[daniel_dsouza]

FIRST is where all the good jokes are made.

• We got free donuts from a company. Unfortunately a mentor finished a whole box in under 5 minutes. From now one, whenever she calls ahead to tell us she is coming, we hid all the food.
• Our safety manager isn't allowed to use the power tools, because he used a drill as a pointing device.
• Safety FIRST, [verb] later!
• This one isn't ours, but a safety sign said, "Caution , this sign has sharp corners!"
• Student who didn't know anything about computers: "So if I delete all the .exe files, I'll have less space on my computer. I don't know why there are so many excel files anyway..."
• "Why do her bumpers look so much better than mine?"
  -"It's because she's a girl!"
• "You can't use a drill press to create a keyed shaft!"
  -"I reject your reality and substitute my own"
• You know, there's such a thing as too much spirit...
• We met a rookie team once... unfortunately they thought the robot was to be built during competition!
• Driver: "The robot doesn't work"
  Programmer: "But it worked less than 20 seconds ago!"
  Driver: "Look (flexes controls through all positions)"
  Suddenly, the robot (which was lagging), flies off the bridge!
  Programmer: "I call lag..."
• At our team banquet after the competition:
  Mentor: "Why weren't you there for the awards ceremony"
  Student: "Well, we decided that we couldn't have our dinner and have HALO party, so something had to go"
  In reality, our coach who drove the bus had to leave early.
• Student: So we have a mill, but no cutters, and a lathe, but no parting tool. It's there for looks right?
• Student: So we're building a minibot deployer for a minibot that doesn't exist.
• Student 1: "Where did you put the 7/16 wrench?"
  Student 2: "I left it inside the robot"
  Student 1: "During a match!!!"
• Student 1: Look at these chopsticks I made using the sander and jigsaw! Now I can eat.
  Take out is popular here.
• Student 1: "You know, the robot looks sort of like a Dalek"
  (a few minutes later) "wait, what do you mean you don't watch Dr Who!"
• Is this an original problem, surely it's been solved on Chief Delphi!
• Student 1: "You're late, the pizza is cold."
  Student 2: "No problem, I'll just use the shrink ray (heat gun)"
• To spirit person: "Why are our shirts black this year? When they were yellow, you couldn't see the grease stains!"
• To programmer: Dividing by 0 will not make your robot self-aware, but it will make you feel stupid.

I could go on for a forever, but there's this thing called time that keeps interfering. It's more obvious during build season.