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-Won a cabbage patch kid in a fur coat when I was about six or seven.
-Won $100 bucks on the radio when I was out of town (wasn’t even from there)
-Won a budweiser Super Bowl jacket. Good deal.
-Won money from the few time I have bothered with VLTs/Slots, I am not a gambler.
-Won a free “relax therapy” including herbal wrap, pedicure,manicure,facial,massage and aromatherapy wrap, going this Thursday.
-Won a fishing package complete with rod/reel, fleece tackle box and all the goodies (I don’t fish)
-Won three seperate "night for two) complete with breakfast at hotels
I am a pretty lucky person overall though, I also enter everything I see, so that might have something to do with it.
ROFL! You put a kickstand on your bike? HAHAHAHOHOHOHEHEHEHE!
Enright, heheh, I love that movie!
Ok, so here’s what I won:
A trip to Magic Mountain when I was 13 for being the Paperboy of the Year!
Hell yeah I better get something! I think my average combined paper routes had about 300 subscribers(this is on a bike mind you, up a big ass hill!) I also sold about 1000 subscriptions that year. Cheap bastards…
“Universe Man - He’s got a watch with a minute hand, millenium hand and an eon hand and when they meet it’s a happy land - Powerful man, Universe Man”
-TMBG
$20,000, which I won in a slot tournament last summer. What made it even more extra special was that my friends, avid slot jockies, were also in the contest, and they didn’t win squat. Man, where they pissed.
Of course, in accordance with the Law of Conservation of Luck, I promptly lost $5,000 of it on a bad stock investment.
My company owns a lakeside cabin and several acres of property (the lake itself actually for business reasons). They give away six day stays at the cabin over the Summer season as a perquisite in the corporate office. I won the first year I was eligible and made a nice escape from the August Phoenix heat.
I won a trip to England from MTV in 1985. People really do win…
The conceit of the contest was that Twisted Sister had just released “Come Out and Play” and were kicking off a concert tour in England. MTV flew over 102 people as “Twisted Commandos.” Why 102? One winner from each state and a guest. They accidentally drew two winners from Vermont (VT) and none from Utah (UT) so they let both winners from Vermont go and drew another Utah winner. As Twisted Commandos we toured London and went to the kickoff concert at Hammersmith Odeon. Dressed as Dee Snider, the lead singer. After the concert there was a party (open bar, pretty impressive for a 17 year old) at Limelight where I met the band members, Cy Kernan (sp?) from The Fixx, Eddie Grant (stoned out his mind) and Boy George. With the trip came $100 souvenier money, an MTV/Twisted Sister jacket and a CD copy of “Come Out and Play” (my first CD). I also got a write-up in the local paper and, prize of all prizes, the illusion of high school popularity.
I won front row-center tickets to see Bruce Springsteen at the Oakland Coliseum in 1984. I had to sing a Bruce song live on the radio. I sang “I’m On Fire” and beat out a bunch of other people. It’s still one of the best concerts I’ve ever been to.
I never win anything. A friend gave me her door prize ticket when she had to leave a party early and it won a gift certificate for lunch at a local restaurant. Place burned down the next day. True story.
There I was living about as close to homelessness as possible while still having some semblance of a hovel. It was a horse farm in New Milford, CT and my squalid little room had no heat, broken windows and a leaky roof. Room from hell.
A new Linens 'n Thangs is opening up in a mall down the street. As I’m passing by, I fill out an entry card for some door prizes and forget about it. The next day a friend says that he heard my name on the air of a local radio station (they were doing a simulcast) saying something about my winning a prize. What was it?
Pillows. Dreamy, soft, luxurious pillows. So, barely able to pay rent, eat and make car payments, and I am walking out of L&T with $200.00 worth of pillows under my arms! There are few things I prize more.
Once in a while you can get shown the light
in the strangest of places
if you look at it right…
[ul][li]$11,000 and lovely parting gifts, Match Game PM (1979)[/li][li]$500 and crappy parting gifts, Blockbusters (1980)[/li][li]Trip for two to Disneyland worth $450 (I took the $$ instead), radio “detective” contest (1984)[/li][li]A one-in-100 chance to win a Geo car, same radio “detective” contest (1984 - no I didn’t win it)[/li][li]The finest, dreamiest, most wonderful, caring, loving Man on the planet, The Game of Life (1999)[/ul][/li]
StoryTyler
Distinguished Big-Hootered Assistant to Criminally Insane Doctor,
Self-Righteous Clique
“Not everybody does it, but everybody should.”
Tickets to see the opening show of DMB’s Before These Crowded Streets tour with Bruce Hornsby. Concert was before the album even came out. Winning them made working on a Saturday worthwhile…
Oh, and a case of Dos Equis from the Bricker Challenge. Free beer is ALWAYS a good thing.
“You are sweet, kind, and considerate… Like a grown up boy scout with tits!”
- Brian, aka SDMB’s one and only Satan.
Ahhhhhhhhh, truer words have never been spoken! I think I may have to take that as my sig line, if you don’t mind.
1985 F150 Pickup at a Charlie Daniels concert. This was on the second date I had with my wife.
I won the heart of my husband. Okay, sorry, even I couldn’t help gagging at that.
Let’s see, I won $300 at split-the-pot at a Monto Carlo night. And I won Bengals tickets, too. Course I was the only one to actually enter that drawing. 
My father, however, has won a Ford truck at a church raffle. And last year he and his friend split a $100,000 lottery a week after I lectured him on throwing his money away on such things. “Dad, do you know the odds of winning the lottery?” Anyway, he doesn’t hold a grudge, cause he gave each of us kids a $5,000 check. Woo-hoo!
I know the topic is about winning random things in drawings, lotteries, and the like, but I have to mention that in high school theater my junior year, I won the “Most Improved Actor” award solely on the fact that the theater director during my first two years (whom at the time I described as a strange cross between Oliver Hardy and Adolph Hitler), who hated me and gave me such illustrious roles as “third mute boy in knickers” in “The Music Man”, left the school (not without some degree of scandal) to marry one of his former students, and was replaced with someone who gave me a decent role or two.
Yes, I know that was a ridiculously long sentence. Sorry.
And then not too long ago I won a CD for my otherwise useless knowledge of Trek trivia.
I also won a free Chinese lunch for 15 people in my office from a radio trivia contest. All it took was knowing the artist who recorded the albums “Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)” and “Trout Mask Replica”.
In addition to my previous post, I also won two tickets to a Detroit Tigers baseball game in 1985, by answering their trivia question on TV during a game.
Can’t remember what the question was, but the answer was “Bert Blyleven.”
Coolest part of that was hearing the Tigers announcers at the time, George Kell and Al Kaline, both Hall-of-Famers, say my name. Al even added, “Way to go, Keith.”
Years, later, won two tickets to a Red Wings hockey game when they used a question I sent in on the air.
“You should tell the truth, expose the lies and live in the moment.” - Bill Hicks
No problem! (dancing around…I gave someone a sig line…)
“You are sweet, kind, and considerate… Like a grown up boy scout with tits!”
- Brian, aka SDMB’s one and only Satan.
So many years ago that I can’t even remember when it was, I was at a fair where they had one of those wheels you spin and whatever image comes up, you win that prize. I’d have been happy with a ballpoint pen; I won a snazzy alarm clock radio which I still use.
Just this weekend I got 8th place out of 33 competing in Prose at Cornell’s speech tournament; I didn’t get anything for it (only the top six get trophies), but I still like to brag about it 
Mayor of Snerdville, the home of Mortimer Snerd
“I’m just too much for human existence – I should be animated.”
–Wayne Knight
I won a roundtrip for two to Australia in a writing contest.
To quote the Crocodile Hunter, "Gorgeous!.