"Quotes" that were said during build season

[thatmorman]

"I hate one eigth"

after messing drilling a whole for a screw on our chasis by 1/8th an inch, it cause a few problems...

[Stephi Rae]

*interviews for our rookie season summary video*

B.G.: "so... tell me about a memorable moment and how FIRST has changed you"

me...: "well this one time John Dudas and I were walking down the street..." (insane laughter)



*more interviews... in front of our robot that has fur on the "claw/jaw"...(skunkworks... go figure)*

"ooooohh fuzzy... (strokes claw) rawr... (cat-like claw motions towards camera...)"

B.G. "I'm so posting that up all around school!!"

(don't ask me how he's going to print out a video... lol)

[4throck]

A conversation involving Mechanical guys 1 and 2, and the programmer. The programmer and mechanical guy 2 are in the adjacent room. Mechanical guy 1 is playing with the laptop with all of the code on it.

M1: This computer is broken. I'm gonna fix it. By taking out the RAM.
M1 is not actually doing anything
P: Stop making fun of me.
M1: Wheeee!
M2 walks into room with M1, and immediately says:
M2: Dear lord, he's actually doing it.
P curses wildly and runs into room. She sees that nothing is wrong, and then begins to curse more, and no longer lets the laptop out of her sight.

[tseres]

the old classic:
"That wasn't supposed to happen!!!!!!"

[4throck]

"Well there's your problem"

[Skifanatic]

Dinosaurs...Blahblahblah...Big Bang...BlahBlahBlah...Now we're building robots-Kwol

[Grant Cox]

"You see what's happening is that my rod has a much larger diameter than yours --"
*we all stare at him*
"and by that I really meant NOTHING sexual, look the diameter really is bigger.."

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"What if the robots were controlled..

..through TELEKINESES"

[alex1699]

i you put a balloon on the air release then your release the air it will blow up the balloon

[laultima]

after the championships, i, as a new programmer, am fiddling with the robot code. shortly after the robot goes completely insane, almost taking out our mentor:
me: "There's apparently a big difference, when making a kill switch, in disabling user control and disabling user control AND the motors"

[silicon_ghoti]

By a programmer:
"Metal conducts heat! Metal conducts heat!"
(As he holds square pins to solder them to a PCB.)

May be already mentioned, but this was said by the pit announcer at LVR:
"Team ### as requested a flux capacitor."
(At this point half the pit bursts into laughter, then goes quite as that half explains to the other half why that was funny.)

[Joe G.]

Me to an extremely bored team member:

Me: What are you doing?
Team member: gluing pieces of metal to the ramp
Me: And I'm drilling speed holes.

Me trying to explain the robot to a non-robotics friend:
"It makes a lot more sense if you refer to 3/4ths of the parts as 'that thingy'"

"Holy.............Um, about us being here for only 5 more minutes?"
Said the day before shipdate after discovering that the wood shop class had converted our crate into storage for projects, and installed shelves.

After the first test on our elevator prototype
P1: Bad news: the little banebots motor dosen't have enough torque, any suggestions?
P2: *holds up minibike motor* eh, just stick a few of these on it.
P1: Um, weight limit?

[Brian J. R.]

Originally Posted by silicon_ghoti

May be already mentioned, but this was said by the pit announcer at LVR:
"Team ### as requested a flux capacitor."
(At this point half the pit bursts into laughter, then goes quite as that half explains to the other half why that was funny.)

And about 5-10 teams make flux capacitors out of cardboard and pneumatic tubing and bring it to the admin desk, to which the team that requested takes them and proudly displays all of them in their pit.

[AndyB]

Teacher: Now if you would have invested money in Motorola back in the 70's how much money would you have made?
Molly: Wildstang!

[HypnoticSheep]

"WD-40 is NOT a lubricant!"

"Alright, I'm turning it on. Nobody stand in front of the hook or near the wings..."

As S is putting lubricant on a rod to hold our hinges together...
Me: "Why are you lubing up that rod?"
S: "It won't fit in the hole."

As the arm starts spinning by itself...
Me to the driver: "Look! The robot's waving!"

It's an inside joke, but...
<Gollum voice> "My preeeeciooouuus!"

[luciaes]

a few of us were in the hall calling businesses for sponsorships, and we were kinda messing around and then while one of us was calling a business he said "GUYS, no more physical contact!!!!... oh no not you sir!!"