Has anyone ever won a prize in a contest?

What was it???

I entered the contest 118 times by sending in 3x5 cards - 3 a day up to the 118. I won a $1000.00 shopping spree. I just about shit when I won!!!

local radio :hi:

Once for Koko Taylor and once for Son Seals.
Never saw anyone from LZ live.
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A live turkey. Full of spite, spit, shit, and attitude.

My mother was appalled (she was a city girl). My father wondered how I'd got the damn thing home without getting my eyes pecked out. Things were pretty wild around our house that late November.

But on Thanksgiving day, all was quiet again. I didn't even ask, sitting at the table, "What happened to Turkey-Lurkey?" (of course I'd named the damn thing)

But I knew. And I never let myself be alone with my dad and a hatchet from that moment forward.

Interesting story about an interesting prize.

a play, dinner, etc

I won tickets to Lillith Faire, the first year.

I won a huge longenberger basket filled with all sorts of snacks.

It was a Sears brand (Freespirit?) light-blue 12 speed. I probably wouldn't have won without the priests and nuns at St. Agnes (horrible school) pledging like 5 and 10 cents a pin. The contest was to raise money for young cancer patients, so that was good.

Also, a Badger airbrush for first place in the design category at Antonelli's Institute of Art & Photograpy-York PA for:
(there are hard-to-see-in-this-small-shot multicolored fingerprints on the keys, btw)



and some award (the gold sticker) at the MD Art Education Awareness contest in 1985 or 6 for this pencil drawing:



Why, have you?


edit: I replied to the wrong message.
Robert, tell me what I've won!!! .../edit

:bounce: :woohoo: :bounce: :woohoo:

(I did win a pair of sunglasses from the MillerLite Halloween contest - you know where if you get the orange and black can you win a prize? :beer: see, sometimes it's good to drink shitty beer)

won a lifesize Yoda when Blockbuster video was raffling off tickets a couple of years ago. Since he refused to sleep with Yoda in his room, the big green thing ended up in my room (staring at me) Ye.:eyes:

You can't imagine how happy I was. Free admission meant more money to spend on garb! :)

Wow, I am a dork.

I love ren faires.

Debbi

The prize was a Commodore 64!

I also won a call in to a radio station a year earlier.. $104 and a key with a chance to win a Honda Prelude with $10,000 in the glove box. That rocked!

When the casinos were new to the Gulf Coast and trying to win over the hearts of the people, they had tons of promotions and contests, and I used every legal trick in the book to get more than my fair share. I have the free time to pursue this hobby again but unfortunately the promotions are no longer good enough to be worth the time. :-(

I would have to go back to my old tax records to figure out how much I got over the years that way, which I am too lazy to do, but the best hit came when I dragged my partner along to a free tournament and he won $10,000. I only won $100 in that one. So the student surpassed the master that time. :-)

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and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
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Sorry about the taxes!
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Went on this bus trip to NY through my sisters work. The company gave them a last minute reduction on the price. So the tickets ended up being something like $2.29 cents cheaper. So instead of having piles of change and one dollar bills and handing them out the had a raffle for the people on the bus. They passed around a snowman candy jar and asked how many pieces of candy were in it. I picked the right amount and ended up with $50.00 and the candy jar.

Also years ago I had pet ferrets and the local fairground had a ferret show. So I went to take a look. A local ferret rescue was holding a raffle to raise money to buy things to take care of the ferrets. The vendors donated ferret items for a ferret basket of goodies. I bought a ticket and won the basket which my little carpet sharks enjoyed the contents to no end. Especially the snacks and the new styling hammock the got.

my son won $10.00 from a scratch off ticket from inside a package of toilet paper.

Tikki

It was second or third prize IIRC. Also some winning Lotto tickets since I've been playing it for about fifteen years. The most at one time was around a hundred bucks.

When he does, I'm going to be steenking RICH!

It was a trivia contest of historical figures. I played against three other people and they didn't get to answer a single question. Only after I won did I mention my degree in History. :o

It was maybe a 4" or 5" screen and black & white, but it lasted for years and was great to watch late at night while in bed. And, it had decent reception for not being hooked up to cable.

This was like in 1984 or so.

My uncle runs http://sweepstakesonline.com/ and my mother is a sweeps psychopath. Consequently, I've won all sorts of things in my lifetime. The last big thing I won were tickets to the sugar bowl when LSU faced Oklahoma. Sold em on ebay for around a grand.

and an "OZ" T-shirt from HBO.

:)

it was AWESOME

credit union. And I won a scholarship that I had to compete for. There'd be nothing like the lottery though :D

a box of CAO Gold cigars at a drawing. On a cruise ship - Elation New Years Eve 2000 - I won a game show and was awarded a plastic trophy of course, a bottle of Champagne and bragging rights. In Dec 04 I got a Microsoft Achievement Award for finding a bug in Windows XP relating to Norton Utilities. I got a Tee and an upgrade to XP Plus. I'm waiting for my second award since I found a flaw in their new AntiSpyware; found it within 24 hrs. upon release. One of my clients said they read about it the newspaper that I won it already, but Microsoft hasn't notified me yet. :cry: There were a couple of other things, I think but can't remember.

which I sold on Ebay; an outdoor chess set worth $500 that I sold to a friend; a toaster oven; a $75 gift certificate from The Bay; a George Forman grill; a smoke detector; and something else which I can't remember but I'll soon think of it.

I've known 2 people who have won 'dream homes'...my aunt & uncle, and my old chiropractor. Three times lucky...could I be next??! :bounce: