Funny things to ask for on the PA system

[sandiegodan]

At CVR, "Team xxxx needs an ID 10 T cable ..."

[LemmingBot]

I heard the classic 'left handed wrench and Flux capacitor' at nationals! It made my hour!

I don't know if this one counts, but in the airport waiting for our flight to St.Louis this was said over the Airport's PA:

"Flight 489 is leaving in five minutes, whether your on the airplane or not. Don't whine if you miss it."

I think we should have enlisted this guy as a pit announcer!

[Camren]

At this Championships our team brought supporters from the other team in our city who weren't competing turns out they needed a serial mouse driver for the cRIO

My mentor found a massive cable splicer (we learned what it was afterwards) on the side of the road and brought it with us. I went around 10k Lakes asking people for a spare bit for it, which elicited some amusing reposes.

[JonathanZur1836]

If you're dealing with severe damage at a regional, the best thing to tell the guys at the PA: "Team ____ needs a miracle. Once again, team ____ needs a miracle"

[torihoelscher]

"Has anyone found my ducks? I found 1,2,4, and 5. Where is number 3?"

[caseybarisax14]

A Clue

[rkbot]

While in the pits at the boston regional we were in the pit working on our robot when the girl at the counter announced "Team XXXX is in need of a large mouth shafter adapter." It was a good laugh as being in the pits can get frustrating.

[RoeeVulcan]

Team XXXX has lost a 5 feet wireless cable. If anyone had found it please give it back to team XXXX

Also a great dumb rookie test-
When you tell them to arrange everything, tell one of the to put tall the wireless cables in the box

[Zuelu562]

(WPI Regional Joke) Team XXXX, XXXX, and XXXX Seems to have misplaced their Friday. If you could find their Friday, please return it to them.

The area around WPI got SLAMMED by a pretty big storm; any team that wasn't within a mile of the venue was either stuck or too scared to try to make it. For my team, all 3 students on the drive team were stuck in their driveway!!!!

[Alex2614]

Geiger Counter, always.

[I_AM_Clayton]

So today at our load-in for the St.Louis regional a few team members and I were joking around about this topic ( it happened to be raining slightly at the time) A few of us made a joke saying that if somehow our bag ripped open on the way to Chaifetz and got wet all we would have to do is request a giant vat of rice on the pa system! ( last year we also requested needle and thread after our bumpers were sliced by another robot.

[The other Gabe]

my team had for a while a fake student called "Roth Jamison" (back in 2013). he was made up by one of our jokesters after they were reminded to not put any fake names on the team sign up sheet. He became a recurring thing, popping up all over the place, even getting his own Facebook page, and the practice robot named after him.

Long story short, we got the announcer in the stadium of the competition (not the pits, but during competitions) to announce for "Roth Jamison to please return to the pit area" at the Central washington Regional (I hope I'm remembering all of this correctly)

[engunneer]

Originally Posted by iCurtis

I thought a good one was the metric crescent wrench.

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

I have a friend at work that has a left handed metric crescent wrench. Left-hand means that the adjustment screw has LH threading.

[MishraArtificer]

One I always wanted to do at GLR (back when it was still GLR) was ask if we could borrow Teams 66, 67, and 68's sponsors. Just because. Of course, we can't do it now, GM and Daimler-Chrysler-oh wait...it's the new GM and Chrysler-Fiat now...