"Quotes" that were said during build season

[lady_raidan]

Yeah, these are defiantly original. (Also you can get these from our team’s website at www.team1980.org under "about 1980" then "team quotes".)

"Safety first! Ummm....where's the first aid kit?

"Giving up is for squares"

"Don’t do today what you can do tomorrow"

"The secret to success is to acknowledge that you have limits, but to never acknowledge that you have reached those limits."

"If you make it idiot-proof, someone will build a better idiot."

"Just wing it."

"He who lives in a glass house should look into a new house."

"Less is more."

"Idealism takes a backseat to practicality."

"Work today, be successful tomorrow."

"Don’t blow it up."

[Bsteckler]

"Ghaaaa!"
Said by another team member while luricating our gearboxes with white lithium grease...

[EricH]

From a teacher on 1135:

"I told my students that if they didn't do their homework, that" (pointing to the trackball, which was on a cabinet in the classroom used as a build area--and happened to be above my head at that point) "would be held over their heads and dropped. If more than one didn't do their homework, I'd roll it at them."

Me, in response: "Bowling!"

Same meeting: "We need to persuade something." "I'll persuade this..." (reference to the deadblow mallet)
"This is doing more damage to the hammer..." (The persuader was having trouble with the rollpin in the tranny)

[Katie_UPS]

Originally Posted by lady_raidan

"Safety first! Ummm....where's the first aid kit?

UPS style: "QUICK! GET THE WOUNDED MAN KIT!"

[Herodotus]

Upon printing out a paper copy of this years code.

Me:Hey, let's weigh the code now. *puts code on the scale* It weighs a half pound! See, that's how much weight you guys add to the robot.

Mentor: We should use floating points to reduce weight! We can actually remove weight from the robot that way. Forget those heavy integers, we'll just use floating points.

Mental: Dude, it would totally work!

[Dancin103]

"It's ok, as long as we have some hot glue, duct tape, zip ties, and pallet wrap, we can fix any problem..."

[acdcfan259]

Person 1 - "What if we got sponsored by McDonalds."
Person 2 - "Then we could be the McMechatronic Maniacs!"

[Dolan]

me "I think God hates the robot!"

[SlaminSwimster]

3 am Sunday morning - "We have 3 and a half wheels" (we had 7 ball bearings)

[thefro526]

"Dude leave me alone, once I get the magic generator working there will be no need for these silly drawings!"

Needless to say I was very tired one night and no one would give me any more caffeine.

Originally Posted by Big Kid

JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!
^Team word

P.S. It was written on one or two of our orange capes are nationals, for those who might remember from the Archimedes division.

That word was said wayyy to much during our season. But it did look good on my Philly cape. I don't think it was on my ATL cape. Every time someone said Jam on my team our head mentor would say jelly... there were a lot of Jam vs. Jelly battles.

[typharn91]

electrical rookie:give me something to do
me: how bout you go debur somthing
electrical rookie:whats deburing
me: you take a tool and you shave the sharp edges of metal
electrical rookie:sounds like fun!!!
**whole pit goes quit**
team captian: who just said that

[SlaminSwimster]

"Who needs scouting, just put on your pretty face and smile" - We were talking about how we were going to scout with such a small team.

[Herodotus]

Originally Posted by typharn91

electrical rookie:give me something to do
me: how bout you go debur somthing
electrical rookie:whats deburing
me: you take a tool and you shave the sharp edges of metal
electrical rookie:sounds like fun!!!
**whole pit goes quit**
team captian: who just said that

The deburrer is one of my favorite tools, so don't go bad mouthing it.

[blaxbb]

Originally Posted by Herodotus

The deburrer is one of my favorite tools, so don't go bad mouthing it.

My Mentor @ me: "So how did you break my 30 year old deburring tool?"
Me: "I.....don't......know......"