Team member Nick Names

We've got a short skinny guy on our team that was completely obsessed with the trident this year, so we call him "Poseidon."

I have to say he doesn't look the part at all.

So far, we've nicknamed only the trident guy and the robot.
Complete list of the robot's names:
1. Duncan's Folly (After a fellow freshmen who kept drawing on it and fooling with it)
2. The Tent (You'd know it when you saw it, we've got a huge plywood/aluminum tent on the top with huge stickers on it showing our (3) sponsors)
3. GLaDOS (Yes, it was still alive after me smashing it around in midfield)
4. Decker Ex Machina (Decker in the Machine, after our captain, whenever it had glitches, we said it had "Deckers.")



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[Carolyn_Grace]

Originally Posted by apalrd

An alumni (Carolyn, '03) is known as "Mom" because she is often the one to ask us to clean up (and compares us to the 4 year olds she teaches at daycare).

Great, now all I do is tell people to clean up?! I get no appreciation around here! What would you kids do without a mother? You wouldn't know how to find the front door! hehehe.

[BJT]

We have a freshman on our team who earned the nickname squirrel. It had something to do with his incredibly short attention span, and a tendency to talk way to fast to understand. It also had something to do with the movie UP, but I forget why.

[JaneYoung]

We have a rubber chicken named RalPH who punishes people who make really awful bad puns. Does that count?

[Akash Rastogi]

I love this thread.

We have the following official member nick names:

Dungeon Master
Purple
Banana Boy
John Lennon
Antoine
Tendulkar

and a few others that are just hard to understand.

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[Zholl]

we've got a guy on animation that we call Wolfie. I'm not entirely sure why, but it might just be some inside joke with the animation team or something like that that just spread out to the rest of the team. otherwise, we've got a few people we refer to by their last names, and then Max, who likes to be called Maximilian P. Malone the First.
the only other one I can think of besides those would be mine. people like to call me things along the lines of Stalker or Creeper, mostly because I'm the main camera dude and I'm always taking pictures of people, though some of the dumber comments I've made, usually trying to justify still dumber comments, haven't helped much either...

[Hawiian Cadder]

my nickname is "sack" because my real name is Isaak and its 1 syllable i guess. another kid is named crab man, because of his insane Frisbee defending moves, he sort of scuttles around and looks like a crab.

[Carolyn_Grace]

We have a kid we call Hamster because of his uncanny ability to roll himself in a ball and fall asleep on a bus seat, or pretty much anywhere he wants.

[EricDrost]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

I love this thread.

We have the following official member nick names:

Dungeon Master
Purple
Banana Boy
John Lennon
Antoine
Tendulkar

and a few others that are just hard to understand.

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AND

Jimmy Neutron/Orange Hat Kid
Ra Ra Ra Ra Romit/Brett Favre
Clicky
Schreindawg

We also have a Tanvir and a Tanmay who switch names with each other

[Andrew Schreiber]

Member nicknames...
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We named our drive team Hack and Slash because they act exactly like the characters from Reboot.

Also, my brother and I do not have first names. We are just Schreiber.

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Spaz and his dad SpazDad.

[electron]

when everything on the robot is working, everyone just calls me Joe. if said robot is not working, calls of "ELECTRICIAN!!!!" can be heard from a mile away

[billbo911]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

We have a rubber chicken named RalPH who punishes people who make really awful bad puns. Does that count?

RalPH would get used to the point he would need to be replaced on our team. For some reason, bad puns are way too common. I have no idea why that is.

Yes, RalPH counts!

[Wildcat]

some others that emerged in my teams scouting department at our last competition:
Hardware
Data
Buttons
Binder
DJ
Fatlip

[apalrd]

Originally Posted by Carolyn_Grace

Great, now all I do is tell people to clean up?!

And tell us to make antennas. More often the the antennas.

[kjolana1124]

We never used the kicker on our robot. Our driver decided he wanted to try it in Atlanta...he got a penalty.

He is now PK for penalty kicker. Doesn't hurt that he's a soccer player either. Or help, depending on the side of the argument.

While not on my team, I call one of my friend's on 176 PBJ. I was talking to other 176 friends on the phone while they were in DC, and they told me about a kid on their team in their hotel room named "BDJ" Me and my wonderful hearing heard wrong, and it kind of suck with me XD