"Quotes" that were said during build season

[Mr. Pockets]

I was amazed that the robotics team had a picture in the yearbook (not that I should have been, just was). They had all the people in the picture listed but misspelled one of the last names

Quotes from our build season:
-four mentors were all trying to get a conveyor shaft into place
Student: "Adult assembly is required"

- Student: "Could someone please explain what 'That's what she said jokes mean'"?
Other student: "You'll understand by the end of build season"

(Karibou already posted all the others I remember)

[The Zevling]

"Let's sing happy birthday... And everyone try to stay on the same note as I am." - One of the few memebers of the team with any musical talent.

"Why do you look so disturbed... Don't you want cake?" - Mentor birthday card to our teacher, which included pictures of two of our college mentors after digital gender-altering surgery. It wasn't pretty.

[Karibou]

Originally Posted by Mr. Pockets

I was amazed that the robotics team had a picture in the yearbook (not that I should have been, just was). They had all the people in the picture listed but misspelled one of the last names

Hey, WE didn't get one in the North yearbook! Not fairrrrrrr >.<"

(Karibou already posted all the others I remember)

Yep, that's what I'm here for Didn't you always notice me writing stuff down after hearing an explosion of laughter?

-My team award (read: paper plate award) this year was "Paradigmatic Performance as a pulchritudinours Patroness of Pits, Pies and Punctual Postings Award plaudits Kara Bakowski" (upon receiving the award, my response was "I don't know what half of those words mean!")

[Shelabot]

"SWAT TEAM!"

Was commonly yelled as we were tossing something around in our rare free time, and the student who yelled the phrase intercepted the tossed object (usually a hackey Sack) and smacked it to the ground.

[Finleym]

Originally Posted by Shelabot

"SWAT TEAM!"

WHOOO! 1806, S.W.A.T. Team!!!

That reminds me of one:

-"It took S.W.A.T. and The Bomb Squad to take us out." (said by numerous members of last year's team.)

We lost to an alliance containing S.W.A.T. Team and The Bomb Squad last year. They ended up winning the regional.

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by Shelabot

"SWAT TEAM!"

Was commonly yelled as we were tossing something around in our rare free time, and the student who yelled the phrase intercepted the tossed object (usually a hackey Sack) and smacked it to the ground.

You yell out the names of your 2008 Newton alliance partners too?

[delsaner]

Our coach to new drivers: "You need to shake the robot to shoot more balls, so remember to shake it."

Our coach now singing out loud: "Shake, shake, shake, senora, shake your body line."

I started cracking up when he said that.

[FRC4ME]

Oh yeah, I forgot about labels!

"BACKWARDS"
"until we fix it"
-Two labels, one above the other, on a sensor cable that we had soldered backwards and didn't want to spend the time fixing.

"maybe bad"
-Written on any battery that fails to hold a charge. Or, more accurately, any battery that we think cannot hold a charge because we think its charged when its not and try to use it.

"(really) (really) stupid light"
-Label on the yellow diagnostic light on our robot. Every time we have to spend two hours tearing apart our wiring to fix said nearly useless component, it gets an additional "(really)". We actually refer to this as the Stupid Light in general conversation now, capitalizing and pronouncing it as if that is its proper name.

"this is not a toy"
-Label on the disable dongle after someone broke it by toggling it back and forth all day out of boredom.

"Auto Brake: Arm/Disable"
-Label on a military-style switch on our custom control box, meant to imitate an actual switch found on a Boeing 747. We also have flight simulator joysticks, so this is appropriate.

"magic/more magic"
-XKCD switch labels on our teleop/autonomous switch. We wanted to use "order/chaos", but the programmers and drivers couldn't agree on which mode got which label.

[Katie_UPS]

Told to our programmers on a daily basis during build;

MAKE MORE TYPINGS.


MAKE DO THINGS

[The Zevling]

Originally Posted by FRC4ME

"(really) (really) stupid light"
-Label on the yellow diagnostic light on our robot. Every time we have to spend two hours tearing apart our wiring to fix said nearly useless component, it gets an additional "(really)". We actually refer to this as the Stupid Light in general conversation now, capitalizing and pronouncing it as if that is its proper name.

We call ours the "Doofy yellow light".

[demosthenes2k8]

We have a similar switch, only it has one label and one of those epic protection thingys on it...don't ask me to describe, I'm software.

"Win Button" even though it's a switch. I don't know why.

Both this year and last year at awards banquet: "THE CAKE IS NOT A LIE!"

And some old ones:
"Do you think we'll get extra points if we have it do a barrel roll?"
"The output of the one shot is the clock for the flip-flop."
"Those cheerleaders have to die!" //I fear for them...
"I know what's wrong" //Followed by panic

[rotolomi]

Originally Posted by delsaner

Our coach to new drivers: "You need to shake the robot to shoot more balls, so remember to shake it."

Our coach now singing out loud: "Shake, shake, shake, senora, shake your body line."

I started cracking up when he said that.

im seriously glad i never went to that drive team meeting. just imagining coach k saying that is slightly disturbing, but not quite as shocking as it should be.

[kogarasu]

Mentor: "Here, let me show you the really irresponsible way to do that."

[FRC4ME]

Our FTC team place 49th out of 50 at Atlanta, 2009 (FRC fared better, BTW). We lost all six of our matches. The 48th seed was 5-1.

Student: "Hey, at least we weren't the worst. We seeded higher than one team who also lost all six matches."
Mentor: "That's because we let our opponents score more during our six losses."

We all thought about this for a second, realized he was right (rank by RP fails when you have more losses than wins) and that we were the worst performers on the field that day.

[~Mike()]

"You don't need food"

"We have plenty of time before ship date, all of Sunday"

"Our radio just got snapped in half"

"Well we took apart the CIMs, and ever since, one always seems to be hotter after driving practice."

"OK we need thirteen sprockets, and a ten foot length of chain, don't worry, it's not what you think."