"Quotes" that were said during build season

[AndyB]

First words out of my mouth at the unveiling...

"Big.....freakin.....balls!............ who called it."

[Otaku]

"Wait, what are you guys doing?"
"Sitting in a circle and agreeing vigorously."

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"Sorry, repeat what you said. I was looking at the cheese."

[Otaku]

"This year's bot looks like Gloria and Cthulhu combined."
"Also looks like Delilah."
"It can be Cthlorilaulhu."

[basicxman]

Me (only 13 helping dad mentor): Wait...does the robot fit within size restrictions

Team member:Andy (me), stand beside the robot
<robot shorter than me>
Team member and me at the same time: we're good!

[basicxman]

member repairing under robot
Member 1 (repairing): Ahh...My back
Member 2: what!? are you sitting on something?
member 1: i don't think so...oh wait...!@#&! im laying on a hanging sprocket from the 'bot
member 2: well if you finished repairing quickly it would be on the 'bot and not under your back

[lady_raidan]

Yeah, these are defiantly original. (Also you can get these from our team’s website at www.team1980.org under "about 1980" then "team quotes".)

"Safety first! Ummm....where's the first aid kit?

"Giving up is for squares"

"Don’t do today what you can do tomorrow"

"The secret to success is to acknowledge that you have limits, but to never acknowledge that you have reached those limits."

"If you make it idiot-proof, someone will build a better idiot."

"Just wing it."

"He who lives in a glass house should look into a new house."

"Less is more."

"Idealism takes a backseat to practicality."

"Work today, be successful tomorrow."

"Don’t blow it up."

[Bsteckler]

"Ghaaaa!"
Said by another team member while luricating our gearboxes with white lithium grease...

[EricH]

From a teacher on 1135:

"I told my students that if they didn't do their homework, that" (pointing to the trackball, which was on a cabinet in the classroom used as a build area--and happened to be above my head at that point) "would be held over their heads and dropped. If more than one didn't do their homework, I'd roll it at them."

Me, in response: "Bowling!"

Same meeting: "We need to persuade something." "I'll persuade this..." (reference to the deadblow mallet)
"This is doing more damage to the hammer..." (The persuader was having trouble with the rollpin in the tranny)

[hipsterjr]

This is sad but fun.

I asked one of our animators if we would enter a safety animation?
Animator: no
Me: why not!!!????
Animator: (yelling) Because Mr. Thorp's (animation mentor) mother died!!!
Me: Oh, ok. I guess thats a good reason

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"you have to convince it to go into the hole... this bigger hammer should convince it."


"what are the animator's doing out of their closet?" (what we call their work space)

[interfect]

"It was the Gnomes."

Said every time something went wrong, or we couldn't find something.

It went on the back of out tee shirts.

[Leo]

"What happens when you have a 10 pound forklift and an 10 pound ball infront of the robot? Tippie Tippie!"

[GBIT]

I have two


"is there anyway to make our robot tip...........over...........proof?"-newbie

and

"a 2x4 is NOT 2x4 you idiot" - me

[Joe_Widen]

Joe, dont let him near the machines, he just hurt himself in the computer lab.

[Tetraman]

"Psychics Shot" - Term used to describe shooting the ball into the wall at an angle so track ball makes a turn.

[Otaku]

"That's going on Delphi."

"My blood type is caffeine."

"Christ, we're going to spend the next 5 weeks shining the 'bot. NOW LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE, GARTH!" <- Joke about how we were shining the frame with the abrasive pads we got from our 3M mentor, Garth.