Funny things to ask for on the PA system

[Anupam Goli]

The Peachtree pit announcer is a funny guy, he just messes with me by saying that a different team needs the item I'm looking for whenever I show up.

Anyway, someone should be like:
"Team xxxx would like to know if anyone knows when the Narwhal Bacons."

Or
"Team xxxx is looking for Mordor, could anyone help them out?"

[Grim Tuesday]

Originally Posted by Wing

The Peachtree pit announcer is a funny guy, he just messes with me by saying that a different team needs the item I'm looking for whenever I show up.

Anyway, someone should be like:
"Team xxxx would like to know if anyone knows when the Narwhal Bacons."

Or
"Team xxxx is looking for Mordor, could anyone help them out?"

I think the best choice of teams to ask for would be 1337. Oh yes, and the Narwhal Bacons at Midnight.

[philso]

At Lone Star 2011, we asked for alcohol. We needed it as a lubricant to get our surgical tubing tire onto the mini-bot. Many of the people in the pits around us did a double take when they heard it. They must have wondered if we had been "driven to drink"

[PAR_WIG1350]

Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday

I think the best choice of teams to ask for would be 1337.

They were a German team, they didn't make it through the end of their first FIRST build season.

[ouellet348]

At South Florida Regional we put out a post many teams thought was a joke that was actually real. "If anyone has contact solution, please bring it to team 348, no really, like for eyes, on humans. Once again that's human eye contact solution, team 348." We actually had a member mess up their contacts and they were in dire need, thankfully a team helped us out with that one.

[neshera]

True (but long) story.
I'm a Neurosurgeon. Towards the end of most lumbar surgeries, I ask the Anesthesiologist to perform a "Valsalva maneuver". This involves closing certain valves on the breathing loop and squeezing the oxygen bag; similar to you taking in a big breath, then trying to exhale with your mouth and nose closed and turning your face red. Since this is a common maneuver, I usually just say loudly, "I need a Valsalva," while looking at the incision through the microscope.
The great part is when we have a new nurse in the room; I will then look at him/her and repeat, "I need a Valsalva." The nurse assumes I am asking for an instrument, but of course there is no such instrument and she/he panics not knowing what or where the instrument is. After a few seconds, we all laugh, and tell the new nurse he/she is now initiated into the Neuro team.

Once again, FIRST prepares students for life in the real world.

[techtiger1]

At South Florida regional on Friday our batteries in our label maker had died. I simply went to pit admin to request an announcement that 1251 needed two double A batteries. The annoucer upon making the annoucement says "1251 would like a flux capacitor and two double A batteries." I didn't even ask for a flux capacitor, besides we already have one in South Florida.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ux+capacito r