[GeeTwo]

During competition, in the stands and on the sidelines:

"OHHH! They got assaulted on the battery" (actually the BATTER in this case)

Announcer: "Team #### lost their battery; they may be disabled for that."
3946 student: "May be? Does that mean they might NOT be disabled?"
G2: "Well, since I can see their Anderson Connector about five feet behind the robot, and wires only on one side it doesn't much matter what the refs decide; it's disabled."

(overheard on sidelines) "YOW! Even a robot's gonna feel that!"

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In/around the pits:

"Mikey, here's a clip that should fix the riveter you broke."
"I didn't break it; I found it like that."
"You found our hand-riveter with a quarter-inch rivet jammed inside?"
"Sort of.."

"The chain's pitch is ... five and a quarter inches. What ANSI size is that?" (Our pit display features such a chain.)

Here's one in three parts, first and third both quote-worthy.
T.S.:"The numbers won't stick on the bumpers, even with heat. We need something else to help hold them on."
G2: "I just happen have an unused roll of clear gorilla tape in my car."
T.S.: (does double take, eyes open wide) "Gorilla tape is insane. Clear gorilla tape..that's double insane. Can we use it?"

T.S.: (An hour or so later) "Do you have any more clear gorilla tape?"
G2: "No, but there's a hardware store a mile down the road where I can probably get some."

(In store)
G2: "I'm looking for tape. Clear gorilla tape."
(clerk, leads me a couple dozen feet down) "Here it is, the entire gorilla collection."

(You can't make this stuff up.)

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Background: Starting about 1 Jan, I did not trim my beard, hoping to get it long enough to braid. I didn't get it that long, but it's considerably bushier than in my WAI. I sprayed it green again for Bayou.
M.E. (student): Mr. Gus, how did you get your beard like that?
G2: "I just don't shave it."

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There were several more good ones at the mentors' decompress at the Mexican restaurant across the street from Slidell High, but I can only think of one I can post where the students might see it. As background, our founding head coach, Jesse, is leaving high school science teaching for self-employment. It's the only job he's held more than about three years, if you count vastly different jobs within the US Army separately.

Larry: "So, what are you going to do, Jesse? Take that educational job with NASA"
Jesse: "I don't think so. I don't really know what I'm going to do next. It's not that there isn't anything that seems right, it's that there's so much I want to do next, and I can't decide."
G2: "Don't worry; that's actually a pretty common situation for people coming out of high school."