Crappy PrizesCompetitions, raffles, give-aways... sure the prizes look great, but don't they always turn out a bit crap should you happen to win them?
The last raffle I bought tickets for, they'd just given away the all-expenses paid weekend in New York when my number came up. Rushing up to find out what I'd won, I was a little disappointed to be handed a box of "Biscuits for Cheese". Especially as they were busy serving the cheese course (complete with biscuits) as they drew the raffle.
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chthonic, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 11:16)
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at an agricultural college fetei played some kind of sideshow game, possibly a coconut shy, i find it hard to remember now.
anyway, i won, and had a choice of any fabulous prize i wanted from a big cardboard box.
i chose a tacky plastic manicure set, the reason being that as a boy of about 7 i had no idea what manicure meant, and it looked like a bunch of cool blades and tools.
i was rather disappointed when i found out that it was basically a range of cuticle pushers, but looking back at it now i reckon that it was probably as good a prize as any of the other crap that was in the box.
(, Fri 5 Aug 2005, 11:07, Reply)
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