"Quotes" that were said during build season

[daniel_dsouza]

FIRST is where all the good jokes are made.

• We got free donuts from a company. Unfortunately a mentor finished a whole box in under 5 minutes. From now one, whenever she calls ahead to tell us she is coming, we hid all the food.
• Our safety manager isn't allowed to use the power tools, because he used a drill as a pointing device.
• Safety FIRST, [verb] later!
• This one isn't ours, but a safety sign said, "Caution , this sign has sharp corners!"
• Student who didn't know anything about computers: "So if I delete all the .exe files, I'll have less space on my computer. I don't know why there are so many excel files anyway..."
• "Why do her bumpers look so much better than mine?"
  -"It's because she's a girl!"
• "You can't use a drill press to create a keyed shaft!"
  -"I reject your reality and substitute my own"
• You know, there's such a thing as too much spirit...
• We met a rookie team once... unfortunately they thought the robot was to be built during competition!
• Driver: "The robot doesn't work"
  Programmer: "But it worked less than 20 seconds ago!"
  Driver: "Look (flexes controls through all positions)"
  Suddenly, the robot (which was lagging), flies off the bridge!
  Programmer: "I call lag..."
• At our team banquet after the competition:
  Mentor: "Why weren't you there for the awards ceremony"
  Student: "Well, we decided that we couldn't have our dinner and have HALO party, so something had to go"
  In reality, our coach who drove the bus had to leave early.
• Student: So we have a mill, but no cutters, and a lathe, but no parting tool. It's there for looks right?
• Student: So we're building a minibot deployer for a minibot that doesn't exist.
• Student 1: "Where did you put the 7/16 wrench?"
  Student 2: "I left it inside the robot"
  Student 1: "During a match!!!"
• Student 1: Look at these chopsticks I made using the sander and jigsaw! Now I can eat.
  Take out is popular here.
• Student 1: "You know, the robot looks sort of like a Dalek"
  (a few minutes later) "wait, what do you mean you don't watch Dr Who!"
• Is this an original problem, surely it's been solved on Chief Delphi!
• Student 1: "You're late, the pizza is cold."
  Student 2: "No problem, I'll just use the shrink ray (heat gun)"
• To spirit person: "Why are our shirts black this year? When they were yellow, you couldn't see the grease stains!"
• To programmer: Dividing by 0 will not make your robot self-aware, but it will make you feel stupid.

I could go on for a forever, but there's this thing called time that keeps interfering. It's more obvious during build season.

[Gregor]

Originally Posted by daniel_dsouza

Our safety manager isn't allowed to use the power tools, because he used a drill as a pointing device.

~Facepalm~

[Wayne Doenges]

Here's something I heard but it wasn't during build season;
"The lowly snowflake is very fragile, but look at what they can do when they stick together"

[bardd]

Too many to choose from...
My personal favorive:
-"Lets put Adriana Lima's picture on the robot so the other drivers get distracted!"
-"We can't, it's illegal to interfere the driver's actions."
-"They can drive with their left hand..."

[dellagd]

Originally Posted by bardd

Too many to choose from...
My personal favorive:
-"Lets put Adriana Lima's picture on the robot so the other drivers get distracted!"
-"We can't, it's illegal to interfere the driver's actions."
-"They can drive with their left hand..."

Oh geez...

[Walter Deitzler]

Talking to a FTC freshman:

Me: "Hey J! Are you going to build the best robot ever IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD!"

J: Sure, it will be a box with an arm, but sure.

[Conor Walsh]

What a mentor said to me after taking apart the drive train gearboxes about 10 times for adjustments:

"He is geary and small,
and doesn't work well at all.
He is your best Friend."

[Jenn Feathers]

Originally Posted by daniel_dsouza

• Student 1: "You know, the robot looks sort of like a Dalek"
  (a few minutes later) "wait, what do you mean you don't watch Dr Who!"

Who doesn't watch Doctor Who! I'm thinking about building a Dalek this FRC season

[dictionaria13]

Less of a quote than a story, and it happened at Champs this year, but it still fits the spirit of the thread.


This year at St Louis, the girls of the High Tekerz all wore matching purple tutus to Roboprom. The next morning, one of the guys decided that he wanted to wear one of the tutus as a spirit thing. (This is not odd behavior from him.) So I loaned him mine. Then, he decided he'd let us do his hair. We gave him a hair bow, and then, as we were waiting for the elevator, I decided I'd braid his hair.

So, to paint the picture for you (and this is important to the story), he was kneeling in front of me so that I could braid (sadly, his hair was just barely too short for normal braids, and I can't French braid), and we had our backs to the hallway.

Suddenly, an FLL mom walked up. She probably noticed the tutu and not much else, because she said, in an "isn't that darling" voice, "Oh, she looks so... Oh." The second "Oh" was in a rather different tone of voice, because we turned around, and the rest of the pieces fell into place. Cue general laughter.

She thought it was as funny as we did, and we had almost persuaded her to French braid his hair when the elevator came. To this day, we still give the guy a bad time about it. The End.

[Aroki]

Originally Posted by daniel_dsouza

[*]Our safety manager isn't allowed to use the power tools, because he used a drill as a pointing device.

So 1787 isn't the only team that made the least-safe person on the team safety captain?

[MARS_James]

Originally Posted by Aroki

So 1787 isn't the only team that made the least-safe person on the team safety captain?

On 1523 ours is safe she just forgets to wear closed toed shoes, bring hair ties, and she sometimes doesn't pay attention when walking into a room. Sadly she isn't the most unsafe person on the team............ that belongs to a mentor

[enrique]

I think the one I heard most on our team is "If it fits, it ships"

[CrazyHorse]

Our team captain and oldest, "wisest" member: "Lithium grease doesnt taste that bad, especially since my tongue is now numb."

"Who's idea was it to take a week off from robotics?"
"well, that looks nothing like the cad i just did.."
"thats what she said"
*Playing DeadMou5 and other dubstep while working* Head mentor "Can we turn this stuff off? its proven it will make us lose. Lets listen to AC/DC instead. Yeah thats a good idea"
AND MY ALL TIME FAVORITE:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...notif_t=l ike
(for those that cannot view, on a list of what we needed to accomplish, "replace pneumatic bolts, because Lance hacksawed through them")

[MechEng83]

A collective quote from several of my veteran team members:

Build season is like a child:
You wait expectantly for it for 9 months.
You're super excited when it finally comes.
You have a few, but can't really answer which one is your favorite.
You pour lots of time and money into it.
It's a lot of work and very tiring.
At some point, you become really mad at it and frustrated, wondering "what was I thinking"
Then when it's gone, you miss it and wish it would come back.

[JosephC]

Person 1: If it fits it ships.
Person 2: For a low flat rate.

This applies to EVERY situation you can think of.

Example 1: We were attaching a manipulator to the back of our OCCRA robot.
Example 2: Making a battery box
Example 3: deciding on the amount of pizza to buy