CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #101
 

...and no dalmatians in sight!

Here's the scores:

And the picture:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/25102

As always, the deadline is Saturday at midnight EDT.

Go!

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Misson Mayhem's idea to create a new waterbed playing surface litterally springs a leak.

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Any person in picture yelling to Arefin somewhere of shot: Arefin!! You think you would of learned from last year! Don't plan off seasons in Hurricane Season!!

Arefin yelling back: BUT THIS ISN'T A HURRICANE

::smacking noise::

Barry (somewhere off shot): Ouch! STUPID LEXAN! I can't belive this happend two years in a row!

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<not part of entry> Don't ya just love how I randomly insert the randomly needed people? :)

Edit:: You see Billfred, there was no need for me to write on my forehead to remember this time ;) </not part of entry>

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(Personal note on this caption contest entry for non-Mission Mayhem attendees... there are wayyyy too many inside jokes in the following entry to probably get)

Billfred earlier in the day: "Mike's having trouble getting the field to run right, the software has gone down the Hatch."
Billfred at the time of the picture: "When I said the software was going down the Hatch... I meant it as a pun, I didn't mean he should flood the field so we had to hide the cabinets in a Yellow Submarine. Where are my penalty flags again?"

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Billfred wanted everyone to know why there was water on this off-season event's field, so he posted this in the caption contest to get everyone take on this marvelous occurrence.

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Water water everywhere and not a light will blink,
Billfred got the field all wet and really caused a stink.
It called for rain this glorious day,
And now the field looks like the bay.

The GDC had a real good look,
And now a water game is in the book.
The work it caused did not bring down them,
They brought together another successful Mission Mayhem.

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Now why do you suppose KathieK called and said to find NEMO to help with all this mayhem?

Looking down in the drainhole, 'oh yoohooo NEMO, are you down there? Come out come out where ever you are...we've got pink pigs and martians here and we need you, too, little fella.'

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"I was warned that it would be humid, but this is ridiculous"

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"Ive already told you once before, This year is a Dry game, Next year is jello, THE YEAR AFTER THAT IS A WATER GAME"

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The PINK Team: Why must this happen to use, we are The "Lovely" PINK Team!!! :D :D :D

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Ahh yes... and here we see a ref preparing to perform his rendition of "It's Raining Men".

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I don't care if you named your robot "Gene Kelly", we're not gonna play matches on a field like this.


AB

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(not an entry....I get it. :D - great!)

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"I told you guys not to use so much toilet paper"

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"I can't find a violation in the manual about drenching the entire field in water. But something in me wants me to throw a flag."

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Most teams emit some magic smoke from time to time. Who's the wise-guyz that came up with magic water?

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Middle pink team guy: "I told you a water game would be awesome!"
Left pink team guy: "Shut up go put the water wings on our robot"

[not an entry]
Thanks for pointing that out. They looked red at first, but you're right, they're pink.[/not an entry]

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<not an entry> Uhh Dylan..I think thats the pink team... </not an entry>

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REF: Stop pointing at the wet carpet and clean this up, even if the cursed drain is under that spot!

Guy in back with white T-shirt: Yay, a wading pool!

REF: Shaddup and help, my feet are getting wet! And these Nike's are brand new too!

Side Note: My grandfather told me this. In Vietnamese (I think), Nike means "do it", or to do. My grandfather had a Vietnamese boss, and so when he was fed up with the workers for whining about something, he would just yell "NIKE!" End side note.

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"Rain, rain, go away... come again when our robots are waterproof!"

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Group huddled in left of picture: "Look! *pointing* There's water here, and here, and *poke*, *gasp*, it's squishy here!"
Ref: *thinks out loud* "...It's almost like a waterbed..."
Pink team members talking amongst themselves: *sigh* "And they thought that the ramps this year were comfortable..."

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"Look, I don't know who the genius is who painted the fire hydrant fluorescent green, but I told you we should have covered it up before we had the first autonomous match!"

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Note to self: Next year, don't spend an hour vacuuming the Einstein carpet....

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/25006

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As clean-up from this terrible disaster continues, officials are left trying to figure out exactly what went wrong. A distraught and sobbing witness to this horrible calamity, who wished to remain anonymous, had the following to say:

"We kept warning him not to do it, but he wouldn't listen... he just wouldn't listen... we begged him, we said, 'Please don't do it, Big Mike, don't do it! One more bear hug, and Copioli could pop.' But he didn't listen, and he grabbed Paul up and as he lifted him in the air, tightening his mighty arms, there was this loud noise, kind of like a pop, yeah, a pop, and then... then... this! Why??? Why Paul?!! This kind of senseless violence must be stopped!"

Tune in to Channel 116 News for further updates.

<not an entry> No actual FIRST participants were harmed in the making of this post <not and entry>

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Ref in foreground: "I told Billfred to turn off the sprinkler system while the matches were in progress in case a robot malfunctioned. Where is he!?!?!"
Billfred is last seen leaving the building with the sprinkler handle in hand and a evil grin on his face.

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"I had an accident."

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You know, Abraham was previously seen singing "I'm going to soak up the sun", i didn't think he was serious though

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For those of you who wondered why the GDC was so adamant about using TWO Pool Noodles for making bumpers, now you know, flotation. It would appear that Dave Lavery can see into the future in addition to his many other talents.

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Game announcer at the 2007 Florida Regional Competition “SEA NO LIMITS” (the first FRC game with a water field):

“Attention please, attention please....

In the last match the head referee has DQ the Blue Alliance for severely damaging the field and causing the massive leak with their torpedoes.

There will be a 60 minute delay in competition while the field crew extract the PINK SQUID robot from underneath the rubber membrane when it was caught in the suction of the whirlpool.

As soon as the field is repaired and refilled, the matches will continue.
Thank you. ”

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Mike Walker: No no no! You don't follow up a "dry run" test with a "wet run"!

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La mer
Qu'on voit danser le long des golfes clairs
A des reflets d'argent
La mer
Des reflets changeants
Sous la pluie
La mer
Au ciel d'été confond
Ses blancs moutons
Avec les anges si purs
La mer bergere d'azur
Infinie
Voyez
Près des etangs
Ces grands roseaux mouilles
Voyez
Ces oiseaux blancs
Et ces maisons rouilles
La mer
Les a berce
Le long des golfes clairs
Et d'une chanson d'amour
La mer
A berce mon coeur pour la vie

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<obviously not an entry>
Sure, Rick, make me go re-learn all of my French from high school that I haven't used in two years. :p

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#Not an entry:
#There's always Google Translator, but the passage (poem?) doesn't make much more sense even after running it through that.

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Dark Moments in Florida FIRST History - the day Mission Mayhem organizers invited representatives from the local FEMA office and the state Board of Elections to help them set up the playing field.

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Just run it through Google, period. The translation for the song "La Mer" (lamer? :) ), from Wikipedia:

The sea
which we see dancing along the clear gulfs
has silver sparkles.
The sea
has changing sparkles
Under the rain.
The sea
To the summer sky's confuses her white sheep
With angels so pure.
The sea,
Shepherdess of infinite sky.
See
Next to the ponds
Those tall wet reeds.
See
Those white birds
And those rusty houses.
The sea
Has rocked them like a baby
Along the clear gulfs
And with a love song The sea
Has rocked my heart for life.

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[not an entry] You can hear a clip from the English version "Beyond the Sea" at this Amazon link. The English lyrics are not identical to the French, which fit the picture better, I think. [/not an entry]

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(not an entry) 'twould be beautiful sung through a waxed handlebar mustache - dreamy -

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FIRST continues to try new playing surfaces to challenge teams. Here is the experimental Black Cherry JELLO field at Mission Mayhem. :D

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"Hmm... I wonder if FIRST is covered against an act of cod..."

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"Dean called and told me two GDC members would come to test something secret, but the tent roof needed to be removed to use it. I figured that it was because the device was too tall, but little did I know that they were really using Dean's iWet weather control device to create a monsoon, just so Lavery and Morrella could play with their new rubber ducky."

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Ref: Well, I guess that guy didn't red the manual where it said, "no open-toed shoes... no Safety Chip for him!"

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Wow...just wow. I never thought this one would be so hard to judge. I mean, usually one kinda sticks out...I guess there's only one solution for all of this:

*I'm kidding, seriously--that flooded field was one of the weirdest experiences of my life, and it's only because Mission Mayhem was two days and that there are some of the most awesome people in FIRST, particularly in Florida, that the event was as successful as it was. Trust me, you don't want to flood your field. I doubt that FIRST wants you to, either.

First place goes to:

Second place goes to:

Honorable mentions go to:

1) lukevanoort
2) T. Hoffman
3) Cody C
4) Fruity Pebbles
5) miketwalker
6) Jane
7) Dave Scheck
8) Rohith Surampudi
9) KathieK
10) Danielle H
11) Andy Baker
12) Koko Ed
13) Conor Ryan
14) Jay H 237
15) RoboMom
16) MissInformation
17) Matt Krass (who should know about wet runs in FIRST)

And the burn award...

Which means the scores are...

Onward...after everyone dries out! :P