Your Funniest FIRST Experience

[Mike Ciance]

Originally Posted by Will Hanashiro

the funniest happening this season occured at or end of the year banquet... to our mascot (a middle schooler who is the younger bro of an alumni). every year somebody plays a prank on this poor kid...

this year, some one poured some hot sauce into his coke when he wasnt looking!!! he went through a series of 50 facial expressions in a matter of seconds, and the whole restauraunt busted out laughing... it was hilarious.

goes good with your team name, FIRE

[Joe Matt]

Here at Sparky 384, one thing that sets us appart is the hilarious situations and events we find ourselves in, along with how we get out of them. Here are just some of the greatest (as in you had to be there funny) and just hilarious moments (like when we crowed surfed our team head into a trash can at VCU). Here are just a few that *I* know about.

-Ax & Shaving cream one guy on our team. Just won't mention his name on the board. It got his hair messed up AND some on his PowerBook. We're too evil...

-Daring kids on 1086 to take down 10 cups of Beverly at the Coke Museum. He didn't finnish. tehehehehe......

-Me flipping over Mr. Ivey over my sholder on the bus to get back our human players 5 point ball. After that, everyone went into a rage and beat him.

-Our team head telling us all we *had* to be up at 5am to go to the pits to get everything there and get a place in line. Needless to say, we improvised quite a bit, and walking with tons of girls at 5am was rather ammusing.

-Durring the build season in 2004, we all bought ice cream from DairyQueen. I'll leave your imagination to sum up the rest.

-2003 Champs, we were grounded on Friday night (that's why you saw NO ONE from 384 at Six Flags on Friday) and one room put all the beds up and played vollyball in the room.

-2004 after party. There was extra ice water and cups, needless to say, we had loads of wet mentors and students afterwards....

There are more, just don't want to get them in trouble. Plus, I have a really lousy memory....

[Lisa Perez]

YES FOR ICE FIGHTS!

After one build night, a bunch of us decided to go to Olive Garden. Three guys on our team try to see who can drink the most Coke. So, after about the 6th one each, our waiter comes back, bewildered that they've even gotten that far. And after the 7th, he just gave us a pitcher and wished us good luck. I think it was a donation from the restaurant, I don't really remember seeing it on the bill

[Richomundo]

Originally Posted by Lisa Perez

YES FOR ICE FIGHTS!

After one build night, a bunch of us decided to go to Olive Garden. Three guys on our team try to see who can drink the most Coke. So, after about the 6th one each, our waiter comes back, bewildered that they've even gotten that far. And after the 7th, he just gave us a pitcher and wished us good luck. I think it was a donation from the restaurant, I don't really remember seeing it on the bill

nice i did that one time and every one was burping up fizz

[phrontist]

I'm fairly certain that if the Atlanta Hotels Sydicate ever finds this thread, we're finished gentlemen. That being said I'll add my own fond reccollections from this, my rookie year:

1) One day sitting in the shop, we we're discussing some hairbrained scheme that required a 9v battery with low internal resistance. Let's watch...

Teammate: What we need is a really 9v battery that can handle a helluva lot of amperage draw.

Me: Like a car battery or something. But that would be a really weird car battery...

Teammate: *chuckles* Yeah, like a russian car battery!

Me: In Soviet Russia, Battery is limited by YOUR INTERNAL RESISTANCE!!!

Everyone in Earshot: Muhahaha!

2) Well, the contest for funniest moment in this last build season is 0wned by: When Robots Attack!!!

Seriously, check out that link :-)

[Billfred]

Probably the funniest experience I had was playing Taboo with 433. It was Bryan (our driver), Phil (our now-alumni arm driver--when we had an arm), and myself, plus about five Firebirds. We went from the team social until some odd hour, when Phil split. Then all of us pretty much split.

[MikeDubreuil]

Originally Posted by phrontist

2) Well, the contest for funniest moment in this last build season is 0wned by: When Robots Attack!!!

Seriously, check out that link :-)

<mentor_mode>That could have hurt someone or damaged your robot. If that ever happens again, just remove power from the Operator Interface and your robot will stop moving. </mentor_mode>

That was pretty funny. No programmer should have to exert that much physical activity. We weren't designed for it.

[Melissa Nute]

At nationals in 2002, 2 of my teammates and myself walked around the three All Star Hotels attempting to find some guy that would do the truffle shuffle (from the Goonies) for us. Needless to say, no guy would do that. We had some really sad attempts from some of the boys from "chicago" on the floor above us. But we did get some "Canadian" Mountain Dew out of it.

At KSC in 2002 we had some fun with one of the girls on our team who was dirty. Needless to say, she was forced to become clean afterwards.

[Spaztik Duck]

On thursday night of regionals pit and flight go out for dinner. At the Richmond regional after a long, hard day in the pit we decided to get Arby's sandwhiches for dinner. Heidi and I ordered the same thing, but her sandwhich came with sauce on it even tho we both asked them to take it off. Dave took this as a great chance to explain to us the 'theory of sauce relativity'. He spent a good 5 minutes explaining to me that before it could have less sauce my sandwhich had to first reach 'sauce equillibrium'. We still joke about it, he even gave me demonstrations with sauce packets. All I wanted to do was eat my sandwhich.

[MissInformation]

Originally Posted by Spaztik Duck

On thursday night of regionals pit and flight go out for dinner. At the Richmond regional after a long, hard day in the pit we decided to get Arby's sandwhiches for dinner. Heidi and I ordered the same thing, but her sandwhich came with sauce on it even tho we both asked them to take it off. Dave took this as a great chance to explain to us the 'theory of sauce relativity'. He spent a good 5 minutes explaining to me that before it could have less sauce my sandwhich had to first reach 'sauce equillibrium'. We still joke about it, he even gave me demonstrations with sauce packets. All I wanted to do was eat my sandwhich.

That whole dinner was hilarious. And the "theory of sauce relativity" really did make sense, in a Dave sort of way.

I don't really know what my funniest experience is, there have been so many good ones. The whole Dave says "That's Pimp!" thing is high on the list, and bowling after dinner at Arbys and the game we played during bowling, the Kyle contest... Of course, also very funny was the "adults" taping The Crocodile to Dave's door... Dave opened his door before they could put the note on it that said "I'm yours for the night." Don't ask about the crocodile, it's just wrong. Very wrong.


Heidi

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as Blue says, "There is no crocodile."

[Spammy Badame]

FIRST is great, i've had a ton of fun experiences, and a lot of them were funny.

Last year, at nationals, I wrote down 2 1/2 pages of totally random quotes. Reading them back to people and just watching thier faces as i read them was just hilarious. And since all the quotes were random and about different things no body really knew what they were about. i still have them, and if i ever just want a laugh i go and read through them again.

This year, at the UCF regional, i got stuck in a life preserver. Kind of a long story, but i won't get into it here. And Brittany and I jumped in the pool with clothes on, just because somebody said we wouldn't do it. It was really funny thinking back on it. We went around to different peoples rooms and they were all laughing at us. and it was kinda windy, so that made it kinda cold out.

I have so many more funny experiences, but i can't really say i have one imparticular that was the funniest... except maybe when Barry, tiff, and I went down the escalators when barry wrote on his hand that he didn't wash them. that was absolutely hilarious. That's it for the time being, but i'll come back and post again if i think of something even funnier.

[Mike Ciance]

During the build season, while me and my friend Bharat (Teknobrahma) were trying to program the arm, he put a program in and the arm started spinning around and around. Mr. Cokeley said "we at least it's moving" and Bharat said "But... it's not actually programmed to move yet!" I have that as one of my away messages on AOL now, i love that quote so much.

[Joshua May]

Originally Posted by afflictionblade

During the build season, while me and my friend Bharat (Teknobrahma) were trying to program the arm, he put a program in and the arm started spinning around and around. Mr. Cokeley said "we at least it's moving" and Bharat said "But... it's not actually programmed to move yet!" I have that as one of my away messages on AOL now, i love that quote so much.

That reminds me. All through the SoCal competition this year, we were trying to get our arm working. (OK, we were building the arm) But we could never get the arm to work, no matter what I did with the programming, the motors wouldn't turn on. But then when i took the bot out onto the field and turned it on, the arm started working! But It was on constant reverse and was pulling it into itself, so I had to tear out the PWM before it destroyed itself! But we still never got the arm to work after that.

[Mike Ciance]

Originally Posted by HHSJosh

That reminds me. All through the SoCal competition this year, we were trying to get our arm working. (OK, we were building the arm) But we could never get the arm to work, no matter what I did with the programming, the motors wouldn't turn on. But then when i took the bot out onto the field and turned it on, the arm started working! But It was on constant reverse and was pulling it into itself, so I had to tear out the PWM before it destroyed itself! But we still never got the arm to work after that.

while we were trying to figure out how to make the prototype arm work, and it kept spinning aroudn in the same direction, it eventually jammed the pot and unscrewed itself from it. we were programming for a couple hours before we noticed

[Joshua May]

Originally Posted by afflictionblade

while we were trying to figure out how to make the prototype arm work, and it kept spinning aroudn in the same direction, it eventually jammed the pot and unscrewed itself from it. we were programming for a couple hours before we noticed

Yeah, it's amazing how these robots go haywire and self-destruct.