Student on Left: “What is that thing?”
Student on Right: “I don’t know. It looks like a flying pig.” plop
Student on Left: “Eww, look what he left on your hat!”
Driver on right: I’m not sure, but I think this piece of exploded pig on my head is going bad. I guess we should have listened to wendymom when she said it wouldn’t last all weekend.
After this very sucessful match, the whole alliance was unfortunately disqualified after the referees realized the stuffed little piggy members of the team were not wearing safety glasses while in the alliance station.
The term “Exploding Bacon” was coined shortly after a driver, wearing a pink pig hat, had his head explode when their robot didn’t score in Autonomous. The pig did not fare well.
James:Hey scott?
Scott:Yeah,?
James:Why are we here?
Scott: I don’t know, why are any of us here. It’s one of those big questions of life isn’t it. Do we all have a purpose, or are we all just here by some odd cosmic coincedence? I don’t know man, but it keeps me up at night.
James:…No I mean why are we at the field, the match hasn’t started yet.
Mythbusters -Episode 187
In “Fly Bacon”, Adam and Jamie tackle the rumor that pigs can fly.
They attempt to create the myth that at the 2007 FIRST Championship,
Team 1902’s fuzzy pig mascot was launched by an exploding toroid game piece 270 ft. and lodged itself in the ceiling rafter.
James: Look at the pretty blue light. Its almost… hypnotic. I know why moths do this.
Scott: Huuuuh?
George: Who ever came up with the idea of 3/4 length sleeves? Perhaps If I stand behind scott, no one will notice me because of his obnoxiously awesome hat.