YES THE GREEN LIGHT’S BACK ON! said right after finally getting the cRIO to detect itself.
Person1: “Why are the router and the gaming adapter on two seperate logical networks?”
Me: “A) Define logical B) Because it’s not logical”
2008RobotInspector:“Quick put out the fire before the judge comes!” -this was one that the inspector told us he heard one year.
Freshman: “How would i go about cutting this?” (Holds up object)
Mentor: “with Hopes and Dreams”
Freshman: “I don’t have any of those…”
We have created something in robotics called outside jokes. They are jokes that no one gets. It would be too confusing to explain that one. At any rate, I tried to explain the concept to someone else on the team earlier.
“Inside jokes some people get, but not others. Outside jokes no one get. Inside out jokes some people don’t get, but they get why they don’t get it, and other people don’t get it, and don’t get that they don’t get it. Outside in jokes one person gets it, another gets that they don’t get it, and someone else doesn’t get that they don’t get it. You get it?”
Got that?
at our meeting today:
J: “it was so cool, I was walking through the mall with my shoes on…” -trails off-
-laughter ensues-
G: “As opposed to…?”
A Few Months ago when we made a goal-height measuring-block for VEX Elevation:
R: “but you see, mine is 21 inches tall, and yours is only 9”
-laughter around the room-
R: -smirk-
Mentor: “Here keystock keystock keystock! whistle Here keystock keystock!!!”
Mentor: “It’s an itty bitty part”
Captain: sings “Itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini…”
Mentor: “Ok, I didn’t need the visual for that one…thanks”
We were talking about the music that we had playing at the time…and we got on the topic of an Alice Cooper concert that one of our designers went to a while ago.
“…and there were a lot of older people there who thought it was still the 70s”
Mentor: “It’s not?”
Student: “BOO YAY!”
hilarious joke is made, student begins laughing hysterically
Me: “I think we killed him”
Student recovers from laughing spasm: “I’ve been dead for three years”
Mentor: “Well, that explains a lot of his behaviors”
Mentor: “Ten minutes until cleanup!”
Other Mentor: “Ya–I mean, nooooooooooooooooooooooo!”
I got that xD I like it.
“I just slapped you in the face with physics, and you still disagree with me!” me.
Force dump.
“It must have been a teacher who did that, an engineer would never do that.”
Coach: “No software, no sensors, just motors”
Captain: “Ok, software can be our backup”
This one was at the Cleveland Regional in 2008.
A fellow mentor and I were talking with a mentor from another team in his pit area. While he was talking to us, he turned around and said to some of the students on his team “Tards, stop that!” My fellow mentor said “Why do you call them Tards?” The mentor replied “Because they can’t be retards until they do it again.”
We were quite amused.
Charlie: “I keep getting called Mam on the phone” (While calling Wal - mart asking about the orbit balls)
Kostas (Mentor) - “Don’t worry people will take you seriosly eventully.”
This really isn’t a quote but it is really funny
Alex and Billy are two of our mentors who are mechanical engineers. Most of our mentors are enviornmental engineers. Alex and Billy don’t usually come but one day they were helping us (since I was the only student there) we needed a triangle shaped piece of lexan and they offered to help. (Alex is Billy’s boss and he knows that he could not do what he does without Billy and Billy knows that too.) So they tried to cut the triangle out and you could hear them arguing
Billy: That is not right are you a idiot"
Alex: “No I am not trust me I know what I am doing.”
They come back with a triangle shaped piece of Lexan and try and fit it in. It won’t go in.
Billy: “See I told you so nw it is my turn to try”
Alex: growls
Billy comes back looking smug and he tries his it does not fit either. They try 18 more times and on the 21st try they fially get one that fits. Then Billy goes
Billy: “See I told you I could do it”
At that point Sandra (one of our other mentors) are on the ground laughing. The team now has so mny inside jokes about that exprience
While building a trailer:
Mentor: We’re going to make sure the wheels go roundy-roundy first.
During robot design discussions:
“I don’t think we can fit the cRIO into a soup can.”
its half cat half cat - nick decker
50 dolers!!! ( thats the way it was pronounced) - santiago the guy from spain
Once my friend on the team was like “I hope there’s no hidden mines on this course!” lol! gotta love her
“Don’t worry about that. Code will magically make it work.”
One member of our team wrote “Gullible” and “Gullible 2.0” on tape and stuck them to the ceiling at a meeting.
Running quickly into our room from the shop our mentor says:
“Did we ever get those fire extinguishers?!”