"Quotes" that were said during build season

[Paul11]

"This is what happens when we let programmers into the shop."

Our lead programmer started to play with all of the 80/20 pieces.

[Betty_Krocker]

"...where did I put my car...?"

"...thats not supposed to work..."

[kamikazi521]

LTD-"FUDGE MONKEYS!!!"


LTD-"What happened to the robot?!?!"
me-"I didnt do it"
LTD-"LIES!!!!"
me-"ok i did do it. but lets blame the programers"
LTD-"Sounds good to me"

[royalpl]

"Peter are your pants calling people again?"
"What oh yeah."
"He cant help it if is paants are social"
"My pants like you kyle."

[sgreco]

This may be hard for some people to undestand, but we have a big tiger head in our lab.

So I said "geez I never realized how big this tiger is"
And the other kid said "It's not as big as the Jaguar"

[Astrokid248]

While trying to open one of those breaker panel doors:
Senior: "Did you just break it?"
me: "No. It still works."
Senior: "What did you do?"
me: "I think I knocked the plastic piece down."
Senior: "You broke it!"
me: "It still works. See, you can use that metal piece instead!"
Needless to say, he didn't like that.

[Doctorwho]

When we started on the chassis:

INTEGRATION TEAM ASSEMBLE!

[Sincrum]

OOOOOOOOOOOOO pretty light!

While watching someone practice tack welding aluminum

[teshazman]

As I was getting random assorted parts off the floor, X looked in my hand.
"You're a true man." He said.
"Huh?" was my blank reply.
He pointed to my handful of parts.
"You screw, nut, and bolt."

[teshazman]

As we were assembling our brain, X got impatient with the wires.
"Just stick it in there, whats the worst that could happen?"

When one of our programmers was putting together part of our bot, he was trying to get a nut on the screw. He couldn't do it, so he says,
"Guys this is way to hard to do by hand. Get me a nutdriver."

[PurpleHaze]

"Why is that ball stuck?"
"You ziptied it to the robot..."

Its nice when problems have easy solutions.

[1261scout]

We have little pieces of tubing that stick out on our intake that we call "fingers", and when we were first testing the concept we only had one of them. Someone lost the finger, but my team was working on the intake design and I needed it. I then began yelling "SOMEONE GIVE ME THE FINGER! I NEED SOMEONE TO GIVE ME THE FINGER!"

[NorviewsVeteran]

I don't know where they came from, but at VCU they were handing out little stress-reliever moons. One of our mentors had a bunch in his backpack when he went out for lunch. When he came back, they checked his backpack, and the lady said, "You have a lot of balls"

[Karibou]

Programming Student: "It's that tan thing..."
Programming Mentor, also the student's dad: "It's not tan, it's beige"
*continued debate about the differences between tan and beige*
Mentor: "I hope you two aren't discussing makeup"

They're all guys.

[EricH]

"Let me get the whatchamahoosit..."--Me

Watchamahoosit--my term for the bumper measuring device used at the L.A. Regional. It could measure: bumper height, trailer hitch height, and tongue clearance. With a little ingenuity, you could also check the length of a bumper segment.