pic: Team 1337's Pneumatic ROFLcopter

Coredesat · #1 11-03-2008, 19:30

wilsonmw04 · #2 11-03-2008, 19:35

FYI: Pit admin did not appreciate the prank...

I had to explain the joke to them, heck i even looked for team 1337 until I realized it was part of the joke.

[soapbox]just a friendly reminder to other teams tempted to try this again: the volunteers are taking time off from their busy lives to help you out. They are just as tired as you are and they my not understand why you are "pranking" them. I think it would have been much better for you to just say, "thanks for helping out!" [/soapbox]

Tim Arnold · #3 11-03-2008, 19:43

I lol'd.

EDIT: Morgan corrected me, I actually lqtm'd.

Coredesat · #4 11-03-2008, 20:01

Quote:

Originally Posted by wilsonmw04

FYI: Pit admin did not appreciate the prank...

I had to explain the joke to them, heck i even looked for team 1337 until I realized it was part of the joke.

[soapbox]just a friendly reminder to other teams tempted to try this again: the volunteers are taking time off from their busy lives to help you out. They are just as tired as you are and they my not understand why you are "pranking" them. It think it would have been much better for you to just say, "thanks for helping out!" [/soapbox]

Yeah, I figured out it was a joke immediately, though it took some explaining to get the rest of the people at pit admin to understand. Pranks are fun in moderation, but they can be quite annoying on Day 3 when we're all tired.

whytheheckme · #5 11-03-2008, 20:23

I find this very, very amusing (with my apologizes to the pit admin people, of course.)

According to FIRSTWiki, team 1337 was from Germany, and never competed. Too bad. I bet they would have p\/\/n3dz0rsLOLROFLMAOBBQ!!!

lol

Nate Laverdure · #6 11-03-2008, 21:31

You all really prefer Thursday pranks to Friday & Saturday pranks? I think I would much rather be the butt of a joke when I'm completely exhausted. It seems to me that few of us would want to be bothered from our work on Thursday ironing out various problems. Jokes like these are much funnier when they don't interrupt me from something more important.

In my experience the people at Pit Admin (as well as all the rest of our great volunteers) are wonderful, and they love being around you guys. Part of that is being able to joke around with you all, but a prank like this is definitely something to be done carefully and with the approval of your team's leadership.

To future Pit Admins: ignore requests for left-handed smoke shifters!

JoshD · #7 11-03-2008, 21:49

The companion cube one was pretty good too. Then again, anything would lift my spirits after what our overall result was.

fredliu168 · #8 11-03-2008, 21:59

haha there's one 1337 made every year

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...highlight=1337

Akash Rastogi · #9 11-03-2008, 22:02

Wow, 1337 used to be (or was supposed to be?) a German team? What happened?

Peter Matteson · #10 12-03-2008, 08:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by lilstogi11

Wow, 1337 used to be (or was supposed to be?) a German team? What happened?

1337 is one of the team numbers FIRST didn't give out do to the hacker connotation of the number. The FIRSTwiki stuff is a joke.

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