Favorite Robotics Quotes 2004

[Iain McLeod]

"Robotics made me fat!" - Said at applebee's after LI regional

[Ian Mackenzie]

When asked how fast a pneumatic cylinder would lift our wheel assembly:

"How fast will it go?"
"Well, not BANG, but definitely WHOOF."

[Greg Ross]

Originally Posted by ejthe4th

...this one was actually a fraudian slip...

Hmm, fraud for Freud... Is that a Freudian slip?

[Alaina]

814 actually kept a list of quotes from build season...

"Great, now all I need to know is the square root of 3!" -- Greg (when trying to make a hexagon base for the mobile goal)

"Posey! Get your fingers out of there!" -- Anthony teaching Posey how to use the grinder

"I get yelled at when I touch things..." -- Anthony

"I'm not even going to try. I'm just going to wait until I screw up." -- Fred trying to get into the quote book

"Alaina, strip for me...I mean...strip these wires." -- Kevin

"Whoa! This sprocket is way lighter than this one!" -- Max holding two sprockets of equal size
"Max, one of them has holes in it" -- Me
"Oh. I totally forgot about that." -- Max

[ZZII 527]

List of 527's best qutoes of 2004:

Mentor: "It's too much heavy."

-"There's something wrong with the code."
-"The code was working when I left, and nobody else changed it since then."
-"Well we'll have to fix the code."

"So the idea is to fix all mechanical errors with software errors?"

FIRST Crew Member hands me several nuts, bolts, and washers after a match..."I think these are yours."

[TheShadow]

"It wasn't me, I didn't do it, you can't prove anything!"~ Everyone on Team 66 at one time or another.

"Eww...Doritos cause cancer"
"Oh well, pass the cancer please"
And so Doritos have become known as cancer on 66.

[BetsyTheMuffin]

Originally Posted by gwross

Hmm, fraud for Freud... Is that a Freudian slip?

It's TRUE, anyways.

Best quote I can remember was at regionals: "Your misguided sense of chivalry just cost me a shoe, moron!"

I might be biased, though, since I said it. (It did make sense in context.)

[Karthik]

Here's an oldie but a goodie that was uttered more than a few times during the elimination rounds in Long Island.

"Ugly can win"

Those who saw matches 2 and 3 of the finals will understand completely. Final scores of 35-30 and 35-15. It wasn't pretty, but it sure was sweet.
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I just found this one in my journal from January 19th, right when Ian Mackenzie and I (mostly Ian) were finishing the design of our gearboxes.

"Ian hasn't slept for 34 hours. In this time he has threatened my life about 6 times. This is not a positive ratio."

I guess that's what happens when you live with someone who you work with on a FIRST team.

[Vivelation]

a couple of the many conversations had on this subject (better quotes later when I can actually find them):

"I've gained so much weight because of build..."
"Well what do you expect? It's the GRT 15. Instead of gaining 15 lbs freshman year in college, we gain 15 lbs every time build comes around."
"... That's so true! Man, I have to stop eating lunch and dinner here."

[later on in the build period]
"I haven't weighed myself recently but I can just feel the weight gain."
"'Cause of pants?"
"Oh my god! Yes!"

[still later on in build]
"I have to get new pants... Darn GRT 15."
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh wait, actually, I do too... Want to go shopping this weekend?"

Those aren't exact, but they're close enough.

[edomus]

"why ride a bike when you could ride a trike?!"

[Bridgette]

"Did you bring your gracious professionalism?" -Me reading sign by the entrance to the field at BAE
"I think we left it in the pit. Somebody's gonna have to run and go get it." - Kevin, 121's driver.

Well I thought it was funny.

[JVN]

Originally Posted by Karthik

Here's an oldie but a goodie that was uttered more than a few times during the elimination rounds in Long Island.

"Ugly can win"

No complaints here.
Pretty robots playing ugly.

[Matt]

Here is a couple that we used a lot.

"It's only temporary unless it works."
"Blame the freshman" When things would go wrong you have to blame the freshman for the error.
"It's close enough for governments work or it's close enough for the shop this size." We said that one quite a bit.

[Rpifirst]

Last year we played with allot of carcinogens (sp?). and we called one person now the team operations leader cancer guy.

Originally Posted by TheShadow

"It wasn't me, I didn't do it, you can't prove anything!"~ Everyone on Team 66 at one time or another.

"Eww...Doritos cause cancer"
"Oh well, pass the cancer please"
And so Doritos have become known as cancer on 66.

[Vivelation]

talking to the printer: "You better work. [incoherent muttering] What the?! Don't make me eat you!" And now it has a smiley face sticker that says "I failed today!" on it, when in fact, it actually fails most of the times we try to print something.

"Go 'way or I'll eat you like the orc that I am."

"At least we're being productive in the middle of not being productive!"