"Quotes" that were said during build season

[brynnanotbrenda]

Background info:
The high school has FRC, middle school had FLL. We were helping the middle schoolers build this platform, but because it was early, the only people avalible to build it were the programmers. Oh dear. Anyway, it wasn't done on time (and their robot got broken twice) and everyone was really stressed.
I was drilling, the guy next to me was tapping something.
Middle school mentor comes in, him and the high school mentor started cursing each other out. (They are also both football coaches.)
The guy next to my looks at me. "____...the tap"
The tap was broken.
"Should I tell him?"
From outside, "That's $@#$@#$@#$@#$@#$@#$@#$@#!"
"Nah, we didn't really need that."

[Cmac3082]

Quick rant:
Can we please stop playing the pronoun game in this tread? If I tell y'all that Connor on team 3082 said "don't touch that, you'll break it." Thats really ok, no one is going to steal Connor's identity and it makes it much easier to read. Referring to a person as a letter or a pronoun is just confusing that's all.

Random funny build season quote:
Me "hey Alex, what did we do yesterday, I wasn't here"
Alex "nothing very productive but we did use the elevator as a guillotine and cut a banana in half"

[Grey Mann]

"Whose pants are these?" -One of our mentors, quite late at night.

(Posted on a sticky note in the far corner of our room)
"The coders live here now. It's kind of a new arrangement"

[Jarren Harkema]

Me: "What kind of metal is that?"

Jake: *Licks* "Well it's not aluminum."

[dubiousSwain]

Adventures as lead programmer:
Billy: "What does this do?"
Me: "uhh...did i write that?"
Billy: "yeah"
Me: "thats ugly"

[fayfan]

"Steer in the rear."

[Amar Shah]

Some background: Our team uses a lot of wood glue. When people are squeamish about getting their hands dirty with it, I always tell them that if you let it dry on your hands and peel it off, it leaves your skin soft and smooth. (It does.)

Teammate: Shouldn't you be wearing safety glasses?
Me: We are gluing the chassis. We don't need safety glasses.
Teammate: What if you get glue in your eyes?
Me: Let it dry, peel it off, and it will leave your eyes really smooth.

[CoachC]

If it wont move, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacement anyway!!!

[CoachC]

The ONLY TIME you shouldn't ask "Why isn't that wire plugged in?" Is if your sitting in an electric chair!!!

[CoachC]

Coach: This is so easy, my dog could build it.
Student: Why isn't he on the build team?
Coach: He's busy tracking down wild game.
Student: So why can't he track down the parts we need?
Coach: He did. But all he has to show for is the rear bumper off the UPS delivery truck!!!

[BriteBacon]

Legend has it that Evan's laptop is still deploying the code to the robot.

[robonerd]

Last year, after viewing 469's robot up close - "Do these guys worship MacGyver, or are they just making it up as they go along?"

[M.Kong-Sivert]

"Outsource the torque."

I sent an e-mail to a guy I wanted to come over and take a look at our robot. He asked if we had a budget, where our money comes from, and if we had enough. He then asked for the address. I responded, "It's at 512 East Pierce Street, and we have sufficient funding for our needs."

I didn't realize how shady that sounded until a few minutes ago.

[M.Kong-Sivert]

Last year, a teammate was demonstrating the newly-completed ball holder for the robot, saying, "It has two inches of rolly room!"

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Cmac3082

Quick rant:
Can we please stop playing the pronoun game in this tread? If I tell y'all that Connor on team 3082 said "don't touch that, you'll break it." Thats really ok, no one is going to steal Connor's identity and it makes it much easier to read. Referring to a person as a letter or a pronoun is just confusing that's all.

We are attempting to protect the innocent... er, guilty... er, witnesses...

...From the ridicule that may or may not be applied to them by the Court of Public Opinion.

Also, some folks (obviously you aren't one of them) have an issue with having their name online without permission, and may be unavailable to get such permission. So if you use a temporary moniker to identify them within your quote (or incident), you are home free... you know who did it, we don't know specifically, they might figure it out but it's hard to trace.