"Quotes" that were said during build season

[SirLancelot]

a mentor and I tend to have permanent marker fights. Around 2am on the final saturday of build he got me again and tried to deny it.
"Riiigght...It just came out of your pocket, into my hand, and went back into your pocket again..."
Another mentor nearly collapsed from laughing and it took me way too long to figure out why.

Others include:
"All your balls belong to us"
"We want you balls.."
etc.

[vic burg]

Originally Posted by SirLancelot

Others include:
"All your balls belong to us"
"We want you balls.."
etc.

When we were at Palmetto Regional, we realized, me and some of the mentors, that it was actually possible for them (and I) to make jokes similar to those, and no one would get offended because we were really talking about the playing feild.

[alex&lisa353]

Some quotes i've heard

*my dad (a mentor) tries to demonstrate the height of the dump basket to another student by picking up a box and holding it over my head*
student " so it will be about that tall"
my dad "well know my daughter's an inch and a half taller then the height limit so about 2 inches lower"
me "sorry next time i'll shink a little bit"

"wait i think the robot is too tall"
*i climb on top of the bench and slide my foot out of my shoe*
"nope we're good i'm eye level with the top"

"what do u mean it where its supposed to be i just check there and ...Oh never mind"

me"i know its not nearly as exciting as the first real time of driving the completed robot but in the back they just finished painting the shipping crate and we think it looks pretty good"

Me to a friend about the painting on the shipping crate (btw we named the hawk hawkie) "no offense to her painting skills/laziness but it looks like someone hit hawkie over the head with a frying pan"
"ehh only a little"

"these r really fun to play with"
"omg they are"
*me and a friend making the limit switches/microswitches click*

morning of ship day
"what do u mean we never put something on to hold the battery"

In relation to the above
head of electrical/president "shouldn't mechanical be doing this"
me "yeah but i'm busy doing something else" *i was providing mental support for my friend who was painting the crate*

"what do u mean chris is working his job is to be here"

friday after school
me "finally time for me to have a little bit of a social life"
teacher "ur not allowed to have a social life outside of robotics what is this social life you speak of"

*after testing out ball feeding system for the first time when it it stops working because the magic orange rope slipped of the pulley*
"hey it actually works... mostly"


thats all i can think of right now

[GillSt.Bernards]

Student at the competition to a random team

"Do you have any canned air? We got saw dust in the control system?"
*Very weird look.*

[germanystudent]

"It's called gracious professionalism Jack a$$!"

"what do you mean you didn't bring chopsticks!"

"i think mcguiver would be proud"

"oh leading? it's like hearding cats"

"ECO BOT!!!"

"it's X-bot the destroyer of dreams!"

"new rule, don't taste the robot"

[alex&lisa353]

Some quotes i've heard

*my dad (a mentor) tries to demonstrate the height of the dump basket to another student by picking up a box and holding it over my head*
student " so it will be about that tall"
my dad "well know my daughter's an inch and a half taller then the height limit so about 2 inches lower"
me "sorry next time i'll shink a little bit"

"wait i think the robot is too tall"
*i climb on top of the bench and slide my foot out of my shoe*
"nope we're good i'm eye level with the top"

"what do u mean it where its supposed to be i just check there and ...Oh never mind"

me"i know its not nearly as exciting as the first real time of driving the completed robot but in the back they just finished painting the shipping crate and we think it looks pretty good"

Me to a friend about the painting on the shipping crate (btw we named the hawk hawkie) "no offense to her painting skills/laziness but it looks like someone hit hawkie over the head with a frying pan"
"ehh only a little"

"these r really fun to play with"
"omg they are"
*me and a friend making the limit switches/microswitches click*

morning of ship day
"what do u mean we never put something on to hold the battery"

In relation to the above
head of electrical/president "shouldn't mechanical be doing this"
me "yeah but i'm busy doing something else" *i was providing mental support for my friend who was painting the crate*

"what do u mean chris is working his job is to be here"

friday after school
me "finally time for me to have a little bit of a social life"
teacher "ur not allowed to have a social life outside of robotics what is this social life you speak of"

*after testing out ball feeding system for the first time when it it stops working because the magic orange rope slipped of the pulley*
"hey it actually works... mostly"


thats all i can think of right now

[raceteen48]

Last week, me and a few people went to Radioshack, to buy knobs for a couple pots, and since I can drive, I ended up going, so we went into radioshack and it went something like this

radioshack guy "Can I help you guys?"

my friend - "No, we are just looking for something to put on our pot"

Radioshack guy- (gives us the weirdest look and quietly says) "what"

me later on- "ok, you need to learn when you can say Pot, which is when you are at robotics, and when you have to say potentiometer, which is everywhere else"

I am sure there are alot more quotes, just this one just happened last week

[ScoutingNerd175]

"We now have a Mr. Coffee and a Mrs. Tea Pot"

"Go Nickstine"- in reference to our drivers, Nick and Kristine

"What's wrong with Martin"
"He has Cancer cause Mr. O sprayed him in the mouth with Methyl Ethyl Bad Stuff"- About one team member accidentally ingesting Methylene Chloride

"It's an Electrical Problem"- The Mechanical people
"It's a programing problem"- The electrical people
"It's clearly a mechanical problem"- The programmer

"The robot is overweight by 10 pounds, I don't think we can weight reduce that"
"It's Nick's fault, the code is too heavy."

"We can measure the robot by having Mel walk by it."

"You are now on the list of competent freshman."
"Who's on the list?"
"You"

"I need the easy strippers. I only like strippers when they are easy."

"If you abuse the easy button, you become it."
"What does that mean?"
"We hit you and you say 'That was easy'"

"Chris put males on both ends of the PWM, you know what that means"

"What if we keep the easy button on the drivers station and hit it every time we win a match, even if it wasn't easy."
"That would be a good way to make people hate us."

"Great scouting"
"That was only half scouting. The first half was aggressive self promotion."- Me after we won Chesapeake and people were complementing my scouting.

[StephLee]

More from 1629:

"Ow, I broke myself."
Team member when he collapsed sideways off of a chair in the hotel, in slow motion, from a standing position, near some rather expensive electronics. Why he was standing on the chair, no one knows; we were watching scouting tape on a projector at the time.

"The code is fine, the robot just gets stagefright!"

"Get your head out of the shooter!"

"I don't care if it's bent, it adds character."

Me, to a driver: You need to watch your feet when I move the cart.
Driver: Don't worry, you won't hurt my feet.
Me: I'm not worried about your feet, I just don't want you to drop the robot!

[MAldridge]

Me: "stand by to engage autonomous sequence four"
Mentor: "okay Captain Picard, we're standing by!"

Me to the team as I was about to call about a have dozen automated sequences at once. I didn't think about the Trekedness of the comment at the time, I just wanted everyone out of the way!

[hcps-maxwelltd]

another programer and i were talking to another person on the team about what happens when you plug a batery conector with it hooked up to nothing and the wires showing into a batery, you end up with "Spark spark, Sizzle Sizzle, BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

[Zuelu562]

Originally Posted by hcps-maxwelltd

"Spark spark, Sizzle Sizzle, BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

as apposed to "Oink, Oink, Boom?"

[Bot190]

Pokey: "I might look like a 1 on the outside, but I'm really a 0 inside"

[Alex Redman]

Me-"Plug all the joysticks into the 4-way USB Hub."

Zack-"Hehe 4- way"

[Zack771]

Mentor (about the robot arm) : "That's dope!"

Alex: *face-palm* "you did not just say that"