Funny things to ask for on the PA system

[Ian Curtis]

I thought a good one was the metric crescent wrench.

Then I discovered that they exist. Guess the joke was on me!

[BJC]

We have not personally done this but...

"team #### is requesting that anyone who has any information on the whereabouts of their robot please report up here... thank you."

[kjolana1124]

Originally Posted by BJC

We have not personally done this but...

"team #### is requesting that anyone who has any information on the whereabouts of their robot please report up here... thank you."

I'm actually tempted to try that one...

Also, I was talking to 2791 and 1501. And the joke came up that Chris was actually going to go up there and have them request 1501's robot for 2791 in CT. I would've highly enjoyed hearing that.

[Chickenonastick]

Team ____ needs more vespene gas.

[Blackphantom91]

At northstar I could have sworn I heard someone ask for a Ipad and it wasnt even out yet!

[Lara Surmak]

"team #### is requesting that anyone who has any information on the whereabouts of their robot please report up here... thank you."

i was considering asking that when our robot didnt come back from its qualification match at the GTR. turns out we were just stopped by inspectors.

[Thing2_1723]

We were having a rough time getting our programming to work so we asked for a working code and also for a working robot. I think we also had someone go ask for more time.

The pit admin loved us at Dallas and we started joking around with one of our mechanical guys (because he was always the one to give stuff away) saying that she had a thing for him.

[ALTrammell818]

This isn't related to robotics but there is a computer and network administrator class at my high school with only a few kids in each hour. During each of these hours there is also a large class of students learning programming of different sorts and there is a single class for accounting. Every time there is a substitute teacher, one of the students in the first hour class asks the sub to remind my friends and I who show up later in the day to swap out the "Hydrogen Moleculizers" in all of the computers. When one of us is notified of this important task we all become extremely serious about getting it done. This has been going on all year and yet not a single substitute has noticed we were joking.

[Andy L]

At SVR last year our programmers sent a member on a search for prop wash, we continued this tradition this year by sending 5-6 of our new members to a series of teams who would say something like "oh we just gave it to XXX, try them" it took them a good 10 minutes and 8 teams to find out what prop wash is

[RoboMaster]

"Team XXX seems to have lost one of their butlers. If anyone finds Jeeves, you can tell him he's fired."

[Emily3204]

In the NYC regionals, the announcer said "Has anyone seen Waldo?"

[Refresh]

probably not intentional, but during west michigan district team 85 had a board game they were raffling away and during the finals the announcer said "XXX you've won the game!" And I could have sworn I heard a few moans across the who arena of people losing the game.

[=Martin=Taylor=]

We always ask for a "Pneumatic Programming Wrench"

This year 668 was kind enough to give us one

[De_Code_Master]

Haha, I was the one who told the announcer to ask, "Team 1758 would like to know where Waldo is!" at palmetto. Good to know somebody actually heard that.

One of our programmers, whose main role is actually to play starcraft, got this through: "1758 is looking for materials to construct additional pylons." We were gonna ask for a LHC or a water spanner and flux capacitor, but then matches got back underway and we were burning too many calories walking back and forth from the queuing area and the admin table.

[fordchrist675]

My freshmen year in '06 at SVR, we (675) would get the announcers to say 254 needs a hug, or 254 needs a girlfriend, or 675 is cooler than 1700. We would also be asked "675 stop blowing bubbles in the pits." we like to pull pranks sometimes. Flux capacitor is almost always heard. This year at SVR i didn't hear one prank for the first time i've been involved with FIRST