# So what's the coolest thing you ever won? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 8, 2000, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-coolest-thing-you-ever-won/13597 "2000-02-08T10:01:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jeannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@Jeannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeannie)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2000, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-coolest-thing-you-ever-won/13597/41 "2000-02-09T00:28:00Z")
At work, I have won: A scratch-off ticket that wasn’t worth anything. A bucket of popcorn, a Blockbuster certificate for $10, and a copy of “The Mummy” starring Brendan Fraser. A certificate saying that I won a contest with some co-workers. ``` At my dad's company picnic one year, I won an adding machine. ``` I know, it’s nothing compared to all your prizes, but I just wanted to be a part of it all. ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2000, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-coolest-thing-you-ever-won/13597/42 "2000-02-09T01:11:00Z")
Let’s see…2 tickets to a Bette Midler concert, $105 from the radio station on two occasions, Oldies cassette which I lost in a day, t-shirts, and various door prizes. ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2000, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-coolest-thing-you-ever-won/13597/43 "2000-02-09T01:17:00Z")
- Colour TV at my son’s school open house - Tickets to the Bay City Rollers (tells ya how long ago that was) - A bunny in an easter contest - Pepsi jacket at work * * * We are, each of us angels with only one wing,and we can only fly by embracing one another ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2000, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-coolest-thing-you-ever-won/13597/44 "2000-02-09T01:22:00Z")
It’s a tie between: (1) Men’s 21-speed bike worth approx. $500 won at a membership lottery for Kanagawa Prefecture’s Agricultural Cooperative (the local version of Sam’s/Costco but they pay you to be a member); & (2) “Liberty Lottery” ticket numbered under 100. Onboard the USS CARL VINSON, the command tried an interesting thing: instead of letting folks ashore by paygrade for liberty in Kenya one cruise, there was a drawing to see who got to leave the ship first: #1 went first, #2 second and so on. With an enlisted crew complement of approximately 3000, you can see why my ticket was cool. ---
**Author:** ![Pooch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/dbc845/32.png) [@Pooch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pooch)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2000, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-coolest-thing-you-ever-won/13597/45 "2000-02-09T01:59:00Z")
$20,000 at the horsetrack…but, I donated it back to the track a couple of weeks later. ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2000, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-coolest-thing-you-ever-won/13597/46 "2000-02-09T07:15:00Z")
This is a story of the impetuousness of youth. As a wee lad of around nine or ten, I used to listen to WNBC (660 AM), at the time a music station in NYC. They had a contest giving away two pairs of Jordache jeans (all the rage in NYC at the time I assure you) and a 2-liter bottle of Sprite. When they announced the contest, i called in. To my surprise, I won. To my further surprise, my mom walked in on me after I recorded my little “My bumper sticker is on my garage door” crap, and I was not allowed to use the phone at that tender age. So I hung up. Hung up WITHOUT giving them any information about who I was. As mom walked by, I was so bummed. Somwehow a few minutes on the radio was not worth it. Being the adventurous tyke, I called information (now you see why I was not supposed to use the phone… seems I knew too much) and got the main number for WNBC and called it, pleading that I got disconnected. Whomever answered the phone said, “I heard you on the air,” and took down my information. A week or so later, I had in my possession a coupon for two pairs of Jordache jeans and a 2-litre bottle of Sprite! I was psyched! So the next weekend, dad takes us out to Roosevelt Mall out on the Island to redeem my coupon. They don’t have my size, exactly - it’s a bit tight. But Ii realized even then that tight jeans were quite the style! Well, actually, I was am impatient little pratt who wanted to have his jeans NOW, not a week later. So I take my jeans home and wear them. One time each. Then, the washing makes them impossible to get into. My younger brother inherits them. So i got to wear them one time each, exactly, and watch my brother get all the glory. Oh, and I fucking hate Sprite too. * * * Yer pal, Satan ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2000, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-coolest-thing-you-ever-won/13597/47 "2000-02-09T10:29:00Z")
Four Metallica CDs (Kill Em All, Ride The Lightning, Master Of Puppets, …And Justice For All) from Z-Rock’s Back Rockward contest. Crankin’ Craig didn’t think anyone else had heard Martian Boogie before. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2000, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-coolest-thing-you-ever-won/13597/48 "2000-02-09T19:21:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Pooch: > **$20,000 at the horsetrack…but, I donated it back to the track a couple of weeks later.** Wow, I love horse racing (I guess you could have been watching the dogs), but I’m a $2.00 window type of person. So unless I hit the huge odds or the trifecta or some other parlay bet, I’m small time. My brother on the other hand is a HUGE gambler. He bought his first house off of poker money. Enright3 ---
**Author:** ![PatrickM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7feea3/32.png) [@PatrickM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickM)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-coolest-thing-you-ever-won/13597/49 "2000-02-10T00:20:00Z")
Back in school I won $400 on a square in a Super Bowl (Bears v. Patriots). I felt pretty good about it until my roommate’s dad told me he had won $3000. ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-coolest-thing-you-ever-won/13597/50 "2000-02-10T03:25:00Z")
Reminds me of that song, “His wife was one in a million; my wife was won in a raffle”. Seriously, though, I won a radio call-in contest in 1995. Listeners had to call up and imitate someone famous. After hearing some really lame-o imitations, I got pissed and called them up and imitated H. Ross Perot. The D.J. cracked up, and I won 2 tickets to see Miss Saigon on Broadway. It was a pretty nice anniversary present for me and the Missus. One word of advice, though. NEVER, EVER take a pregnant woman to see Miss Saigon. * * * The Dave-Guy “since my daughter’s only half-Jewish, can she go in up to her knees?” J.H. Marx ---
**Author:** ![Louie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-coolest-thing-you-ever-won/13597/51 "2000-02-10T05:12:00Z")
## [li]$5 from the lottery[/li][li]A free 24-can pack of Coke[/li][li]A Penny Hardaway official jersey from the Sprite Under the Cap game[/li][li]35 free bottles of Sprite in a span of 2 years[/li] …and remember, duct tape fixes _all_ your problems, big and small. [Fun with HTML (tutoral) : The True Sequal](http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Archives/Archive-000001/HTML/19991103-2-000302.html) ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-coolest-thing-you-ever-won/13597/52 "2000-02-10T07:24:00Z")
\*An all-expenses paid ski vacation for me and a friend \*Dozens of free CDs, VHS movies, cassette tapes, movie tickets and one DVD from radio stations \*Full portrait package \*TV/VCR combo \*A gold medal for first place speech/public speaking nationally (Academic Decathlon) \*$50 on my very first scratch-off lottery ticket \*The cutest senior guy (for a day) in an auction to raise money for prom (I was a freshman) * * * I have a hobby. I have the world’s largest collection of seashells. I keep it scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you’ve seen some of it. ---
**Author:** ![Linney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/58956e/32.png) [@Linney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linney)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-coolest-thing-you-ever-won/13597/53 "2000-02-10T07:33:00Z")
I was one of four seniors in my high school class who won ‘going to college’ appliances at our post prom… I won a microwave!!! It has been a blessing to my college roommates and myself for 4 years now! Along with that microwave, came a 30 gallon Coleman Cooler, for some reason. But, I think the coolest thing I’ve won was a loose 2.35 Carat pear cut blue topaz that from an Intramural Recreation function here at school. I plan on having a pendant setting made for it here shortly. (Now all I have to do is find someone to give it to!) * * * “If we submit everything to reason, our religion will have no mysterious or supernatural element. If we offend the principles of reason, our religion will be absurd and ridiculous.” Blaise Pascal ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_Next\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@Girl\_Next\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_Next_Door)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-coolest-thing-you-ever-won/13597/54 "2000-02-10T07:38:00Z")
**Best thing that happened to me in 1999:** I won a free trip to Woodstock '99 from a local (Seattle) radio station. **Worst thing that happened to me in 1999** I actually _went_ to Woodstock '99. * * * Leslie Irish Evans [http://leslie.scrappy.net](http://leslie.scrappy.net) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-coolest-thing-you-ever-won/13597.md?page=2)