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One of our programmers missed the fact that the installation instructions for Wind River were clearly laid out in the readme file, complete with illustrations.

We're still calling him Screenshot.

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One of our members is Asian and he won't tell us how to pronounce his name

So we call him Haha. But it's not just us. The ENTIRE school calls him Haha. We do sometimes call him Giggles as well.

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There is one freshman programmer on our team (675) whose name is Charlie, and he has been called C-Dogg on a few occasions. I don't know why though, he's just been called that.

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Martin "Old Man Hands" Taylor

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Most of the programmers have nick names.

The lead programmer is nicknamed "Crunchy" because he was eating a piece of celery when he was introduced to one of my year's leaders...

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In my 4 seasons on Team RUSH, we've also never failed to have 3 or more "Michael"s on the team.

This resulted in using last names a lot of the time, or all of them turning and saying "what?" whenever the name Michael was called out.

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My nickname in my team is Grandma or in Hebrew Savta, hence my name(My last name is Kenneth) . I've got this one as I used to have a beard that made me look old (Although ironically being a freshman I still looked older than everybody else in the team) so I was called grandpa, that one didn't stick though. When I finally shaved my friend decided I did a Sex change shave and since than the name grandma stuck with me. Now about half of my school calls me grandma... Gotta love my team :rolleyes:

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Same thing with the Matts. We end up calling them Huhta and M-Nel. Now its getting really frustrating whenever Mrs. Hughes calls out Jeff asking for Mr. Huhta. I always turn around and get really confused.

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It was tradition on my team to label the grade nine who made endless streams of buttons "buttons", starting with me in 2006. I think 3 others took the name after I graduated from it. :]

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We usually call our programmer Code Monkey, a nickname he actually gave himself, but today when he was trying to reach into our practice bot and needed needle nosed plyers for something we changed it to Sausage Fingers LOL!

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I'm just Palardy (my last name), as in "Palardy can fix it in code" or "Palardy is flashing the robot"

The greatest is "Frizzle" - His real name is Eric and he is an alumni (driver in 06), and he was known as "Frizzle" after driving several people to a building party at another teams shop, and they dubbed his van "the magic school bus" which led him to be "Ms. Frizzle", but then he became just plain "Frizzle" and his girlfriend is "Miss Frizzle".
"Where's Frizzle? He's in the CAD room eating cream puffs again"

One member of the Pit Crew is designated "battery babe" - Eduardo is battery babe this year. We call him that every time we ask about a changed battery.

An alumni (Carolyn, '03) is known as "Mom" because she is often the one to ask us to clean up (and compares us to the 4 year olds she teaches at daycare).

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Our human player this year, his name is Daniel, but we call him Mombo..I dont really know why we do but it fits him, and everyone at his school calls him that...


And we have a running gag with one of our mentors, Dave, that he was the National GrabBag Champion 6 years in a row.
Its hilarious when he asks for some tool and we head to the toolbox, then we hear "I got it" as he pulls it out of no-where. I'm starting to think he hides the tools in his pockets just to play a joke on us.

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Team 1918 has 2 people with nicknames.

1. Evan, last year's human player, is called Evan Almighty. He made a lot of good shots for us.

2. Felipe, a current student, is called Tapeworm because he eats so much and stays so skinny.

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Ohh! I forgot our Matt when I posted the others! He was going to be our safety captain last year, but decided to be an idiot and break his hand while he punched his brother about a week and a half before we left for comp. So we decided to be sarcastic with him and everyone started calling him "Safety Boy"

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On our electronics team, we have 2 Alexs; one which is a mentor and one which is the student lead (me!). We are always working near each other since we are the real workhorses on our electronics team, so when someone needs our attention they normally just yell out "Alex Squared" to get our attention.

Another student on our team has gotten the nickname "Nice sweatshirt", because on numerous day of build we (myself and him) would both show up in the same AE hoodie. Now whenever we see each other I will usually say "Nice sweatshirt" even if he is wearing a t-shirt.