FIRST Dictionary of Mispronounced Words and Strange Phrases

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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!!"