"Quotes" that were said during build season

[Calvin Hartley]

"Your elbows are surprisingly spikey."

[Daniel Vijay]

"We have to make it go BEEP BEEP BEEP!!!" ~Neelish

"I am apologize" ~Raahul

"Don't worry, just zip-tie it, it'll be fine" ~Trevor

"Sharkbait---HOO HAH HAH!!" ~226 Drive Team

"Double decker buses aren't real" ~Daniel

[sawhneyjalaj]

Oh also this one was during FTC competitions but it went like this:

Mentor: "so i just found out, we are in 28th place."

Me: "How many teams are there

Mentor: "Use the match schedule to figure it out"

Me: *does calculation on phone*... this is either gonna make you laugh, or just depress you."

Mentor: "What?"

Me: "There are 28 teams"

*The entire pit cracks up*

Other Mentor: "at least we have a sense of humor"

[Cam_Team 2619]

Not necessarily a quote, but our scouters have taken to calling the defenses by some... unorthodox names.

Rock wall = Trump's Wall
Moat = Banana Moat
Ramparts = Ramp Parts
Rough Terrain = Lil' Giblets
Drawbridge = Sneaky Beaky Port
Sally Port = Deport Sally
Cheval De Frise = Shovel the Fries
Portcullis = Pork Cutlets

Way to go scouters.

[frcguy]

"You guys should just program the robot in Scratch."

[frcguy]

"Well, according to the 14th law of thermodynamics..."

[roddonfire]

"If we want to win, we better Raise our Standard!"

[Oromus]

Fresh from the Rocket City Regional:

"I need my underwear."

[IronicDeadBird]

"Man I feel out of shape can never figure out why"
*As I reached for my giant can of rockstar energy*

[Rebecca Pelzer]

"I can't start a pie and not finish it." - Ed Sparks

Said while having a conversation about safety one morning at Rocket City; pies somehow came up.

[M217]

((2 days before our first regional, talking to our newly-appointed safety captain.))

"What do you do when the battery fluid leaks?"

(Deadpan) "...Pour it back in."

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by M217

((2 days before our first regional, talking to our newly-appointed safety captain.))

"What do you do when the battery fluid leaks?"

"...Pour it back in."

That would be moderately amusing if I were certain that it was a joke on the speaker's part. I've been mentoring FRC long enough that it's more of an .


Added:
OBTW, here's one from the post-season chatter on a mentor slack channel. For the record, we do not have anyone named named "Mark" as either a student or mentor this year. The names have been changed a la Dragnet:

".. numerous freshmen tell me Mark had taught them stuff ..."
"I hope he didn't teach them how to measure .. if so, we'll have a whole lot of un-teaching to do."

[Cothron Theiss]

"I have more hopes and dreams for this cart than our actual robot!"

[Calvin Hartley]

During our scouting/pick list discussion, our drive coach said the following:

"Their drive team is kinda like a weather balloon, they just float around."

[plurp911]

After many hours of hard and tiring work cadding and ordering parts on super bowl Sunday, our mech lead uttered the following words:

"I take straight bathroom cleaner"

...enough said.