"Quotes" that were said during build season

[raceteen48]

Last week, me and a few people went to Radioshack, to buy knobs for a couple pots, and since I can drive, I ended up going, so we went into radioshack and it went something like this

radioshack guy "Can I help you guys?"

my friend - "No, we are just looking for something to put on our pot"

Radioshack guy- (gives us the weirdest look and quietly says) "what"

me later on- "ok, you need to learn when you can say Pot, which is when you are at robotics, and when you have to say potentiometer, which is everywhere else"

I am sure there are alot more quotes, just this one just happened last week

[robonerd13]

Between one of our mentors and I:
Me: Dont touch that its hot...it was just welded!
Him: Oh gee thanks for the warning...
*touches it*
Him:Ouch thats really hot!!!
Me: What did I try telling you?!?!?!

Needless to say he found out very quickly that I was right...

[The Megan 2207]

While soldering was happening...
Non-electrical team member: Hmm, smells like yummy smoke.
Me: Yeah, that's solder burning.
Non-electrical team member: Oh.
Me: And if you read the label on the solder, you'll learn that it can cause birth defects!
Non-electrical team member: Lovely.
Later, I found a piece of solder that hadn't been put away...
Me: Would you like some birth-defect-causing solder?
Different non-electrical team member (excitedly): Yes, please!

[Anna B.]

*A is banging a rubber mallet on his palm*
B: You have a rubber mallet
A: Yes, and if I had a rubber sickle, I'd be a rubber Communist
*whole team bursts out laughing*
A: Bet you didn't expect me to make that joke

[Bannanakin]

Setting: After three team members had gotten 4 hours of sleep in the past 2 days due to junior year, and were playing around with pliers and a quarter while programming was in session.

(programmer comes over) Eugene: GO TO SLEEP! YOU GUYS ARE SITTING AROUND DOING NOTHING.
The three "culprits" (James, Nicky, and Rohan):............NO! I don't want to sleep.
Eugene (Programmer): YOU GUYS ARE BENDING QUARTERS WITH PLIERS!!!!!! FIND SOMETHING ELSE TO DO!!!
Rohan: Well you're programming, and it's like watching paint dry.....

[Thermal]

A pretty epic quote was said yesterday at the Scrimmage in Greer, SC towards our team...

"Fredrick Moore, your motor is on FIRE!"

Yelled across the floor during a match to my friend after I stalled an rs545 for too long (don't ask how...)

Needless to say, all of the magic smoke was released... and a little bit more on top of that

[tabov]

So this technically wasn't at Robotics, but anyways...

I showed up late to musical rehearsal on V-Day, and one of the other cast members (she's about 11) says, "You're late. What were you doing??"
And I reply, "Well, I was building a robot."
She stares at me, bewildered, and says "People do the strangest things..." and walks away.

[GillSt.Bernards]

Student: "It is being held together by hot glue and hope"

[vg674]

*A friend and I while looking for a hot glue gun to fix a trailer*

Him: "Well, why don't you just heat the glue with your mind?"
Me: "I don't think it works that way."
Him: "You sure?"
Me: "..."
*I stare at the glue sticks he is holding.*
Him: "No no! Not in my hand!"

[keehun]

The hole is too deep!

Perfectly set up for "That's what she said!" =p

[tanguma26]

ok we are worn out from this week and everything comes out sounding totally wrong so this is what happened

(i was using the vaccume to clean up shavings under the robot and our frame is made from 80-20)(there was a thread fastener in it...)

me: omg this is so cool i can make the thingy move back and forth
mentor: what are you talking about
me: look its so cool
mentor: oh your sucking the nuts to make them come

(everyone busts out laughing and i nearly fall out of chair because of the statment)

[Black Claw]

Mr Henze most famous quote, "Okay, Let's go to work!"

My famous quote of the year, "It goes BOOM!" seconds after Josh pressed enter on a self destruct program of a computer.

[BJT]

me: what happened
student: motors got hot.
me: how hot?
student: do you have any eggs?

"The male mind only thinks about one thing...robots and food."

[Steelix4532]

This was said by one of our mentors:

"If your not in a panic, you don't understand the situation!!"

Daniel G.
Programmer
Team 269
Oconomowoc, WI