"Quotes" that were said during build season

"Win ALL the matches!" Said towrds the end of build season and the beginning of competition season. Funny enough, we were 18-0 at Detroit District.

"I don't care if he gets lost on the way there. I care if he gets lost on the way back. I hate cold pizza." It took him 10 minutes to get there and 20 to get back. He got lost on the way back and had to use a GPS. The town we live in is small.

"Well there's your problem!" We didn't have a cRIO in the robot. It took us 20 minutes.

"Your programming is wrong."
"No, it's your wiring."
"Do you really want to argue about this?" We did. For 10 minutes. It was the wiring.

"Well THAT was fun."

"Guys! Guess what? We got a gym!"

"I'm playing 'words with intellectual acquaintances.'"

"Don't throw the balls!"

"So I knew this guy who was a programmer."
"...and...?"
"Nothing. I just thought I would mention it."

"We're telling Coach that we're 10 pounds overweight." It was a few days before bag n tag.

[Diesel Torch]

"Guaranteed to work, maybe."

Conversation:
Coach"Were nine pounds over, we had to lose some weight."
Team member#1 (TM1) "What did you do to fix it?"
Coach "We removed a few motors, wiring, and victors."
TM2 "Aren't those... important?"
Coach "Not anymore."
TM1 "Is that all you had to do?"
Coach " We also swiss cheesed the robot..."
TM1 "You put holes in OUR ROBOT???"
TM3 *Walks by* "No one likes the Swiss."

[Savvy578]

"...They can't make up their minds!"

[moogboy]

"wait, did we take the battery out?"-about two days before bag n tag, amidst collective panic as the scale told us we were 15 pounds overweight.

This one is from before I joined the team, but it's a classic:
"Hey guys! is that the code?"
"No...thats the attendance sheet"

[ganchara]

B: How do you deal with us?
K: Sarcasm, and... Yeah, mostly sarcasm... Oh, and Jack Daniels too.


K: The table is indestructible, not idiotproof.

[ClearlyClare]

"Can we change our name to 'Purple Close-Enough'?"

(Team 3176 Purple Precision)

[mman1506]

-(After finding the robot was 35 pounds underweight)
"We should add some decorative batteries"

Explaining build season to newest member:

Josh: So let me get this straight....we build for 6 weeks, so we can put the robot away in a bag, and wait another 6 weeks before we use it?

Me:..........yes.

[EricH]

Heard on the Waterloo webcast:

"We currently have zero representatives for alliance selection! This will make for very quick elimination rounds."

[viperred396]

Somthing that our mentor said to another team about their broken robot


"It wouldnt be FIRST if it didnt break"

[GCentola]

Originally Posted by EricH

Heard on the Waterloo webcast:

Speaking of Waterloo: "Look at them eat the fender! EAT IT! OMM NOMM NOM NOMEY NOM!" -Paul Copioli

Karthik and Paul were a heck of a lot of fun to watch this weekend!

[Suitster]

(when we used the lightest team member as ballast for testing the drive system)

"Unless something goes drastically wrong, the bot will turn slowly"

very soon after that line

"And this is why it is bad to divide by zero"

[sithmonkey13]

During the St. Louis Regional, one of our drivers was giving handshakes where he runs his fingers along your hand, which feels incredibly weird. The resulting conversation happened after he given the handshake to a driver on our alliance (for a qualification):
S (Our Coach): C stop that.
C (The one giving the handshakes): What, I'm making friends.
S: No, you're making restraining orders.

[lorem3k]

"Who's ready to strip some greasy old trannies?" (Referring to old transmissions, of course.)
"You can play basketball, right? Let's just cut your legs off and put you on the drivetrain."
"It doesn't need to fit right now, we'll just let it 'self-machine'."

[PAR_WIG1350]

Originally Posted by lorem3k

"It doesn't need to fit right now, we'll just let it 'self-machine'."

Due to the frequency with which we do this on our team, we have agreed upon the standardized term "self-clearance".


NOTE: Actually, it is often meant as a joke, but not always. Saying that you are 'breaking in' a P60 (banebots transmission), a very common practice recommended my many here on CD, you are really running it until it stops grinding itself into dust due to the colliding gears not fitting together properly. Using this technique for pneumatic wheels rubbing against a transmission output shaft is another story.