Funny Pit Announcments 2006

[Tytus Gerrish]

179 sent one of our noobs to get Claymore Mines from small parts

[JVGazeley]

Originally Posted by artdutra04

The metric crescent wrench thing is a practical joke. Since crescent wrenches have adjustible jaws, they are neither Imperial nor Metric, but rather the subject of more freshman jokes than you can shake a stick at.

I thought as much but we tend to use metric tools, few imperial allen keys or anything in our pits... Thus if anyone will have a metric instrument, we probably will. First thing I've done at the start of the build season the last 2 years was convert all the size and weight restrictions into metric as accurately as possible...

[DaveA412]

lets see ive heard teams ask for a 10/32 or 8/32 bit a flux capicitor in which we brought over a block of wood to them and we asked for a banana a couch and $ to register for nationals cause we didnt expect to go

[Taylor]

Originally Posted by DaveA412

lets see ive heard teams ask for a 10/32 or 8/32 bit a flux capicitor in which we brought over a block of wood to them and we asked for a banana a couch and $ to register for nationals cause we didnt expect to go

Yeah, I gotta admit, I got fooled on that one. After we tangled with 45 and let loose some of their magic smoke at BMR, some kids went to their pits to see if they were okay. Andy Baker (bless his heart) said they needed three 10/32 bolts - we tore our pit apart looking for some.


::grumble::


Oh, well, as a teacher/sponsor I don't need to know anything - that's what engineers are for. As long as I can remember the number for Papa John's and drive the happy bus....

Now where did I put that board stretcher....

[Tim Baird]

Originally Posted by hillale

Here's a good one, "Does anyone have any elbow grease?" or "Does anyone have any headlight fluid?"

Are you still looking for some elbow grease?
http://kalecoauto.com/index.php?main...oducts_ id=32

[JamesBrown]

Often at BAE the pit announcer would misread 10-32 as 10/32

it took me a little while to realize that teams were looking for metric bolts not just using obscure fractions.

[KenWittlief]

10-32 screw (bolt) is a #10 size with 32 threads per inch

[SamC]

Well i am the new guy on my team (the only rookie member) and i only got asked to request a Shop-Vac... i guess they were being nice to me....(thats never good if they treat the new guy nice) or they're saving it all up for nationals!

[JamesBrown]

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

10-32 screw (bolt) is a #10 size with 32 threads per inch

Thats what they intended to have announced they announced ten thirty seconds instead that is what I thought was funny.

[Alex Burman]

The Boston pit announcer was the best

"Why doing you walk through the jungle between the hours of 7 and 10?
Because thats when the elephants jump out of trees.
Why do beavers have flat tails?
Because they walk through the jungle between the hours of 7 and 10."

[lukevanoort]

We had a great pit announcer at VCU, God was doing it! At the end of one of the days God came on to tell us that anything left in the stands wouldn't be there tomorrow, followed closely by God again (this time female) telling us something else.

[Vince lau]

Originally Posted by Kims Robot

We <3 The Boston Regional Pit Announcer!! She was SOOO Awesome! haha. She did (with a straight face!) ask for a flux capacitor for us... she was by far the best pit announcer I have heard in my 10 years in FIRST! (you should all recruit her for your events!! hehe).

She would say things like:
"If you are in the pits clap your hands once... if you can hear me clap your hands twice... if you are wondering why everyone is clapping LISTEN UP!"

or just before the awards ceremony "If you can hear me clap your hands once... if you can hear me clap your hands twice... if you can hear me, you are wrong [get out of the pits]!"

Or she would tell bad jokes until we would leave the pits at the end of the night!

We gave her an award (a poof ball cut in half) as our favorite pit announcer ever

i think we have the same pit announcer at GTR

[Hiteak]

At FLR, our team was looking for our poof balls that we lent out.

The Announcer said:

"Team 1930 would like their balls back. If anyone has seen team 1930's balls can you please return them"

It was really funny how the announcer said it. It reminded my team of the classic SNL sketch.

[KillerCows456]

Today at Las Vegas Regional. A team asked for Toothpaste and a hose clamp. Over the course of the practice day there were over 50 calls to assist team 555 with something.
Also in New Jersey Regional we had one of team members paged as Kidney San Martian.

[hallk]

"Have you seen a green sharpie" after a kid loaned it out and never got it back.
Other good ones: transparent Al and non-bullet proof plexi