"Quotes" that were said during build season

[DampRobot]

"Aww... the chains not breaking. That must be so hard to bear. Do you want me to call the wambulance?"

The wambulance stopped by our team many times this weekend.

[neaanopri]

"Will that work?"
"No, but it looks cool."

[EricH]

If you aren't out of time when you bag up the robot, you forgot something.
If your robot weighs less than 119.9 lb when you weigh in at competition, you forgot something.

I think some teams forgot something.

[baroneje]

Is that supposed to happen?

[dictionaria13]

"You were right! Zip ties do make effective hair ties!" - me
"We aren't cannibalizing Wilson (last year's robot), we're integrating him." -Karina, team co-captain
"No, we will NOT name the robot Reptar. I don't care that no one else had any ideas." - Fred, all-purpose mentor

[DeformedFedora]

alright, i need magical people who can measure!

so, safety gloves are not safe?

[Whippet]

Originally Posted by plnyyanks

It is possible to finish early. We at 1124 finished our robot yesterday, and we're just bagging today. It felt really weird being done early - enough for me to write a custom dashboard BEFORE ship (er...bag) day.

What is this thing you all refer to as "done"? We are never done. Ever.

[chabotics]

"Well statistically there's a 50% chance the tubes are right, which means there's a 90% chance that the tubes are wrong."

[Walter Deitzler]

"I think we have a bad case of PWM gremlins"

To the robot:
"I think that we will be very good friends, my bot"

"You can be sure I will be violent with the robot, look at what happened last year"
(This was me driving last year, look at 1:43)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKi8KyO7dIk

[Kymi]

mentor: "When in doubt, throw it out."
me: "I'm going to apply that to my homework. Thanks!"
Oh how I love robotics. (:

[gixxy]

"Johnathan, you Forked up the code."

"FINE, I'll just do it in LOLcode."

"Robot, why you no get on Threadmill?"

"The motors should shoot about 50 feet. give or take 45 feet." "DUDE WE CAN HIT 95 FEET!". "no, we can get maybe 10 feet." "Hmm.. we need the BaneBots."

"whats with all the doughnuts? The custodians are going to kill us."

"I think the Java didn't get it's coffee...."

"Washers. we don't need no stinking washers."

[Samk]

"I thought I smelt a motor burning out"

*snicker snicker*

"what I did smell it"

It's smelled dude not smelt, that what you do to metal.

"I'm pretty sure you can say, I smelt something"

a quick look at google and, dangit you were right

[Karibou]

Originally Posted by dictionaria13

"You were right! Zip ties do make effective hair ties!" - me

You must have magic hair. My hair never stays firmly tied back with a zip tie; it always starts sliding out after an hour or so of doing work!

[eburianek]

While filming for a weekly video update:
Cameraman: Quite on the set!
Interviewee: It's not a set, it's a small room in a high school.

[nitneylion452]

"I meant that it's built, not that it works!"

Me after saying "I can't believe it's done" moments before the robot acted on its own.