FIRST Dictionary of Mispronounced Words and Strange Phrases

[neo]

Originally Posted by mftaberner

Moose Flaps - A random term for loading ramps.


"The Bunny has emerged" - ?!

I can explain these.

Along with being webmaster, I also do the electronics. I had just finished labeling all the spike relays and had started wiring up the victors. One spike is labeled "A&M Sol.", being that it controls the solenoid that shifts the AndyMark Shifter (Tangent that relates to the story: I have named all the electrical and mechanical components on the robot. The shifters ended up being Andy and Mark.) One of our mentors (Lurch, Northrop Grumman) asked what the label meant, and criticized me for it: "You should relay the information to the rest of the team when you label it like that. If I were to secretly name the wings on the B-2 the Moose, it just wouldn't make sense if I were to say that the Moose flaps have a lot of drag."

At this point, I'm on the floor. I turned from red to blue and eventually went back to wiring. The ramps from then on have been called the "Moose Flaps".

"The Bunny has emerged" has to do with the same mentor (Lurch) and the ramps kind of. Stan from Scaled Composites in Mojave brought a Tyvek suit with the ramps so we could cut and drill them without getting carbon fiber embedded in our skin/clothes. For some reason the suit had been called a bunny suit. Lurch puts it on, cuts some stuff, and gets out of the suit screaming, "THE BUNNY HAS EMERGED!!"

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by neo

One of our mentors (Lurch, Northrop Grumman, works on the B-2) asked what the label meant, and criticized me for it: "You should relay the information to the rest of the team when you label it like that. If I were to secretly name the wings on the B-2 the Moose, it just wouldn't make sense if I were to say that the Moose flaps have a lot of drag."

Any mentor named Lurch shouldn't complain about what you call parts of your robot!

[Doney_585]

I have a randome quote to add that I'm sure all of u have heard.
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"Too less sleep" - me

[Steven_585]

jajajaja - laughing in Spanish

Steph - to shove into

Prezision - acurate

Figoring - trying to understand

[Re]Firse - Backwards?

Sposicious - openly distrustful and unwilling to confide.

Oscilator - a device that uses a cathode-ray tube or similar instrument to depict on a screen periodic changes in an electric quantity, as voltage or current.

Initiation - the format of sectors on the surface of a hard disk drive so that the operating system can access them and setting a starting position

Fas - not true or correct

Demominator - Arithmetic. that term of a fraction, usually written under the line, that indicates the number of equal parts into which the unit is divided; divisor.

The words above originated from mostly one of the programmers, as the other two programmers and I were programming the robot too late into the night with a lack of sleep and food. or maybe too much food?!


And don't forget. "Betty the Awesome Panda". (Again, Lurch's words) As the arm on he bot was being tested One team member, Dan, was playing with some white board markers and was annoying Lurch (I believe) and was scolded: "Bad Panda!" which somehow evolved into "Betty the Awesome Panda".
I think it originated earlier that day but I was off in another room programming.

[DonRotolo]

Randome - a semi-sperical something somewhere.

How about "walla" or "wah-lah" - a mis-spelllled french term used as an exclamation to inspire awe. (Viola)

[DonRotolo]

Can't edit that last post, but here's a recent example.

[Tristan Lall]

Originally Posted by Don Rotolo

Viola

No!

Originally Posted by Doug G

whala

No!

It's voilà!

[synth3tk]

Originally Posted by Tristan Lall

No!

No!

It's voilà!

Just Playing! I can't think of any phrases off the top of my head, but the ones posted so far are pretty good.

[Travis Hoffman]

How about the most annoying, most aggravating, most incorrectly used words in the written English language?

your - "you are" as in "your about to lose"

you're - a possessive, as in "you're robot is falling apart"

NOTHING AGGRAVATES ME MORE THAN WHEN I SEE THAT. Massive quantities of government funding should be allocated to eradicate this evil from our midst permanently.


2nd place - its vs. it's

[synth3tk]

I dunno. Dont you think thats a bit overstated? You can also add "we're" vs. "were" to that. Just plain wrong.

Dunno [duh'·no]- Really dumb abbreviation of "Don't Know". Please avoid at all cost. It makes you sound like a retard in real life and online.

[Taylor]

Are Robot is gunna kick you're Robots but.

Sometime's, I wonder just how litarite some people is.

Getting back to the topic at hand (FIRST-inspired words):

Ham-mah = any tool used to beat an uncooperative component. The bigger the Ham-mah, the better.

Ball of Justice = given the high school mentality and the 2006 game, this is self-explanatory.

Blinky Thing = light-emitting diode

Round Toothy Thing = sprocket

Mr. ...Um... = Taylor

[Al Skierkiewicz]

I like (and have used for many years) the big and little "Chalupa" motors.