Your Funniest FIRST Experience

[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.

[Amanda Morrison]

I've been lucky enough to have a few good FIRST experiences worth remembering:

- The Chicken Dance Bet in St. Louis
- The Beverly Incident (see below)
- My kids almost throwing me in the pool in St. Louis in 2003 (I survived only by my screaming, clawing the walls, and the hotel threatening to kick us out)
- How I met Brandon Martus (I was too afraid to talk to him. Too tall!)
- How I met JVN
- Making Andy Baker become my chauffeur at Kickoff

...and a few others worth remembering but not fit for ChiefDelphi.

Originally Posted by JosephM

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

As a senior, I had a bad, bad experience with Beverly. A few of us did.

The team from '01 thought it would be funny to tell all the '02 rookie members how 'great' the Italian soda Beverly is. They talked about it the entire build season, raising our interests. By the time we got to Florida, we had to have some.

Luckily, I had an insider that tipped me off - Beverly is a bitter, almost retching drink that is almost unbearable. I've had cough syrup taste better. From Roadside America: "Mouth-befouled veterans encourage newcomers to sample Beverly — a quinine aperitif from Italy — then laugh hysterically as the victims bulge their eyes and spit it out."

While I did try some, I knew better and expected the taste. However, some not-so-lucky kids on our team weren't aware and downed the drinks willingly. There are still bitter feelings (not quite as bitter as Beverly, though) about that incident. Later, we managed to get our hands on a two-liter of the stuff, and dared one person to drink it all. I think three people ended up sharing and finishing it, but each were nauseous afterward.

[KathieK]

Funniest FIRST experience had to be Elvis and the Shoe Stealer from the UTC New England Regional team social this year (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=26921)...

Travis Fox, the hypnotist, is terrific. We're trying to book a show with him for in November (stay tuned, Connecticut!)...

[Barry Bonzack]

Having the SPAM girls write on my hand "I do not wash my hands" and run down the many escalators in Atlanta yelling High fiiiive to the people going the opposite direction. The look on their faces when they read it after giving me five was priceless every time.

Good times. Good times.

[Joshua May]

I was just reminded of what has to be the absolute funniest moment I have experienced in FIRST. This past year, the birthday of one of our drivers was on the Saturday of the SoCal Regional. Before the regional, myself and another team member decided to kidnap her and throw her in the hotel's pool that morning. So with the help of my sister, we got into her room, I grabbed her legs and the other guy grabbed her arms, and we carried her kicking and screaming down from the 13th floor to the 5th where the pool was. On the elevator ride down, we passed by an elderly couple, who were absolutely shocked by her screaming for help, but they understood when we told them it was her birthday. Then we carried her down the LONG hallway to the pool, and I found out that this girl can KICK! She's been a swimmer through all of high school, and those legs are strong, I swear she could probably wrestle her way away from Big Mike, yeah . So we finally got her to the pool and threw her in, and she pulled the other guy in after her. It was hilarious!

[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.

[Joe Matt]

Originally Posted by Bonzack1390

Having the SPAM girls write on my hand "I do not wash my hands" and run down the many escalators in Atlanta yelling High fiiiive to the people going the opposite direction. The look on their faces when they read it after giving me five was priceless every time.

Good times. Good times.

THAT WAS YOU!

Also, in response to Dave's 'theory of sauce realtivity' me and another kid on our team came up with the 'internet nice people to bad people theory of relativity.' Basically, every good person online there is two bad pedafiles online trying to get you. They are assigned to you by your ISP.

[Lisa Perez]

We decided to pull a nice little prank on our coach . So there are lockers right outside of her room, and one of them belongs to a teammate.. I get in, they close the locker, and one of the freshman who's in on the joke goes and says "Lisa's in the locker, and she's crying because the locker's jammed now and no one can get it open!" He, of course, knew I was perfectly fine but Coach, on the other hand, didn't. I hear her eyes bugged out like no other, at least, that's according to the teammates that had been working in the CAD lab and got quite scared for me, too. So anyways, she runs outside and I'm just pounding on the locker, acting all trapped. Then my teammate opened up the locker. Sure enough, I'm okay. Coach gets this blank look on her face, then starts laughing. ::sigh:: Such good times.

[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."

[Barry Bonzack]

Originally Posted by JosephM

THAT WAS YOU!

Ha ha, Yep. I wonder many people I gave five to that day. Wonder how many of them would now recognize me as "the kid that doesn't wash his hands."

[RBrandy]

This is more of a "duh!" situation than a funny situation. Last year we had a mentor on our team who drove an old police car. He drove it down to the Midwest Regional. As the pit crew, (the rest of the team had already gone back the the hotel) drove back to the hotel we made a wrong turn so we made a U-Turn. Not knowing he was behind us, all the people in the van got worried we were going to be pulled over for it. After about a minute of anxeity, the driver of the van says "Oh, no need to worry, it's just Andy"

[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.

[Spaztik Duck]

Oh dear, last-evening dinner at Dave's, us all [me, sean, dave, and our new captain kyle] trying to explain the theory of sauce relativity to Dave's youngest son. It got brought up all evening long.

And the line of the night... 'Its all relative'