Science Olympiad Quotes

[bookworm2110]

My teammates were doing Can't Judge A Powder(I think) and there was a group next to them who forgot their stuff so they couldn't test anything. Every time my teammates got an answer they would say the wrong answer really loudly. The other team wrote down the wrong answers, thinking they had the right answers.

When we went to the National Tournament in Illinois, we walked out of the airport and I said,"Look! It's an Illinois license plate!" I was so surprised...then I realized that we were in Illinois.

When I was doing Aquifers at Nationals, I was waiting behind a team that was talking about their aquifer to the judges. The judge asked them about the hydrologic cycle. They didn't know what it was. It was funny.

[Skink]

When I was doing Aquifers at Nationals, I was waiting behind a team that was talking about their aquifer to the judges. The judge asked them about the hydrologic cycle. They didn't know what it was. It was funny.

Yeah, that's pretty bad. My favorite:
"We're [soandso], and this is our Aquifier!"

...another one of those things that was funny at the time.

[sciolyperson]

"What's one plus one!"
"Two?"
"No its one!"
"How? "
"You obviously don't know me that well."

[Scipuppy]

"So, not a very high chance of us doing great on this event..."
"Yeah, not really. there is a chance though. You know, when a bunch of people die and we write the tests"
"and they get murdered"
"by men on flying pigs"
"from the moon"
"or the dark side of mercury"
"In other words, we're screwed."
"Pretty much."

[Scipuppy]

~while doing food science trials for molasses~
"I like molasses, yum, yum molasses, I like molasses, yum yum molasses.....x2384"
Me:

and


"Look! I can draw on myself with silver sharpie! I'm the tin man!!"
-colors hand-
"___, that doesn't come off"
"Im the silver tin man!!"
-keeps coloring-
-finishes coloring finger-
-5 minutes later-
"Oh. this is permanent isn't it?"
"mhmm."


"Why isn't the laser burning through the leaf?"
"I don't know, lets change the angle"
-fiddles-
"hmm, maybe now?"
"Nope, let me try"
-adjusts-
20 minutes later:
"...It's cloudy, isn't it"
"Right. I knew that."

[Sunshine Ninja]

"So, not a very high chance of us doing great on this event..."
"Yeah, not really. there is a chance though. You know, when a bunch of people die and we write the tests"
"and they get murdered"
"by men on flying pigs"
"from the moon"
"or the dark side of mercury"
"In other words, we're screwed."
"Pretty much."

What event was that for?

[sciolyperson]

"So, not a very high chance of us doing great on this event..."
"Yeah, not really. there is a chance though. You know, when a bunch of people die and we write the tests"
"and they get murdered"
"by men on flying pigs"
"from the moon"
"or the dark side of mercury"
"In other words, we're screwed."
"Pretty much."

A lot of people on my team do that constantly.
Sometimes it lasts a lot longer.

[geminicross]

Towers/Building Coach: You need to start working on your events, what are you here for anyway?

Me: *shrug*

Towers/Building Coach: What were your events? You need to start working harder!

Me: Crime Busters, Food Science, and Dynamic Planet. (*Points to the whiteboard, where I listed all of our regional standings,*

Towers/Building Coach: Well....go Bust some crimes then.

Me: *starts listing how we preformed in building events* Awesom Aquifers, 10th; Bottle Rockets, 9th; Expiremental Design, 11th; etc. etc. etc.; Towers, 7th.

Towers/Building Coach: Hey hey hey, if that event was "Most Attractive looking Tower" we would have won.

Me: *Awesome Aquifers, 10th; Bottle Rockets, 9th;---

[Lady Epidemic]

"Look! I can draw on myself with silver sharpie! I'm the tin man!!"
-colors hand-
"___, that doesn't come off"
"Im the silver tin man!!"
-keeps coloring-
-finishes coloring finger-
-5 minutes later-
"Oh. this is permanent isn't it?"
"mhmm."

At the Piqua regionals in Ohio (We got 3rd) I got bored during my last event, Keep the Heat. So, towards the end, I start drawing on myself with blue pen. And continue. For about 10 minutes. Almost back to homebase, and almost done with my palm and my pointer finger, and it runs out of ink. So I borrow a blue hilighter. My entire left hand was blue. Then, when I tried to wash it off in the bathroom, (The hilighter was washable), it wouldn't. Oops. Blue, diseased-looking hand for the next 2 days. Dad said if we had a crash on the way home, the paramedics would cut it off. =)

[Zoobanks]

As said by my lovely coach to myself.

Her "Do you know what your problem is?"
Me "Ehh I have a vague idea."
"Your a lazy slacker with no sense of your potential. You could be great, we could win state, and you could be a doctor if you wanted to. Instead you have decided not try. Now in five years you are going to be hanging out in coffee shops discussing philosophy with the Bolsheviks and wearing berets. You are going to be a Bolshevik. Do you want that to happen?"

Admittedly we were both quite stressed at that time. This was right before regionals and we have a somewhat unique relationships. I just found it hilarious that she said I was going to be a Bolshevik of all things. Well now almost everyone on our team has used the word as a somewhat endearing insult.