# Prize Pig **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 16, 2003, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prize-pig/182140 "2003-06-16T03:05:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prize-pig/182140/1 "2003-06-16T03:05:20Z")
So lately, I’ve been on a winning streak. You see, I have this weird lucky thing with those radio call in contests. I ALWAYS win when I call. ALWAYS. In NY, I stopped calling because one of the guys at the local station called me a “prize pig” for winning so much shit (a friend of mine, said in jest). So, I’ve been in my new state for about 6 months (NC) and I listen to a rock station. Last month I won tickets to see… THE EAGLES Concert of a lifetime, I kid you not. Unreal. Don Henley sounded great, Glen Fry was on like Donkey Kong, and Joe Walsh was fucked up like a soup sandwich and crazy mad guitar playing. So tonight I was driving home from a friends house and I heard a call in contest. Win a grilling prize pack of some sort and be entered into a drawing for a $500 Webber gas grill. So I called, and naturally, I won the prize pack. They were giving the grill away at 10pm, so I tuned in to hear the winner. **Me.** I am the luckiest SOB I know, I swear it. Ever since I met my husband I started winning things- a huge (the kind you can’t fit in the car) bear at the State Fair, $2,000 at Bingo, countless CDs, concert tickets, shirts, beach shit- you name it, I’ve won it. Money, raffles, 50/50 drawings. Who wants to touch me? ---
**Author:** ![Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horrifying_Howler_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prize-pig/182140/2 "2003-06-16T03:35:06Z")
Can I have tthe grill? You could just win another one 😃 Congrats on your luck. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prize-pig/182140/3 "2003-06-16T03:40:54Z")
Want to go to Harrah’s with me? 😃 Mr. Butrscotch and I recently defied the odds. I won the $3,000 first prize in a slot tournament the last week in March, and then exactly one week later, on April 1st Mr. Butrscotch turned around and won a $2,000 first prize in another slot tournament. The family wouldn’t believe he’d won till he showed them the money. He’s like you. He ALWAYS wins. I hate you both. ---
**Author:** ![BadBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@BadBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BadBaby)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prize-pig/182140/4 "2003-06-16T03:47:21Z")
So you’re the one hogging all my luck! I’ve never won a damned thing in my whole life. No wait, I did win lunch for two at a local hotel. It was at the new teacher’s welcome luncheon and it was the absolute last prize they gave away. Everyone else had already won something, there was no way I couldn’t ‘win’. So how does it feel, this luck you’ve stolen from me? 😉 Plus, conga rats on the newest prize. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prize-pig/182140/5 "2003-06-16T04:39:03Z")
I was the 15th caller, and won the _Framption Comes Alive_ on vinyl the very first time I tried. Since then (more than 25 years), all I get when I call is a busy signal. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prize-pig/182140/6 "2003-06-16T11:59:38Z")
I was sure this thread was going to have the punchline: “…A pig like that, you don’t eat all at one time!” ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prize-pig/182140/7 "2003-06-16T15:31:25Z")
That’ll do Pig. That’ll do. Uhhh… _where_ would I get to touch you? ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prize-pig/182140/8 "2003-06-16T19:57:50Z")
OK, the Babe reference kicks ass and is cracking me up. Also, where do you get to touch me? I guess that depends on HOW lucky you want to get? [Dirty Harry]Do ya feel lucky, punk? Well do ya’??[/Dirty Harry] ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prize-pig/182140/9 "2003-06-16T20:02:01Z")
That’s some pig. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prize-pig/182140/10 "2003-06-16T20:05:18Z")
BWAAAHAAAA!!! I love you, you know Ethilrist. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prize-pig/182140/11 "2003-06-16T20:51:32Z")
**Rue** , that is my absolute FAVORITE line from Babe. I weep when it gets to that part. No really, I do. I recently one a free night stay at an Embassy Suites. My coworker told me he knew I’d win, because I have super luck. He says that because at a picnic 3 years ago, I won the grand prize of 2 round trip air tickets anywhere in the US. Honestly, those are really the only 2 things I’ve ever won. Ever! ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prize-pig/182140/12 "2003-06-16T22:21:23Z")
I already touched you. It was oogy. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prize-pig/182140/13 "2003-06-16T22:51:38Z")
The feeling was mootchal. Farqwad. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prize-pig/182140/14 "2003-06-16T22:58:54Z")
> [@](#): > > Who wants to touch me? The IRS? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![j.c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@j.c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j.c)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prize-pig/182140/15 "2003-06-17T22:31:41Z")
Isn’t “some pig” from Charlotte’s Web? ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prize-pig/182140/16 "2003-06-18T14:19:06Z")
oops- j.c., you’re right- I’m mixing my pigs up. So, just an update: I gave the grill to my friends that live nearby who have promised to cook for me 🙂 (I already have a grill here at my house that runs on natural gas) I also went by the station and picked up the rest of my prize pack- an apron, a t-shirt, a hat, a REALLY nice wood handled bar-b-que utensil set, a long mitt for grilling, and a cookbook for grilling. YAY!