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Mentor 1 to mentor 2:

Stay away from Andrew the next few days. He's already planning next season! :rolleyes:

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Family Day? The FIRST Robotics team is my family.

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Don't step in the blood..."we eat pain for candy"

Can some one gage that 3/16" hole in my thumb please?

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"If we win, next regional we're all using zip ties on our right braid"

- me, my one hair tie broke right before quarter-finals at Pittsburgh last week

"5/8 is the new 42"- me

"what can I break today?"- me again

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Your mind, for a start...

(That one went around for a while...then we realized it was less funny and more TRUE.)

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"If we win, I'll dye all of my hair."

She's dying all of her hair.

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"I'm so glad I joined robotics. I can eat now!"
-said by a 1st year senior who skipped robotics for wrestling last year

"Where's the 5/32 allen wrench? -looks around for a little bit- FLIPPY!! IS IT IN YOUR HAIR?"

and for the record it wasn't :rolleyes:

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"Debug the robot!"
(there were actually bugs on our shooter)

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"Thank you Chief Delphi!"

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Me: "I got a haircut."
team mate: "Where?"
me: "uh..." *points to head* "here!"

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Which hair got cut? :p

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This one doesn't really refer to the robot, but instead to the current weather in Seattle. The past few days, we've had rain, snow, hail, wind, sun, and various combinations thereof, which inspired this:

"Mother Nature's acting like she's on her period."

Sadly, I agree.

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You didn't break it, you forced an inappropriate function to operate at an inopportune time.

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Go directly to queue. Do not pass pit.

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They have a team airplane!?-- Us walking into Wave robotics's borrowed hanger where they had their practice field.

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"Win ALL the matches!" Said towrds the end of build season and the beginning of competition season. Funny enough, we were 18-0 at Detroit District.

"I don't care if he gets lost on the way there. I care if he gets lost on the way back. I hate cold pizza." It took him 10 minutes to get there and 20 to get back. He got lost on the way back and had to use a GPS. The town we live in is small.

"Well there's your problem!" We didn't have a cRIO in the robot. It took us 20 minutes.

"Your programming is wrong."
"No, it's your wiring."
"Do you really want to argue about this?" We did. For 10 minutes. It was the wiring.

"Well THAT was fun."

"Guys! Guess what? We got a gym!"

"I'm playing 'words with intellectual acquaintances.'"

"Don't throw the balls!"

"So I knew this guy who was a programmer."
"...and...?"
"Nothing. I just thought I would mention it."

"We're telling Coach that we're 10 pounds overweight." It was a few days before bag n tag.

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"Guaranteed to work, maybe."

Conversation:
Coach"Were nine pounds over, we had to lose some weight."
Team member#1 (TM1) "What did you do to fix it?"
Coach "We removed a few motors, wiring, and victors."
TM2 "Aren't those... important?"
Coach "Not anymore."
TM1 "Is that all you had to do?"
Coach " We also swiss cheesed the robot..."
TM1 "You put holes in OUR ROBOT???"
TM3 *Walks by* "No one likes the Swiss."

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"...They can't make up their minds!"

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"wait, did we take the battery out?"-about two days before bag n tag, amidst collective panic as the scale told us we were 15 pounds overweight.

This one is from before I joined the team, but it's a classic:
"Hey guys! is that the code?"
"No...thats the attendance sheet"

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B: How do you deal with us?
K: Sarcasm, and... Yeah, mostly sarcasm... Oh, and Jack Daniels too.


K: The table is indestructible, not idiotproof.

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"Can we change our name to 'Purple Close-Enough'?"

(Team 3176 Purple Precision)

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-(After finding the robot was 35 pounds underweight)
"We should add some decorative batteries"

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Explaining build season to newest member:

Josh: So let me get this straight....we build for 6 weeks, so we can put the robot away in a bag, and wait another 6 weeks before we use it?:confused:

Me:..........yes.

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Heard on the Waterloo webcast:

"We currently have zero representatives for alliance selection! This will make for very quick elimination rounds."

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Somthing that our mentor said to another team about their broken robot


"It wouldnt be FIRST if it didnt break"

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Speaking of Waterloo: "Look at them eat the fender! EAT IT! OMM NOMM NOM NOMEY NOM!" -Paul Copioli

Karthik and Paul were a heck of a lot of fun to watch this weekend!

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(when we used the lightest team member as ballast for testing the drive system)

"Unless something goes drastically wrong, the bot will turn slowly"

very soon after that line

"And this is why it is bad to divide by zero"

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During the St. Louis Regional, one of our drivers was giving handshakes where he runs his fingers along your hand, which feels incredibly weird. The resulting conversation happened after he given the handshake to a driver on our alliance (for a qualification):
S (Our Coach): C stop that.
C (The one giving the handshakes): What, I'm making friends.
S: No, you're making restraining orders.

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"Who's ready to strip some greasy old trannies?" (Referring to old transmissions, of course.)
"You can play basketball, right? Let's just cut your legs off and put you on the drivetrain."
"It doesn't need to fit right now, we'll just let it 'self-machine'."

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Due to the frequency with which we do this on our team, we have agreed upon the standardized term "self-clearance".


NOTE: Actually, it is often meant as a joke, but not always. Saying that you are 'breaking in' a P60 (banebots transmission), a very common practice recommended my many here on CD, you are really running it until it stops grinding itself into dust due to the colliding gears not fitting together properly. Using this technique for pneumatic wheels rubbing against a transmission output shaft is another story.

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Me: Were Should i break the Chain.

Ken (mentor): I don't Know But Breaking Chain Is like Breaking Wind.

Both of us: You just can't unbreak it.

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Someone on my team said this today about Dean Kamen:

"Wait, he invented the Segway! I thought he invented the subway!"

Everyone around her cracked up.

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"I'm taking my laptop to the internet"

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Not really a quote but, It was that moment when you find a vice-clamp sitting in a cardboard box among some other tools in the orchestra room at Rosemont High School. I thought, "That doesn't belong there! I should put it back in the Build Room!" And then you remember that, in fact, it doesn't belong to the robotics team at St. Francis. #FembotProblems


Also, not a quote either, but.. My mom calls our robot, "the computer."
"She volunteered to help pack up the computer and send it to St. Louis."
She also says St. Louis like St. Louii instead.
Not bashing my mommy, I love her lotsies.

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My team's website, when something goes wrong:
"Non erravi perniciose!"
-I did not commit a fatal error!

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A quote compilation:

*Duel on the DE 2010* (First time I saw a FIRST match, I was field reset for breakaway)

-autonomous starts, bots are naturally slower-

Me: Awww, how cute they look like fat little lemmings.

-teli opp, carnage begins-

Me: *scuttles away from gate* ANGRY LEMMINGS! ANGRY LEMMINGS!

------
*Demo 2011, Breakaway bot*

Small child: Excuse me, can the robot join my soccer team?

------

*testing new code, robot immediately rams full force in to a door and crushes a bin*

A; S, did you try to teach the robot to love again?

------

'MOEna, the most butch of all robots'
*dont ask*

------

me; We need a...a
B; A crimp?
me; no the boopy that goes on the end of the thing
B; we need more boopys!

------

*Another demo: Logomotion bot*

(bot takes a white circle from the floor)

Little girl: She's eating a doughnut!!!

------

'Always expect King Kong on a unicycle!'

------

*regarding the transportation of small handmade plushes to St.Louis*

C: So do they need any care? Do I feed them a cotton ball every morning?

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*new shooter is tearing the coating off the balls, leaving the carpet dusted with orange flakes*

'Well at least we know (the bot) could make it as a cheese grater'

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*trying to push robot through narrow door*

'Its like having a square baby!'

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after pointing out how undersized in all areas our robot was:
" you know how sometimes small dogs act big and tough? they call it little dog syndrome, well our little robot pushes every other robot around, because it has little robot syndrome!"

favorite long standing joke between team captain and me(the only programmer):
if it compiles, its electrical. if it's not on fire, its programming.

this got so bad that we almost kept a tally running on it and you know what? it was almost always electrical!

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Our team only has the net put on the top basket for our practice field, so whenever we all start taking shots, if someone misses all you hear is "That would have gone in the bottom net..."

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"measure twice, cut one"-- Golden rule

If it's too short, you can always cut it longer...

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"You are not a cat. Please wash your hands."
-- A mentor to a student licking his fingers.

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"Hey, guys... I think Daisy's using an aimbot!" -Me

And, sure enough, this elicited a few of these from my team.

"HAAAAAAAX!!1!"
"I CALL TEH HAXXORS!"

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Our teams lead programmer was having problems writing code for a compressor.
"I think I finally found the problem?!?!?"
He said this about 25 times...:confused:

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My personal favorite from this year (despite my status as "mentor" i was really the camera person): "Wait, are you recording this?"

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"Wtf hapened here?""what? Im just making it aerodynamic" (after going to mount a prototype bridge mechanismon the edge of the frame, with a support I swiss cheesed for,then realizing it was illegal)

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"The balls are stuck...!"
- "That's what she said"

"Guise, I found out we can order a 4 gallon carton of Starbucks!"
- "Get all of them. ALL OF THEM."

"Where are the programmers?!?!?!!"
-.... 5 hours later..... "Problem?"


"let's see how well it flies"

During competition....

"Where are the programmers?!?!?!? Autonomous isn't working!!"
- ...... competition is over..... "They were watching ponies and reading Homestuck at starbucks"


eeyup.

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Nighty night. Don't let the vex bot bite

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J accidentally sits on a cigarette end

S: You have a butt under your butt!

J: I have a pun under my bun!

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A few of us in a car back from Monty Madness 2012 (Naturally, 341 kicked bot up and down the field, eliminating us in the finals for the THIRD time this season):

Freshman Scout: "So... We lost to Miss Daisy again, huh?"

Sophomore: "Y'know, I still say we should've just mounted, like, a circular saw on our robot; just use it on Daisy, like *NEEYEOW!*."

Me (Scouting Captain): "Now -THAT'S- what I call a Daisy Cutter!"

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We didn't have our adapter for our bridge but we needed to test it. One kid said:

Kid: "We can just use paperclips"
Me: "No we will just do it tomorrow"
Kid: *uses paperclups anyway*
Bridge: *Explodes*

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(can't say the actual word) FUDGE!!! We lost Com with the robot

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One of the girls on our team after the kickoff

Sophie: "So where do we buy the robot and can it be pink?"
Me: "Sophie, you don't buy the robot you build it and no we're not painting our robot pink."

"You guys the coopertition bridge isn't that important"
(after three matches at champ)
"You guys we're ranked 56 and we've won all three of our matches so far yet we haven't gotten any coopertition points. I guess I misjudged the importance of the coopertition bridge."

A reporter at champs: "So what's your robots name?"
Me: "Our robots actual name or our team's name?"
Reporter: "Your robot has a name?"
Me: "Yeah it's name is Javier"
For the rest of the interview the reporter called our robot by it's name and our whole team burst out laughing

R: "I used to play with balls... but then I took an arrow to the knee"

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"It turned me into a gay, roman statue!"

"It was like unh sparkle sparkle unh sparkle sparkle..."

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When we were designing the robot, the main designer was presenting his concept to the group:
Us: "So...how does it score?"
Him: "Well, it can either launch balls out the front for short-range, or it can kinda... fart them out the back for the top rack."
Someone else: "I'm surprised you didn't say burp for the frontal scoring."

——

*I'm cringing as our coach misspells a sizable amount of words on the whiteboard.*
Me: "Uh... that's wrong, that's wrong, and I don't even know what you were trying to say there."
Him: *Starts correcting as I tell him the proper spellings.* "Now what on earth am I gonna do when my SpellCheck graduates next year?"
Me: "If I'm spellcheck, do you want me to walk up to the board in the middle of your lectures now and underline wrong spellings in red marker?"

——

"Oops... Rye needs plastic surgery again." (When our mascot lost its wing.)

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"Lets not have wheels on the robot this year. Lets just have an awesome shooter, sit on the key, and have people feed us."

Needless to say, that idea wasn't even allowed on the whiteboard :D

"The coopertition bridge is so dangerous. Lets try and avoid it the best we can."

This met idea met the same fate as the bot without a drivetrain idea :P

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I legitimately believed until championships that there would be a few robots that just sat in the feeder lane and could shoot full court three-pointers. I was proved wrong.

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Did somebody say no wheels?

Remember this?

Sorry... It was just a joke.

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For any CSI fans out there,

N: We're out of 1/4 grade five bolts!
J: Well I guess we're screwed...
N: No... I guess you could say... we're bolted!
N: YEEEAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!:cool:

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"Righty Tighty Lefty Loosy.... Your going the wrong way!" Thats what we always like to say when someones working, just to annoy them.

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This happened before build season, we were texting an old team member who comes by and helps us alot.

Us:The robot is sparking..
Him:Well Turn it OFF!

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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?

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Someone on my team did that at competition...sadly he wasn't joking

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On 1523 ours is safe she just forgets to wear closed toed shoes, bring hair ties, and she sometimes doesn't pay attention when walking into a room. Sadly she isn't the most unsafe person on the team............ that belongs to a mentor

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So, you met Damian.

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I think the one I heard most on our team is "If it fits, it ships"

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Our team captain and oldest, "wisest" member: "Lithium grease doesnt taste that bad, especially since my tongue is now numb."

"Who's idea was it to take a week off from robotics?"
"well, that looks nothing like the cad i just did.."
"thats what she said"
*Playing DeadMou5 and other dubstep while working* Head mentor "Can we turn this stuff off? its proven it will make us lose. Lets listen to AC/DC instead. Yeah thats a good idea"
AND MY ALL TIME FAVORITE:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...notif_t=l ike
(for those that cannot view, on a list of what we needed to accomplish, "replace pneumatic bolts, because Lance hacksawed through them")

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A collective quote from several of my veteran team members:

Build season is like a child:
You wait expectantly for it for 9 months.
You're super excited when it finally comes.
You have a few, but can't really answer which one is your favorite.
You pour lots of time and money into it.
It's a lot of work and very tiring.
At some point, you become really mad at it and frustrated, wondering "what was I thinking"
Then when it's gone, you miss it and wish it would come back.

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Person 1: If it fits it ships.
Person 2: For a low flat rate.

This applies to EVERY situation you can think of.

Example 1: We were attaching a manipulator to the back of our OCCRA robot.
Example 2: Making a battery box
Example 3: deciding on the amount of pizza to buy

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A quick excerpt from the GRRban dictionary:
Easy Simba
Just goin out an givin her, ya know
ooo, machu picchu
and my favorite:
bye buddy hope you find your dad.....bye mr. narwhal
(from elf)

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That would be a resounding "no".

My computer: ........... *backspace* *backspace* *backspace*
Me: Hey! We finally got a connection to the router!
Me: Nope, just lost connection again.
Me: *goes to look at router, sees mentor plugging and unplugging power repeatedly*
Me: WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?
Mentor: Oh, sorry, I thought that would make the robot boot up faster.

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While a couple of senior members and I were working on the mill, our semi-affiliated FTC team was also working in the shop. We overhear this from a rather eccentric programmer type, directed to their mentor:

"Mr. Shannon, the wheels are round!"

After laughing our heads off, we began to wonder how that could possibly be a concern worth expressing.

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How about the "you know your addicted to first when..."

You had a dream you saw what the 2013 game was when no one else has (:

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"If the world really wants an Iron Man suit all you have to do is implement one into the FRC game and 6 weeks later, you'd have plenty of prototypes to choose from" :D

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"Oh man, I like that shaft."

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"The robot bit me!"
-said while bleeding after shin scraped against side panel of our t-shirt cannon bot.

"We need red and blue nail polish... to mark the bags of encoders"
-Mentor after long day of switching out 250's that were mistakenly mounted instead of 360's.

"Karl stuck the multimeter in the wall, and it's smoking."

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"Remember, the robot is only as stupid as you are"
shortly after, a veteran nearly sideswiped two mentors
"SEE!"

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"Is a hamster considered a raw material?"

Said by one of my FTC team members while trying to figure out how to get enough power to lift our alliance members robot.

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"Why does the battery always die on the drill when you are using it?"

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September 2012, I was new to FIRST and was asking stupid questions.
Here's a few examples.

"What's an Allen Wrench?"

(I point to a treadmill) "Joe, we should use the motor from this treadmill on next season's robot."

Ekcrbe: What teams do you know?
Me: Uh... Us... The Juggernauts... The Killer Bees... Rush...
Ekcrbe: That's it? Oh my god. (lists off teams 1-200 within 2 minutes)

This was during our Robot 102 lessons on the same day.
(Electrical made a visual encoder mount for Programming on a BaneBots motor. Electrical just got done wiring it)

JosephC: James!!! Come here!!!
(I walk over to the programming area)
Me: Yes?
JosephC: You wired this encoder wrong!!!
Me: What's wrong with it?
JosephC: You put it on the PWM outputs!!! Not the inputs!!!

(programming mentor was testing his code. Ekcrbe and I are walking out from a meeting. We notice a great deal of smoke and a very bright blue light emitting from the slot on the side of the BaneBots motor)

(both of us at the same time): OH MY GOD!!!

(run over to the programming area)

Mentor: Nothing to see here.
Ekcrbe: What happened???
Mentor: I forgot to change the settings to this motor from the CIM we were using earlier.

(A mentor brings in an electric wheelchair to be repurposed as a turkey leg carrier)
M: Holy crap!
Me: What?
M: This wheelchair is powered by 24 volt CIMs!!!
(everyone within earshot) WHAT??? (run over to wheelchair)

Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season
 

Quotes I've been meaning to add to the thread for a while:

"Why is there blood on this tube?" Overheard at the GSR (Logomotion)

"FIRST: If it's changing your life, you're doing it right." - JGecko146

"It was really epic...but in a bad way." - JGecko146

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"I hope you step on a Lego, in the dark, barefoot!" - haven't laughed that hard in a long time

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We were painting bumpers during crunch weekend

Female senior: So what do you guys want to do as a career?

Male Junior: I want to be a genetic engineer

Female senior: Cool, that way if i cant, you can come over and make my babies!

Us: 0_o

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Student: "Maybe if we block the feeder station the human player will feed our robot."
Mentor: "I hope not."
Different Mentor: "They could load 5 Frisbees into our robot."
Mentor: "It's called a slanted top."

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1. "Life starts with FIRST Robotics. Life ends with FIRST Robotics. Life is FIRST Robotics."
2. "Hey you there. Yes, you! Do not drink the soda near the robot. We don't want this year to be like 2009!"

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Me: Seriously, frisbees? This must be a joke.

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At 5:00 this morning before we left for kickoff:

"Watch this, it's probably going to be something ridiculously obnoxious like frisbees."