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You try to convince your band friends to join FIRST by telling them that build season really is better than band camp. :eek:
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That reminds me of one: When your band drags you out of robotics because you have a concert in a few hours:)
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I haven't put some up in a while...I'll begin again...
...You have designed, tested, and modled a Lego robot you build in your spare time. ...Your brain has a sticker that says Innovation FIRST on it. ...Dean and Woodie do look good on Mount Rushmore...hmm.... ...You wonder why Dave didn't get on Mount Rushmore. ...You found the right Ed at a regional. ...You think 233 would make a good Pepto Bismol commercial. ...You think rookie teams are better than your team. ...You do anything during regionals cause you think no one will remember you (untill next year) ..."Getting your beads" has a whole different meaning. ...Green is a holy light. ...You have battle scars. ...You love to tell the story of your battle scars. ...Seeing a team number somethere odd never gets old no matter how many times you hear it. |
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...When you smile every you go down FIRST street :D
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when u compile a list of possible colleges based on whether or not there is a first team,
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Okay, starting off by saying I love this thread...
When you have over 200 inside jokes with a single person/group that involve tools. Everything reminds you of FIRST. You can't help but dance MOE style when the Six Flags commercial comes on. You don't mind that everyone is staring at you when you do so. You're terrified that high school is going by too fast, because you'll miss FRC so much. You've ever called your mentors "Mom" or "Dad" and honestly thought they were your parents. You find yourself worshipping a technohippie in a tux and Converse. You knew exactly who I'm talking about immediately. You tell everyone about FIRST, whether they're interested or not. |
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IN physics you are working with coefficients of friction and the #1511 comes up. It was simply unbelievable how that robot pushed. sigh. lol
You go through your closet and ealize that you dont have any shirts that dont say FIRST or have a team # |
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the one thing that ALWAYS makes you feel better is a FIRST shirt.
you're trying to change the world by finding ways to add FIRST EVERYWHERE (and not for Chairman's) |
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when you write your SAT essay about FIRST
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When you really feel like going and watching tapes from competitions, because you miss them so much.
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When your entire interview for your first choice college (to which you are eventually accepted and offered piles of money) turns into you explaining FIRST to the interviewer who is really interested in it. |
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ok so... mine is my friends and I were playing cards in the lobby of our hotel and we were playing uno, and I got out first, and the others were taking forEVER to finish, so I accidentally fell asleep. And my cousin told me that in my sleep I was saying team 47's cheer...and I NEVER talk in my sleep!!! lol I thought that was hysterical!lol
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...when you order your pizza with exploding bacon.
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when at the end of a long day
you have a package from Joe Matt with your FIRSTcast button in it because you couldn't connect up in Atlanta a-n-d KathieK tells a joke - and you are glad the day ends so nicely. :) |
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if someone asks this to you, you start talking about how his inventions are more important than money, which leads you to talking about FIRST, which then gets them excited. this is especially true for me, or when people say "oh. the segway guy." i FLIP OUT. ...."it's not the only thing he's done! look how he's helped people! look at this high school program!" and you don't shut up about it until they agree. ....oops. AND SOME MORE... Quote:
[don't worry, i'm working too, i'm just taking a break lol] |
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sorry Rohith... can't pass this one up...
when you, out of the blue, exclaim: ANDY BAKER JUST GAVE ME REP!!!! |
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o hush you just did the same "ahhhh somehow andy baker gave me rep too?!?!" |
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When the mere sight of a Peachtree roadsign on a video in class can make you happier all day.
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When you laugh at the room you take one of your regents is because you know the number is one of the teams you really enjoyed to watch (room 217 was the room I was in today).
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When you plan who you'll drive down to Battlecry with based on who would be willing to play the FIRST Team license plate game.
You also know you're overdosed when you play the FIRST Team license plate game in the first place. |
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When someone paints your car like this...
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when you look in your closet, and somehow every tshirt you own is some how related to robotics
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...when you're at a government program called Girls State and choose to do an interest group (lobby) for increased FIRST funding
speaking of which.... |
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when you quote dean kamen in your SAT essay on science and technology... :rolleyes:
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when you convince people at Girls State to go home and get on their team at their school (heck yes!!!) *edit* oh yes, when your nickname becomes robotics and also when you have people waking you up to fix their fan :rolleyes: :o |
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You make your halo 2 Xbox Live gamertag "Chief Delphi"
if any of you gamers are reading this feel free to add me to your friends list |
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When you are studying for your social studies final and you see a question on your study sheet that asks "What was the A-Bomb and what was it used for?" and you answer is, "The A-Bomb was a maneuver used at Nationals when 195 transfered their balls to 968, by 195 unloading as 968 picked up expelled balls, it was used to.... oh wait"
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When you have a smile balloon in every balloon bundle at your graduation party. (Including the one on your mail box, that's how people know it's your house.)
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...when you completely dominate your FIRST Team Licence Plate Game opponent 410 to 137.
Me > Julia Magoolia |
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When you go to a theme park with 2 other FIRSTers ( ;) ) and choose bumper cars based on the number on the side of the car being a FIRST team number. We got 22, 16 and 25! :D
When you rent a locker there and are disappointed it's not a recognizable team number. Then you go and find locker 1351 and wish you brought the camera just for that. And are disappointed when realizing the lockers start at #1000, cuz you can't find locker 971. When you are dying to find out what locker you get in school next year b/c you found out last year that locker 1351 is in the senior locker section. When your nonFIRST friend found the above locker and felt obligated to show you... |
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Today (6/25/06) @ Friend from the team's grad party....
...You start to chant other teams cheers like 181's (I said a 1.8.1.!) and 571's (G. G-O, G-O-F-I-R-S-T, Go FIRST !) during an intense Badminton game! Continued, ... And then start to make your own up, for your team, for the next compitition/event! An awesome day! :cool: |
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...when your at some kid's graduation party (who you don't even know), and see their uncle wearing a Bristol-Meyers Squibb polo. You then proceed to run up to him and tell him about how the company he works for sponsors your school's robotics team and then start to ramble on about FIRST.
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When you get your entire family to stop what they're doing (For example, working) and call you when they see something FIRST-related When the second you hear the words "first" or "robot", no matter where you are, you look around to see if anyone's talking about FRC... Before realizing that "first" is a common word meaning "before second" |
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When taking your Spanish final for questions you had no idea what the answer would be and you couldn't even eliminate any of the answers you based the answer on the first A B C D or E in the corresponding team name to that question number.
Worked for most things minus question number 11... XD |
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when you start keeping telling time and dates by relating them to robotics events (*cough cough*)
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When, while at the summer theatre camp that you work at, you spot a girl wearing a BattleCry 4 tee-shirt and proceed to grill her about where she got it. (Turns out, from her friend's sister)
And on that day you were wearing your Championship tee-shirt. |
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You quit marching band because you don't want to miss robotics....offseasons. :rolleyes:
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~ You plan on wearing your team shirt on vacation to Maine just in case someone recognizes the number.
~ You've managed to convince half the people at your lunch table to join robotics. ~You've downloaded your team song and listen to it on a regular basis. ~Your little sister downloaded your team song and listens to it on a regular basis. ~When your parents tell you to talk about something other than robotics, you fall silent. That's all I can think of right now... |
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Every number you see automatically corresponds with a team name. You have the urge to request money from anyone in a suit. You find yourself watching re-runs of competitions that you TIVOed. You carry around contribution flyers in your pocket. You look at a keyboard and immediately notice the letters "F, I, R, S,T" You go on ChiefDelphi during your lunch break to read new posts. |
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When said competition was TIVOed by your grandmother, and she refuses to delete it because you watch it so often. When the same grandmother has a team button (or three) on top of her television, a DVD of your team's final matches from this year on her bookshelf (that has been watched many, many times), had every single newspaper clipping from your area even mentioning the team displayed proudly at her 50th Anniversary party, and organized it so that your team could be the "entertainment" at her old company's reunion picnic (very good demonstration since many of the retirees are engineers). When you take a mini POOF ball to church camp, along with your team hat and TAB shirt. When CD becomes your antidepressant as well as your antidote to boredom. |
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When you're the last person to post on this thread but feel the need to post yet again.
When you go through the bag you packed with extra clothes for after you were done painting and find your wristband from the Atlanta wrap party. When you squeal joyfully at finding the wristband. |
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When you have a dream about welding steel. (I'm not kidding!)
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you clean out your car and find God knows how many pairs of safety goggles and a motor...
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When you base where you'll work SOLELY off of what teams they sponsor/mentor.
Here I come, GM! When you get into fights with a fellow FIRST-er, debating who will end up mentoring HOT. Then you finally decide you'll both mentor them some day. |
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When you start checking ChiefDelphi - multiple times - during a vacation, you know you're overdosed on FIRST. :eek:
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When you go to a college summer program and only two people in your class are not involved with a FIRST team.
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When the last two posters in a thread are sitting within 10 feet of you, and instead of talking to each other, you post on CD instead.
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...When you realize that chain grease actually tastes good and begin to lick the rest of it off of your fingers.
...when you start measuring character based off of how many triplets you've seen on license plates. |
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...you go to summer school for your tech class where one of the teachers is also a mentor for your teams and a large portion of the day is spent talking about FIRST and the team :rolleyes:
...you've done countless layouts for your teams site in the past 6 months ....3/4ths of your buddy list is FIRSTers ...you have a FIRST bookbag |
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When the only nightmare you've had for years is your computer crashing... :ahh:
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...When you read through the entire thread on bad pickup lines in Chit Chat
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When you volunteer for FIRST Place camps nonstop.
When you start a thread about FIRST Place camps (ahem, Libby....) When you hug the old Wildstang 'bot in FIRST Place. When you can't get through dinner without talking about FIRST. When you're posting on CD from 200 Bedford St. |
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When you see a phone number with the last four digits "7111" and you think "Whoa, that's like a 111/71 hybrid! BEATTYSTANG!"
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...When your sad because you had to miss the fourth of july parade where your team was marching because you were on vacation
...your relatives can now tell you exactly how long a chairmans submission must be, what the woodie flowers award is, who won it on your team, all of the awards your team has won, what HOT stands for, what FIRST stands for, how long build season is, what your standings were at regionals, and can recite those facts off the top of their heads when asked. then they shoot me a dirty look for rambling about FIRST again :D . ...when everything goes back to robotics, no matter what your talking about ...when you start taking pictures of 67's, just for fun. |
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When a good portion of your friends on Facebook have a status that involves IRI in some way...
When your buddy list has only 20 or so people on, the rest are at IRI When you get a letter from someone who isn't going to have power until the end of August, and they ask for a summary on IRI because they know you're gonna watch the web cast ::cough :: Kayla13 :: cough :: |
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when you're working at FIRST Place, with Julia [see above]
and you find this year's FRC Regional Operator/Championship Operator/Safety Captain badges, ...you root through them to find teams you & julia were just talking about, and you & julia think about making a thread on CD with "pm me if you want your team's badges" ....and then you incorporate that into a thread that's pretty unrelated. [we were told to "throw them out" and i couldn't bring myself to do it.] |
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-you see and clear donation box with a red circle on it and automatically go "wheres the green light?!?!?!?!?!"
-you start to refer to other teams as your "extended family" *cough*233*cough* -you accidently call you team mentors mom or dad :p |
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...when your on a college trip an you start planning out how to start a team up near the college your looking at
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-When you stop to get ice cream after IRI and say to yourself "Wow, why is Wildstang working here?" because the employees are wearing tie-dyed shirts -When, for the entire ride home from IRI, you relate all highway signs, mile markers, exits, etc. to the appropriate teams -When you are still feeling the effects of a wild DSK show -When you have a sudden urge to watch Annie while eating fish and chips -When lame fish jokes suddenly become quite funny |
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-When you discuss FIRST for at least 2/3 of the long road trip -When you stop at a truck stop with a hardware store and immediately think "Wow, i could really use this to work on a new robot" -When, at the same truck stop, you feel the urge to put random automotive decals on your robot -When $5 for a huge roll of duct tape is incredibly enticing -When you watch a video of IRI 2004 on the trip back from IRI |
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when you, a person who really gets nervous in cities, convince your parents and youth group to drop you off at some bus station in Chicago, trusting that you'll end up safely in Indianapolis.... terrifying. first greyhound.
so. worth. it. |
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-When EVERYTHING somehow relates to FIRST.
-When you are at a fair or festival and you see a former robotics team mate or current member and then 5 hours later you are still rambling about FIRST. -When you are at work and your boss gets mad because you know almost everyone that comes in either through community service, fundraisers, students on the team or parents of students on the team and the people ask " Will you be joining the robotics team again this year" and when you say yes their face lights up with a big smile. -When your boss knows the last detail about FIRST Robotics. -When your boss is flipping through the channels and comes across a competition the weekend you are gone and watches the competition hoping to see you. -When friends and family randomly call your house too see how things are going at competition. -When you are at work and you look at the tickets and try to associate every number with a team. -When you are late for your morning class because your team was doing a live feed on your valleys morning news show and you show up to class in full robotics attire and your professor and classmates say "Roman your late but you did a great job on the news this morning" -When you are sitting in morning class doodling in your notebook during build season thinking about the robot instead of taking notes and your professor asks you a question and you weren't paying attention and squeeze out of it by talking about robotics. -When you see a pig and think about our buddies from Florida Exploding Bacon. "Oink Oink BOOM!!!!'' then laugh -When your room is full of robotics stuff and so is your car. -When you trade in your car for a jeep because it's not big enough to haul robotics stuff in it. -When your friends get mad because your myspace top 32 is full of all robotics teams and friends that you have met over the years and your friends are no where to be in site. -When you don't sleep the night before competitions because you are to excited. -When you win the lottery and give part of the money to your robotics team. -When you see hulk hogan riding a segway and get excited -When you spaz on someone even a stranger because they said something bad about robotics. - When you plan a special trip to the mall with your robotics buddies to go "Competition Shopping". -When you see a number anywhere and stop and take a picture because it's associated with a team. I have lots more but I'll post them later. I know this is a lot to read right now. |
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...When your car is completely computer controlled and programmable.....And made in 1979
I will have my car like that eventually ...When you consider getting a truck for hauling robotics stuff, then remember it has enough power to tow anything and precede to build a workshop on wheels |
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When you see the RSS feed from CNN saying "Haas claims third title for year" and wonder what titles a CNC machine company can win...
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...When you come back from a competition, and then on monday, you are ranting to your friends about what crazy things wildstang came up with that year
...When you start modeling random things in your robotics room because "We may have to use it at some point". ...Whenever you see tie die, you can't think of anything other than Wildstang ...When you screamed harder for Beatty at IRI than you have ever for any other match (even ones that you were involved in) |
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-When you immediately think of Robo-Dawgs when you see a bottle of mountain dew.
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When you run across a truck that is the same color as your team shirt and think that it would make a great team vehicle. This truck was seriously a green very close to our shirts.
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- You see your team number somewhere and start cheering it out
- You miss school after any competition to actually get sleep - You bring up a story about Atlanta in every conversation - You play basketball and wish robots would be on your team instead - You put Dean Kamen in your "Who I'd Like To Meet" section of your myspace - You google FIRST and/or your team to see what comes up :D |
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when you can still hear "Please stand clear of the doors. Por Favor Metengan se alijados de las puertas" in your head and your friends/you commonly say such
when Sir Charles finds his way into conversations when you show one of your friends a video of Sir Charles |
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Lose the game each time your see your team number (Does anyone here play the game?)
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"The Game" in our family is the "Who can close their eyes the fastest and keep them closed the longest" initiated by Grandpa long ago to justify his afternoon naps. :rolleyes: and that has nothing to do with being overdosed on FIRST, I'll have to work on that though. |
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..you're on aim talking about something with numbers then you go off on a rampage for 10min writing team numbers an names down back an forth trying to see how many you get...
(it was one of those nights!) |
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when you started rattling off every single team number and name (and any awards you know of that they won) while on a walk with a friend...he wasn't too thrilled about that
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You start playing the Free Cell game numbers of teams that you know (175 is pretty hard. it took me at least 6 tries to beat it ;) )
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when you hang out with your teammates at your town's festival (Milford Memories)
when doing the above you meet up with more teammates and mentors (and one of the mentors is wearing a FIRST shirt...) when you, while doing the above, discuss how you can't look at the tye-dyed booths without thinking of Wildstang |
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You know you have overdosed on first when your team has build a prototype base for next years game.
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When you do your final speech on FIRST!
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when your first keys are a hex set. (me and my dad had a good laugh about this when we realized that i dont technically have my own house keys)
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...When you absolutely refuse to take the PSATs because it just so conviently happens to fall on the same date as Duel on the Delaware. :)
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Sorry, that's the mom part of me thinking... and worrying about you missing out on big scholarship potential! |
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When your friend (who knows nothing about FIRST) mentions cheesy poofs, and you immediately think he's talking about the team, not the food.
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