"Quotes" that were said during build season

[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..

[Shiny1629]

after listening to Blood Hound Gang
ME: i want a boyfriend so i can call him Cookie.
after a pause
ME: I CAN CALL MESHACH COOKIE!!!!!!!-Meshach is the name of our robot.

On the bus to Nationals
ME: I'm gonna turn around and watch the road go backwards-i have no idea what i meant to say
To answer a team members question i intended to say sorta/so-so. it came out ish-ish.

[travis48elite]

"Never Give in, Never give up!"

"You wrote the CNC code wrong!"

"Paco catch the poof balls while we test the shooter."

"Sleep is for the weak!"

"Sleep?, What is sleep?"

[Sila741]

"We need to know when to bring the adult female!" At a team meeting, while discussing when people could actuality come to the lab so we could organize it with mentors.

[sheltie234]

"Those bloody servos are going to be the bane of my existence!"

[Loco4Robots]

My favorite had to be...

"You actually returned the drill?"
"Yeah"
"Is there an award for that? That is a first time occurance."

[stuntman551]

team 521's most common thing said during duild. What could have been done to prevent this.

[Dan Richardson]

"Robby You should be wearing your safety glasses while we are testing the shooter. " ... " Dan poof balls don't fit your EYE!! "

When talking to the team about talking with judges.

" When the judges ask you what you learned this season just tell them you learned how to do a lot of things the wrong way. "

When describing what we had available to build our robot...

" Yeah well we got a drill press last week oh and a chopsaw. "... " Chopsaw? " .. " Chopsaw... "

" OK so we are all here and we've got the game and the kit of parts.. now where do we build the robot?" .... " Well I guess you could use my garage temporarily until we find a place. " ( Famous Last words )

" Dan you look like Walking Death. "

Competition hosted some funny ones too..

" So what happend? Why did we stop moving ? " .. " The battery died I think we have a short. " .. " Ohh few I thought it was something mechanical, luckily I dont' do wires. "

[Sharkbyte]

"This part is worth more than you." "It's a 10-dollar motor!" "It's STILL worth more than you!" -- from early on in the robotics season

Plus, the never-ending battle over whether it is a software or mechanical problem (I say that it it ALWAYS software, since I'm one of the people who has to fix the robot when it breaks)

[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?"