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Personal favorites:

-Testing, testing... (3 of my team members) IT'S WORKING!
-Team 1504 would like to remind you to wear your safety glasses while in the pits (they WERE listening to me all through build season!)

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Here's a good one, "Does anyone have any elbow grease?" or "Does anyone have any headlight fluid?"

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Milwalkie regional

"the pits will be closing to 8 minutes, the dogs will be released in 6 mins"

St. Louis

"team 1625 needs an improbability drive"

thought about doing this one.

"team 1625 has lost there marbles are need other teams to help look for them"

"Ahhh!!! all these kids are driving me nuts! god! there all a bunch of nerds! I just want to kick them all in the.......Whoops! the microphone is on!"

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I've always wanted to ask for a positronic brain. It would make the autonomous so much easier. :]

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1511 asked for a flux capacitor

The strangest legitimate request was a tooth brush in botson. Even stranger was when I got there to give them ours there were atleast 6 other teams already there (Team 75 gave out care packages including Tooth Brushes.)

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last season Team 1155 found a 2.5" diameter drill bit (dubbed "Moby bit") in the school metal shop that we now use that we can not only find absolutely no use for nor a chuck for so these past two years we have brought it with us planning to have the pit admin make an announcement asking for a chuck for it, only to be stopped both years with odd looks and "are you serious" so instead this year a few of our guys went around to random pits asking for one, turns out the mentor of 1772(?) from Brazil has the drill press for it and is going to send us a picture when they return home.

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Our team tried the 'Flux Capacitor' at Milwaukee but the guy manning the pit table was hip to it. Someone did get him to ask teams for a nonferrous magnet though. I like that one.

Also, I like the metric cresent wrench! We'll have to try that one sometime.

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We <3 The Boston Regional Pit Announcer!! She was SOOO Awesome! haha. She did (with a straight face!) ask for a flux capacitor for us... she was by far the best pit announcer I have heard in my 10 years in FIRST! (you should all recruit her for your events!! hehe).

She would say things like:
"If you are in the pits clap your hands once... if you can hear me clap your hands twice... if you are wondering why everyone is clapping LISTEN UP!"

or just before the awards ceremony "If you can hear me clap your hands once... if you can hear me clap your hands twice... if you can hear me, you are wrong [get out of the pits]!"

Or she would tell bad jokes until we would leave the pits at the end of the night!

We gave her an award (a poof ball cut in half) as our favorite pit announcer ever :)

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Metric? Well if you're at the NYC Regional, ask us as we use the Metric System. In fact, it's where we got our name from :)


Anyway; it seemed that every few minutes there were calls of "759 is in need of cable ties" but I'm struggling to recall any funny ones. Considered putting out a call for a missing Union Flag though, which later turned up on a team mates back...

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I heard this one two years ago,

"Team XXXX is looking for their sanity. If anyone found it, please see the pit admin at once. Thank you."

The metric crescent wrench thing is a practical joke. Since crescent wrenches have adjustible jaws, they are neither Imperial nor Metric, but rather the subject of more freshman jokes than you can shake a stick at. ;)

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LOL !!!!!

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At BAE, we heard an announcement for an Aluminum Magnet.

At LA, we tried to pull it off, but the announcer was like, wait, does that even exist?

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The Flux Capacitor one worked in NYC :)
One of my teammates responded with asking for some Dr. Who term thing, but i dont think anyone got it...

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At our regional team XXX asked to borrow wire strippers and the announcer forgot the wire part X)

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She really was terrific - a 'posse' from 571 went over to thank her & the announcement table after the event.

One of the 'bad' jokes....
What do you call a guy who walks out in front of a car and gets run over?

Tired.

(too late to remember any others - i'll edit if i think of them)