Happy Face 29 Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 I won a pub raffle once. Got a 4 foot teddy. Also part of the winning team in the Whitburn Golf Club Texas Ramble. Finally won a massive clock at work. That was another raffle. Never won so much as a pub quiz otherwise. Are you a bigger success? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15531 Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Won a weekend break in Évian in a competition on the Guardian website once. Couldn't really be more middle-class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted April 11, 2014 Author Share Posted April 11, 2014 Won a weekend break in Évian in a competition on the Guardian website once. Couldn't really be more middle-class. I thought you'd be swimming in prizes. Second only to Stevie with your TV shows and pub quizzes. Must be the schooling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15531 Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Bought a Chinese takeaway with pub quiz winnings once, does that count? (Although this does illustrate another difference between me and Stevie - he'd call it a chinkies. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 33231 Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Won £20 the other week on a football domino card, Newcastle Utd was available to take and my daughter was telling me to take them but I chose Liverpool instead. She said why and I said they were a lucky team. I was right! (copyright LeazesMag). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven 0 Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Won a disco dancing competition back in the 80s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 13869 Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Got an iPod Nano or Shuffle at a Uni Open Day. They say it was a random name out of a hat but I know for a fact, it was because they were desperate for me to lift the reputation of the place by applying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 33231 Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 I once won the 2nd prize in a beauty contest and collected £10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14011 Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 I once won some Maximo Park tickets at an instore gig Oh and and Green Day gave me a guitar I think that's technically winning :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted April 11, 2014 Author Share Posted April 11, 2014 Won a disco dancing competition back in the 80s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven 0 Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 John Davis was a massive inspiration to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven 0 Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 John used to bust the moves down at BJ's in Darlington on a friday night, he was a top dancer. Didnt even get in the top 3 in the 79 finals, them southerners were always a bit more light on their feet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 42456 Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Who's the big daft looking bogtrotter on the right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonasjuice 0 Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Rebecca Adlington's looking rough these days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill 0 Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 (edited) I won a birthday party for me plus 10 friends at Wet & Wild when I was a kid. The food was pretty rotten but it was a canny day. Actually now I think about it, my mam probably entered and won that on my behalf rather than it being anything I'd earned. I won an egg decoration competition at school one year for my tweety pie. Prize was probably book tokens or something, I only wanted the glory. I won a mini football from a can of coke once and an HD video recorder thing from a can of pepsi max. Edited April 11, 2014 by Jill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catmag 337 Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 I won a putting competition in the Maldives years ago. The prize was professional lessons from the resident golf pro. I hate golf and only actually entered the competition to try and beat my husband who ended up having the lessons in my place Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 42456 Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 I won the hand of Mrs. Fist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJS 4386 Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Don't think I've mentioned this before but in 1992 at about the time the Telegraph started doing fantasy football one of my mates bought a book called Dream League which was a rival thing where you could have local leagues among a few people and also enter a national competition for a small fee. About 10 of us did it which was an excuse to meet in someones house once a month for an update/auction (involving beer of course). Anyway we did it in 93/94 as well and due to my retention of Arsenal's defence from the previous year and the acquisition of a certain Mr A. Cole I won the national title The lads who wrote the book/ran the league were a group of IT geeks (surprise surprise) who also liked football and they also did a couple of other sports as well like baseball. The usual prize was a trip to an England away game but this was at the time England were banned so I had to wait a while for my prize. The next available game was a certain game in Dublin in 95 Now the reason watching/travelling with England never appealed to me was the association with the creme de la creme of other teams's scum known as England fans so the events didn't exactly surprise me. There was a group of about 12 of us with 3 organisers I think plus the winners of the cup competitions they ran as well covering two seasons. Thing was I was the only "streetwise" football fan who'd seen bother before so when it all kicked off (we were in the seats) I managed to calm the others down and then chose the exact moment to slink away before the riot coppers arrived upstairs to cart everyone off to be deported so we ended up back in our hotel as just about the only un-nicked "England fans". Still my only experience of Ireland but overall I enjoyed it (apart from the scum of course). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10857 Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Megadrive from some games magazine when i was a kid for completing "Zelda: A Link to the Past" in a quick time Football tournaments/races when i was a runner , sports day medals and shite like that Hopefully pick this up again next month, title defence coming up for our third year winning on the trot 3 tournaments, 0 goals conceded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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catmag 337 Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Having met him, I can confirm that Ant is far better looking than that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mighty Hog 521 Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 I've won a Nintendo DSi XL, A 32gb Ipod (it was one of the classic's before the touch's came out), Marvel Alliance 2 for the 360 (I think that was sorted out by Ritchie on here), won tickets through the years, it used to be piss easy to win cd's on Metro Radio when I was a bairn so I won some stuff from them. Never won money or a holiday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyne Bridge 22 Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 A trip to the World Cup in 1994 thanks to Coca-Cola. Semi Final, 3rd and 4th Place play off and Final. A Commodore Amiga thanks to John Menzies MetroCentre in 1990. A box of San Miguel at the local beer festival last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14011 Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 A trip to the World Cup in 1994 thanks to Coca-Cola. Semi Final, 3rd and 4th Place play off and Final. A Commodore Amiga thanks to John Menzies MetroCentre in 1990. A box of San Miguel at the local beer festival last year. 3 x win in this post but the top post is the most win Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyne Bridge 22 Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 3 x win in this post but the top post is the most win Yeah Tom. Bit of a hazy memory now but won it from scratch cards in the multi-packs of Coke. I was drinking gallons of the stuff at the time to keep me going as I was writing a dissertation through the night whilst working full time at Sainsbury's over an Easter break at university. Had to match a goal time with a famous WC winning goal printed in The Mirror. I nearly didn't win it as Coca-Cola kept phoning up and I thought it was a hoax caller as I had completely forgotten that I had entered! Great hospitality at the LAX Hilton, a trip to the LA sights, a trip to Disney and Warner Bros and World Cup closing Party at Universal Studios. Took a great deal of stick for wearing Newcastle top in the final - the mad, half cut Brazilians who we were seated with thought I was a Baggio \ Juventus fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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