"Quotes" that were said during build season

[McVey]

Also I'd like to mention team 1137 "Rocket Sauce."

Me: "Hey 1137, I just need to check over this information here about your team, sponsors and robot, okay?"
-they check everything, all is well-
Me: "Oh, and does your robot have a nickname?"
Team 1137: "Yeah, 'Admiral Wolverine Lightning Bolt The Third Commando'"

Every time I had to say that I wanted to die laughing.

[apalrd]

"No, you can't talk to our safety captain, because he's in the hospital"

"Palardy, flash the robot" ~On downloading code

Jack:"I have focus issues"
Mom:"Does that make you a programmer?"

Mom:"So one of my kids at the daycare dosen't do anything without specific direction. I say "go clean up" and they don't, but when I say "Go clean up the legos" and they do. I think they will be a programmer."

"What do we have in the CAD room?"
"One bag of chips, one-half bottle of caffine-free pepsi, and 1000 napkins. "
"The Charirmans team stole our chips from under Jim's desk and ate them all. Punks."

Jim's son Isaac, ~7 years old
"Why are you so lazy?" -to peter
"Hey punk, open my pop" -to matt
What a good judge of character.

[Leeebowitz]

On the bus ride to the Midwest regional.

Me: Guys, is the BOM taken care of? (I pronounced it as one syllable, sounded like "bomb")
*Stares from everyone*
Me: The B-O-M? Bill of Materials?
Everyone: Ohhhhhh...

[sashboy226]

I forgot this one, its pretty funny.

Safety Judge: "Can we talk to your safety captain."
Me: "Ishaan, who's wearing the button?? Oh, Haley come here."
SJ: "Tell us about your safety program."
Haley: "Actually (turns to me) I was only wearing this because you weren't here. (takes off button) Here ya go."
Me: "Hi...uhhh, what was the question?"
SJ: "Tell us about your safety program."
(I give a drawn out discussion of our practically non-existent safety program)
SJ: "So what do you do during the build and competition season beside your Hammer build program?"
(Team President steps in and gives a 2nd in depth discussion of the Hammer Build)


Later that same day of competition.

SJ: "We're collecting safety tokens."
Me: "Where are our safety tokens?"
Team: "I dunno your the safety captain."
Me: "So?? I'll check the drawer." (find all three, go to leave the pit and almost trip on bumpers)
Mentor: "Don't trip on those bumpers there, and lose all the safety tokens."
Me: " (sarcastically) Yeah guys! This bumper placement is very unsafe!!!"
SJ: (laughs and walks away)

[Burmeister #279]

Me "It was working last night!"
Lead mentor "how was it working last night? it never moved!"
Me "Just because i'm a programmer doesn't mean i don't dream..."

[FRC4ME]

Originally Posted by sashboy226

I forgot this one, its pretty funny.

Safety Judge: "Can we talk to your safety captain."
Me: "Ishaan, who's wearing the button?? Oh, Haley come here."
SJ: "Tell us about your safety program."
Haley: "Actually (turns to me) I was only wearing this because you weren't here. (takes off button) Here ya go."
Me: "Hi...uhhh, what was the question?"
SJ: "Tell us about your safety program."
(I give a drawn out discussion of our practically non-existent safety program)
SJ: "So what do you do during the build and competition season beside your Hammer build program?"
(Team President steps in and gives a 2nd in depth discussion of the Hammer Build)

Heh, that's not as bad as a very enthusiastic senior on 339 last year who tried to segue every conversation with the judges into a discussion of a specific engineering feature on the robot...including the business plan and safety judges. Although I must admit, she was instrumental in earning us Delphi DTT in Atlanta.

A mentor from another team and I were making fun of the KoP BOM this year:
Me: "Some of these things are rather ridiculous...I mean, 'brass bag'?"
Mentor: "We used ONE of those, by the way."

While watching a fan spin:
Student 1: "Man, our robot sucks!"
Student 2: "No...our robot blows."

We were having trouble connecting an FTC sensor since their PWM cables have male ends:
Student: "Hey Josh, we have a gay connector problem."
And I won't post my response here...let's just say it involved everyone's favorite type of crimp connector used to join two wires together.

[blayde5]

Operations Director: WHY DO WE KEEP GETTING SAFETY TOKENS??? (after our safety captain had just tripped on our bumpers for the robot and the Ops Director had tripped on our cart)

For some reasons, safety judges love giving us safety tokens .

[yp673mp]

During the time we rebuilt the drive system for the 8th time...

Designer: We should make a T-Shirt about our persistence!
Me: If at first you don't... never mind. Try, Try, Try, Try, and Try again.

[hipsterjr]

Announcer: "And team 342 scores!"
student : "That's what she said"


anyone: "*words*"
Student: "Thats what she said"

[Wildcat]

Mentor 1: Jeff (me), can we talk to you for a sec?
Me: *walks into back room w/ 2 mentors, nervous look on my face*
Me: WHATEVER IT IS I DIDN'T DO IT!
Mentor 2 to Mentor 1:You wanna tell him or should I?
Mentor 1: Jeff, we want you as one of the back-up drivers.

[Damaku250]

(Discussing dinner)
Lead Mentor: So what do you want on the pizza?
Everyone: Pepperoni!
LM: that's it?
Everyone: pepperoni and meat
LM: what kind of meat?
everyone: ham
LM: and on the other pizza?
everyone: bacon

[apalrd]

Originally Posted by hipsterjr

Announcer: "And team 342 scores!"
student : "That's what she said"


anyone: "*words*"
Student: "Thats what she said"

We have someone like that. Except he says "Your Mom (what somebody just said)"

[Al3+]

Originally Posted by Leeebowitz

On the bus ride to the Midwest regional.

Me: Guys, is the BOM taken care of? (I pronounced it as one syllable, sounded like "bomb")
*Stares from everyone*
Me: The B-O-M? Bill of Materials?
Everyone: Ohhhhhh...

Virtually the same thing happened on our team, too.

[ALTrammell818]

Originally Posted by Damaku250

(Discussing dinner)
Lead Mentor: So what do you want on the pizza?
Everyone: Pepperoni!
LM: that's it?
Everyone: pepperoni and meat
LM: what kind of meat?
everyone: ham
LM: and on the other pizza?
everyone: bacon

Sounds like us. We demand bacon.

[scarletrain]

Me: I just typed in Powersurge on google and a website on menopause came up.
Mentor: [laughs] We're going to name our robot "Hot Flash".