only rated PG!
Team response: *Glee* We found the bus ride movie!

*Programming Room breaks out in Bohemian Rhapsody*

Me: So this meeting is to discuss if we want to go over the barrier or not?
Lead Mentor: Yes
Me: Even though we built the frame double high in order to do this?
Lead Mentor: Yes
Me: The advantage of not doing this is?
Lead Mentor: Structural Integrity!
Me: You screwed up Swiss cheesing the robot didn't you?
Lead Mentor: No he did *points to his son our robot lead*
Teacher Sponsor: So the problem can be tracked genetically?

Me: So here is the 4 people who qualified for final driver selection; J, M, K and P
D: why didn't I make it?
Me: During your evaluation you ran over my foot, attempted to climb the bridge sideways, and missed every shot.
D: Yes but you remember my driving so we will defiantly picked for eliminations!
J: I remember having my wisdom teeth pulled, and congress saying pizza is a vegetable not everything memorable is good.

"Look we have to make a choice now that will affect the team for the whole season! Are our colors red and black or black and red?"- Spirit Lead

Our two alliance cheers
"Exploding MARS Bats!"
"MEGA! CHARGE UP! BOOM!"

my favorite quote during competition:
They're Robots they can't take drugs-Tytus
(Video of the quote here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QabUHN74TTM)

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Always good times.

I'm sure it was completely inadvertent, but you just reminded me of a song from Les Miserables...

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Who doesn't watch Doctor Who! I'm thinking about building a Dalek this FRC season

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Less of a quote than a story, and it happened at Champs this year, but it still fits the spirit of the thread.


This year at St Louis, the girls of the High Tekerz all wore matching purple tutus to Roboprom. The next morning, one of the guys decided that he wanted to wear one of the tutus as a spirit thing. (This is not odd behavior from him.) So I loaned him mine. Then, he decided he'd let us do his hair. We gave him a hair bow, and then, as we were waiting for the elevator, I decided I'd braid his hair.

So, to paint the picture for you (and this is important to the story), he was kneeling in front of me so that I could braid (sadly, his hair was just barely too short for normal braids, and I can't French braid), and we had our backs to the hallway.

Suddenly, an FLL mom walked up. She probably noticed the tutu and not much else, because she said, in an "isn't that darling" voice, "Oh, she looks so... Oh." The second "Oh" was in a rather different tone of voice, because we turned around, and the rest of the pieces fell into place. Cue general laughter.

She thought it was as funny as we did, and we had almost persuaded her to French braid his hair when the elevator came. To this day, we still give the guy a bad time about it. The End. :D

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So 1787 isn't the only team that made the least-safe person on the team safety captain?