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"Jackie Robinson, not DELPHI ELITE" (when discussing maximum points per stack)

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I'm going to have to take personal credit for that one ;). For those wondering, we said it jokingly of course seeing as team 48 (Delphi E.L.I.T.E.) is one of 3193's most trusted friends. It was brought up when a team member confused the maximum point stack for 48 points instead of 42. Why I chose Jackie Robinson I will never know

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There was at least one call for compressed air in the pits at CMP. I'm presuming they wanted it for tools or practice, as the robot must compress its own air for competition.

Jackie robinson is #42

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A programming student after running a new auto.

"OK, so there are a bunch of numbers on this screen, so I'm going to read them"

15 seconds later

"I don't have the number I needed."

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When my dad drops me off at our shop: "Have fun, make friends, break things."

The team's famous last words: "In theory, ..." (I know, so original!)

When said theory breaks down during competitions: "It all worked at the shop!"

My response to the theory breakdown: "...That is pathetic."

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1. From a mentor to me, the programmer, "If it ain't tested, it don't work"
2.The team's favorite quote from a student when a motor started smoking, "It's catching on smoke!"
3. The famous, "Just give me one more minute"
4. it was said of one student, "If he can't break it, it can't be broken"

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A personal favorite of mine was "This robot is held together with 4/40 hardware and tears."

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"MECANUM WHEELS?!?!?! ON A BIN CLAW?! ARE U CRAZY?!"

When I saw your reveal video I thought you were crazy at first.

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"Just use the percussive maintenance device, works every time"-student

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When we were watching footage of our bin raker in slow motion, a student who couldn't see the video said this:

"What are you watching? An earthquake?"

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A team member and I were measuring the dimensions of our new trailer for CAD modeling. We are both holding a tape measure above our head to try to measure a part.

Phil "What's the measure!?!"
Me "2..... 2...... 2......" *Can't get a good read*
Phil "2 What Logan!?! 2 What!?!"
*I drop the tape measure and start cracking up laughing...*

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*Looking at scouting data on an excel spreadsheet*
*Non-Scout comes up* "That team must be amazing. They have a 9 in that category where everyone else has a 0 or 1."
Me: "Considering that category is 'step bins in auto', someone done messed up"
Non-scouter: "Oh"

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"Don't listen to what I say, listen to what I mean."

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Can you get me a left-handed screwdriver?

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"Our Robot Om nom nom tote!"
~Our CEO

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I also need a metric sharpie.

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I wish you could convert them more easily. Our workshop gets a little cluttered when you have to keep separate sets of pens, pencils, erasers, etc. for imperial and for metric.

And don't even get me started on screwdrivers...

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Random Team Member - "What is wrong with the shop vac?" as a sawdust fountain appears at the exhaust.
Me - "Did you put the filter back on when you dumped the sawdust?"
RTM - "What filter?"

This leads to a trip back to the dumpster to retrieve the filter paper. After 20 minutes, the shop vac is once again ready and the power switch is flipped. <Sawdust Fountain>

RTM - "But we put the filter back on."
Shop vac is opened, showing the filter laying in the bottom of the tank.
Me - "Did you put the plastic filter ring back on to hold the filter in place?"
RTM - "What plastic ring?"
Me - "Take it to the WALL OF SHAME (the place for broken tools and equipment) until we can order a new one."

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"Go drive the grabber station."

-One of our software mentors

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(an 8th grader referring to a cordless drill chuck)

*How do I make the screwy-tighteny thing release?!?!

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*autonomous didn't work*

-You didn't make a sacrifice before this match, did you?

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"...I got it before I Kamen"
(came in... get it?)

<during our robot's initial testing>
"Get in the Zone, AUTO ZONE"

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A conversation within the drive team during a match at championships in which our claw motor burnt out.

*Claw begins smoking and spitting out sparks in copious quantities*

Operator: Hey Tyler, the claw is on fire.
Me (driver): So it is.
Me: Hey (human player), the claw is on fire.
HP: That's cool.

*Human player continues to load totes*

Operator: What is that, five now?
Me: Unfortunately.


This season we also used less than durable joysticks manufactured by Thrustmaster. Two of them, used by the driver, had issues with the hard stop on the twist axis breaking. The first one also damaged the joystick in such a way that it could turn left anymore (making for an interesting right turn only match at Colorado), but the second one kept working in a unique manner.

*Joystick snaps while turning left and over-twists to face directly at me, the driver"
Me: Hey (coach), another joystick broke.
Coach: No it didn't, you're still driving around fine it seems.
Me: Look at it...

*Coach looks to see backwards joystick*

Coach: Oh, we should fix that.

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not a quote, but I turned up at our shop one afternoon and someone had written: "replace magic smoke in RoboRio"
had a little bit of a freak out.:ahh:
-helix

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I'm not sure whether I'm laughing or crying, but my eyes are definitely experiencing an overabundance of moisture.

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We were cleaning up the lab and one of my friends is asked to find an allen wrench. He heard the person wrong and went around asking people "what is an owl wrench ?". We then nicknamed him owl wrench.

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agreed!

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It wasn't build season, and it wasn't even robotics, but it seems right for this thread. It was time for the vacation bible school class to go to the next station tonight, and Fr. Harry called out something that sounded to most of the staff like "OK, it's time to go to hearts and craps!". (No, it was not gambling with cards and dice, but "arts and crafts". Harry's an early riser, and our first evening VBS isn't working out so well for him.)

On an only slightly more FRC-related note, I can personally confirm both of the following from experience of the past two days:

• a pool noodle can be whittled into the shape of a rhinoceros horn if you're interested in making a rhino mascot
• hot glue can be used as an emergency fix for all five wheels on a prop jeep (four drive wheels plus the steering wheel)

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"So you're telling me, that we got acrylic laser cut and you let the software guy touch it? Why would you do that?"

Said after we got some acrylic laser cut to make our robot look less dodgy and it was snapped in half by one of our software guys within five minutes. The sheet metal and hot glue repair was beautiful though...

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"This simple design incorporates 24 pneumatic pistons." -Captain explaining the design
"I call this part, the Big Stick." -Captain explaining the design

"I am sick of your good ideas, sensemaking, and problem solving!" -Mechanical Head sarcasm during build
"I want to go to St. Louis so bad it hurts" -Mechanical Head during our 2nd regional

"Yeah, we'll be running the 3D printer all night in the bathroom so we have those spare parts for tomorrow." -Me during Northern Lights at around 2 a.m.

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On our team, the seniors liked playing jokes on the new members. We were putting felt on the battery holder. One of the seniors said if you lick the felt it would stick better to the metal. It has been a joke ever since.

"Don't lick the felt!"

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S1: "what's that sound?"
S2: "must be brett milling again"

Fabrication Lead: "this is my motivator" (in reference to half of a pool noodle stuck onto a PVC pipe)

Me, at DCMP: "we have a canburglar, someone will pick us" (we aren't picked for elims)

Me, at Champs: "We might get picked as a 4th robot, or for cheescake" (we're the 3rd alliance's second pick)

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Student: "When is a good time to email you?"
Me: "... What do you mean?"
Student: "I want to make sure I email you at a convenient time."
Me: "We're not talking about a phone call. Just send the email whenever."
Student: "So you don't care when I send it?"
me: "You don't know how email works, do you?..."

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"No, we're not building a crane. That is a terrible idea."

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Today, so technically not build season.
"We need something stiffer but more malleable."

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Probably heard a thousand times but it's still awesome. Veteran members that will renamed unnamed tend to ask new members to find an aluminum magnet for them. It happened to me and it will keep happening to new members... lol ;)

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The Mclaren f1 had an aluminium part of a radio with small particles of steel sprayed on it to allow for it to be magnetic but still as light as possible...

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"How do I derive this part?"
"Figure it out!"

That was a common phrase heard on the CAD subteam.

Another phrase that was heard throughout the team was "SHIA SUPRISE!"

At competitions, we would hear "Guys, Cotten-eye Joe is on! Let's dance!"

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As we were lying the robot down to work on it
"CAD me like one of your french robots"

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"That song [Danger Zone] is Jake's bat-signal."

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LOL! Our team "hazes" rookies by asking them to get a Left-Handed Allen Wrench.

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Not exactly a quote from a singular occasion, but our electrical VP insists that "beatings will continue until wiring improves." I suggested using positive rewarding, which resulted in "snuggling will commence when wiring improves." It didn't catch on...

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The VP of my subgroup brought a container of Thyme towards the end of build season and told us "We're running out of... -takes out the container- time!"

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I'll have to work on that...
:P

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"Belts are like sheep - they don't go where you want them to."

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"Eh it'll pass inspection"

I say that way too often

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"Ramen Bot" has been a running joke in my team since I was a freshman. Our head mentor still thinks it would be a good idea.

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"WHERE'S THE POT? PASS THE POT! I NEED THE POT!" -Mentor talking about a potentiometer

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"If ever you aren't sure of what to do, stick a wago in it." - our electrical VP

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The long running joke for our robot name is "Robusto". Ironically, we weren't allowed to name our robot "Robusto" but it was fine to go to week 1 without a name. We then gained our name in building for Week 3.

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This is your big chance to prove to me that in the zombie apocalypse, you'd be more valuable as an ally than as the meat you're made of.

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Team Vice President making motivational speech:

"You don't know you've lost until you've lost."

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It's going to be very painful for you when a rookie comes along who knows how to induce enough current in that aluminum...

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"Hey!, why is there a glove in the robot?"

Said by a mentor as we were putting away our 2014 robot yesterday.

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We had a movie night tonight in the classroom (former build space), Men In Black followed by The Goonies.

During the scene in The Goonies where they're about to be hauled out of the wishing well on a bucket: "Hey, who's doing physics problems up front?" Yes, a couple of the kids were trying to estimate how much force on the handle it would take to lift someone. :D

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Did you just pull a bottle of maple syrup from your pocket?

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(At competition) "Why is it that every time Darude-Sandstorm plays we do twice as well as we did in our previous match, and do you think we can get the DJ to play it for the next 4 hours?"

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After I didn't understand one of the puns by a mentor:

Mentor 1: It's because she's so short! All of the jokes just go right over her head!

After about 10 minutes of not getting any of Mentor 1's puns:

Me: (To mentor 2) I must be really short today!

_______

"Let's just put aside reality for a moment." :D

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My team has a t-shirt cannon that we use at football games. A memorable quote, courtesy of one of our mechan subteam members:
"When the band plays the John Cena theme song we should try and shoot a t-shirt into one of the tubas."
Safe to say, we chose not to go through with it for obvious safety concerns (for both the tuba section and us on the receiving end of the band director's probable wrath) but it was funny to think about.

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The same thing happened at our homecoming game this year (though without the John Cena reference).

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I told one of our freshmen to go get one and he came back with a crescent wrench with metric markings.
"I found the metric crescent wrench!" -Freshman

"I need a screw gun!" -Programmer looking for a drill

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One of our field construction guys a few years ago exclusively referred to it an electric screwdriver. Even if there was a drill bit in it.

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"Wait, you mean some people DON'T keep FRC Spyder on their phone during off-season?!?!"

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I mean, it wasn't working too well at champs, but still, even in the offseason, I've viewed Spyder at least 25 times... ;)

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FLL kids in FRC pits trying to put their litter in our recycle container

Me : "That's not a trash can, well theoretically it is"


This one with my friend at school :

"Hey look! That's 6 points!" While putting a noodle trough his car roof :rolleyes:

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At the end of the school year, we did a demo in front of every kid at our school at a spring pep session. The team met downstairs and we were talking about what we would do. I remember a few other team members saying something along the lines of this:

"Can we make it more interesting by knocking the stack over with a ball shot from last year's bot?"

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"Hey, I bet if we ever lose a team member we could find them with echolocation via shouting out the first numbers of our team number!"

(A lot of our cheering is comprised of one person shouting "twenty three" and the rest of the team responding "ninety nine")

(This actually works, by the way)

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At least one team's Recycle Rush robot reveal video featured this exact scene.

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Posted at the request of my electrical VP.

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"Mecanum, a drive system so graciously professional that it lets other teams drive your robot."

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You don't know how frustrating it is to find out the time during robotics when your cheer starts with "What time is it?". It usually takes me about 4 tries to find someone who'll respond with the actual time as opposed to "KRUNCH TIME".

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I am on the CAD team. Every time i would ask a stupid question, the CAD lead would always "Figure it out!" This was probably said around 100 times in the six week time period.

At the end of the year, we had a paper plate awards ceremony. We would write famous quotes, nicknames, etc. The paper plate that i received had the quote "Figure it out!" on the front and a really long calculus equation on the back. Unfortunately i couldn't figure it out. Anyway, that was the quote that was said to me a lot. :rolleyes:

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4488's reveal, in case you were wondering.

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Similar thing around PNW, it's 488's cheer, and I guess some of our scouting team found it pretty catchy. I rarely get an actual response :)

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"Let's not forget the bumpers this time!"

Yes we did that one time...

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"ROBOT!!!!!!!"

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Ah, thanks. I couldn't remember.

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"Is this REALLY the best robot we've ever built?..." -Rookie Member

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And I thought I was weird! (said by me)

(I don't believe the back story myself, so why bother).

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Now you've got me curious...

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NO BUILDING THE GREAT WHEEL OF DEATH IN THE LAB.

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Sorry, but it was so unbelievable that I forgot (blocked out?) the circumstances.

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"Well, I should try the logical way since the stupid way isn't working, but I want to try the stupid way for a few minutes yet"

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Can someone grab the precision adjustment tool?
Said anytime someone needs a hammer

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"It's not complicated, you just don't understand it"

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A few things from the preseason/last season in honor of kickoff


Me: *runs into the nest* MR RIKER THEYRE USING A CHOPSAW TO MAKE A HALL PASS AND I DONT KNOW WHY
Mr Riker: *look of fear*
Me: its the freshmen
Me: *runs into build room* Why are we using the chopsaw???
McGinty: This was my idea
Me: so what you’re saying is that you’re less responsible than cocky 14 year old boys surrounded by dangerous tools?

Mechanical lead, at 10 pm, standing on top of a filing cabinet surrounded by falling objects: I derped

our team is a $@#$@#$@#$@# show like the michigan ohio state game

"you can't stand still...I feel like you were once a mountain goat"

"free stuff from the part of kits"

"my middle finger is going to be so worn out by the end of a season with you"

"woodie flowers and his derpy little ponytail"

"you're doing ok!...ish"

"she has teeth!!"
"...why is that surprising?"
"have you seen this video????"

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At kickoff:
"so BB8 is R2-D2's child?"
"this involves discussion of robot s@# that I am not ready to have"

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"Wait, does no one know how to program on the programming team?"

Said during a strategy discussion.

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"There's either six wheels or eight wheels. Three on one side and four on the other."

This year's strategy - 7 wheel drive train.

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Upon recieving a 1400 psi gauge in our bag from Automation Direct our head mentor said,

"With that sort of pressure we can just bounce over the defenses!"

Team mom: It says you can't go over the low bar...

Mentor: Yeah, but it doesn't say anything about the Porticullis!"

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The 5 foot 6 student said something along the lines of...
"Some of the defenses could be problematic for line of sight, for you guys at least."

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"Eh, close enough" -The entire team

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"What's that rule about flying robots?"

"Physics."

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(Talking about pneumatics for the tower scaling portion)
"I don't think 60 FPS will lift a robot." (A build team member)
"I don't think any FPS would lift anything. I believe you mean PSI." (Myself)

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"I'm telling you guys, we should build a monster truck!"

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I found the PCMasterRace guy!

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"Honestly, we could just stick some electronics on a 2 by 4, add wheels, and have a robot that could compete relatively well..."

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"make a bracket"
"Robotics yeah"
"Put the trash in the trash, obviously"
"Rank 38!!:mad: :mad: "
"jackson"
"johny broke the robot"
"the robot broke"
"just configure the d link"
"Ill put you in the trash can"
"Ill finish it on my lunch break"
"The greatest strength of a team is the ability to work as a team"
"Here begins our legacy"