"Quotes" that were said during build season

[Blue_Mist]

Friday afternoon at Davis-

Dave(mentor): Are you done?
Nick: As time approaches infinity, doneness approaches one...

[Qbranch]

While testing our autonomous mode on a slippery linoleum floor:

Me: "It's slipping too much... I don't think its gonna make the turn.."
<robot now doing 13 ft/sec coming about to cross fifth line>
Other guy: "Yeah it will, it's just your perspective
Me: "Dude it's gonna hit the column..."
Other guy: "No it w...."
<robot hits column without bumpers>
Me: "Whoa... so that's what's inside these columns..."

-q

[Danielle H]

This wasn't build season, it was Boilermaker, but it was still funny:

*Paul comes out from behind the bus with a look of pure horror on his face* "Is the bus moving?! Why is the bus moving?"
"The bus isn't supposed to move unless the driver's INSIDE..." -Me

[XXShadowXX]

"3 hours till ship!" yells Ben, robot is stripped (nothing on it's bare frame)
"Time is relative Ben, now shut the hell up!" me.

[vivek16]

OWWWW!!- me when touching scrap pieces on the welding table. This happened multiple times...

I wonder what happens when you dont use coolant when milling...

"WhiRRR!! EERRKK!" -mill
"Crack" -aluminum

thank god it was a scrap piece...

-vivek

EDIT-mm.. Mills dont like being back driven...

[JBotAlan]

We've been using the sticks of those driveway reflectors to put into our ball-knocker, and we discovered today that we were running out of sticks. We had no more reflectors. When a student brought the topic up to a mentor, he simply said, "OK, I'll bring another half-dozen in from home. I won't be able to find my driveway, but it's OK."

[Cody Carey]

Originally Posted by spacegy4

That doesn't sound very nice.
I wouldn't say that to anybody. How can that be funny?

Yeah, It was kind of an insider team joke. Although I'm sure we've all had times when we've wanted to seriously say that to a team member, it would be quite rude to actually do so. Also, Nobody said the quotes had to be funny here

[lilBcos]

F:dude we just fried the IR board
Me: no we just tell them it was "inceficent" for our needs

[Alalea]

1: *crashes robot into desks*
2: Hey, he saved the munchkins!
Munchkins: *balanced on robot*

[klrswift]

Student: We're going to Logan's Roadhouse? Don't they have peanuts all over the place there?
Adult: Yeah.
Student: Oh, I dont think I should go. *Calls parent on cell phone* Can you come pick me up so I don't die?

[Karibou]

This wasn't during build season, but it was at GLR...

*Advert for the machine shop over the PA system in the pits*
"...so come to the machine shop, we break it, you fix it!"
I was escorting our bot out of the pit at the time, and I just stopped in my tracks and burst out laughing (in the doorway...oops), then checked with my friend to make sure that I heard it right...

and...
Mentor to student: "If I even BEGIN to talk about using aluminum axles ever again, you have my permission to beat me. Hard. And I'm serious, by the way."
*five minutes later, that mentor is talking to another mentor and mentions our poor use of the aluminum axles*
*student hits mentor with a hammer; lightly!*
"What the *&^#%?!?"
"You said to beat you if you talked about aluminum axles"
Sorry, that was a funny moment in our pit...

[Torboticsmember]

This was during Bayou today
Other team member: "Don't be shocked if I squeeze your arm because I am nervous and I don't know what I will do."
Me: "Just as long as you don't bite me"

We were in the picking rounds and we didn't know if we would be picked, we were, and she was nervous. The day before we were in first place and she was excited and bit our mentor, I just wanted to make sure it didn't happen to me.

Day before Bayou:
To other team members
Me: "I have a new nickname for Eric" Eric is a kid I pick on at school, jokingly of course, about being a failure
Other members: "What?"
Me: "PWM, because he fails all the time!!!"

While on the practice field
Pit announcer: "We practice safety first"
Me: "Haha, get it Safety FIRST, i crack myself up sometimes"
*strange looks from team members

[Kaushal.K]

This wasn't during Build Season but it was at GTR and lasted over the course of Friday (28th March) and Saturday (29th March)...

Mr. Philips (Team 1114) "donated" an Aluminum Magnet to the Spare Parts desk.
AJ (Team 1241) "the victim" borrows it out from the Spare Parts desk (signs for it) along with a guarantee to pay for it in case it break (cost of the Aluminum Magnet $2,000 Canadian)

well obviously an Aluminum magnet doesn't exist.. (even though our GTR Spare Parts desk *thanks Linda and Kevin* made it magically work) and AJ BROKE the Aluminum Magnet... thankfully Mr Philips knew someone who could fix it, and AJ doesn't have to pay him the $2,000 but it was amazing watching his reaction (watch for the video 1241 uploads later on)

Thanks to 1114 and 2056 for making this work , and also congratulations to all the teams that qualified for Atlanta.

[astephen68]

" Miracles can happen to the the most likely of people"

[Akash Rastogi]

"aww man!! now our robot's gonna smell like peaches you idiot! What will the judges and inspectors think of us now??? "

lol, a member spills yogurt on the robot XD