"Quotes" that were said during build season

[Aroki]

Originally Posted by Taylor1023

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

Someone on my team did that at competition...sadly he wasn't joking

[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]

Originally Posted by chiefsfan67

At a demonstration at Union Station in KC.
We are working on the robot in the pit.
A young son and his father walk by. The son says to his father
"Daddy, thats a DEAD robot"

Seconds later an uninsulated wire touches the frame and begins to smoke... REALLY bad.

Crew member yells "SMOKE"
Another says "Turn it off"
Another "Just unplug the battery"
All of us once power is cut off "DEAD robot!"

So, you met Damian.

[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

[zcoops97]

A quick excerpt from the GRRban dictionary:
Easy Simba
Just goin out an givin her, ya know
ooo, machu picchu
and my favorite:
bye buddy hope you find your dad.....bye mr. narwhal
(from elf)

[Spectare]

Originally Posted by Aroki

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

That would be a resounding "no".

My computer: ........... *backspace* *backspace* *backspace*
Me: Hey! We finally got a connection to the router!
Me: Nope, just lost connection again.
Me: *goes to look at router, sees mentor plugging and unplugging power repeatedly*
Me: WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?
Mentor: Oh, sorry, I thought that would make the robot boot up faster.

[DampRobot]

While a couple of senior members and I were working on the mill, our semi-affiliated FTC team was also working in the shop. We overhear this from a rather eccentric programmer type, directed to their mentor:

"Mr. Shannon, the wheels are round!"

After laughing our heads off, we began to wonder how that could possibly be a concern worth expressing.

[jeremy callahan]

Originally Posted by Jherbie53

I'm wondering what some of the more interesting "quotes" or phrases said this year. It doesn't matter who said them, a student, a teacher, or a mentor. One of mine this year was "Ball chunk colorer person". That was said when someone asked why i was coloring a ball with a sharpie.

How about the "you know your addicted to first when..."

You had a dream you saw what the 2013 game was when no one else has (:

[Eagleeyedan]

"If the world really wants an Iron Man suit all you have to do is implement one into the FRC game and 6 weeks later, you'd have plenty of prototypes to choose from"

[Chokinghazard44]

"Oh man, I like that shaft."

[math311]

"The robot bit me!"
-said while bleeding after shin scraped against side panel of our t-shirt cannon bot.

"We need red and blue nail polish... to mark the bags of encoders"
-Mentor after long day of switching out 250's that were mistakenly mounted instead of 360's.

"Karl stuck the multimeter in the wall, and it's smoking."

[Zuelu562]

"Remember, the robot is only as stupid as you are"
shortly after, a veteran nearly sideswiped two mentors
"SEE!"