"Quotes" that were said during build season

[Whippet]

Me: What does this robot look like to you guys?
Mark: OOH! OBAMA! OBAMA! OBAMA!
Me: Actually, it's a bunch of PVC mounted to our frame to be a support structur for arm.
Mark: He turned white!
(Mark had just gotten back from a five-minute break and only heard the "look like to you guys" part)

And, in case you're wondering, no, his real name is not Mark.

[Samk]

Whenever we work on the robot after the the electronics are mounted, we always put a sheet on top of them to avoid metal shavings going into them. This sheet didn't help too much when we were working on the arm and i dropped my wrench really close to the jaguar, hence the new favorite phrase of the build team "there go the jaguars" - the programmers really love this one

[fiona.crush1011]

*goes to shoot basket and completely misses*
"This is why I build robots!" -Joe

*members of our team attempting to shoot hoops*
Lead Mentor: *laughs* A lot of you should not be playing basketball

[CalTran]

We are getting two robots moving today and nobody is leaving until we do. If your parents start coming at 4:00, I will lock the door. The only way you're getting out of here without my consent is by the SWAT Team.

^Said by our head mentor during a Saturday meeting.

[Reanna]

"Where are the strippers? Someone stole the strippers! I need the strippers!"

"I used to be a vegetarian.. Until build season"

[VirusFromMonroe]

So we were polishing parts to be anodized, and while polishing the mecanum wheel plates, we had this little conversation.

Me "Hey, we should chrome plate these."
Second mentor(Middle aged) "They actually nickle plate nowadays."
Third mentor(young) "We should get spinners for them."

As the second mentor is walking out of the room:
"I'll get you some pinwheels from the dollar store."

We laughed for five minutes.

[DoctorWhom93]

"I didn't know the role of mentor included Ballast..."

One of our mentors was helping a student use the sheet metal cutter but the student didn't have enough weight to finish the cut and the mentor helped with that. His wife made this comment

[thatoneguy23]

"Is it a bad thing if our robot smells like waffles and syrup?"

[AlexJamesCross]

"ohhh look at it spin"-me
"yeah thats not good"Bob the builder(team captin)
"aww so we cant have it spin"
"no"
and
(as krudeboy51 preppared to try driving the robot)
"I fear for my life as well as well as my shins"

[ras103]

"Because everyone knows mustache size is proportionate to seriousness!"

[JaneYoung]

"Turns out it wasn't a meteor. We were testing our basketball shooter and I guess it was too powerful." ~ Kevin St Laurent

(Regarding a meteor sighting in our fair city of Austin, Texas, last evening. Kevin's team is nowhere near Austin, Texas.)

[mrlg220]

We were working on minibot deployment last year when...

"oh, you didn't finish building it yet? I'll come back when you guys are done screwing."

For shielding from utter embarrassment his name shall not be mentioned

[HaleyMortensen]

Add diglett or "lett" to the end of every word.
I'm gonna beat the shiglett out of you.
I don't give a diglett!
Hold my diglett, girl, hold my diglett.

New cheerer: "Go 265! Go 265!"

Mentor: "We're 256...."

New cheerer: "Sorry, I'm dyslexic at times..."

This was during an offseason... :|

[MechEng83]

Freshman: "Why did it break?"
Another Freshman: "Because we don't know what we're doing!"
Veteran Student: "This is why we can't have nice things."