"Quotes" that were said during build season

[Herodotus]

Mentor: This here is really the danger zone... which makes this ramp up into it the Highway to the Dangerzone.
-Later-
Me: So I've decided we should name the robot Kenny Loggins.

Mentor: Does anyone have a deathwish so someone can hold this?
College Mentor: Oh, oh, oh, me, me.

[rotolomi]

"It has to suck up the balls effectively and NOT suck balls."

[Katherine B]

"I know what I'm doing because I have the sharp pointy object!"--our president
"what if we have an inflatable robot?"-Fish

[Tetraman]

"You are the ARCTIC Warriors. You are playing on an ICY floor. You HAVE to call your robot "The Zamboni" - Me to my old team, 174 the Arctic Warriors on this year's game.

[Skifanatic]

This is a list of quotes we have from one of our mentors. Its actually on the back of a t-shirt that we made.

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddh2h7fc_2hdkm8rgp

[The Megan 2207]

When discussing how to decide how to build the robot:
Student: What do you guys do at Medtronic?
Mentor: What do we do at Medtronic? We dance!

During a strategy discussion:
Mentor: So what I want you to do now... *tools clatter to the ground* ...is laugh at Stolte because he just dropped that...

[GillSt.Bernards]

Student - "how are we going to get this done all on Thursday?"
Mentor - "Prayer."

[FRC4ME]

We have a rubber mallot that we call "gentle persuasion". Whenever something doesn't fit, we hear:

"Time for gentle persuasion!"

[Mona]

"SHUTUP NEIL"

"NEIL BE QUIET"

"GO AWAY NIEL"



Neil-the chickens dry
me-im gunna punch you in your face

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haha anyone on 1620 will get this right away

[Rochelle435]

"Hey guys? I think this screw just fell off the bot."
"...uh...NOT IMPORTANT."

[usbcd36]

"JON! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" (many times over multiple seasons)

Things Jon was doing when this was said:

• making a blowdart gun out of extra PVC pipe, pool noodle and nails
• using a can of WD-40 and a match to make a flamethrower ("JON, stop making flamethrowers! You're going to set the floor on fire!")
• cutting (expensive) robot parts
• making holes/cuts in things with Dremel
• setting steel wool on fire
• attaching fans together, then stripping the nuts so the contraption could not be taken apart (at regionals)


(somebody says something that would've made our lives easier if said about a month ago)
*pause*
- "WHY?"
- "Because we're stupid."
- "Oh…"

"It's robotics season; we don't have time to study for midterms!"

- "PROG!"
- "PROG'd!"

- "Why didn't you tell us you had a machine shop in your basement?"
- "…"
- "…"
- "I dunno…I never really thought about it…"
(Note: I don't really have a machine shop in my basement; it's a wood shop. I did meet a guy who has a machine shop in his basement, though.)

"In the absence of Jon, we all become Jon" (said every time someone does something without thinking that results in wasted time or parts and Jon is not present)

"Somehow, we got ahold of some good juju."

"We had to seal the basement to protect the juju."

[Otaku]

*I begin to walk towards a table where people are messing around with infrared stuff*
me: "...OH GOD, A SOLDERING IRON!"
*I run off*


(Soldering irons + me = bad)

[Nin_estarSaerah]

"its not working because you didnt program it right"
*wheel falls off*
"never mind"

[mynameisbob]

"Quick grab the donuts so we can bribe the janitor into letting us stay longer!"

"It doesn't have to work, it's only a test!"

"Hey, where there this many pieces left over last time we put it together?"

[Delia]

*at kickoff* "Ahhh robotics events...the only places where the men have a line for the bathroom too..."