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discussing getting up for breakfast the morning of the Windsor Regional

Kevin- "If you want waffles you better be first in line before we get out the door."

Garret (my mentor) - "Or we could just make one waffle and split it evenly among everyone."

Me- "Now you're thinking like a communist Garret."

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Not really during build season but it cracked me up.
So I was in English class and my teacher is trying to get a movie to play but the sound wouldn't play through the sound bar in the classroom. And everyone knows that I do robotics..

Class: "Russell! Go help! Go do tech things!"
Me: "I build robots! Not IT!"

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Me: "QUICK I need the lobotomy stick!" (Hammer)

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This is by far the best picking-related one

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"You can stop looking....I just bought a high res picture of toast."

-Mom from Team 5332 Toaster Tech

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"Stop trying to zip-tie my ear!!!" - I got bored one day and there were zip ties in arms reach....

"Not good." - Our shooter prototype started flailing around and slammed into the table.

"Where does the ____ go?" :confused:

"That's not what that's for."

"There's a limit to how serious you can act while eating animal crackers."

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"Close enough for government work"
"Look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls"
"Transmission grease doesn't taste good"
"At 300 miles an hour, no one will tell the difference"
"See, Damon smart."
"You need to stop worrying about all your stupid math"
"This is the type of thing I think they'd teach you in engineer school"
"They don't teach you that in engineering school"
"What would Foss do?"

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[A letter found on our white board from our Build Captain]
"Dear Future Self,
Tomorrow you need to..."

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Inspector: Do you guys have a multimeter?
(Person passes him a multimeter)
Inspector: Fantastic. I also need the leads for this.

(While testing our CDF/portcullis wedge mechanism)
Driver: Are you sure the rivets will hold? The wedge is getting slammed around pretty hard.
Me: Should be fine. Those things are pretty strong.
Driver: OK...(does another CDF crossing)
Mentor: Hey, you might want to look at this.
(all eight rivets on the wedge gusset plate have sheared)
Me: OK, we'll switch to 10-32 bolts. And if they fail, bigger bolts. And if those fail, welding. And if that fails, the rest of the robot is probably in pieces and on fire.

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This reminds me of a story that took place way before my FRC years. IIRC, it was in the fourth year of FRC (1995), though I may be off by a year or so. I had arrived to do an acoustic survey on the USS Littlehales in Brindisi Italy on what was normally a hydrographic survey vessel. This was not a good mix, as acoustics surveys were (and still are) performed with roll-on-roll-off equipment, and the hydro ships were engineered to a single mission, with no spare space; we wound up mounting our equipment to a sheet of plywood strapped to a drafting table. [Edit] And OBTW, laboriously and back-breakingly deploying and recovering an acoustic array in the space beneath a hydro survey launch.[/Edit] As we were securing our equipment (pre survey), one of the ship's E.T.s (electronic technicians, not extraterrestrials) was fussing and fuming at the ship's survey computer station. I politely asked if there was anything I could do to help. He said rather irritably "Not unless you have the printer drivers on disk 5 of windows". I calmly rotated my fanny pack around to my belly, unzipped, pulled out a rubber-banded pack of the 6 Windows 3.1 disks, took off the rubber band, and frisbeed him disk 5. His jaw hit his chest. There were three or four occasions later in the survey when I was asked some really silly "you don't happen to have a ****** in that pouch, do you?" The answer was uniformly no, but I think I gave him some helpful info to find what he needed on a couple of those occasions.

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(While watching Team 16's reveal)

Student 1: "Wow, nice swivel drive"

Students 2 & 3 in unison: "Uh, no"

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159 actually started writing a quote o' the day on a whiteboard this year. This meant that our captain was constantly being texted every hilarious thing anyone said all season.

Some of the best

"Hey Calvin? Is it hot?"
(He asked us every time he picked something up if it was hot, the one time he didn't ask... well...)

"My welds have CHARACTER!"
(Speaking of his very not pretty welds)

"It's an angle protractor"
(From myself)

"Oh by the way don't wear polyester"
(Said to girl whose soccer shorts were now full of holes [They were cutting bolts with an angle grinder])

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Our team has quite the knack for "PUNishment" as we refer to it, consequently I hear, "We have a STRONG HOLD on this year's game."

Also:
"I CAN'T CHANGE THE COLOR!" (long story)
and finally,
"ZAP! You're inspired!"

AFS
Team 980
CAD, Mechanical Design, Media

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"You gotta have balls to get balls."

"You're not hardcore unless you live hardcore."

"(Name) get me some females (talking about crimps)" *Comes back with girl

"Hey (Name) can you get me a flashlight?" *walks up to bin with drills and flashlights in it. *Picks up right angle drill "This isn't a flashlight!" *Walks away

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P1: "Worst case scenario, the thing turns on on its own, starts flailing around and destroys another robot. We can't consider those miniscule probabilities as reasons for failing inspection."
Me: "No, worst case scenario, the thing breaks off the hinge, punches a hole in the ceiling, flies across the street into the Edward Jones Dome, lands on another robot, causing them to explode and the whole arena to catch on fire."
Mentor: "See, this is why I have concerns when I let you guys design this stuff."

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Driver: "TORTUGA! TORTUGA!"...
*Seconds later* Me: "Well, the worst that can happen here is our PD exploding..."

Our final match of Saturday at NEBOS, we ended up dying on/just beyond a defense (IIRC, our tread broke [again...]), and 238 was trying to finish the breach, and, not very obviously at first (First quote), gave them permission to do whatever they needed to get over, even if it required our robot to tip. They succeeded, without FULLY tipping our bot, leading to the second quote.

Funny moment from our repair disaster zone that was NEBOS.

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The whole list:
"I feel awkwardly clean"
"I can't hear you over the sound of my own mistakes"
"If I can do it with a sandwich in one hand you can do it too"
"Just mount the ball"
"We're going to kill him with his mistakes"
"I'm pretty relaxed about my drinking habits"
"That's it. I'm never taking my shirt of again"
"It's an engineering problem"
"That's not mine. Someone else will fix it"

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Person 1: "I can't get this into the shaft, what should I do?"
Person 2: *examines it* "Just use elbow grease"
Person 1: "Ok, Where is the elbow grease?"

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"hannn"

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The Saturday right before Worlds:

Me: What about that thing?
R:They got it.
Me: You mean the thing that only you know how to put together?
R: They can figure it out.

N: Can we put our drive team coach on stilts?

G: For every minute you play Pentatonix you have to pay each of us a dollar.
Me: Letmethinkaboutthatno

JJ: Are you just waiting for funny things to say?

(we named our two new batteries after myself and my co-captain)
Me: I checked after lunch. You're at 114% and I'm at 111%
R: What?
Me: Think about it. 'Put me on the robot'

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Student 1: "Why are you sitting on the floor making a square out of plywood and angle?"

Student 2: "It's my drivetrain for Skystalker-er-er."

Student 1: "Get back to work."

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When I tossed a roll of tape to a student expecting her to catch it: "What are you doing?! I'm in robotics, I don't sports!"

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"These are the real cyber hours"

"True design is not democracy"

"Don't bleach the couch"

Me when trying to do manufacturing stuff: "He needs an extruder!"

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Also,

"Stab stab scoop!" -Shout out to Team SPORK

Scouting meeting at state:

"I'm not saying anything, but..."
*Holds up sign that says Don't Decline*

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*Me after putting our practice robot back together*
"So if it stops working, I know who put it back together"

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"mr. dognaux"
"we can't put holes in the wall here" (our robot drove into a classroom wall twice, and we got a new facility that we were loaned)

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"We should apply some WD40 to the duct tape, now we don't have to choose."

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Holy crap did we really just break the duct tape. (Heard while queueing)

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"Just... why?"
In response to finding a bag of chips clamped with a quick-grip.

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"Why isn't there an Australian team named Koality Robots?"
"LOOK AT THAT BEDFORD EXPRESS"

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"I get it you guys went to iHop without me"

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At the end of the meeting:
Captain: Anyone have anything else to say?
Going once...
Going twice...
Me: OOOOOH!! Nevermind, I got nothing to say...

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"Do the clouds move faster in St. Louis?"

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"We always seem to take one step forward and two steps back"

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"This City Museum thing is a death trap"

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"So I'll be going to Office Depot for the parts."
"You mean Home Depot?"
"No dude, I'm going to get all the paperclips."

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One of the mentors, while trying to see if the compressor was connected to the rest of the electronics while the robot was on: "It's fine if it shocks me, I'm an adult and we'll know it works."

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*Pulling MIG wire out of the tip of a welding gun* "This is so satisfying, it's better than popping a zit." -Our lead mentor

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P1: "What was 217 called again? ...The Lightning Ducks?"
P2: "I feel like 33, the... 'Friendly Hornets', are going to win."

*entire team breaks into churning out name spinoffs*

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This alone warranted a post:

"The hottest balanced-breakfast based album of 2016."
-Team 980 member

Andy FS
Team 980

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As a team was in the pits testing how hard their shooter shot the ball, a kid out his hand in the line of the ball to catch it, conversation went some what like this:

"I'll catch it"
"This shooter will literally break your hands"
"Naw bro it's okay I got it"

The kid shoots the ball.

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We had something similar when someone had to stand in front of the shooter with a radar gun.

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"TSIMFD" - will.i.am

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I'd like to hear more about that! Lol

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Student 1: "Does anybody have a pencil I could borrow?"
Student 2 hands pencil to Student 1: "Here you go."
Student 1: "As the Germans say, 'Feeling dank'!"

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Me: "Did you try it in CAD?"

I love Team 751:Barn2Robotics's button!
"I swear it worked in CAD"

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"I'M SCREWING"

*Assorted innuendos*

"Stop blaming everything on your pancreas!"

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"That hurt my earballs!"

or

"MY EARBALLS!"

Yelled by one of our mentors whenever we make loud noises.

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"What if we make it to Einstein with this horribly broken robot?"

"I'll start a thread on CD about it, but for now, don't let anyone know that we're broken."

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"If one of the arrows is backwards the ball won't know where to go!"
-our team captain to me and one of our alumni when we bent the metal for iur intake the way the CAD told us too.

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Programming mentor: Why are you sitting on the power junction box? (supplied all the electricity to the pits) It has about 300 amps in it

Me Because I like to be the most powerful guy here.

(our shooter was a horizontal wheeled shooter ex.( 0___0 ) 0's are wheels)
Me: imagine if we sucked someones face into this!
programming mentor: Yeah, once they're in there we can spin one of the wheels forward and the other backwards, snapping their neck...
Me: *laughed so hard*

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“Whenever I see a hole, I just need to find something to jam into it” -girl on build team.
“Left hand people are just wrong” -Our left handed coach.
"port-ack-yulus" -Co-captian discussing defences at kickoff.
"When in doubt, jiggle" -Attachments driver vigorously jiggling our pull up arm.
"I got so excited I hit you in the head!" -When a prototype worked.

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Me: "I like my Mascot costume, it's private and the fan soothes me."

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Our operator to our driver after the robot was stuck on a ball during nearly the entire match:
"Come on [driver], you at least owe that boulder a nice dinner after you sat there and humped it all match."

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One of our members was talking about work today, and one of our coaches said that "money is good".
The team member's response was "But money isn't as good as robotics"

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Student 1: "Are you sleeping on the bumper...?"
Student 2: "Yup I think he's trying to nap on the bumper."

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"Who ate all the timbits again?"

*two weeks later*

"Cham! Stop eating all of the timbits! We know it's you"

*two years later*

"Cham! Stop eating the food!"

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"Oops we broke another defense"

"Thats the first time you drove over the moat and rockwall, How did you break it already. Now I need to rebuild for the seconf time!!!!"

"Dont forget the butt plugs, I mean aluminum tube plugs"

"And its markiplier..."

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One of our team members had pumped a wheel too much and it exploded. A container holding rubbing alcohol burst and the immediate response was "was that another wheel!"

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I hope the DJ was quick enough to play that...

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At robotics meeting.... Discussing what we need to do.
Mentor: We gotta make a video for nVidia tonight.
Me: ...
Me: ...
Me: So we need to make an Nvideo?
Other mentor: Stop that.

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So will this video get so many plays that it becomes famous? Perhaps so many that it will be not only famous, but Nfamous?

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"Umm, Autodesk is saying it is going to take 1155 days and 116 hours until the download is complete but it said 784 days and 9 hours two minutes ago. Is that a problem?"

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A: Only if we want to compete this year.

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In the car on the way back from IRI:

"... and when my friend found out I was on the robotics team, she wanted me to build her a demonic robot army to take over the world..."
very quiet thoughtful voice from back: "...but... what about gracious professionalism?"

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"Three bolts in a triangle is much more stable than one bolt in a dot."

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Whenever we were about to do something risky for the robot we would ask our mentor for more elaboration on how to complete the task. He would respond with "Very Carefully" no matter what it was.

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"I'm SCREWING"
"Thank robot Jesus"
"Please put your forms on the modem" (referring to a desktop)
"Reeeeeee"
"you sanded off yoda's face"

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Some people asked about this, the answer is very simple

Our lead programmer uses 4chan

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"The worst thing I can do is dro- oh crap I dropped it."

-Me, in all me grace.

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ExpandedA: Or the following year.

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"So, because we have a problem, we don't have a problem"

(CAD made it look like there was not enough room for a chain tensioner, but because there was slack in the chain, there is, indeed, enough room.)

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So I don't know how many people on my team caught it (after a certain point, everything anyone says makes as much sense as gas station sushi) but I accidentally started calling my safety glasses "safty galasses" and had to remind myself not to refer to them as that at an actual competition.

Other highlights include:
"Perry did it!", even though Perry was rarely there, let alone actually screwing stuff up.

"All praise the demon cross!!!" said in reference to the electromagnet in the shape of a cross that someone (it's still a mystery) hung from the ceiling.

"Who's running the Facebook!?!" We still don't know who is successfully running our Facebook. It sent my mother an event invite to our parent meeting and we have no idea who is running it. We've decided it's the demon from the cross XD.

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Oh, there you are, Perry!

(OBTW, we had a Perry for three years; he's at left as viewed in my WAI)

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Our Perry joke started after he walked around in a Perry the Platypus hoodie and made a little girl cry. We apologized to the sweet thing, as well as her mother who thankfully thought it was funny as we did, but we still make fun of him for that.

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"We will seduce potential sponsors with puns!"

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"I now crown myself KING CRIMP"
"Only work with the best strippers"
"You're not assistant lead, you're CO assistant lead"
*assorted references to drinking solder water*

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Said during last year's FTC season: variations of "set screws suck" and "I hate set screws".

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- Its gonna go "foomp foomp foomp" (said by a student explaining how the scaling arm would move around a lot)

- The wheels on the robot go "crash crash crash" (said in response to repeated destruction of the pneumatic wheels)

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Person 1: It doesn't fit.
Person 2: Can you be more specific?
Person 1: The shaft doesn't fit in the hole.

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From our senior member last year
"Duck tape doesn't fix everything : ( , but it helps"

He wrote that on a Plexiglas sheet that broke on our robot during our very first regional, we have that sheet hanged up on our wall.

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P1: do we want to do it fast or do we want to do it right?
P2: (mentor A) is in charge, so we'll do it fast, and then do it over four times

"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"

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After alliance selections at Aus regional

*Gets handed replacement robot and time-out slips*

"Great! Now who was meant to bring the photocopier?"

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Me, today, at a 364/3946 demo at a NASA Curiosity event, regarding a set screw: "Yes, it felt important when I stepped on it."

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"Who disassembled the drivetrain AGAIN?" Our drivetrain went through 5+ versions and was disassembled wayyy too many times

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"Is this safe to breathe?"
"Probably not."
I asked the build captain this when we were sawing Plexiglas. We never did put on a mask...

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Just Thursday, me again: Yes, you may use some cleanup of the rags to stain the bench, but OUTSIDE, and not at the end of a build session.

Tonight, on our slack channel: "Dremel is the last refuge of the incompetent" (with apologies to Salvor Hardin and Isaac Asimov)

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A girl on our team did a small presentation once and every time she wrote the word safety, she misspelled it as saftey. It became a kind of in-joke on our team, if you say 'safety' you will be corrected until you say 'saftey'.

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*When putting grease on anything* "The bigger the glob the better the job."

Mentor: "This part isn't to critical so it can be half assed"
Student: "Sweet I'm the king of half assing!"

"Looks good enough for the girls I go out with"

"Why is the ratchet moving that way. That shouldn't happen"

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"I HAVE A BUTT"
-Me, April 2016

(To clarify, I found an electrical butt connector while someone was in the pit across the way looking for one after some of our Powerpole crimps failed.)

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"It's really ghetto... but it'll work!" -Every 159er Ever-

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...these three put the "harm" in "harmony"

Oh, momma! (like Johnny Bravo) (We have a male team member who does powerlifting, has blond hair in a big-on-top style not too much unlike Johnny Bravo's, and has become known as "team mom").

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"Who plugged the motor into the PDP?" :ahh:

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A programmer who was on our team last school year for stronghold (graduated last school year) was drawing a picture on the board during game breakdown right after kickoff. He drew a circle and we couldn't tell what it is. He then proceeded to say "Can't you tell!?! It's a boulder!" and then spelled it out on the board "B-O-L-D-E-R Boulder".

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During a recent offseason...

Backstory: Due to a shortage of teams, the #1 alliance needed to randomly draw one eliminated semifinalist so they could play the finals 3v3. So, they sent out one representative to do the random draw, and who was blindfolded prior to drawing a boulder from the box of boulders with team numbers.

MC: *holding up five fingers* How many fingers am I holding up?
Rep: Umm... Five?
Head Ref: *turns towards scoring table* All right, who supplied the blindfold?

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Arrrgh my team did the same thing but several years before I joined. In our glass cabinet at our school where we store our awards and various other things, there was list of things that we were involved in. Of course, "saftey" was one of them. Nobody noticed until last year, or at least nobody said anything. At least it was in a reasonably out of the way place. :o

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"You're to smurfs what Michael Jackson is to white people."

"How would I forge my own signature?"

"You young'uns these days...I can't keep up with you and your...hippity-hop."

"Were potatoes even invented in 1946?"

"What is that? Is that that Daft Punk song?"
"That's the motor."

"Does it say in the rules that having your robot on fire is illegal? Hey, you show me where it says in the rule book that I can't have my robot be on fire."

"Does butter count as a fluid? Can I build a robot out of butter, is that legal?"

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This was said to me by a close friend of mine when I was about to go to the shop to machine a part, and almost forgot my safety glasses.

"Hey Jello!"
"What?"
"It's dangerous to go alone. Here take this!" *hands me my safety glasses*