"Quotes" that were said during build season

[lilac]

Originally Posted by Tim Arnold

"It is a guaranteed fact that at least one rookie team will name their robot 'Chuck Norris'."

hauhauhauhauhuauahuah

that's sooo true!

[Setsanto]

"<nameless student>, is alone in the shop, someone go supervise him"

[3195mentor]

Originally Posted by Tim Arnold

"It is a guaranteed fact that at least one rookie team will name their robot 'Chuck Norris'."

My Students:
"Lets name the robot Chewbacca!!"
"No! Steve!"
"Lets just name the robot 'Chuck Norris'!!!"

Me:
"oy vey... here we go again."

(we're a rookie team, if you haven't guessed! )

[ChuNalt787]

"dude ill pay for that"

after one teamate accidentaly threw a poofball into anothers month old nice laptop screen pretty much destroying the screen.

[StephLee]

Worst thing to hear the driver (well ok, ANYONE anywhere near the robot) say: My bad.

We heard that one quite a bit this year.


"Don't touch that or I'll poof your head off." (Said to my younger sister immediately after a meeting.)


E: *cuts finger* Ow, where's the first aid kit?
J: *hands E duct tape*


*Random mentor* "If there are any people within five feet of the robot, the driver's hands go IN THE AIR!!*

[milliga9]

One of our mentors after tasting loctite, "It tastes fine - except for the burning."

[nate234]

A student: "The audience will be making three sounds this year: oos, aahs, and oh my God, watch out!"

[Levin571]

One of our engineers when talking about how fast the wheel could spin:

"Have you ever seen a poof ball go through concrete?"

[thecheatdx]

"Don't bleed on the robot!"

Said by the adult team leader after a teamate cut his hand.

[FF_1610_EMT]

builders says: "its the programmers fault"
programmers say: "its the builders fault"
i say: OH SH!T MY THUMB" when i nail it with the hammer while reassembling the crate.
"INCOMING" for when the shooter goes wild and starts shooting all over the place.

[afclsn]

Originally Posted by thecheatdx

"Don't bleed on the robot!"

Said by the adult team leader after a teamate cut his hand.

Is it bad that my team said this daily?

[kristinweiss]

The boys on my team like to make lube jokes a lot...
"Safety FIRST! Use non-toxic plant based lube!"
"Don't touch me with that string! Do know how much lube I put on that thing?"

[BL0X3R]

(after teaching one of the electrical guys the basics of how to program in labview (he really wanted to learn))...

Me - "Ok, do you think you can make a program to add two things together?"
Student X - "Sure, it seems simple enough"
Me - "Well you do that, and I'll make sure I didn't miss anything important from the rest of the programmers"
*Walks away for 5 seconds*
Student X - "Umm... labview isn't responding."
Me - "Let me see that."
*Looks at laptop screen*
Me - "...You crashed labview. I gave you the simplest task EVER and you crashed labview. You were never meant to be a programmer. Go back to electrical."

[Celia]

I plan on printing this quote by Douglas Adams (tHGttG: Mostly Harmless) and posting it in our pits at next weekend's competition:

"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."

[Mr. Freeman]

"Where's that blasted saw/drill that cuts stuff back on..... I can never find it"

Junior: "OK, we've been stuck on this problem for an hour or so....... LUNCH BREAK!!..... who wants Carl's Junior?"

"OK, if the mentors don't want to turn off the robot when they stick their hands through the chain then fine. But everyone else make sure to hit the kill switch first, I'd have to fill out way too much paperwork if a student got hurt"
- Supervising teacher after the mentors repeatedly tried tightening bolts on the drive train (treads) without turning off the robot first.