Chookie chookie chookie
I won a chook in bingo while on a camping trip. We didnt have a stove or a fridge. We threw it onto the roof of the caravan next door cause we were cranky at them from playing Olivia Newton John music all night.
Lets get physical!!
( sheraloonytunes, Fri 5 Aug 2005, 0:11, Reply)

raffle prizes
I won the raffle at the works Xmas do this year, which was a meal for 2 at the hotel. Im not sure what happened to my tickets, but I never got the meal. :(

Several years ago I won a brand new car, which was nice, so overall, I guess im doing ok in the raffle stakes.
(dave likes cheese, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 23:47, Reply)

in primary school...
There was a school fete raffle and i won a bottle of brandy. I grabbed the bottle from the table and went to show my dad, to have it snatched from me by the old woman running the stall as i was under aged (i was 10). so i was forced to walk off empty handed and didnt even get my pound back.
(Haggard, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 23:47, Reply)

I didn't think a lucky dip in the pub lost and found could be so fruitful
all my mates in the pub team got Coats and cool things, I got a pair of elusive dead man's glasses AND some pig snacks

AWESOME!
( GrandmaOfShoes, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 23:29, Reply)

Last day of work...
...in the pharmaceutical industry where they take on and let go graduates with regularity. Our 1 year contract was up so we all went down to the Hare in Harlow and sank some pints and talked about our future endeavours.

We were having a jolly time when the landlady strolled over and asked if we wanted to take part in the raffle - at 20p a pop, we all chipped in. The prize could have been 'anything'.

The bastard Steve only went and won. See how pleased he is with a selection of meats!



(jokaah, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 23:07, Reply)

I never win anything
I was however given a Pedigre Chum tshirt from one of the Gladiators at an event, by given i mean one minute i was stood there and the next i was being twatted in the face by a parcle containing a tshirt. The gladiator came over to see if i was ok and being a 6 year old girl confronted by a 7"5 muscle i was slightly scared. My mother however was cooing like the woman who collapsed in the supermarket not so long ago!. Dirty woman.
(Legs 11 last got some loving on, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 22:44, Reply)

Computer
In 1982 my junior school was the first school in the country to get one of those new fangled BBC Model B computers.

I remember it had this 'Pong' type game and all the class members had a go, I scored the highest!

Won bugger all though, but I was 7 and happy to have beaten everyone.
(badseeds, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 22:39, Reply)

Let me see
Well, how about the time I spent 20p on a raffle ticket and won...

*drumroll*

A can of lager and a bottle of shaving foam. Just what every six year old girl wants.
(PAMPAMPAM, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 22:30, Reply)

Big prize bingo at the Tudor...
...some Wigan folk may have attended this event in the past. It's hard not to forget such classic prizes as:

A bag of dog food
A thunderbirds wall clock
A water pistol

and the grand star prize of.... Wait for it....


A SHOVEL! Oh yes, what a beauty.
( beefandcheese, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 22:19, Reply)

Mountain Bike?
Back when I was in Beavers I entered one of their beavers raffles, which noone ever expects to win. Well I won a proper sized Mountain Bike. Bear in mind, I was in Beavers, so it would be quiet a few years before I was tall enough to actually ride the thing. So off to the attic it went. But, aha, my older brother was big enough to ride it a lot sooner than me. So I kindly let him use it, and his first use of it would be a Scount bike ride over some hilly terrain (I live in Wales). Going downhill, my brother had to use the brakes...which it turned out didnt work on my brand new never before used bike and he crashed into his scout leader. Damn bike.
(Pigmash, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 21:53, Reply)

Hard-won crapness
As a pimply teenager, I attended a fine arts highschool, and studied, among other things, the flute. I worked long hours and practiced my little adolescent fingers off in band and orchestra, and earned top grades in my final year at highschool.

Graduation comes around, and up saunters La Moderatrice to accept her "Best Music Student of the Year" award. A handshake and a snapshot later, I am holding a mysterious envelope in my hands. Ripping it open, I find...

A hand-written IOU from the director of the music programme of the school. Not even so much as a card.

Do you have to ask if that IOU was ever filled?

Nope.

I worked with that man for 15 more years, and I never saw jack-all.

Bitter? Yup. Ohhhhhh yeah.
(LaModratrice, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 21:33, Reply)

A fucking pencil case.
We got given a sheet with a crappy cartoon on it at school and had to come up with a caption for it.

I came second, went to a presentation at a local library, there was a fucking local rag photographer there, and I won a shitty fucking pencil case. I even had to stand there with two other kids, grinning like it was the best thing that had ever happened to me.
( Mike Fishcake teamfishcake.co.uk - better than your mum's face, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 21:30, Reply)

Orienteering
I went along as a helper on an adventure ed trip with a junior school.
I am highly competative person, and desperately needed to be the leader of the first group back. So I bribed my group of ten year olds with chocolates if we won. I had a kid with asthma in the group, but he managed to run the whole way round :D

They won kingsize chocolate bars. I won a smug face! haha
( dub-girl, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 21:19, Reply)

I won a small painted stone
for best can-can high kicks when I was ten

I was over the moon
( Hidden Mouse, Sleeping Kitten Gromada? Gromada!, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 21:12, Reply)

Best. Prize. Ever.
Many moons ago when the school had a week's camping 'trip' on the North York Moors (we were the poor kids who couldn't afford to go to Paris) the entire mob was divided into teams, given maps and compasses and told to sod off for the next few hours. The idea was that you used the stuff to find markers, punch your sheet with the clips to prove you'd been there, and whoever did it in the fastest time won a prize.

Well, we toiled through muddy fields, trudged on through the unending drizzle, scrambled over walls and even waded into nettles after an earlier team had though it the height of hilarity to lob the marker over a hedge. We were the epitome of teamwork, and we romped home a full five minutes ahead of anyone else.

We got a packet of Rolo. At least it was one packet each. I was so famished I scoffed the lot in about three minutes.
( Biggus Dickus , it was like that when I found it, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 21:12, Reply)

I once manged to win a bus trip around Europe
in a pub promotion "Weakest Link" type quiz that went on far too long and ended up with it being just myself and a girl who worked in the bar. Eventually managed to get my question right and won the month-long trip. That was by bus. That you had to pay for food, lodgings, ferry trips and pretty much everything except the first ride out of the terminal.

Mind you, as part of the promotion I also won 40 pints of Kronenburg that had to go that night so I and a number of friends, some of whom I'd actually met before, necked the lot. Made the bus trip seem more attractive but I still didn't go.
( S tr app y, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 20:48, Reply)

Another one, reminded by Fulrokitty's post...
Not a prize exactly, but...

...I arrived home one day to find one of those 'We have a parcel...' cards as well. As I am at work all day, the only time I can collect is early in the morning. So the following morning, I got up AN HOUR earlier than usual to pick up my parcel (the depot is in completely the opposite direction to work y'see).

I had assumed it was something to do with the broadband account I had just signed up for, or the modem I had ordered. What was my parcel? A free energy-saving light bulb from my bloody electricity company! BASTARDS! I COULD HAVE HAD ANOTHER HOUR IN BED!

Fortunately I am saving millions on my electricity bills - probably.
(jimi.vicious regrets criticising the American electoral system!, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 20:45, Reply)

Same bottle of cheap champagne twice.
The department I work in has a tombola every christmas to fairly distribute the gifts we get from our suppliers. The standard win is a bottle of booze together with some calenders and other crap. One year I "won" a bottle of obviously cheap champagne. The thing is I hate champagne. Cheap one doubly so. So clever me simply kept said bottle of champagne at my desk, right at the window so it would get really bad in the sun. Handed it over to our department secretary next christmas to use it for the next tombola. I ended winning this bottle of cheap champagne again. Never participated in the tombola since.
( RedWine President of the S.C.U.M., Thu 4 Aug 2005, 20:21, Reply)

Went to Pontins with the nephew and neice a few years ago
Right boring shithole full of scanky two-bit whores and the obnoxious, odious little shits they dub children.

Yeah, we entered a quiz, cheated, and won a bottle of cheap german piss in a wine-bottle, a crappy mug with the faint remains of the pontins' generic mascot printed on to it, and a balloon blowing kit that created, what can only be described as, lousy deflated plastic bubbles of shit.
( Naive Amoeba Bored Cig, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 20:19, Reply)

Sponsored prizes
When I was thirteen, I was at some local fair and I won one of the kids competition for downing a small glass of orange juice in the shortest amount of time. The other contestants (no doubt forcefully shoved up the stage by their parents) were eight and five. They gave up waiting for the five year old while he savours his drink before they handed me my prize - a crappy nail manicure set.

At the same event I also won a drawing competition I entered because I was damn bored and had nothing better to do. I won another nail manicure set. Come to think of it, I think my dad got one too. And so did the kids who didn't actually win the orange juice thing. Ummmm.
(pumpkin pie, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 20:14, Reply)

sad but true
When I was little (in primary school) I won an orthography contest. Three times in a row.
What did I get?
A dictionary, predictably..
(Guaca the Mole, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 20:06, Reply)

Back when I was in year 6
We had a special last day of term before easter day in which there was lots of games and such like. One game was a treasure map where you had to pay 20p to put a flag in a map, whoever got the closest to the cross under the map won all the sweets that were being used as decoration. Somehow I managed to win which was great, except I had given up sweets for lent. The scavengers I had as classmates begged me for some sweets, so I ended up giving everything away except for one chocolate egg!

Also when I gave up drinking I won a yard of ale in a pub game. Again I ended up giving it away to the guy who helped me cheat to win!

I think I'm going to give up money and play the lottery!
( bobzarkoff, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 19:18, Reply)

Musical Condom
When bro and I were 16, mum and the stepdad took us on holiday to Reighton Sands to "relax before our GCSE results came through".
First night there, we were in the bar (bless mum for allowing us to get drunk!) and they had a "musical condom" competition whereby you had to pick songs that were appropriate for a musical condom.
I won much to the hilarious amusement of my parents who didn't know what I'd put down.

"You Keep It All In" Beautiful South
"Johnny Come Home" Fine Young Cannibals
"Rubber Ball Come Bouncing Back to me" Some band or other
"Whip Crack Away" Some band or another
"Won't You Play With My Ding-a-Ling" Some old old guy.

I won a cool trophy which my mum still has, and I was still a virgin at the time!
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 19:16, Reply)

Back in 1985...
...I got ran over and ended up in hospital. I entered a competition on the hospital radio and to my delight I won.

My prize? The 'Agadoo' single and a pack of cards. Both extremely useful when I was tied to my bed for seven weeks with my leg in traction. NOT!

But to be fair, I was in hospital over christmas and got tons more presents as a result.
(jimi.vicious regrets criticising the American electoral system!, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 19:07, Reply)

I once won a matchbox car in a school raffle
which would have been fine if it hadn't been me who had brought it in for the bring'n'buy sale. Or me who had previously chewed all the wheels off it.

And I once won half a pig in a french raffle. Which would also have been fine if I hadn't been flying home hand-luggage-only a couple of hours later.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 18:51, Reply)

soap?
I won half a bar of soap off some tv program on the childrens channel. They actually sent it to me as well.
( Regger, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 18:50, Reply)

our crap prize.
One day I got home from work to find one of those "we have a package for you " cards stuffed through the door. So we trundled round to the post office to collect or package trying in vein to figure out what we had ordered.
We get there I sign for it and we step outside to open it up, inside the bubble wrap envelope s a copy of the MEN IN BLACK soundtrack - not even the bloody DVD tight gits!!! and a cover note saying simply "Congratulations, you have won a men in black CD"

We still to this day have no idea who sent it or what competition we had entered in order to win such a crap prize.


On a better note the best prize I have ever won was the swizzles matlow one they do each month in which I had to invent a new product. They sent me a suitcase load of their yummy sweets but they still haven't put my sherbet filled ice lolly into production as far as I know, shame.
( flurokitty 3, 2, 1 lets jam! (+.[___]·:·), Thu 4 Aug 2005, 18:41, Reply)

Viva Las Vegas
Went to visit my Girlfriend's Nan who lives in Las Vegas (my girlfriend was there too, I am not a perv).

She offered to take us out gambling and gave us $100 to spend on the video poker machines.

Was going great, within 5 minutes I was $500 up and looking forward to pissing my winnings up the wall later that night. Only problem was we felt obliged to spend the rest of the day with her in the casino - as GF hadn't seen here for years and all that. Ended up losing the whole monkey plus our entire spending money for the rest of the 2 week holiday. It was only the 3rd day.

Don't gamble kids
(EauDeFromage, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 18:38, Reply)

my uncle entered me in a free draw @ the pub once
my prize...... 6 free pints of beer (i could pick which ones i wanted too) which i had a week in which to drink, they lasted about 3 hours, happy days

but im much more proud about winning a big cut out of marvin from the new hitchikers guide to the galaxy film.......well by win i mean i stole it before some other bastard could get their grubby mits on it
( Reme Philips laid an epic dump on, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 18:36, Reply)