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Mentor: Be careful with the T-Handle wrench especially, it gives you a lot of torque.
Student:T is for Torque!

He was so excited too.

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The first of the pre-season!

"Did she just projectile hug you!?" - Itchy

"Required = Have to do it!" - Josh (Talking about mandatory meetings)

"As I know, teenagers are habitual time wasters." -Will

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When cleaning out our closet:

"Sporkets" --label on the Sprocket box

"Ahh! I have internet on my head!"--our president, getting his hair caught in an ethernet connector

"I have added safety" --Me putting a "Duck" sign on the cable

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"Stupid hose" --James getting frustrated installing pressure lines during our first year with pneumatics

"Corey doesn't like the strippers because they're flat?" --Me responding to a student telling a coach not to use a pair of wire strippers


OMAIGAWD THERES MORE

Camoryn- "Its a random fluctuation in the space-time continuum"

Camoryn- "go into the shop and tell them the popcorn's ready"
Me- *walks into the shop* "guys, the popcorn's ready" *two newbies walk out* "knew it"
Sam(freshman)- "I didn't come here for the food"
Me- "THAT'S what I want to hear, THAT'S the attitude I'm looking for!"
*Sam begins walking out from behind the workbench*
Me- "NOW GET BACK OVER THERE!!"


This is from the InvenTeam season, I guess it still counts...
Coach(referring to me)- "you, um, gah... sketchup kid."
Me(looking up from computer with a certain level of wtf)- "what?"
Me(later that day)- "Hold on, if I'm 'sketchup kid', whats that make him(Cedric)?"
Coach- "you, the black one!"


And one from game design class with 'the black one'
Cedric- "Someone said Riu from Street Fighter could beat Scorpian from Mortal Kombat. I said no way, Scorpian could take Riu any day of the week."
Me- "ANY day? Dude, he could take Riu EVERY day of the week: GET OVER HERE!"

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Also one that was written on the whiteboard during the FTC season (anyone who saw the 'gnomes' episode of South Park will get it):

PHASE 1: Build robot
PHASE 2:
PHASE 3: WIN


...and it was later written over by the teacher:

PHASE 1: Build robot
PHASE 2: rebuild robot the night before competition so it works
PHASE 3: WIN

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:D This one actually found its way onto our Chairman's Award video.
person 1: "the problem is that these holes don't line up"
person 2: "holes never line up"

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Minions are like cats- they only come to you when they want something and you're working. Other than that they just sit there and eat.

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I heard this one on ship date

"It's only temporary, we'll fix it later"

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"That's a software problem"--said by our mechanical leader after a bunch of gears fell out of our drivetrain


"Hey, let's put a gyro on it!"--said at the end of the first day of a regional
*two hours of hacking later after the gyro screwed up all our analog inputs*
"Okay, I think I've removed all the tentacles of gyro.c from the code"

"It's the PneuMetal!"--our driver noticing that the "Pneumatics" and "Metal" labels got stuck together

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a quick said quote, that is now our team motto

"Tats to easy"

where if you know our team, it fits right in, we just seem to make everything much more complicated that it should be!!:rolleyes:

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"Team 470 Alpha Omega Robotics is looking for a blue bumper, if any team has an extra blue bumper please return it to team 470"

At Kettering kickoff in September someone from another team stole one of our bumpers and we still haven't gotten it back, but that was the announcement made.

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We used red superballs on the end of our forklift, and they tended to fall out... so when they did fall out the MC at Philadelphia said

"And 1727 has released its rolley red apple things onto the field"

Needless to say we just got rid of them after it happened a second time.

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"Water game? Ice field? ROBOTS ON ICE! It's a new musical coming to a town near you!" :yikes:

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"Oh we changed that...You didn't know?"

"Its Robert's fault./ Robert did it."
(He is a senior from last year and everything was always blamed on him, though it was rarely actually his fault.)

"Go ask Mr. Epp."
(He's our mentor.)

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Someone had marked the location for a bolt, and it needed to be drilled out. They asked Justin, one of the fabricators, but failed to think before they spoke.

"Justin, Drill my Hole."

Laughter ensues.