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M: I milled it to exactly 4 inches. You can hit me if it's off.
(A measures it with calipers, and proceeds to hit M)
M: Ow! (rubs shoulder) What was that for???
A: You're 7 thousandths of an inch off!
M: (snatches the piece) Fine. I'm gonna go rubber-wheel it for 7 seconds.

(as we are about to assemble our chassis)
Lead mentor: Are you kidding me???
M, A, and I: What's wrong??
Lead mentor: This is the wrong piece! We made the wrong piece!!!
A: Uh, isn't that the piece you're looking for? (points to the chassis piece right next to where the one the lead mentor picked up was)
Lead mentor: Shut up! Can't you hear I'm blind?

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"Don't worry, we can fix it in programming"

"We will be done by week five and will have a week of practice!"

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Me running around the build room looking for my wire strippers:
"I NEED A STRIPPER!"

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Different Sub Teams:
Programming sub team: "I've been finished for weeks!!!!"
Build sub team: "Can't you put that jag somewhere else?!?!!?"
Electronics sub team: "Can't you put that shooter two inches higher?!?!!?"

it's never your sub teams fault lol :)

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- Gaaahhhh! I've cut this piece three times now, and it's *still* too short!

- It's not broken... but we can fix that.

- I'm sorry; in *this* shop, we obey the laws of physics.

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I needed to check to see if you were on my team because of that quote...

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me: Where's the stripper?
N: She has a name...

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"Gravity points up"

while building a gravity based device for climbing, we sorta forgot which direction gravity goes

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"It should hold..."

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"Always remember to dot your q's."

"How much does aluminum weigh per pound?"

"Who's Maya?" (autodesk)

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Mentor: What's the differnce between these two robots?
Student: One works and one doesn't

Student: Is it bad that the robot is randomly rebooting????? (in a really worried voice)
Other Student: I just turned it on......

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Student: "Life is like a box of robots... chocolate robots."

Lead Mentor: "Walk AROUND the table! We're here to solve problems, not get stuck in them!"

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"I think the drill ran out of torque."

"If your robot arm doesn't retract after 4 hours, please contact your mechanical engineer."

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While listening to this while assembling/riveting

Programmer: "Pop rivets? More like Progressive Rock rivets."

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One of our officers making a calendar for us: "What's a reasonable estimate for us to be done with our robot?"
Me: "After competition."
Mentor: "How about the end of week 4? Can we do that?"
Build Captain: "No. But put it anyway."
Calendar Girl: "Well, when will everything be done?"
Me: "Who knows?"
CG: "When will building be done?"
Build Captain: "When we get our parts and put them together."
CG: "And when will the wiring be done?"
Me: "Once we know where to mount everything - after building is done."
CG: "And when will programming be done?"
Programmer: "It is until build and electric add more. When will the calendar be done?"
CG: "Today." -adds "Finish Calendar" to calendar for that day-

Build Captain: -comparing our Modulox rail to the schematic online- "Why can't we do it like that? That one looks nice."
Me: "Replace 'nice' with 'outside the realm of our abilities'."

Mentor: "First one to finish the robot gets this packet of sugar!"

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most recent...

Me: Hey, I need that tiny VEX motor controller. do you know where it is?
Electrical: No idea
Me: ... ... ... Will you play hot or cold with me?

-on the way to compition at 4 in the morning-
Programmer: Hey! how far is it from the key to the basket?
Scout: Why?
Programmer: Autonomus

Mechanical: we just have to use a 2x6.
Programmer: I know what that is! its like a 2x4 but bigger.

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Veteran Friend: "Type faster!!!"
Me: *types "Faster" "There we go, I typed faster."
Veteran Friend: -.-

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Mentor: This was a good day. We wired the robot, drove it like heck, rammed it into a wall and fixed it with a giant wrench.


Mentor: How is that held in place?
CAD Lead: Go to the hardware store and buy a bag of constraints and put the constraints on the robot.

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I taped tape onto tape with tape. And it had a purpose.

Over my dead body

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Danny can do nothing!! mwhahahahahaha!!


"Yeah... it's week 5......." ( <--- Would need an explanation I don't feel like typing.)

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Student: is that red sharpie on your hand?

Me: Hmmm. Let's see. That's a cut, that's a cut, that's a cut...nope. no red sharpie.

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G:I Just realized something.
J: What is it?
G: Every day of the week has day at the end of it.
J: Wow, That's some conspiracy stuff right there, you should go tell your findings to everyone else.
G: Hey guys...

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When working on vision processing in LabVIEW
Me:"Why won't this wire connect!?!?!?!?!?"
Other Programmer:"Oh I see your problem. Your source is a 1-D array containing a cluster of 3 elements and your sink is a 1-D array containing a cluster of 3 elements."
Me: -__-

"I don't know why it works, but it works."

Our programming team's motto: "PWM, Probably Works... Maybe"

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G: You know better chiiiico
J: Please stop saying that you guys.
N: But chiiiico, you know better.

J: Ahhh, Mr. E, I might have drilled into my hand
later while waiting for ride to hospital
J: Don't i look like the coolest, good thing my girlfriend was there or i would be balling my eyes out.

Mr. E: Did you hear about the fire at the circus.
G:What?
Mr. E: It was intense.
A: I don't get it
G: In TEENTTSS.
A: OHHHH


J: So, can our robot actually be made out of metal this year instead of just spray painting all the wood gold.

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"I view the robot as my baby.... Last year, I wanted to dis-own my baby."

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A build day without Prog is like having a scratched copy of Close to the Edge. So much potential...wasted.

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"School is just a break from robotics."
-Team 708

There should be a FRC Harlem shake.

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"Uh, Mr. B, we just drove the robot off the table."


......a new programer was fixing the codes and accidently drove the robot straight off the worktable. Thank goodness we put a cage around the electrical!

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Mentor 1: Pointing the light at the target makes a big difference.
Mentor 2: Yeah, so does pointing forwards or backwards.
Students break out in laughter.

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"Are we staying late on Tuesday?"
Mentor laughed for a good 30 seconds

Mentor: "Stop touching each other."
Team member: "Actually, we're not touching. We're sharing electrons."
Mentor: "Then stop sharing electrons."

-later on-

"Now whenever somebody walks into you accidentally, you're going to think to yourself, 'that guy just stole some of my electrons.'"

"I don't want to share electrons with you. I might get an ETD."

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"You hot-glued... to a zip tie?"

During our practice bag n' tag/robot reveal presentation:
"We decided to keep the jaguars away from the computers because, as one of our mentors put it, we should keep the rock band out of the library."

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*freshman picks up an aluminum bar painstakingly wrapped in rope*
freshman: "what is this..?"
mentor: "I'm not sure, I think Shimpei made it."
freshman: "but what does it do....?"
mentor: "nothing.."
senior: "yeah, it's that time of build season."

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"We have plenty of time to panic"
C. Koenig ~Lead Mentor

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We have two brothers on our team.

Brother 1 trips over Ethernet cable ripping the tang out of my laptop
Brother 2 then grabs laptop and walks off with it with cable duct taped in.

"What does your family have against my laptop?!!!"

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Me: Can we move the robot to the woodshop to wire it? The tables are lower, and the lighting is better.
Lead Build Mentor (as he watches the build groups carrying the robot into the woodshop): No! Absolutely not! Whoever moves the robot off the assembly table will be shot! (I believed him too)

E: Hey! I can't hold this on my own!
C: It's a piece of paper!

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"I like my PIDS aggressive!"

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Coach W: "Hey! No hugging."

Mentor K: "I broke gravity once."

Head Captain: " 3...2...1... Coms. Coms. Coms. Coms...."

Mentor K: "Maybe you shouldn't swing around the big metal thing until your ready to use it."

Mentor K: "I had front-row seats to the Big-Bang!"

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Mentor on electrical panel: "You need to be on tht $@#$@#$@#$@# like a mother on her baby. People don't like it when babies die, and yours just died twice in the last twenty minutes!"

Later that evening (four days before bag)...

Same (male) mentor: "We need to find an underappreciated woman to rewire this robot, because apparently men cannot wire with any kind of attention to detail or sense of aesthetic appeal."

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"We should use fans"

This became a running gag throughout the entire season.

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One of our lead builders spoke through an awkwardly shaped PVC pipe and sounded like Bane from Batman. " I was born of the pyramid. Molded by it."

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one of my favorites is "sleep is for after build session" -me

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Rookie Member: "Man, this bandsaw blade goes on FOREVER."

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*Something breaks*

"This is why we can't have nice things"

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One hour before we had to bag and tag:
"Well, looks like the prototype finally works."
Scariest thing I had heard all season.

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"This is going to be awesome" with a surprise appearance by tim-tim.

An outtake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY5u1...=youtube_gdata

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A few hours before bag; that time when you just don't care about it being right anymore.

"If it fits, it ships"

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"So when are we adding that photon cannon?"

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The students were ribbing another student about having a girl friend and I said that unless the girl was in the KOP, it wasn't allowed :D

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While telling freshmen how bag and tag works:
"Me: If that bag gets messed with, we could get dq'd. So if any of you touch it, I promise, I will beat you.
Freshmen: terrified looks
Head Mentor: (cracking up un the back if the room) the robot has a special bubble. Stay out of it. "

During the late hours of a build night:
"I like turtles"

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"Bro, are you even a riveter?"

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There are probably hundreds from 4269's build season, but I have some of my personal favorites here:

• "This is NOT the Pinewood Derby!"
• "Is that a robot? Niiice!"
• "Just use some duct tape..."
• "Oops!"
• "Blame it on the freshman!"
• "Mesure once, cut twice!"
• "If you screw up, you can always use a board stretcher!"
• "Where does the flux capacitor go?"

More to follow!

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Programmer: "Why isn't the robot turning on?"
Mentor: "Well did you plug the battery in?"
Programmer: "Well there you go, that's why I'm not on pit crew. Just give me
a bunch of 1's and 0's and I'll figure it out."
Me: "Uhhh it's either plugged in or it isn't."

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It could be plugged in backwards.

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"Well we just double stuffed" put 2 discs in the prime position.

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Here is our annual blog post of quotes from the Ultimate Ascent build season. http://tahomarobotics.org/2013/02/20...final-chapter/

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Hey how do we make a new post?

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"We broke it. Then we fixed it. Then we broke it again."

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::ouch:: While cutting buckets for the disk magazine....
" I Hate Buckets"
"I'm going to kick the Bucket"
But I think we finally have one with all the cuts in the right place :)

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"What's a WAGO?"
"Ouch! The robot bit me!"

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(after watching 118's reveal video for 2013): That poor helicopter!!!

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Mentor: "Why are you guys using a blowtorch?"
Person: "To cut rope."
Mentor: "Oh, okay."

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Me to a CAD/Mechanical mentor: "Hey look, I successfully constrained the chain to the sprocket!"

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B: "NOBODY BREATHE!!!"

This was said a week or so ago when we were painting our launcher. An electrical freshmen was fanning it with lexan to aid the drying process (voluntarily, I promise) when we were discussing the humidity caused by breathing in the build room and how it was effecting the paint on the launcher. Needless to say, we got some weird looks when that got shouted.

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I think WAGO is another word for evil!

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K " How can we get this to stay?"
M "Weld it."
K "It is wood and rubber."
M "Weld it."
working on a prototype shooter

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"Im giving you 5 grand! Practice some 'grateful professionalism'!"
Followed by everyone trying to correct me -_-

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"We should put depleted uranium on the BOM and see if the inspector catches it"

"The robot is 3 pounds overweight" - Engineer. "Guess I've got some code to delete..." - Programmer. Oldie but goodie.

"THE CLAWWWWWWWW" *Grappling hook instantly brought back memories of Toy Story, now we have the aliens from the claw game all over our workshop -_-*

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-one of the programmers while holding a hammer right next to a broken computer- "TIME TO VOID THE WARRANTY"

-one of the programmers (Sam) trying to fix something-
Me: "Saaaaaam the Builder, CAN WE FIX IT"
Sam: "Shut up, everyone abandoned me."
Me: "Saaaaam the Builder, YES WE CAN"

-One of the builders watching videos of other teams' robots-
Builder: "Look at them, they have underglow! Why did we waste time making a working shooter and lifter when we could have UNDERGLOW."

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My rookie and I are like sisters, so when somebody messes with her she says this in reference to me.
"Don't make me sick my lesbian on you!"
Or
"Don't make me call my lesbian over here"

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Student 1: "You did that problem wrong."
Student 2: "I did it perfectly fine."
Student 1: "You just disproved friction..."

Student: "I got it. I think."

Mentor: "If all else fails, we can just hit stuff."

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Yay! Post #3574 on this thread!!!

So, I came back to the shop after having to miss a lot due to circumstances beyond my control (homework. Sigh), and saw on the whiteboard devoted to the programmers, someone had written "programmers = cool whip (fluffy)". I asked around and nobody knew who had written it or what it meant... [insert Twilight Zone theme music here] :yikes:

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Jokingly written while editing our scouting sheet:

Is the robot offensive, defensive, or defective?

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If the Robot is to heavy take some 0 and 1's out.

We also had a Freshman that calling everyone a Phys-co hose beast.

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Mentor: You guys programmed a really good autonomous, 1671 even commented about it on Chief Delphi, on the CVR thread.
J: Is it really that good? It's just a bunch of while loops!
A: Accept your praise!

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Student: "When in doubt, dead blow."

Student: "We haven't caused any trouble!"
Mentor: "I quote 'WE NEED TO GET ALL OF THE METAL SHAVINGS OUT OF THE ELECTRONICS BOARD BEFORE THE ELECTRICAL TEAM COMES BACK!!!!!'"
Student: *Silence*

Freshman: "Why is Wasay so emotionless and scary?"
Mechanical Lead: "Because his parents were killed by a clown, and then he became Batman."
Me, having just heard: "Then I realized I didn't have Morgan Freeman to build me cool stuff, so I joined a FIRST team."

Student: 'I figured out the game after the water challenge, the AIR challenge! This is how it's going to be introduced: "Air challenge is played on a 27 by 54 foot ETERNAL ABYSS"'

My personal favorite-
New member: "Ummm.. I cut this piece too short... We don't happen to have like a channel stretcher, do we?"

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Mr. Shannon, Mr. Shannon! The wheels are round!

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... or I'll cut your arm off with a band saw.

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Explicit alert

Usually said from one of the head members to a rookie
"How tight should it be?"
"Pu**y tight"

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Not as much a quote as it is a funny situation.
Student 1 and Student 2 decided that they wanted to investigate what happened to a wireless bridge that we had burned out because we accidentally reversed the polarity of a router.

1: "You know what? I really wanna see what happened to that burnt out router."
2: "Alright, let's open it up."

So, they open it up and decide to plug it in and see if anything visual happens. Of course nothing happens at all, so student 2 suggests they grab an IR temperature reader.

2: "So, the baseline is anywhere from 70-80 degrees."

student 1 turns on the power to the router and they both start reading out temperatures.

2:"Not the cpu and that chip, so let's start checking the capacitors."
1:"Well, those are at about 90. See of the CPU changed at all."
2:"Nope, they didn't change much."

at this time, student two passes the temperature reader over a large capacitor, and the reader reads out 130 degrees. Student 1 bursts out laughing.

1:"Well, I think we found the problem!"

TL;DR Students start laughing their heads off when trying to diagnose a router when a capacitor reads out 130 degrees. Also, don't kill routers. It's a bad idea

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the most commonly used quote "go home, you're drunk."

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"Please explain to me what is the problem with connecting the camera on to the robot with double sided duck tape!"

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"I'm not programming, I'm writing a paper. My teacher requires very strange syntax."

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Our website actually has a page dedicated to quotes from the past few years:
http://www.team1912.com/quotes.html

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Don't worry about the errors, ill fix them later.

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well this was at a competition but a judge was talking to a girl and asked her what programing language we used she had no idea and replied with "English" and just walked away :) it was pretty funny

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"I think the best strategy this year would be to paint somebody silver, put a safety light on his head, and hope he doesn't have to play defense."

"Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to put the duck away, as it is very detrimental to our work ethic."

"Is it necessary to continually blast 'Sexy And I Know It' on repeat throughout every meeting?"

"Gentlemen, I am very proud to say that, for the first time in Team 540 history, our robot is not obese. This means we will not have to cheese the electrical board."

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Student 1: "Pass me the Dikes"
Student 2: "Dikes is such a derogatory term. We should call them 'Lesbians'."

From that day forth, they were called "Lesbians" by everyone on the team.

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Student 1: Did you save?
Student 2: No, why?
(Computer shuts down)
Student 2: What, NOOOOO. 2 Hours of work for nothing!!!
Student 1: 6:01, Computers always shut down. HAHAHAHA.


(District 11 has an automatic shutdown time set for 6:01 every day. No notification, no cancel button. REAL smart.):mad:

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member 1: Pass me the vice grips
Member 2: No from this day on were going to call them dikes
Member 1:that's stupid we already have a tool called that
2 hours later
Entire team:pass me the "DIKES"
member 1:their called VICE GRIPS!!!!

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Is it bad that my team said this daily?

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The boys on my team like to make lube jokes a lot...
"Safety FIRST! Use non-toxic plant based lube!"
"Don't touch me with that string! Do know how much lube I put on that thing?"

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(after teaching one of the electrical guys the basics of how to program in labview (he really wanted to learn))...

Me - "Ok, do you think you can make a program to add two things together?"
Student X - "Sure, it seems simple enough"
Me - "Well you do that, and I'll make sure I didn't miss anything important from the rest of the programmers"
*Walks away for 5 seconds*
Student X - "Umm... labview isn't responding."
Me - "Let me see that."
*Looks at laptop screen*
Me - "...You crashed labview. I gave you the simplest task EVER and you crashed labview. You were never meant to be a programmer. Go back to electrical."

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I plan on printing this quote by Douglas Adams (tHGttG: Mostly Harmless) and posting it in our pits at next weekend's competition:

"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."

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or it can be fixed by using stanley...

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For all non-240 members out there, Stanley is our dead blow hammer :yikes:

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we should right on the lexan with sharpie #notlast

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Vise grips

Vice grips are off-screen workers making porno movies. Maybe sometimes with dykes. :yikes: ;)