"Quotes" that were said during build season

[Whippet]

Me: What does this robot look like to you guys?
Mark: OOH! OBAMA! OBAMA! OBAMA!
Me: Actually, it's a bunch of PVC mounted to our frame to be a support structur for arm.
Mark: He turned white!
(Mark had just gotten back from a five-minute break and only heard the "look like to you guys" part)

And, in case you're wondering, no, his real name is not Mark.

[Samk]

Whenever we work on the robot after the the electronics are mounted, we always put a sheet on top of them to avoid metal shavings going into them. This sheet didn't help too much when we were working on the arm and i dropped my wrench really close to the jaguar, hence the new favorite phrase of the build team "there go the jaguars" - the programmers really love this one

[CalTran]

We are getting two robots moving today and nobody is leaving until we do. If your parents start coming at 4:00, I will lock the door. The only way you're getting out of here without my consent is by the SWAT Team.

^Said by our head mentor during a Saturday meeting.

[mayde]

Me: Guys, it's time to leave. Even Sal (Coach) has left.

E(mentor/alumni): It's okay, he wanted us to say. he even gave us a key.

B(head programmer): Yeah, we have to finish what we're doing. It'll only take us a second.

Me: So is that a real second or a programmer second?

N(senior): Programmer!

D(freshman): So it'll be about three or four hours..


*All people involved are programmers other than me.

[onecoolc]

"I don't know what that file was, but I just deleted it."

[evoluti1]

"This is pretty cool... So did we match up the pitch and pressure angles for these gears or do they just fit by coincidence?"
"I'm guessing coincidence."

[Whippet]

Freshman: "Hey guys... Did we need that big black motor?"
Me: "Yeah, why?"
Freshman: "It isn't moving anymore."
Mentor: "What did you do?"
Freshman: "Let's just say that you shouldn't ever connect one directly to the battery to see if it works."
All else: *Facepalm*
Freshman: "At least it wasn't the cRIO..."

[Dumper FTW 435]

"Motors are like a fine wine, They get better over time"
"And like a fine wine, they shouldn't get mixed with water"

[fiona.crush1011]

*goes to shoot basket and completely misses*
"This is why I build robots!" -Joe

*members of our team attempting to shoot hoops*
Lead Mentor: *laughs* A lot of you should not be playing basketball

[thatoneguy23]

"Is it a bad thing if our robot smells like waffles and syrup?"

[AlexJamesCross]

"ohhh look at it spin"-me
"yeah thats not good"Bob the builder(team captin)
"aww so we cant have it spin"
"no"
and
(as krudeboy51 preppared to try driving the robot)
"I fear for my life as well as well as my shins"

[ras103]

"Because everyone knows mustache size is proportionate to seriousness!"

[JaneYoung]

"Turns out it wasn't a meteor. We were testing our basketball shooter and I guess it was too powerful." ~ Kevin St Laurent

(Regarding a meteor sighting in our fair city of Austin, Texas, last evening. Kevin's team is nowhere near Austin, Texas.)

[mrlg220]

We were working on minibot deployment last year when...

"oh, you didn't finish building it yet? I'll come back when you guys are done screwing."

For shielding from utter embarrassment his name shall not be mentioned

[ethen155]

I used to be on a sports team... until I took a robot to the knee.