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We start week 4 on monday, its to hot here to do anything else

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they say that every year.

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Yah it'll me week 4 for us monday too I think I'd have to look at a calender to tell you honestly, but it's very hot outside and now hurricanes, it's like they put everything together in one week.

Heat from summer + hurricane from the season + school

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So, did you get them? Or are you gona give him a little longer? :D


For everyone who doesn't know, there is a post on a "bribe" to Dave on page 1 of this thread.

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I wish... Brandon Marcus ... I mean Martus ruined all the fun by posting this thread.

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Buh, how long till we can start building? >.< I want to weld something, or build a chasis, I think I'm going to buy some aluminum and get a loan and turn my garage to a little engineering room for me. And then I can build absolutely nothings but atleast have fun engineering. o.o

I can't wair for January. Gosh.

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I have been in FIRST for 5 years now, every year I get my fishing pole ready to catch these "Herrings" but they never come. I can't wait for the day Dave rides a Segway down my street throwing fish at my house.

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:D Ditto, so whens the Offical Hint being sent out?? *Checks email to make sure they didn't send it at random*

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All will be revealed in due time. ((Probably within a month or so. Please be soon so I can start to think my brain so hard it melts! mmmmm melty brain))

On another note. Possibly the game will use doughnuts or tubes as the playing object. Or possibly a gametype where the robots have to get more of something in a time limit. Just a guess folks. Knowing Dave however it could be something unrelated such as picking up golf balls and chucking them at people. ((My humour is horrible I apollogize))

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Hm, for some odd reason I keep thinking either hoverbots or underwater basket weaving for some odd reason. Or under water hover basket weaving. o.o

Humour aside I wouldn't doubt FIRST finally giving us a game that deals with going underwater or robots hovering a little or something. Then again it could also have absolutely nothing to do with that.

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You know, with this being the 16th year, what if they use lights to signal what you have to do with pieces from all of the past years? Or better yet, make your robot accomplish the recent tasks and turn the lights on, the more lights the more points. :rolleyes:

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This Year has been an interesting year, New Store, New Job, New FIRST Team, but as is usually this time of year, it was another Chilly Rainy October Day at the Depot, so taking advantage of my New position, i decided to make some calls, read some training manuals and take a look at what kind of orders Home Depot Store 3482 had for a certain Manchester based Robotic Organization... and what i found was incredibly interesting, a couple of weird quotes (i don't have the kind of power to see if they were paid orders or maybe Mr. Lavery is going to even greater lengths to scare us*) one quote was for 11,000 (eleven thousand individual) 10' pieces of schedule 40 4" PVC Pipe and 4 Tee Connectors.... which either means that the GDC has been eating a little too much Mexican food, or the weirdest clue i have ever seen, I also saw a separate quote for 3500 Red, Green, and Blue Flood Light bulbs... I immediately thought back to right before the finals in the championships this year...
a 3rd quote was made for what we call "pro packs" of #8 1/2" self tapping screws totaling over 54,000 individual screws...

after a conversation with Dave, at IRI this year, he is well aware that i am employed at the Home Depot, so this could just be him playing mind games with the FIRST Community through me, or he could have forgotten this tidbit of information as some older people tend to do....

All i know is that i am scared....


*=Lengths already achieved to frighten me : 1) I now look up every time i go outside waving to Dave, hoping that he doesn't drop a satellite on my head
2) being Declared Legally dead for the day... which was an interesting conversation at blockbuster... let me tell you

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I wonder if Dave has also ordered large quantities of Dr. Pepper and Mentos? Maybe he's planning a really big soda geyser, using a 4" pipe twenty miles high?

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Durring the finals in Atlanta there was a "hint" given on the Einstein field that alluded to the fact that there may be some sort of color changing lights on the field in 07. Did anyone else pick this up and / or maybe hear something else?

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I'm thinking potato cannon moon shot. :D