Ok, so I know we have one of these every year, and I’ve decided it’s high time this year’s began!
Write down the funniest quotes (engineering related or not, yes I’ve seen the “engineering slogans” thread, this doesn’t have to have anything to do with engineering) that your team has had during the season so far! As my team enjoys harassing me, I have some fairly amusing ones
•Sean, please make sure they’re not cutting themselves with the hacksaw
•“Do you have a band-aid?” “No” “Ok, do you have paper towel and duck tape?”
•“I turned in my medical form, now I can cut my finger off”
•“Yes guys, aluminum is sharp”
•“Is that supposed to cut wood?” “Yeah, I guess it doesn’t cut aluminum”
Here is a quote from our programmer (me) after testing autonomous modes on a previous robot.
“Autonomous sort of works”, “Ok”, “I nearly decorated the parking lot with Reggie 3. Autonomous just sort of goes forever.” our field is on a second story floor, the robot was headed towards the door, it has a new dent in it ;).
one i love to say about every meeting.
“Where is the sharpie?” and the result is everyone got one sharpie.
another one is “it’s all good”. also, “sometimes you have to go away to comeback”. hope ya enjoy
Here’s some of mine, from the programmers, to the Tetra House incident, to the Titanic Bunnies reinactment when it was midnight and I think we were drunk on water >.>
“A variable is like a BOX!” -Max
(titanic reinacted by bunnies in 30 seconds)
The titanic was the ship of dreams and it was!
I’ll jump! No you won’t. Yes i will!
ICEBURG DEAD AHEAD!!! AHHH!!! AHHH!!! AHH!!!
this ship cannot sink! I assure you she can!
I HAVE A CHILD!!!
I won’t let go jack! lets go
Ah! drops necklace
the end!
“they be shanken my house yo” -Trent (tetra house incedent)
“We’re sorry, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off due to technical difficulties.” - me when I was “discussing” something about the robot…
Unfortunately our build season hasn’t been very amusing. Usually we keep a quote book because so many funny things happen, but we haven’t kept one this year.
On the other hand, here’s a couple of incidents who may have been funny at the time but not to anyone who wasn’t there. =P
Collin throws foam rubber at Sonya “DEGRATION!!!”
Sonya: Does that hurt your face?
Anna: You hurt my face!
Also, a couple of my freshmen can fit inside the tetras. That’s pretty amusing to watch.
One of my team members said this just now, upon entering the room when other team members were playing country music: “What the heck is this crap?” Pretty much his entire life philosophy in one sentence.
hahaha…people walk into the machine shop when we are building and scream “yeeee-haaaaa” when they hear the country music…personaly i like it better now when we’re listening to the steve miller band
Make sure you check out the 2004 page. =) A lot of them still apply to 2005. Our rather strange FIRST family ( :] ) has no problem supplying funny quotes on a daily basis, its just the webmaster (me) forgets them about 5 minutes after they happen.
“I have to leave FIRST so I can go home and service my dog.”
–One of our design team, on his responsibility to “wash, walk, and feed” his canine pal.
“I am quitting computers. I am going home to live in a shack in the woods.”
–One of our design team, after he logged on to Autodesk to have it subsequently crash for the 15th time in a row.
“Tim, why did our server go down?” calls ISP “Um…a raccoon bit through our CAT-5 cable.”
I had just designed our chassis in ISO on CAD and we were looking at it while building it…
Chino: Um, Zog, I think you drew it wrong.
:I grab it and flip it right side up:
Me: You’re an idiot.
That was a good laugh for us all and if you really wanna know about the nicknames… go ahead and ask.
those are good so far… but i’ve got a brilliant one.
one of my friends who is new to the team was online after i asked him to look up some of the rules for the chairmans award. while scrolling through the manual on the computer, he asked:
“What are Woody Flowers?”
needless to say i fell out of my chair and almost died. XD its written on the dry erase board in the room where we have most of our meetings as “Danny’s Dumb Question of the Day” (we say that in jest lol) …perhaps i’ll post the picture i took of it later.
there are probably more from my team… i just never seem to be around when the funny stuff happens though! we keep a list of funny things that happen to people, and at the of all of the competitions (usually sometime around late april or may) we have a Team Party (usually a pool party) where the entire team gets together one last time. We have these things called “Who’s who?”'s, and the party we all get together and read them, asking who did what. (thats kind of confusing so here is an example of a real one: “Who got a ticket in New York for jumping the subway turnstiles?” of which there were two answers, but i wont mention their names. (it wasnt their fault really… they were carrying a lot of stuff for competition and it couldnt fit through the turnstiles along with them…)) those are always amusting stories to tell and serve as great memorials for all of the fun things that happened while we were together.
" :ahh: WHOAH sparks "
“was it suppose to do that”
“that can’t be good”
“why does it smell like smoke in here”
“not techno again”
“check the manual” <<< something a mentor always says scratches head “whats that”
“OHHHHH!!!” <<<<< Programmers quote
“Foods here”
"Hit the DISABLE :ahh: "
“don’t forget to unplug the program cable :ahh:”
“um…did you try turning it on??”
“why won’t it download???..plugs in program cable…um, never mind”
“why won’t it drive???..turns disable off…um…oops”
"Don’t hit the trigger :ahh: "
“You’re offending me with your profound language.”
“Here’s a band-aid to keep your blood off the robot.”
“The code compiled. We’re done.”
“That’s a really sweet box.”
“Measure once, cut twice, argue why it won’t get longer.”
