"Quotes" that were said during build season

[Eria4044]

"All we have to do is make our thing longer." - our VeX captain, referring to the ball-collecting arm on the Vexbot.

[ICE MAN]

Hey didn't you just rebuild the transmission. Yeah I did. Then what are all those screws there for. Crap.

[Storcky]

By me when getting change at a fundraiser:
"$3.50 from a 10. That's 5 1 50, right?"

[Storcky]

I was trying to wake up our coach to ask her a question:
"Steph wake up you evil knigit!"

After I recently injured myself:
"Our Safety Captain broke her foot!"

[gizmoman1089]

MENTOR: "did you know that motors run on smoke?"

ME: "No they don't"

MENTOR: "yes they do, cause when the smoke comes out, they don't work anymore"

[379Robocat]

This isn't really a quote but a little prank I played on my team. We were at the philly regionals and going into saturday we were in 5th place. I talked with the other advisors and they wanted to do it but couldn't keep a straight face. So I get on the bus and I was like listen up guys I have some bad news. The head referee called last night and they had found something illegal on our robot while doing our inspection for finals. They weren't sure so they didn't say anything at the time but confirmed it and then called us. They said we have been DQ. Then silence filled the bus. Some were about to cry and then some made some quotes.."So does this mean we can go home." and "Does this mean we don't have to scout?" Dead silence for about five mins and then someone was like hey it's april fools day and me totally forgetting denied it until I looked at my phone and realizing it was. I convinced them again that I was telling the truth. Finally I walked back up front and then told them I was joking. The silence was broken and we advisors got a good laugh out of it but the kids it took them a minute to get over it.

[Michelle Celio]

Me: Have you checked my teams website, I changed the titles on the team history page to be darker

Adam Richards : No, I don't check your team page everyday

Me: Oh, well I do, I need to see if something has changed.

Adam Richards: Uh..Michelle...you edit the page

Me: Oh yeah..

[Renee Becker-Blau]

(In the pit watching our robot in the competition) "Look that us....dead....right there...."

"hey guys where's Caboose??" (Caboose is a poof ball that we lost, so it anyone found a green and black poof ball named Caboose contact me)

"So if we pitch in our robot, the cart, and one of our team members, we can get your robot???" - our team
"No not really.."- other team
".......are you sure???"- our team

"Who said worm drives in the first place?"

[santosh]

Me- "So what happened out there" (to a team we mentor)
1848- "We ran the robot in the wrong direction during autonomous and the battery got disconnected..."

"WHAT!?! WHAT?!?! WHAT?!?! We are redoing the shooter again?.. Oh WHAT?!?! We are redoing the robot again. This is the 4th time"

[amos229]

NEVER GO DOWN THE RAMP

[ScoutingNerd175]

Originally Posted by amos229

NEVER GO DOWN THE RAMP

This applied to our robot as well, although I don't think we learned the lesson very well...

"Do we have enough weight left for pneumatics?"

then later

"Is it possible to cut enough holes in the robot to weight reduce 8 lbs?"

[StephLee]

Originally Posted by amos229

NEVER GO DOWN THE RAMP

Followed by a smack to the back of the head...

[DevilChild]

Our team has a tradition where any memorable quotes are submitted to our team website, www.rvr87.org, and this year the number of submissions soured. We now have over 200. They are hilarious, and if anyone wants/needs to have one explained, they can pm me.

[Peter Matteson]

Originally Posted by amos229

NEVER GO DOWN THE RAMP

I like that but its counter to the standard advice I give to our drivers since I started mentoring in 2003. I always remind them:

Drive it like you stole it! We'll put it back together for the next match.

This year our base driver took me up on it coming off the ramp so fast the bot was parrallel to the ground a few times. That'll teach me. (Smacks self in forehead) Luckily we built a sturdy bot to handle it, when we modified the drivetrain slightly after Winter Warzone when I saw what we would go through.

[efoote868]

(from some adult at each competition)

"RAMMING IN AUTONOMUS MODE?!?!?!!? thats not even a rule is it!"
yeah, our robot was so fast it could scream across the field in 2 seconds, fly up the ramp, and hit the other alliance's wall so hard that their controllers are knocked off the shelf, and hit the other driver's knees...

oh, and then theres the
can you tone the robot's speed down a bit? i can't handle driving with it
the programmers got a good kick out of that one