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Re: Another Culture Change
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Originally Posted by JaneYoung View Post
What's funny about that is I didn't even think about it being funny when I wrote it. A couple of years ago, I was down on the field during the awards ceremonies at IRI. The crowd was having a really great time celebrating the teams who were being given awards. When the Holy Cows came through the line, all of a sudden the place was filled with moos. It threw me off because they sounded like boos and I couldn't believe anyone would ever do that at one of the robotics competitions. As one of the mentors came through, I asked him if their team moos. He burst out laughing and said, "Yes, we moo." It was a great moment but a very surprising one.

Jane
Last year my team started yelling "boom" when we were doing well. It sounded like we were booing ourselves!
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