"Quotes" that were said during build season

[PayneTrain]

I was vacuuming metal bits off of the robot. When I got to the electronics board, a mentor said, "Stop! You're sucking out all of the electrons!"

[PAR_WIG1350]

"Who is Ben T. and why does this belong to him?" -Team member looking at a tetrix axle wrapped in blue painters tape at one end which has the word "BENT" written on it to inform people tat it is, in fact bent. The scary part is, I'm not sure whether or not he was kidding.

[OverdriveAdge]

Some of Overdrive's favorites (from our FRC days):


"But if you put it away I won't be able to find it!"


-talking about a pair of wire strippers-
James: There, now you have an awesome pair of strippers. Wait...


-After the girls ran into the basement to initiate a very one-sided pillow fight against the guys at 5 am during a sleepover at our Head Coach's house. The other guys see James pulling a table over his sleeping bag and ask him what he's doing-

James: I'm making an anti-girl device
other guys: James, you are an anti-girl device!


or the classic:

-Our engineering mentor, Mr. Wittel-
*crossing arms and sitting down*
"Ahhh. I love work. I could watch it all day."

[Newo95]

Mentor:I have a disease with no cure.
Student: What's that?
Mentor:It's called optic rectumitus.
Student: What does that mean?
Mentor: It means I have a crappy outlook on life.
Student:OH.

[Kyoshirin]

Mentor to student about a precise freehand sketch: "Let's see, you did this thing right, and you did this part right, so why couldn't you do this part right!?"

[jcoinster]

"Our minibot can haul a rubber chicken all the way up the pole and not fall back down, most of the time that is..." -Describing our bot to a team at the Suffield Shakedown

"Note: That pole is strictly for the minibot"

[pwnageNick]

"You know you're a robotics kid when you sit on Chief Delphi and hit refresh over and over again waiting for new pictures and videos of other teams"

Originally Posted by pwnageNick

"You know you're a robotics kid when you sit on Chief Delphi and hit refresh over and over again waiting for new pictures and videos of other teams"

Story of my life!!! LOL

[JaneYoung]

"I can't draw..." as one of my favorite students (they are all my favorites) took the white board marker away from me and proceeded to finish the rough sketch I was making of the robot - the one I had asked her to draw in the first place.

[Kyoshirin]

*Post-build CADing, episode two*
R: What size is the electrical board, in length?
Me: 28"
R:would you bet your life on that?
Me: Give or take a foot.

Later
R: 36 sounds like a number we may have used.

R: I've run out of dimensions of things on our robot.
Me: I can come up with some dimensions if you want.
R: That's what I'm afraid of.

C: Why are those piecves 3-3/4" apart? They are exactly 4" apart on the robot!
R: I used a laser measuring-thingy. it's 3-3/4
Me: Wait, C, was it 4" when you build it or when you last measured it?

[kmcclary]

Last night we decided to wire up yet ANOTHER speed controller device to the bot, as an Upgrade, so I said:

"OK, haul out the 12 gauge..." (wire, of course)

A student calmly looked at me, smiled, and replied:
"Gee, they don't allow us to bring them to school anymore..."

... Which of course made we start to wonder about what this rural school USED to be like...

- Keith

[demosthenes2k8]

(People across the room are discussing fundraisers)
"...and one Sonic toothbrush"
Me (being a smartass): "Does that go really fast?"
Mentor: "Yeah."
Me: "How many hedgehogs were harmed in its creation?"
Mentor: "One. And one enchilada."
Me: "...echidna?"
Mentor: "Can you tell I haven't eaten?"

[Mr. Pockets]

"That's how it always works. Strategy requests a circular peg, design CADs it as a square, and build makes it triangular "

"DADDY NEEDS AN AXLE!"

[fortinj1354]

"Why does the build site smell like a bonfire?"

"I don't think that's supposed to bend that way..."

"The minibot works grea... oh. That can't be good."

EVERYONE RUN!
Why?
Someone let the programmers touch the hardware!

[AlexH]

"Sleep is for the weak!"