15Jan/104
FIRST Design
by Jeff
Image text: Pool on the roof must've sprung a leak.
This comic is about a robot competition between two sides. The protagonist's side comes up with a robot that has a match on an extending arm to set off the sprinkler system to disable the opposing robot. Then the protagonists added an umbrella to their robot so that their robot could complete the competition without getting wet.
The image text is the protagonist's flimsy excuse for the reason there is water everywhere.
UPDATE: As Zero Cool and Alexandra said in the comments, the Image text is a reference to the movie, Hackers.
January 15th, 2010
The ‘pool on the roof’ comment may also be a reference to the book/movie ‘Hackers’, in which the protagonist is tricked by a girl into going to the locked roof of his new high school with promises of a giant pool. He later sets off the fire sprinklers, and explains it as the roof-pool springing a leak.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/quotes
January 15th, 2010
Image text is from the movie Hackers. Great quote!
January 15th, 2010
See also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIRST
January 17th, 2010
Zero Cool is the alias of the protagonist in the film Hackers.