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I think one of the more amusing ones was :Hand me the toool of persuasion" It took me a minute to figure out he meant a hammer.

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Hey! That happened this year with my team too!!!
crazy... those robotics people with their jargon :rolleyes:

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Let's just say that the student in question is A) Not named Barbra and B) Not Female. :)

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"Nerd Pride" ~ Woodie Flowers

You can't beat that folks.

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So we were at the team social at the zoo. We are walking up to the ape exhibit when one of the kids runs up "I want to see the humans." She sees the apes "Look at the bears." We kept asking her what are you talking about. She was serious, five minutes later she went "I meant gorillas." It was funny, she had no idea what she was saying.

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End of the season, one of the engineering mentors (who speaks with a heavy Indian accent) helping program autonomous mode said "automoutomous mode". I have yet to stop quoting it.

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On the day of ship...
"Okay you guys, we've got to work like there's no tomorrow, cuz there is no tomorrow!!!" -Me

Me - "Hey, where is the _____"
Justin - "I put it away in the toolbox"

Me - "Don't write 706 on my dad's tools!!!"

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I'm fairly sure I sent an email to Not2B that ended with the sentence
"I could do more math on it, but my fish tank just sprung a leak. Got to go."

“Our team is made up of the dumbest smart people”

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Admiring the new chassis: "Oooo, nerd bling!"

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lets see............

"What the hell is that?... " (long, awkward silence) "... " (no answer)

"I don't know.............."

"Uhhh.................. what?"

"can you repeat the question?" (My famous quote)

"Who?" (When told to find people on our team)

A: "Duct tape........"
B: "...But it's illegal!"
C: "Only if you can see it...."
A & B: "Good point..."

"I don't know............................ no, really.... I don't..." (Answer to most questions)

"Did our balls drop?" (when releasing foam balls from robot)

"Where's this go?"

A: "Whats the autonomous do?"
B: "Yes..."
A: "... ... ... ... .. .. . . . "
A: "What's it do?"
B: "No..."
A: "?"
- After the match...
"Josh ! ? &%*#$*&%#&*$%^" :ahh: :mad: :confused: :eek: :mad: - (There was autonomous...)
"Oops..."

Mentor 1: "All I heard was, 'Blah Blah yeah Blah, Coles paying for breakfast'."
Cole: "What?!"
Mentor 2: "Who wants IHop?"
- Sadly, Cole never paid for the IHop, but we ate there anyways

A: "Is it suposed to do that?"
B: "uhh........ not sure..."
A: "Should we fix it"
B: "Later, lunch first..."
- We forgot to fix the autonomous mode... again....

There's more, but I forgot em......

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"so, basically we're saying we want the robot to suck balls?"

(written on a board):
maeneurvering
(suppossed to be manuvering)

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"It needs to resist rotational torque"
"As opposed to...?"

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-"it's not broken, it just lacks duct tape"

-Other person:"what happened to your arm?!" :ahh:
-Me:"is it actively bleeding?"
-Other person:"No"
-Me:"then it's the one from last week" :cool:
(that was actually said!!!)

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"SHUTUP NEIL"

"NEIL BE QUIET"

"GO AWAY NIEL"



Neil-the chickens dry
me-im gunna punch you in your face

------------------------------------
haha anyone on 1620 will get this right away

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So very true. The hierarchy of screws is as follows:

Allen/Hex
Bolt Head
Phillips
Torx (not for suckiness, just for uncommononity)[/
Those weird screws they use on Nintendo systems to stop modders
The lowly flathead, which can in no way be gripped by a driver of any kind.

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Ed, I honestly love you. Brings back alot of good moments.

"I use saftey glasses, I just take them off when I'm cutting and sh** like that"
- Mr. Van Glahn.

"If you're not bleeding, you're not on drive train."

----

Max Thrun got a nosebleed coding autonomous mode for serveral hours straight before we shipped the robot.

"TOO MUCH CODE! HIS HEAD EXPLODED".

I then held a tissue up to Max's nose while he finished the rest of the program.

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Team 95's top quote was "Do you think that is going to work?" while people are building various subsystems of the robot ("No, we're building this just to see it fail..."). After a while a became a running joke, and it is even written on the bot now.

That, and we have a traditional of designating the "button boy" (the person pushing the programming button) and the "door boy" (the person who goes downstairs and answers the door to the clubhouse after-hours). Either needing the program button pushed (which, in a feat of mechanical design, was very well buried in the final bot, along with the programming and tether ports) or needing the door opened would be accompanied by a loud scream of "BUTTON BOY!!!!" or "DOOR BOY!!!". Oddly, both positions were sought-after.

Oh, and I can't forget the various and sundry promises that, unlike previous years, that this year we actually will get a finished robot for the programmers to work with before ship date. Well, at least this year we actually had two weeks with the drive train to try out...

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our team leader this year, Walt -

HOT HOT ... kabammmeee!!

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I don't need sleep, just more Mountain Dew. Oh, and a muffin.
Said by the mechanical team after working on the bot for nearly two days straight before ship.

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Most of my favorites were said online.

"oh well i think i will have to start going to church again"
-this year's president

[14:11] guitdude182: oh man
[14:11] guitdude182: im watching galileo match videos
[14:12] Cluskum35: ?
[14:12] Cluskum35: Galileo's dead, Yon
[14:12] Cluskum35: And even if he were alive, he wouldn't be your friend

[20:23] Cluskum35: Cool
[20:23] tmbg37: heh, what do you mean, cool?
[20:24] Cluskum35: That's a cool idea
[20:24] tmbg37: oh, i thought you meant that it was a crappy idea
[20:25] Cluskum35: Yes, that's exactly what I meant when I said "cool"
[20:26] tmbg37: cool

[21:33] David: i have something to ask your opinion on
[21:33] Cluskum35: Sure
[21:35] David: it's this idea
[21:35] David: as a robotics fundraiser
[21:35] Cluskum35: Okay
[21:35] David: to sell calendars
[21:35] David: calendars with robotics team members on them
[21:36] David: i hesitate to call them pinups
[21:36] David: but if that helps get the idea across... :ahh:

(At competition)
E: Why aren't you guys getting your safety inspection?
Me: We're underweight.
E: So?
Me: So we're adding more stuff.

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*starts to rivit the spiral to the bot*
K-"Trust me i can rivit my dad has me do it all the time"
M-" are you sure?"
K-"yes watch"
**pinches finger in the rivit gun*
K-"ouch!"
M-"u are no longer our rivit girl!"
(maybe its because my dad has an air powered rivit gun! lol....
((*Katy*)) :D

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this wasn't exactly said during the build season, but it is still funny. i was asked to describe our robot by a person that wouldn't understand the more complex words so i said that it basically sucks and blows balls.-this was before the Pittsburgh regionals. then at the Chesapeake regional, i said, "i'm going out with Meshach." meaning i was going to go to the stands when Meshach left the pit, but apparently the guys on the team did not see it that way. now my best friend-our coach-pointed out to me that our robot is named after a guy and when i put that together with what i said at Chesapeake and how i had described the robot, i screamed, "You mean i am going out with a GAY ROBOT!"

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So that guy Meshach is really a robot. And you're his boyfriend, so that makes you...a gay robot! (anyone who's seen Red V. Blue should get this)

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OK... it was not during the build season, but rather on the bus as we travelled through Buffalo, New York:

"Just because I speak fluent Klingon does not mean that I am a Trekkie"



Andy B.

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"AAH! I'm not green!"

This when our robot decided to autonomously chase after a programmer.

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OK this has now officially become a 2006 quotes thread, not just whats been said during the six week build season, but anything said during the year.

Heres one from Boilermaker, On the way back to the hotel after the team social, the van I was riding is pasted a StarBucks. We then started talking about StarBucks and One of our drive team members said, "White hot chocolate from StarBucks is the shizz." We started cracking up after she said that, we also say it when ever we see her.

That had to be one of my favorite moments from attending Boilermaker this year.

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Is there a battery in?
No, it's a wireless robot

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Lightning Robotics safety tips of the day: (from regionals)

Remember Stupid hurts!

Don't Lick wheel while in motion.

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At a sleepover with several team members(last night actually):

"OW, I knocked my hand unconcious!!!"
"Where is your foot?" "I don't know, do you see it anywhere?"
"My tongue is broken."
"I like cheese." "Oh yeah well I like robots."
*long argument about whether we should have won a particular match during eliminations at Chesapeake* "It doesn't matter, we're going to Atlanta!!" "...good point."


At dinner on Friday night of Chesapeake, when we were undefeated and in first place(as we stayed), I was talking to some of our mentors about the drive train changes we had tried to make on Thursday. We had tried to upgrade from the small CIM motors to the big ones on our drive, and had discovered the flaws with the standard conversion plate. In the end, we changed the gear ratios to give us more speed instead. I still sort of wished we had gone more defensive since the beginning, and this conversation came about...

Me: ...if we had done that, we would've-
Mentor: We would've been in, what, FIRST PLACE?!?!?!?
Everyone at table: *laughs*
(I admitted, he was right...but I still love defense :cool: )

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This is Shiny1629 using StephLee's account...Dude, I'm a girl. :p So that makes me...a girl going out with a gay robot. (I'm very obvious.) :D

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More...that the three of us, at part 2 of the sleepover mentioned in a previous post tonight, just came up with...


We were just talking about something a team did at Chesapeake...the team was at both Pittsburgh and Chesapeake, like us, so Sarah said "Wait, was that today??" (Sarah's going to bed soon...)

At lunch at a pizza place:
Philip: Hey Steph, are those plates?
Me: No, Philip, they're big, hard, reusable NAPKINS!!!!!!!!!!! :cool:

At Wendy's, after my first experience watching part of a competition, I see a sign advertising a BLT salad..."Why is there a robot in the salad??"

Our infamous list of "car quotes":

"ZACH!!!!!! PULL YOUR PANTS BACK UP!!!!! THERE ARE GIRLS IN THE CAR!!!!!!!" -said by Zach's dad, who was driving...I swear, nothing bad was going on, but I'll leave you to your imaginations on that one...hehe.

James was extremely tired and had a Snickers bar wrapper and a pocket knife...so....he started shredding the wrapper to keep himself awake.
"OW, I poked myself...OOOOWW, I poked myself AGAIN..."*many times later*"James, PUT THAT AWAY!!!!!!!"

Philip in the car...
It gets dark outside. 10 minutes later..."HEY, it got dark!!!"
The car stops. 10 minutes later..."HEY, we stopped!!!"
The car starts moving. 10 minutes later..."HEY, we're moving!!!"

Philip:*slowly moves highlighter RIGHT beside my face*
Me: AHHHHH!! Jeez, don't DO that!!!
Philip:*waits 10 seconds, does it again*
Me:*grabs highlighter and chucks it at Philip*
We never saw the highlighter again... :eek:

A team member's younger brother, when seeing lights in the sky....
"What are those?...AHHHHHHHHHH, ALIENS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Trying to find our way out of Pittsburgh...
James:Hey, we passed that last night on our way to dinner!!
Me: DANG IT...there's that cathedral...
James:That means...
Me:Yep...45 minute circle around Pittsburgh...there's the arena again...

Trying to find the arena at Pittsburgh...
Me:Hey, look, it's a dinosaur with a top hat!!! (Dinosaur statue, it was SERIOUSLY there!!!)
Everyone:*looks at me like I'm crazy*
James:It's got a bow tie, too!!

James:*working on BOM in the car, on a laptop*Hey, I wonder how far down I can make this Excel sheet go....
Me:I really shouldn't have given you that computer, should I?
James:Nope.

Signs held to the car window:
"HONK IF YOU HATE TRAFFIC!!"
"$5 FOR EVERY WAVE!!!!"
"HONK IF YOU LOVE ROBOTS!!"
(We got 9 waves, 4 honks, and a peace sign.)

Random person: I can't see!!
Everyone:*looks at light for no real reason*
Driver:*turns light on*
Everyone: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

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Student 1: Can I drill some speed holes?
Student 2: It depends, how fast can you drill?

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Me: Owwww!!!
Steph and Sarah: What?
Me: i didn't move, the chair bit me.-said very pitifully when i hurt my shoulder on the chair i was supposed to be sleeping on.

Sarah: i'm weirded out now.
Me: I was weirded out way back when their was a dead baby on the floor. -no actual dead baby.

Traut leaning backwards on a chair in Pittsburgh: uh-huh. yeah. ok. mmmmhmmm. sure. -five minutes of this
Traut suddenly sat up: WAIT WAIT WAIT! ALL OF WORLD WAR II!-now every time it gets really quiet someone will say that.

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Me, explaining on the whiteboard to the rest of the programming team how the ball feed system on the shooter works in conjunction with the sensors on the elevator and the software state machine:

Me, to a mentor: What do you mean? YOU GOT RID OF THE SENSORS TO SAVE WEIGHT?!

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Me::something about buttons::
My cousin:: OH! Did I tell you? Mr J. (the mentor) said when we get money we're gonna order 500 buttons!!
Me:: Yay!
Me:: Cool!!
Me::...wait I have to design them don't I?
My cousin:: YEP!
Me::...great. =[

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Well, there was one qoute that our student team leader said but i have a feeling if i post it, i may get flamed and harrased by him or other team members. So, I will post one that I have continuously said since last year. And I now love to say it. I've even heard a freshman say it, even though I don't think they know what tetras are....
"I always think outside the box and inside the <del>triangle</del>
tetra."


GAA!!! Okay, so does html not work on here? ^ Is supposed to look like triangle has a line through it.

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How do I get rid of this freakin' kangaroo?
Lemme see.
whoa! its boxing a pumpkin!!!

(^about a screen saver on a new cellphone)

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well it was a a competition but close enough
Mentor( Mr B): OK we need 4 of yal to stay here till 8 again and fix the shooter and the chain they got beat up in that last match.Keeler, Tim mat, john come on.
Students: are you serious, what, it didn't look like a rough match
B: well it was come on we better get on that
Keeler:.... B, i was just down there what are u talking about.
B: OK fine it was lie

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i can't fit my rod through this mess are you crazy!

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"Dude... I can fake better than that..."

Don't ask...

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a mentor and I tend to have permanent marker fights. Around 2am on the final saturday of build he got me again and tried to deny it.
"Riiigght...It just came out of your pocket, into my hand, and went back into your pocket again..."
Another mentor nearly collapsed from laughing and it took me way too long to figure out why.

Others include:
"All your balls belong to us"
"We want you balls.."
etc.

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When we were at Palmetto Regional, we realized, me and some of the mentors, that it was actually possible for them (and I) to make jokes similar to those, and no one would get offended because we were really talking about the playing feild. :cool:

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I know this one has been said but its been yelled at me so many times that i have to repost it. Did you hit the reset button? (as the robot didnt do what we hoped it to do) :D

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His stomach is in his head.

Aptorygiformes: dude (this was yon speaking but still i was amazed)

Our scouting crew heard this one.
Scout 1 - How fast can your bot go?
Member 1 - Mach 3
Member 2 - Tell them about the Flux capaciter.
Member 1 - Well yeah. With the flux capaciter we can go about mach 9.

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"snips snips, i need the snips"

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Yesterday:

"You don't have to find the center, you just have to throw it..."

This was Chrissy's theory about throwing a large styrofoam airplane. I'd like to also sbmit that when she threw it after saying this, it crash landed about a foot in front of her, right into the top of my computer.

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Said by a non-team member after we systematically rejected his 3 horrible hopper designs:
"Darnit, why do you guys keep thinking like engineers?"

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said at a team fundraiser outside of walmart.

Me: i'm going over there. it's less confusing.
Steph: not anymore. you're there.

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Said by a student trying to think of ways to loose weight off the robot:

"Lets fill the robot with helium"

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Said by a teacher who randomly showed up from time to time, but wasn't an official mentor:

"You're the engineers, YOU figure it out."

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"All we have to do is make our thing longer." - our VeX captain, referring to the ball-collecting arm on the Vexbot.

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Hey didn't you just rebuild the transmission. Yeah I did. Then what are all those screws there for. Crap. :yikes:

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By me when getting change at a fundraiser:
"$3.50 from a 10. That's 5 1 50, right?"

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I was trying to wake up our coach to ask her a question:
"Steph wake up you evil knigit!"

After I recently injured myself:
"Our Safety Captain broke her foot!"

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MENTOR: "did you know that motors run on smoke?"

ME: "No they don't"

MENTOR: "yes they do, cause when the smoke comes out, they don't work anymore" :)

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This isn't really a quote but a little prank I played on my team. We were at the philly regionals and going into saturday we were in 5th place. I talked with the other advisors and they wanted to do it but couldn't keep a straight face. So I get on the bus and I was like listen up guys I have some bad news. The head referee called last night and they had found something illegal on our robot while doing our inspection for finals. They weren't sure so they didn't say anything at the time but confirmed it and then called us. They said we have been DQ. Then silence filled the bus. Some were about to cry and then some made some quotes.."So does this mean we can go home." and "Does this mean we don't have to scout?" Dead silence for about five mins and then someone was like hey it's april fools day and me totally forgetting denied it until I looked at my phone and realizing it was. I convinced them again that I was telling the truth. Finally I walked back up front and then told them I was joking. The silence was broken and we advisors got a good laugh out of it but the kids it took them a minute to get over it.

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Me: Have you checked my teams website, I changed the titles on the team history page to be darker

Adam Richards : No, I don't check your team page everyday

Me: Oh, well I do, I need to see if something has changed.

Adam Richards: Uh..Michelle...you edit the page

Me: Oh yeah..

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after listening to Blood Hound Gang
ME: i want a boyfriend so i can call him Cookie.
after a pause
ME: I CAN CALL MESHACH COOKIE!!!!!!!-Meshach is the name of our robot.

On the bus to Nationals
ME: I'm gonna turn around and watch the road go backwards-i have no idea what i meant to say
To answer a team members question i intended to say sorta/so-so. it came out ish-ish.

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"Never Give in, Never give up!"

"You wrote the CNC code wrong!"

"Paco catch the poof balls while we test the shooter."

"Sleep is for the weak!"

"Sleep?, What is sleep?"

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"We need to know when to bring the adult female!" At a team meeting, while discussing when people could actuality come to the lab so we could organize it with mentors.

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"Those bloody servos are going to be the bane of my existence!"

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My favorite had to be...

"You actually returned the drill?"
"Yeah"
"Is there an award for that? That is a first time occurance."

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team 521's most common thing said during duild. What could have been done to prevent this.

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"Robby You should be wearing your safety glasses while we are testing the shooter. " ... " Dan poof balls don't fit your EYE!! "

When talking to the team about talking with judges.

" When the judges ask you what you learned this season just tell them you learned how to do a lot of things the wrong way. "

When describing what we had available to build our robot...

" Yeah well we got a drill press last week oh and a chopsaw. "... " Chopsaw? " .. " Chopsaw... "

" OK so we are all here and we've got the game and the kit of parts.. now where do we build the robot?" .... " Well I guess you could use my garage temporarily until we find a place. " ( Famous Last words )

" Dan you look like Walking Death. "

Competition hosted some funny ones too..

" So what happend? Why did we stop moving ? " .. " The battery died I think we have a short. " .. " Ohh few I thought it was something mechanical, luckily I dont' do wires. "

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"This part is worth more than you." "It's a 10-dollar motor!" "It's STILL worth more than you!" -- from early on in the robotics season

Plus, the never-ending battle over whether it is a software or mechanical problem (I say that it it ALWAYS software, since I'm one of the people who has to fix the robot when it breaks)

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(In the pit watching our robot in the competition) "Look that us....dead....right there...."

"hey guys where's Caboose??" (Caboose is a poof ball that we lost, so it anyone found a green and black poof ball named Caboose contact me)

"So if we pitch in our robot, the cart, and one of our team members, we can get your robot???" - our team
"No not really.."- other team
".......are you sure???"- our team

"Who said worm drives in the first place?"

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Me- "So what happened out there" (to a team we mentor)
1848- "We ran the robot in the wrong direction during autonomous and the battery got disconnected..."

"WHAT!?! WHAT?!?! WHAT?!?! We are redoing the shooter again?.. Oh WHAT?!?! We are redoing the robot again. This is the 4th time"

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This applied to our robot as well, although I don't think we learned the lesson very well...

"Do we have enough weight left for pneumatics?"

then later

"Is it possible to cut enough holes in the robot to weight reduce 8 lbs?"

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Followed by a smack to the back of the head...

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Our team has a tradition where any memorable quotes are submitted to our team website, www.rvr87.org, and this year the number of submissions soured. We now have over 200. They are hilarious, and if anyone wants/needs to have one explained, they can pm me.

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I like that but its counter to the standard advice I give to our drivers since I started mentoring in 2003. I always remind them:

Drive it like you stole it! We'll put it back together for the next match.

This year our base driver took me up on it coming off the ramp so fast the bot was parrallel to the ground a few times. That'll teach me. (Smacks self in forehead) Luckily we built a sturdy bot to handle it, when we modified the drivetrain slightly after Winter Warzone when I saw what we would go through.

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(from some adult at each competition)

"RAMMING IN AUTONOMUS MODE?!?!?!!? thats not even a rule is it!"
yeah, our robot was so fast it could scream across the field in 2 seconds, fly up the ramp, and hit the other alliance's wall so hard that their controllers are knocked off the shelf, and hit the other driver's knees...

oh, and then theres the
can you tone the robot's speed down a bit? i can't handle driving with it
the programmers got a good kick out of that one

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At competition
1-Had did it do?
2-It worked!
-The Robot Pulls In-
1-What happened?
3-The radio cable wasn't screwed in so we lost connection.

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"Why is our robot 120 pounds overweight?"

Trust me it happen!

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That's what happened to us in our last match in Atlanta; the cable is now taped in to prevent that ever happening again. It's the worst feeling in the world.

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"Measure twice -- in your case, three times, if you have to -- and cut once."

And

"Just get the uppy-downy saw." (jigsaw)

Finally

"Once upon a time there was a moron. But he was a powerful moron, who could change the future merely by fouling up a job in the past, which was his present."
(Ever had to fix someone else's old work?)

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While walking to go do a mentos rocket..

Me "Oh man I feel like such a FIRSTer" "oh man im such a loser for saying that"
Adam "I take it you're putting that on CD?"
Me " OH YEAH "

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Mr. Cokeley: Remember, we're meeting this Saturday, 10-4. And that means 10 AM to 4 PM, not 3:50. (Saturday meetings usually lasted until about 8 or 9ish, really, though)

(A student actually showed up at 3:50 once, thinking that was what he meant :p)

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Here are a few from the good ol' folks on the Force team

Me:~Drops important robot part~
"I DIDN'T DO IT!"

~Loud bang or other noise~
J: That didn't sound healthy!
Me: I didn't do it!


Me: Hey miss H! Do ya have change for a 5?
~~Question I asked mentor every single meeting~~

Dan: What are you DOING TONY!
Me: I DIDN'T DO IT!

~Part falls off of robot~
C: Tony didn't do it!

Mike: Hey Corey. The spice must flow...
Corey: Yes indeed it must
Me: What is this spice you speak of?

~Shooter falls off of robot during a match~
Me: ~In stands with my ex~ I DIDN'T DO IT!
Ex: whaa?
Me: You wouldn't understand

M: The pigmy surf crawlers will take over the word tony!
Me: Yes of course and with the Amy Lee clones. Now can we please work on the robot!

~~These quotes were taken from Build season, Comp, and the pre season this year~~

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Conversation between mentors:

Mentor1: What's he doing here so early? (referring to my brother)
Mentor2: He's programming the robot.
Mentor1: Then why's she here? (quietly, pointing at me)
Mentor2: Oh, her? (louder, so I can hear) She's just a pain in the butt!

Mind you, the reason I learned so much was from following Mentor2 around all the time, learning how the machines worked. So yes, I was. :D

President: (Joking, I hope ;) )You're a just a Freshman!
Me:I'm a person.

...And my name is Anakin. No, wait a minute!

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we have so many every year, like:
- eh, its good enough
- lets just getto rig it
- ok kiddies, time to work
- if i can find it in 10 seconds...
- that didn't sound to good
- where is all our tape
- why are you all waiting around, do something

and my personal favorite:
- that was teh awesome manz 1111

but thats just to name a few.

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One thing that is said at our site over and over again...

"SG BROKE THE ROBOT!"

Even when he is no where close. You do it once, it's always your fault :p

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"Stupid laws of physics . . . ."

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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
----
"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

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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: .