To cap it all, I never received my prize..
In the late eighties to early nineties, there was a weekly magazine called New Computer Express - like NME, but cooler as it was about computers ;)

NCE never really made the transition to the world of the PC, and started to lose readership. To counter this they tried a couple of cover (floppy) disks, and finally a huge competition.

I looked at the competition, examined the odds and the readership and worked out it was more likely than not to win a prize. I entered lustily expecting one of the more exciting prizes.

A few issues later the entire prize list was printed in the magazine - I had won.. a baseball cap. Bastards never sent it to me - did anyone receive a prize?
(EssY, Wed 4 May 2011, 10:52, Reply)