"Quotes" that were said during build season

[lgphoneeric]

More of a funny story, but still relevant.

After walking back through the tunnel to get to our pit after a match, we see Will.I.Am getting a funnel cake at the tunnel entrance.

3 of our drive team took a picture and continued on to the pit. But the 4th was also pushing the robot,

After he returns to the pit and we talk about Will.I.Am for a moment I turn to Student 4 and say, "Where is the robot?"

After a embarrassing moment and a "You had One Job" comment, he hurries back to retrieve our robot from the funnel cake place.

Our lead Mentor laughed after we told him what happened after we were back on the bus.

[Johnnybukkel]

Fellow mechanical student is looking for his zip-ties.
I grab electrical's bin of zip-ties.
"How many of these in here are yours?"
".... Gosh darn it electrical NOT ALL OF THE ZIP-TIES ARE YOURS!"

[kristinweiss]

Originally Posted by Amo10

"I could fit like 10 dead bodies in this" (the bag and tag bag)

This only gets better.... I asked him later on why the bodies had to be dead and his answer was so that they would stack better! Apparently Breaking Bad can teach you some usefully life lessons...

[AsherCrane]

Two of my team mates and I were sitting in a corner. I said "Why are we all sitting next to each other?" Kelly said "Group mentality." I said "Nik is an introvert, I am insane... why would you want to get group mentality of that?"

[Shrub]

We were driving back from a regional once (I know it doesn't count) and I spoke in my sleep the whole way back to school (I was riding shotgun) about making the Kazakstani Embassy a sponsor and making our robot out of potassium.

Also, one of our team members is very well known for always tipping over the container of zipties we have, and when I put my hair up zipties are usually placed in it (or in my braids), so there was the usual cry of "ZIPTIES!" once every few days of build (especially towards the end).

[ekovacs]

Student 1: What exactly is a business plan?

Student 2: Draw a piggy bank with arrows pointed at it.

[AndrewPospeshil]

"It'll be fine," "it won't matter," "it's not a big deal," "relax, it'll work," and "whatever, don't worry about it" are, I'm sure, heard at least once a day by any team. My favorite was from a Marketing/Chairman's mentor: "we touch young kids from elementary to high school age." Touch as in "affect dramatically," relax. She's never lived that down, though haha

[thegnat05]

The most common thing said on our team was, "like they say at NASA, good enough!"

[Christopher149]

It's not build season, but I can't not share it:

I was watching My Cat from Hell, and they had a cat named Foley. He had night terrors where he would throw himself off of elevated places he was sleeping on.

And so: "Foley! Freeze!"

[belle94]

I've been writing down funny stuff people say since the summer of 2011 (and I know a lot of funny people) so this is my new favourite thread. Some of my favourites:

One of our head mentors: "That's our job as mentors: to stand in the corner and laugh."

The same mentor: "I'm a genius. I'm so worth the money they pay me."
(5 minutes later) "Oh my god, I'm such an idiot. I'm so stupid."

In 2012, we were working on our bridge lowerer and we decided it needed to be 1 kilo heavier, and this was the comment one of our mentors made:
"We need to figure out a way to add weight without adding weight. Like weight with a purpose. Add a bunch of bolts."
Me: "You want to add a kilo of bolts?"

"Why does the robot spaz out when we're deploying code?"
"I think it's like it's about to die and this is its one last croak."

"If we turned the robot on now, it would be like a fake campfire."

"Let's file this. It's like digging our way out of prison with a spoon. I'm all for it!"

[Whippet]

At the regional this year, after the round of applause for the mentors during the opening ceremony, our field coach emitted the following words of wisdom:

Originally Posted by Mr. Lindner

"Thanks, guys! You couldn't have done it without me!"

[RKazmer]

At any time during the competition our lead mechanical member in the pits found a random screw or bolt
"Well that's terrifying."
And whenever our driver came back with the arm broken
"Okay does someone have a stopwatch? Old record was 6 minutes."

[dmaciel10123]

"This should, theoretically, possibly, hopefully work."

[asid61]

Every time somebody said the words "let it go" everybody started singing... ugh it was horrible. And you would be surprised at how many times that phrase was invoked.

[evanperryg]

"Did you measure it" "No, he did, I just drilled the holes" "then why don't they line up?" "well I drilled them where he measured" "No you didn't" "oh"

The team has started making a multitude of vague Space Jam references. Also, one of our mentors, a former member of 1592, has taken on a number of nicknames, including "Slick Brick" and "Steezy Beezy"