"Quotes" that were said during build season

[Bill_B]

Originally Posted by Jhultink

Last year we came up with a unit: AU, or Arbitrary Units

AU is golden all right. Astronomical unit or 93mega miles I think.

[Kingland093]

programmer "I finally embedded the self-destruct function in the scouting program!"
captain"wait.... you did what now?"

[Oblarg]

Originally Posted by FilthyArgonian

Percussive maintenance.

Our team has formalized this further:

The First Law of Mallets: A mallet is the right tool for every job, unless otherwise specified.

The Second Law of Mallets: Every tool is a mallet, though some are better mallets than others.

[killer_rabbit3]

"Google is your friend "

Nonprogrammer: "will f5 fix this?"

Nonprogrammer: "cant we do some type of super code? programmers stare him down."

"What is the robot doing? Stop it STOP IT!!"

Programmer:"Out of the programmer overlord chair!!" nonprogrammer:

"I'am not touching that code for another hour!!" :after repeating computer fails

"Stop the dashboard.... wait, WAIT!!

[mmcewen]

While zip-tying a part:
"The sound of success is that of a zip-tie being zipped the right direction".

And while trying to mount a table saw:
Mentor: (while trying to find holes to mount it with) "Whoever designed this is a schmuck."

[Gregor]

Originally Posted by Bewizardment

During the 2014 season, we have decided (because of a mispronunciation by a student) to refer to the winch mechanism on our robot as a "wench."

It's been decided that we need to use air quotes every time we talk about our wench around a referee.

[Airquotes]MAN! I hate it when the wench causes us problems![Airquotes]

[Landonh12]

Mentors and students: Hey, can we turn this thing on and drive it?
Me: I'm connecting to the D-Link and loading code.
Mentors and students: I thought code moved at the speed of light! What are you doing?!

"Give me 20 minutes and a blow torch."
-Our CAD Captain's regular response to most requests.

[Jacob Bendicksen]

"It's a little confusing what you're pitching to me."

"I thought of it at lunch."

[Exla357]

Shop Kid 1: Did you hear that aluminum shavings can give you alzheimer's if inhaled?

Shop Kid 2: No, but I heard somewhere that aluminum shavings can give you alzheimer's if inhaled.

[Jarren Harkema]

[xXhunter47Xx]

Tap my churros please.

[Martian86]

Things rarely get put back where they belong around here...

Mentor- "Go find some electrical tape."
*I take about 30 seconds to bring it to him.*
Me- "It was right where it belongs."
Mentor- "We're slipping."

[RobotDoktor]

"Can we 3d print food?"
"Why is food coming off the robot?"
"That's not failure, it's carefully disguised success."
"That got recorded on the time lapse."
"Everyone look busy!"
"I'll get four team shirts, one for every day of Championships! ('cause I'm so confident we'll make it )"

[Pi3th0n]

Mentor: "Don't get derp on any of my robots!"

Just a little bit later:

Mentor: "Ah crap, I just put derp on the robot..."
Students: "Oh no!"
Mentor: "It's ok, there's only a little bit of derp"