"Quotes" that were said during build season

[Alex2614]

"So let me get this straight - you want the Chinese-American to speak Spanish to the Portuguese-speaking Brazilians?"

There was a Brazilian team at the regional that we wanted to talk to. There is a Chinese girl on our team that speaks Spanish pretty well, so someone suggested to have her translate...then our coach Earl said this in response.

[Fuller]

At the midwest regional we were being pinned by 1675 and the MC said "Team 1625 is being pinned in the corner but they dont seem to care" and on the screen our drivers are just kinda standing there not trying to get out.

[vg674]

[While walking through DC in the snow]
<student looks up>: Agh! It got in my eye!
Student (who always wears prescription safety glasses): That's why you should wear safety glasses.

[Once more walking through DC]
Student <steps onto grass instead of sidewalk>: Ah! I'm walking on not-ground!

[Fixing a kitbot after utterly destroying it during driving practice]
Mentor: You guys are still working on that after… what? Two hours?
Student: No. You missed it. We destroyed Blinky. (A kitbot)

[At the end-of-meeting meeting]
Mentor: Wait, didn't you guys have all of the kitbots fixed?
Student: Yeah, that was before you all broke them again.

[While discussing what we need to do]
Head mentor <wiggling the PVC pipes on the trailer>: Round table. Anything you want to say?
Student: Would you all please stop grabbing the trailers by the pipes? They break.
Head mentor: Like this? <begins shaking trailer vigorously while smirking. Pipe breaks off> Oops.

[Matt Howard]

"RUN TREVOR RUUNNNN!"

I said this while Coaching in Finals Match 3 to our teams driver. It was the last 4 seconds in the match and 330 was coming straight for us with balls. Thankfully he reversed in time, none of them scored, resulting in our first regional win!

[scottmacdonald]

Friday night scouting review
"Don't pick (Team #) their human player gets pushed around way to easily"

Right before the 3rd match of the finals in GTR they start playing the Beach Boys "Be True to Your School"
Mentor - "This is hardly the time or the place for such a song. You think they could come up with something a little more epic!"

[JHay]

"And you think that I can cut those measurements?" -- Brett Kolk (although it probably isn't exactly what he said )

"What's FIRST?" -- Halfway into build season, Tyler Siersma (of course he didn't join until a couple weeks in )

"I'm on a boat!" -- Jack Brock

Wayne: Who cut this board?!?
All: Brett...

Me: Where's Lucas?
Brett, "Tapeworm", Hailey: Right beside you...
Me: Oh my god! Lucas is a ninja!

Judge: What made you think of the design you have today?
Lucas: ... (he is the quiet one)
Judge: Don't you know?
All: Sorry, Lucas is the quiet one...Talk to us.
(sorry Lucas )

"We have limited-edition, black and white buttons today! Only for a limited time!" -- Jack Brock

Ethan: Finally, I made the mascot...
[Puts on costume]
Me: What is that? A sun and a circle with our name on it?

Well, that's all I can think of right now...some or maybe most of these happened at competitions or during build season. If I remember more (or find more at state) I will list them as another reply .

[XD_bring_it]

Sam: So whenever a scout asks us whats special about our robot, everybody immediately says "bumpers."

(The president decided that the cloth would be black with white flowers and have our team number painted in gold)

[Abra Cadabra IV]

"Guys, I think my afro fried our control system!"

Long story short, we spent a match dead because our control system reset itself or something... somebody suggested that it might have been a static problem. Someone later asked our mascot/coach/president (yes, he's all three) if the afro wig he was wearing built up a lot of static, leading to the above quote.

[Chris is me]

"We're not going to be overweight on ship day. I am of course talking about the robot." - A mentor, I forget who.

[FRC4ME]

The first time I walked into a team meeting, it was the end of 2006; the team had just gotten back from the VA State Fair...
Me: "Umm, guys, the robot is...askew."

During alliance selection at the Chesapeake Regional:
4th Seed Captain: "We would like to invite team 768 to join our alliance."
4th Seed Alliance Member: "Who are they?"

Similarly, at the 2007 Chesapeake Regional, one of the seeded alliances had no clue how to select their third member. After deliberating for ten seconds, every team in the stands began "helping" the alliance captain by shouting their numbers.

Our 3ds Max animation: "It's like the Internet - on your face!"
^You've got to watch that one. It's called Frame It! on FIRSTBase. The way our narrator says it is what makes it funny.

[Anders Horn]

"no you can not cut a perfect hexagon out of a perfect square" me explaining the dimensions needed to build the trailer.

[FRC4ME]

I recently had a conversation that went something like this:

Student: I refuse to believe pi exists.
Me: Why? Its just like, say, the number 3.
Student: But you can give me 3 apples; you cannot give me pi apples.
Me: So, you're saying for a number to exist, it must be perfectly expressable in terms of apples?
Student: Yes.
Me: Alright, what if I could give you pi apples. Would pi exist?
Student: Yes.
Me: What about pi oranges?
Student: Yes.
Me: Pi circles?
Student: Yes.
Me: How about pi radii of a circle?
Student: I see where you're going, but you'll never get it exact.
Me: You give me a perfect circle, I'll give you a perfect pi of a circle.
Student: Okay, I'll do that. How do I make a perfect circle?
Me: With pi...
Student: Bah! I'll draw a circle close enough, then.
Me: Okay, but my estimate of pi will be only as accurate as your estimate of the circle.
Student: Stop it! You still can't give me pi apples!
Me: I could give you apple pie.
Student: Mmm, pie.
Me: Mmm.

[surferacf]

"This takes the cake, the pie, and the special brownies"

[AbeEzell1]

WHERE IS THE TAPE MEASURE!!!!

How do you use the drill press? (me)

Adam, why are you wearing safety
glasses during lunch?

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by AbeEzell1

Adam, why are you wearing safety
glasses during lunch?

This isn't funny, some of us have a real problem forgetting that we are wearing safety glasses, I once picked up my prom date (a fellow FIRST alumni) while still wearing mirrored safety glasses. Yes I was wearing a suit and tie and mirrored safety glasses. There may be a picture around somewhere of it but it is a pretty funny mental image without it.

The question however is, is it not better the be safe all the time?