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Me: "hey ydon't touch that i just finised screwing it on".
Scott: "You just screwed it together without a sprocket you know"
Me: "God bless it thats the fourth time"

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"We've gotta lube 'er up!" (and a handful of lube-related other quotes)

Said by our team "coach", pertaining to a bushing on our kicker-latch pin.

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".... I think that's the wrong port.."


(and before anyone pulls anything, THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID)

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"It's compiling"

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M:"what if it explodes?"
E:"well, that would suck."

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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"

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Our team has Frankenstein, Bruce, Saturn V5 rocket, and a shell, all of which make up Wombot!!!

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We've named our mallets "the fine-tuner"(it's this giant sledgehammer), and "the hand of Rag"(whch used to be the Hand of Rage until the E got smudged off.

See also:hackersaw

Also:
"Kick the kicker!!!"
--said while testing the pot that measures the position of the kicker

"I need more robot bait!"
The robot bait is the person who moves the target around, so named for the occasional tendency of the robot to just attack them

"Our robot is done sucking balls. It's going to kick balls now"

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Our code takes far to short a time to compile. It's quite annoying.

(Alright, I lie. It's nice not having to wait around for the code to compile)

Rebooting the robot, on the other hand...

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My team's got a couple. Slightly paraphrased in some cases.

Head Mentor: *While collecting lunch money* Jeeze. You guys need to carry more ones around with you. Go to more strip-clubs. *Pause* Wait. No.

Noah (The team's Freshman): Robotics is kind of like a zombie video-game. Fun, but hard. And when you run out of ammo you die.

Someone: Well, the good news is the arm will work. The bad news is we need a very small person inside the robot to make it work. So... Any volunteers below 40 lbs?

Noah *After making his first Human model in 3ds Max* Wow! It looks better then the graphics in Runescape!

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Its alright Eric, we have pizza! haha

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There hasnt really been that many good ones but I do have one...

JRO - "Why isnt this... Oh... A battery might help..." (While trying to work on programming the joysticks)

I will post more later :)

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..."haha, i would totally laugh if you knocked that over with my face!"

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Our team has come up with a plan just in case our robot doesn't clear customs in time. (After all, we are attending a week 1 regional...) We are going to take pictures of the robot from every side, print them out big, and put them on a cardboard box. Then we will take the two youngest kids going to the USA--they are 6 and 7 years old--put them inside the box. One will be called the "kicker/ball control" the other will be the "lifter." We aren't sure if this would be a legal robot, but in a pinch we think it might be OK. ;) :rolleyes: :cool:

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Two from this morning:

Programmer: Why is everyone gathering around the robot?
Head Mentor: Gee, I dunno why. Maybe because we're building it?

Build Team: Dude! It actually fits!
Head Mentor: That's what happens when you design it first.

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"Hey, do you have any Tylenol?"
"No, but I can go get some..." (leaves the room; returns 5 minutes later)
"Here, you go, I found some in Kara's purse"
"HEY!"

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"Those who cannot play soccer build a robot to play it for them" - My Brother After the unveiling
"Those who cannot build a robot play soccer" - Me :)

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Week 2-3 ish:

(Jim is busy folding the first piece of sheet metal for the chassis)
Tim (founding mentor):Jim, we need to discuss a bot beautification plan
Jim (lead mentor): Look out in the hallway and tell me what you see
Tim: I see robots from 2002 to 2009 with clear plastic and honeycomb on them. What should we do this year?
Jim: Why don't we do what we always do?


Two Saturdays ago:
"Mom" (Carolyn): Hey, Jim, look at this!
(Mom motions to large bee-hive shaped 8-sided display board, roughly 4 feet by 4 feet square)
Jim: That isn't going in the pits is it?
Mom: No, its for Chairmans.
(Mom wheels bee-hive to cad room)
Eric: That isn't going in the pits, is it?
(everyone assumes it will go in the pits)


This Saturday:
"We tested the lifter. We estimate it can lift 1 yharmatter. (Eric)"
"Wow. That's alot."


Norman: You post on that quotes thread way to much.


"I had an idea for chairmans. Since we are over on words, lets remove some spaces and combine words. We could make the whole essay one big German word."


Mom: "If anyone isn't doing anything, they can come with me and make antennas."
(everyone asks mentors if there is anything to do)

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One of our junior female members picked up a tool wondering what it was. We gave her a hint that it was the opposite of a tap (which she had become very familiar with). Her next clue was "It's something you do when you get very, very old.". Her response was then "diarreah?"

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Talking about a tape measure...
Me: It's a 10-footer.
Charles: That's what she said.

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We were discussing music one night and the previously mentioned junior member claimed to like classic rock. So one of our mentors started rattling off names of bands, none of which she was recognizing. Then the artist Stevie Nicks came up, and our junior member pipes up, "I know him!"




If you need to Google the artist before getting the joke then I guess I'm getting old.

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"Wait, that means that if you rub it, it becomes a superconductor!:eek: "
We had a voltmeter and a metal cart for the robot. Rubbing it gave off negative values...

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Student A: "I'm really paranoid about lifting the robot up by 4 points."
Student B: "If they're properly secured..."
Student A: "It doesn't paranoi you even a little bit?!"

paranoi (v) - to cause to become paranoid of.

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I wrote these down so I could remember them...

"Why does that hole fit now?"
(trying to line up a piece to drill the holes)

Me - "What are you doing?"
Other person - "It feels weird..."
(He had a drill and his hand and yeah... it was interesting...)

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ok so tonight at the build site a freshman girl asked one of the mechanical mentors a question... i wont reveal any names, but everyone on Team Paragon knows who i'm talking about...

Freshman: "So how do blind people read lips?"
Everyone else: "I don't know, how?"
Freshman: "They don't, they just listen."

So whenever a freshman asks you a question don't push them away or ignore them... you just might get a quote worth posting on CD

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I don't know if this is funny or sad, or both.

Student A: "Are we meeting tomorrow?"
Student B: "Nope, asbestos cleaning in the school."

Another one:

Mentor: "Are you taking home a wrench?"
Student S:" ....a wench....wait, WHAT?"

Shows where their head was :rolleyes:

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Me: "97% of all statistics are made up on the spot."
Student A: "Yeah yeah, we've all heard that one many times."
Me: "It's true."
Student A: "Which is why it's a different number every time."
Student B: "No it's always 97%."
Student A: "No, I've heard it with other numbers."
Student B: "Well, 3/4 of the time it's 97%."

He was serious, too. :D

Me: "This CAN cable isn't wired right. One of the ends needs to be reversed."
Student: "I'll fix it!"
<student spends about five minutes cutting, stripping, and recrimping the cable>
Student: "It's fixed!"
Me: "Hmm...it still doesn't work. Are you sure the wiring is right now?"
<student grabs cable and looks>
Student: "Yes it - oh sh*t." <facepalm>

He had recrimped the cable in the same (wrong) orientation as before. :D

Our lab has two rooms: a really small computer lab for the programmers, and an open machine shop for the builders. There is one door into the computer lab. I was standing in the small room with the programmers:

Me: "Where did <other student> go?"
Student: <points at door> "That way!"
...later...
Me: "Where, other than this room, could the wire cutters be?"
Student: <points at door> "That room!"

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OK, so the Mechanical subgroup has about 85% of the tools at our build site... Electrical has the other 15%... So every time that we can't find a tool we say those three magical words "It's in electrical."

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Our team is stationed in the basement of a club, and the programmers are shoved off in a corner. After much frustration and grumbling about this from the only programmer in our team one of the younger students suggested to him;

"Oh why don't you just crawl back to your Pit of Despair."

Needless to say this has now become the official name of the programmers station... no matter where it is.

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"Stay out of my drawers, don't play with my balls, and get away from my muffins!" - Sal
You'll never hear another teacher say that.
(Although all of those items could be taken in the literal sense as well. We had been stealing the label maker out of his desk drawers, playing with the soccer balls, and begging for the muffins he was giving to his kid)

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"If your kids don't have shards of metal in the tips of their fingers by the end of build season, then you're just not doing it right."

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No trouting in the cage, but if they're not wearing safety glasses they're fair game.

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Head Mentor "Let's rebuild a robot guys!"
Student "After I go to the men's room..."

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Me - "I'm learning to speak Braille."

Haha :)

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Hahahah I laughed so hard. :D

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Me - "Hey Sal, where are the wheels?"
Sal - "We gave them back to Mike, we decided we didn't need them. We're gonna go with our kit wheels."

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Highly Inappropriate...

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Ok Sean, if you want something more appropriate, here's one:

"If I had a dime for every time that robot was on the welding table, I could pay for the trip to Atlanta by myself." -me

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Team member "Don't put that in there, that's the wrong port!"
Other team member "That's what she said."

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In light of the recent Starcraft 2 beta release:

"Mike you're gonna have to work extra hard for those high yield minerals"

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Roughly 90% of the thread is robotics related entendre. My issue with it is less inappropriateness and more "not particularly unique, interesting, or funny".

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"Wait....why do we always call our control box a pot box?"

The kid didn't know what a pot actually was. Team tradition to call it a pot box.

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Oh, we'll *just* do (insert incredibly complex thing here)."

In FRC, "just" rarely means "simply," however it may be used as such.

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After finding out the elastic force needed for the kicker:

Member 1: This can't be right.
*looks at the number*
Me: Wait, isn't that the number that we want?
Member 1: Exactly. We must have done something wrong.
Me: I'll double check our velocity vectors.
*Member 2 comes in*
Member 2: So how's it going?
Member 1: Our numbers are perfect.
Member 2: You must have done something wrong.

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Monday was National That's What She Said Day. Maybe it was in relation to that.

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"Joey, the parts don't fit together!"
"That's because you did it differently than my drawing!"
"Stop referencing the drawings, we're 3 weeks past that!"
"Ahhhhh"
"Ahhhhh"

Yeah, that was pretty much last night, lol.

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"Why are you carrying around a totally non-suspicious silver briefcase? Do you have a bomb in it or something"
"Why would I carry a bomb in a silver briefcase? Bombs are always in black briefcases"
"He is probably carrying lots of cash. That is always in silver briefcases"

(actually I was carrying the operator console packed into a silver briefcase waiting for honeycomb)

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Me: What are you doing?
Frame Person: Kicking the robot?
Me: Why are you kicking the robot??? STOP KICKING THE ROBOT!!!

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One of our students was drawing lines between everyone's names on tonight's food order, and his lines were more loopy than straight. I went up to the paper and drew straight-ish lines through the center of his.

Me: "You know, you could have taken three more seconds to draw a straight line"
Student: "Mine is straight!"
Mentor: "No way, yours is like the seismic waves of the San Andreas fault."

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You know it!

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"Screw the battery, get out the freaking nuclear reactor"

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James referring to C-Channel: "Why'd you push that in farther?"
Enmar: "Why do you have a hammer..?"

Hahah xD

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Traction will get you over the bump but momentum will get you airborne.

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Mayde: "Is that four inches? Tell me it's four inches Claire!"
Me: "That's what she said."

*a round of applause and much laughter*

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Claire: "I think it's right this time. I hope it's right this time."
Mayde: "Ha! I'm gonna go post that to CD!"
Claire: "See you in five minutes."

just a little line of dialogue.
Claire was cutting fabric to cover the bumper.

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Zeke: "Where's the other trunnion mounter?"
-silence-
Zeke: "How does an entire triangle disappear?"
*I look over on top of the cart holding our computer towers and pull out the trunnion mounter*
Zeke: "How did that get in there..?!"

Lulz.

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We have two teams at our school:2265 (all-girls) and 1155 (99% guys).

2265 Student: They named their robot Megan Fox!?!
1155 Mentor: HELLZ YES!!!
:rolleyes:

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"It tastes like veggies and robot."

xD

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Mike (mentor):"David, what did you spill on you hands!?"

David (mentor):"The stuff that your supposed to go to the hospital if you do?"

/*He was kidding of course lol but it was really funny because we were talking about not getting hurt that day*/

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Mike: can we put a flamethrower on the robot?
Me: Did you read the rules?
Mike: Yes?
Me: Soo?
Mike: How about dropping spikes on the floor?
Me: Go read the rule book

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I had to write a page for the website and im not the best writer so i asked one of my friends on the newsletter to help me. He said:

"I cant think about (mentor commonly known as the team mom) right now, My thoughts are filled with (college mentor who used to be on the team)."

Everyone thought it was funny so we wrote it on the white board and when the second mentor saw this he said to him (not exactly but pretty close)

"What do i fill your head with Michael?"

Everyone laughed.

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from my dad to me
"See it's bad being a part of electrical, the mechanical guys leave you a minute to get things done then blame you for any failures."

or from a Komar my freshman year.
"I've calculated and out of the entire build season programing and electrical only work for fifteen minutes every hour mechanical works, but without us the robot would be a heap of metal"
it's funny because it true.

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maybe so, but you have to remember, without mechanical, the robot would be a pile of electronics and some code :p

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Kris: i need a zip tie
Josh: what do you want me to do? crap one out?

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Referring to wire:
x-"I'm not going to thread it through all the wire until I know if it works."
y-"No, if it works, then we'll have to unplug it again."
x-"But if it doesn't work, I don't want to have to unplug it again."
y-"But you're the one doing it, so that probably means it will work."

Being, x, I have learned that a) it is bad practice to put the digital sidecar right below the motors, and b) my wiring jobs can occasionally be terrible.

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Me: Mike did you read the rule book?
Mike: Yes
Me: well you need to spend a few more hours digesting the rulebook because (insert one of the many rules he suggested breaking here) is against the rules.

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(me and team programmer thinking of things to write on the crate)


team programmer: it could say "This Robot is more valuable than the organs and combined incomes of everyone in [subject hometown here]."

me: or we could make it a Companion Cube!!!!

then we made many more portal quotes because we Love Cake, and it is not a lie

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Portal_(game)

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we learned both of these in one pass

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"We plan all year long just to make sure we have this crunch time, don't we seniors?" - that would be our president's dad getting frustrated with us.

"Why is the air compressor the size of a screw in Autodesk? How the heck is that going to power a steel kicker?!"

"I'm good with making the wood do what I want - thats why I'm non-robotic construction VP XD" - our VP of Non-Robotic Construction

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We have this joke about this one kid in our group. He cusses when something minor happens and laughs his head off when something catastrophic happens:

"AHH! I got a paper cut! ****!"

"...Did you just break our last master link?"
"Huh? *looks down* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"

etc.

Also there were lots of "Are you trolling me?" and "Is this manual trolling me?", "Is the parts list trolling me?", "What do you mean you broke it? Is this a troll" etc.

Also lots of Star Wars references and karaoke to Beach Boys and Queen.

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Our programmer is Russian. Lots of "In Soviet Russia, [noun] [verbs] you!" jokes.

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I got tired of them before the first one.

Also;

"This looks like a good place to put a motor"

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I would hope that the Manual trolls people. While it's been butchered and re purposed faster than the word "ironic", by strict definition, trolling is doing something, usually provocative, to draw attention to itself. Hopefully people pay attention to the manual. :rolleyes:

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"Ooops, I accidently drilled through the cRIO"

One of our lead mentors, while drilling a screw in.

:(

Luckily, it was just a scratch.

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"Wow... this ethernet cord is really kinky."

"This should be working... oh..." (from one of the programmers)

Mentor: "Lets just winch it so hard that we crush our arm."
Student: "Ya, that'll work"

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Our programmer (E) turned 17 on the 2nd of February, and all he asked for as a present was for the swerve drive to work. It didn't. A few days later on the 8th, I had my 18th birthday and it did in fact work.

Me: "You see, E? I got swerve drive for my birthday. The team obviously just loves me more!:D "

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"Banners on the ground.
Banners on the ground.
Lookin like a fool with your banners on ground"

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Forgot to include this in my last post:

For anyone who watched the Olympics Opening Ceremonies, you'd have seen the little mishap that we had with the pillars (for those who don't know, one of the four pillars didn't rise, leaving one of the torch bearers awkwardly standing there as the other three lit the working pillars). Not two minutes after, some of our team members had received texts asking, "So what do you think? Mechanical or electrical problem?" Haha only robotics kids...:rolleyes:

Which reminds me:
Electrical Captain: "Guys, it's obviously a mechanical problem!" *as he connects a wire*

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"You forgot to put the jumper in the bumper" -- when the battery readout wasn't working

CAD Team: "Why is the motor on the right side of the robot"
Frame Team: "...Because we put it there"
CAD Team: "But the CAD drawing says it should be on the left side!"
Frame Team: "Well then go fix the CAD model"

Pneumatics: "Programmers, why isn't the cylinder firing?"
Programemrs: "idk, the light on the solenoid module is turning on and off. It must be wired wrong"
Electronics: "No, the light on the solenoid is turning on and off. It must be connected to the pneumatics wrong"
Pneumatics: "Uhh..........are you sure? We never do stuff wrong!"

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Today I was trying to get the autonomous working. Meanwhile, the driver was trying to practice and the mechanical team was trying to work on the robot.

Driver to mechanical: Hurry up before he decides to load more code.
Me (ten seconds before mechanical finishes): OK, loading code.
(after a while)

Driver: Why aren't the pistons working?
Mechanical: Oh, somebody crimped the hose shut.

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"The Kicker isn't pulling back!!!"
"What is this palardymalarchi?"
"It must be a software problem"
(It turned out to be a mechanical problem)

"I don't want to do that because if you loose the sensor then the robot will kill itself."

"So... I have to make High set the solenoid Low and Low set the solenoid High"

"Why don't I get a song like Carolyn (Sweet Caroline)?"

"We said "Where is Eric?" and we found him in the CAD room eating cream puffs"
"Does that surprise you?"

"Do we have everything we need before we go down to the basement?"
"Yeah."
"Looking at the cart, I see a robot, batteries, and Mountain Dew. I don't think thats everything."

"The robot kinda looks like a monster"
"You are looking at the back. So I guess it could look like a monster with its head up its butt"

(Before Build Season while fixing the '07 bot)
"So the shoulder is all the way down, but is still trying to drive the shoulder another 40 degrees down?"

(Talking about old robots)
"What robot was that? Oh, that was the refrigerator one..."

(Looking at old robots in the basement)
"This robot won Semi-Finalist in the world and won the IRI"
"This little robot won finalist in the world and could drag its upturned alliance partners off the ramp"
"This robot had crab-drive"
...
"This robot that can tilt the arm down and do a death spiral."

Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season
 

On the door of our programming Cave:

"If it's falling apart, it's a mechanical problem.
If it's spewing magic smoke, it's an electrical problem.
If it's rampaging around and destroying things, it's a programming problem."


As we returned from the local Scrimmage:
"Mars is bright tonight"

Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season
 

Yesterday, when taking a break and eating pizza, I was complaining about the half pepperoni and half canadian bacon being 5/8 Pepperoni and 3/8 C.D.

Mentor: Do you know the difference between Pep, and C.D.? the area it comes from on the pig.
freshman: yah, C.D. comes from the butt.
B: hah, you like butt.
Me: No, just pig butt. OH NO! (hang head)

Needless to say we burst out laughing for like 20 mins later.

R: Where do they make pens?
A: the pen factory.

Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season
 

Mentor: Why is the winch so slow
Programmer: Because it's at half speed
Mentor: Why is it at half speed?
Programmer: Because you told me to make it run at half speed...

Mentor: Why did the robot stop lifting?
Programmer: We hit the software limit
Mentor: Why are the limits so low?
Programmer: Because you made me set them to some number you made up

Mentor: Why isn't the compressor working?
Programmer: Because there is no breaker
Mentor: Why is there no breaker?
Programmer: Because you told me to take it out...

See a pattern here?

Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season
 

Me: "What did you call the class that controls a Jaguar via CAN?"
Student: "CanJaguar"
Me: "And what about the class that controls a Jaguar via PWM?"
Student: "CantJaguar"
Me: <facepalm>