kid walking into the physics class room where we work:
“Wow, smells like… physics”
That’s pretty funny/clever.
It would be cool to see another meter rating achievements/successes alongside.
Edit: so as not to hijack the thread - in response to Andrew’s Bacon Scale posted below - I was thinking along the lines of daily successes as well - looking at team-building development, organizational development, development of a business plan, developing a safety plan and practicing it. A big slice of bacon could be awarded to the team if they make it through build without any safety accidents or injuries - possibly rating it week by week. That way every team qualifies for the bacon in their shop. Not just CA winners or robot competition winners - although those certainly could earn a slab of bacon. 
Just a thought.
I would vote for this scale being called the bacon scale. This is X slices of Bacon, this is Y slices of Bacon. Like winning a regional would be 100 slices of Bacon, winning Chairman’s would be 200, hearing your physics teacher sing Superbeast by Rob Zombie would be 500 slices… etc etc
Programmer:
“Oh no, now i have to try programming it while its spinning”
Me: “hey, could i please use your BBQ to heat my hammer?”
Team member: We need a team bonding activity.
Team member 2: Bowling!
Team member 3: Paint ball!
Mentor: Fishing… :rolleyes:
Last year’s best line:
“2x4’s aren’t two by four, you moron!”
All-time best line (circa 2005)
“Mr. I, can you can you come down here, preferably running?”
“So the Ultrasonic is going to determine what color the track ball is!”
“One divided by zero is zero, right?”
Everyone else: “NOOO!”
Mentor- “Don’t mess with success guys…”
Us- “No, we’re messing with FAIL!”
Me and Coach to Driver:“No! Get the blue trackballs!”
(This was in Atlanta, and we had had 5 red alliance matches in a row, so our driver was confused when we were on blue alliance.)
Edit: “EPIC FAILURE! clap clap, clap clap clap”
Mentor: Be careful with the T-Handle wrench especially, it gives you a lot of torque.
Student:T is for Torque!
He was so excited too.
The first of the pre-season!
“Did she just projectile hug you!?” - Itchy
“Required = Have to do it!” - Josh (Talking about mandatory meetings)
“As I know, teenagers are habitual time wasters.” -Will
When cleaning out our closet:
“Sporkets” --label on the Sprocket box
“Ahh! I have internet on my head!”–our president, getting his hair caught in an ethernet connector
“I have added safety” --Me putting a “Duck” sign on the cable
“Stupid hose” --James getting frustrated installing pressure lines during our first year with pneumatics
“Corey doesn’t like the strippers because they’re flat?” --Me responding to a student telling a coach not to use a pair of wire strippers
OMAIGAWD THERES MORE
Camoryn- “Its a random fluctuation in the space-time continuum”
Camoryn- “go into the shop and tell them the popcorn’s ready”
Me- walks into the shop “guys, the popcorn’s ready” two newbies walk out “knew it”
Sam(freshman)- “I didn’t come here for the food”
Me- “THAT’S what I want to hear, THAT’S the attitude I’m looking for!”
Sam begins walking out from behind the workbench
Me- “NOW GET BACK OVER THERE!!”
This is from the InvenTeam season, I guess it still counts…
Coach(referring to me)- “you, um, gah… sketchup kid.”
Me(looking up from computer with a certain level of wtf)- “what?”
Me(later that day)- “Hold on, if I’m ‘sketchup kid’, whats that make him(Cedric)?”
Coach- “you, the black one!”
And one from game design class with ‘the black one’
Cedric- “Someone said Riu from Street Fighter could beat Scorpian from Mortal Kombat. I said no way, Scorpian could take Riu any day of the week.”
Me- “ANY day? Dude, he could take Riu EVERY day of the week: GET OVER HERE!”
Also one that was written on the whiteboard during the FTC season (anyone who saw the ‘gnomes’ episode of South Park will get it):
PHASE 1: Build robot
PHASE 2:
PHASE 3: WIN
…and it was later written over by the teacher:
PHASE 1: Build robot
PHASE 2: rebuild robot the night before competition so it works
PHASE 3: WIN
This one actually found its way onto our Chairman’s Award video.
person 1: “the problem is that these holes don’t line up”
person 2: “holes never line up”
Minions are like cats- they only come to you when they want something and you’re working. Other than that they just sit there and eat.
I heard this one on ship date
“It’s only temporary, we’ll fix it later”
“That’s a software problem”–said by our mechanical leader after a bunch of gears fell out of our drivetrain
“Hey, let’s put a gyro on it!”–said at the end of the first day of a regional
two hours of hacking later after the gyro screwed up all our analog inputs
“Okay, I think I’ve removed all the tentacles of gyro.c from the code”
“It’s the PneuMetal!”–our driver noticing that the “Pneumatics” and “Metal” labels got stuck together
a quick said quote, that is now our team motto
“Tats to easy”
where if you know our team, it fits right in, we just seem to make everything much more complicated that it should be!!:rolleyes:
“Team 470 Alpha Omega Robotics is looking for a blue bumper, if any team has an extra blue bumper please return it to team 470”
At Kettering kickoff in September someone from another team stole one of our bumpers and we still haven’t gotten it back, but that was the announcement made.
We used red superballs on the end of our forklift, and they tended to fall out… so when they did fall out the MC at Philadelphia said
“And 1727 has released its rolley red apple things onto the field”
Needless to say we just got rid of them after it happened a second time.
“Water game? Ice field? ROBOTS ON ICE! It’s a new musical coming to a town near you!” :yikes: