Your funniest fails!
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Re: Your funniest fails!
by noobforce on Tue Apr 03, 2012 1:43 pm
Before Regionals I was carrying my wooden tower jig on my head like a hat(The tower wasn't on it at the time). Then I walked into a doorway and the jig fell on my head. Got a nice, big bruise.
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Re: Your funniest fails!
by LCovington on Wed Apr 04, 2012 4:01 pm
Cheesy Pie wrote:Oh. On last year's Disease Detectives tryout at my school, there was something about how crab dip caused food poisoning, but they spelled crab cr@p. I'm like, Well no wonder they got food poisoning!
Mmm... crab cr@p
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Re: Your funniest fails!
by catchingfire on Fri Apr 06, 2012 1:01 am
At Regionals Keep the Heat, one of the questions was along the lines of this:
Which of the following is equivalent to 144 K?
a) 417 C
b) 129 C
c) -129 F
d) 129 F
None of these are the right answer; the correct answer should be 144-273= -129 C. We asked the Event Supervisor about this, he just shrugged it off and said, "pick whichever answer is right". If the right answer is really one of the choices, then God help our team.
To this day, I still don't know how well we did on that test. The other questions were pretty easy. I just hope they don't pull something dumb like that again.
Which of the following is equivalent to 144 K?
a) 417 C
b) 129 C
c) -129 F
d) 129 F
None of these are the right answer; the correct answer should be 144-273= -129 C. We asked the Event Supervisor about this, he just shrugged it off and said, "pick whichever answer is right". If the right answer is really one of the choices, then God help our team.
To this day, I still don't know how well we did on that test. The other questions were pretty easy. I just hope they don't pull something dumb like that again.
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2012 Regionals: Write it Do it - 1st, Disease Detectives - 3rd
2012 States: Disease Detectives - 5th, Awesome Aquifers - 6th
2013 Invitationals: Astronomy - 3rd
2013 Regionals: Fermi Questions - 2nd
Events - Anatomy, Astronomy, Aquifers, Disease, Fermi, Forensics, Thermodynamics, WIDI
2012 Regionals: Write it Do it - 1st, Disease Detectives - 3rd
2012 States: Disease Detectives - 5th, Awesome Aquifers - 6th
2013 Invitationals: Astronomy - 3rd
2013 Regionals: Fermi Questions - 2nd
Events - Anatomy, Astronomy, Aquifers, Disease, Fermi, Forensics, Thermodynamics, WIDI
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Re: Your funniest fails!
by sciencegeek999 on Wed Apr 18, 2012 10:35 pm
In Microbe mission, there are stations. I put all of the answers in the wrong places and had to change it really fast before time ran out in the end.
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Re: Your funniest fails!
by skillfullparrot7 on Thu Apr 19, 2012 12:09 am
This happened in my first year of SO, 6th grade, and was also my first competition.
On an invitational Road Scholar test, my partner and I didn't know how to even answer the test. It was laid out differently than any other test we had ever seen, so we put random words in the blanks. I can't fathom how we didn't place last in that.
Now one year ahead at 5:30 in the morning at a hotel before an invitational competition. I had just woken up when I hear an alarm, so naturally, I think it's someone phone going off in the room. It doesn't stop and no one wakes up, so I open the door and what do you know, it's the fire alarm. So I go and wake everyone up, and we go downstairs. Turns out the fire alarm was caused by the waffle maker. Not much of a fail, I know, I just wanted to share it.
On an invitational Road Scholar test, my partner and I didn't know how to even answer the test. It was laid out differently than any other test we had ever seen, so we put random words in the blanks. I can't fathom how we didn't place last in that.
Now one year ahead at 5:30 in the morning at a hotel before an invitational competition. I had just woken up when I hear an alarm, so naturally, I think it's someone phone going off in the room. It doesn't stop and no one wakes up, so I open the door and what do you know, it's the fire alarm. So I go and wake everyone up, and we go downstairs. Turns out the fire alarm was caused by the waffle maker. Not much of a fail, I know, I just wanted to share it.
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Re: Your funniest fails!
by Suzumebachi on Thu Apr 19, 2012 3:13 pm
mmh.... well for helicopters, we made one but it couldn't fly and we didn't have time to make a new one so we threw it in the air. I think we had 3 seconds of air time 
^by the way, does anyone have any advice for a beginner who has yet to build anything useful that flies? lol, I'm not sure where to post in the Helicopter forum....
Second story: We forgot to do the Gravity Vehicle, and in CT there was a 1 hour delay due to snow, so a couple kids went down to the Student Union and got a bunch of cups and straws...built a car out of that. We placed 10th / 17 teams who competed in the event... I have no idea how that happened. xD
^by the way, does anyone have any advice for a beginner who has yet to build anything useful that flies? lol, I'm not sure where to post in the Helicopter forum....
Second story: We forgot to do the Gravity Vehicle, and in CT there was a 1 hour delay due to snow, so a couple kids went down to the Student Union and got a bunch of cups and straws...built a car out of that. We placed 10th / 17 teams who competed in the event... I have no idea how that happened. xD
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2010: Astronomy - 5th Ornithology - 1st Elevated Bridge 12th Picture This- ? OVERALL: 16th
2012: Forestry- 1st Astronomy- 2nd Protein Modelling- 5th Helicopters-18th OVERALL: 4th
2011: Sounds of Music- 10th Ornithology- 1st Fossils- 7th Astronomy- 7th OVERALL: 8th
2010: Astronomy - 5th Ornithology - 1st Elevated Bridge 12th Picture This- ? OVERALL: 16th
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Re: Your funniest fails!
by silverheart7 on Thu Apr 19, 2012 9:27 pm
People probably got second tiered? That's my guess.
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Re: Your funniest fails!
by sciencegeek999 on Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:27 pm
Last year, I was in JV. My partner lost my note, and I made new ones and printed them in my 45 min break.
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Re: Your funniest fails!
by Suzumebachi on Fri Apr 20, 2012 9:02 am
Silverheart7 - that's true... lol probably
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2012: Forestry- 1st Astronomy- 2nd Protein Modelling- 5th Helicopters-18th OVERALL: 4th
2011: Sounds of Music- 10th Ornithology- 1st Fossils- 7th Astronomy- 7th OVERALL: 8th
2010: Astronomy - 5th Ornithology - 1st Elevated Bridge 12th Picture This- ? OVERALL: 16th
2012: Forestry- 1st Astronomy- 2nd Protein Modelling- 5th Helicopters-18th OVERALL: 4th
2011: Sounds of Music- 10th Ornithology- 1st Fossils- 7th Astronomy- 7th OVERALL: 8th
2010: Astronomy - 5th Ornithology - 1st Elevated Bridge 12th Picture This- ? OVERALL: 16th
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Re: Your funniest fails!
by SciBomb97 on Fri May 04, 2012 9:58 pm
Not my fail, and not related to SO, but this happened at school...
Classmate: "Whoa, wait. English is your second language?"
Me: "Well yeah, d'you think it was my first language?"
Classmate: "No, I thought Canadian was your second language."
Me: *EPIC FACEPALM*
(For those of you who do not realize why that's a fail, CANADIANS SPEAK ENGLISH TOO!!!)
Classmate: "Whoa, wait. English is your second language?"
Me: "Well yeah, d'you think it was my first language?"
Classmate: "No, I thought Canadian was your second language."
Me: *EPIC FACEPALM*
(For those of you who do not realize why that's a fail, CANADIANS SPEAK ENGLISH TOO!!!)
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Re: Your funniest fails!
by silverheart7 on Fri May 04, 2012 10:04 pm
LOL that is such a fail! 
Poor kid. Now everyone in internet-world knows about his/her fail.
Poor kid. Now everyone in internet-world knows about his/her fail.
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Re: Your funniest fails!
by illusionofconfusion on Fri May 04, 2012 10:07 pm
SciBomb97 wrote:Not my fail, and not related to SO, but this happened at school...
Classmate: "Whoa, wait. English is your second language?"
Me: "Well yeah, d'you think it was my first language?"
Classmate: "No, I thought Canadian was your second language."
Me: *EPIC FACEPALM*
(For those of you who do not realize why that's a fail, CANADIANS SPEAK ENGLISH TOO!!!)
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Re: Your funniest fails!
by tuftedtitmouse12 on Sat May 05, 2012 12:17 pm
Haha, it's just like what happened in my math class. There is this girl moving to Toronto, Canada at the end of the school year.
Boy: You're moving to Canada?!?
Girl: ... Yeah...?
Boy: ... but...but I thought you were moving to Toronto...
Boy: You're moving to Canada?!?
Girl: ... Yeah...?
Boy: ... but...but I thought you were moving to Toronto...
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Re: Your funniest fails!
by shadysidesmalls on Sat May 05, 2012 8:13 pm
There was this question on a disease detective test that asked for questions one would ask the victims of a disease and we couldnt think of a last one so my partner and i said was the food scrimdidliumtuous? I think we got 5th :p
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