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Anyone ever win anything decent in a competition?

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    #92
    citizen_p
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,494 ✭✭✭citizen_p


    a jersey signed by the entire irish rugby team in the newspaper in 2007 or 6....
    i completly forgot about it andd then 6 months later it arrived

    thats about it... :(


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    #93
    poisonated
    Registered Users Posts: 2,277 ✭✭✭poisonated


    ha yeah I won a day trip to see santy in lapland:D
    I also won a family holiday to disneyland paris thanks to tesco.That was good:)


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    #94
    Notorious
    Registered Users Posts: 2,167 ✭✭✭Notorious


    Won a trip to the '96 Olympics when I was a nipper. T'was a good week.


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    #95
    Mars Bar
    Registered Users Posts: 31,819 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    Oh, forgot I entered a colouring competition in 94 when I was 5 and won a World Cup 94 football. I still have it and it is still pumped up!


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    #96
    Alicat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,264 ✭✭✭✭Alicat


    A bottle of wine when I was 5!


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    #97
    sullivk
    Registered Users Posts: 299 ✭✭sullivk


    Couple of years back I won 2 tickets for a halloween fancy dress in some nightclub... and at that fancy dress the friend I brought along won first prize, which was a week skiing in Andorra (for both of us of course!) :D


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    #98
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Mum won an oven.


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    #99
    jenny2hat
    Registered Users Posts: 448 ✭✭jenny2hat


    Alicat wrote: »
    A bottle of wine when I was 5!

    What's a 5 yr old gonna do with a bottle of wine? :confused:


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    #100
    robbie_998
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,222 ✭✭✭robbie_998


    jenny2hat wrote: »
    What's a 5 yr old gonna do with a bottle of wine? :confused:

    drink it... DUUHH :D


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    #101
    Midnight_EG
    Registered Users Posts: 9,699 ✭✭✭Midnight_EG


    A fire extuingisher when I was.....10? Set that baby off in the schoolyard, everything disappeared from view and I nearly shit myself :pac:


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    #102
    jenny2hat
    Registered Users Posts: 448 ✭✭jenny2hat


    robbie_998 wrote: »
    drink it... DUUHH :D

    Oh sorry, my mistake. I seemed to have missed out on this in my childhood :p


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    #103
    jenny2hat
    Registered Users Posts: 448 ✭✭jenny2hat


    Midnight_EG wrote: »
    A fire extuingisher when I was.....10? Set that baby off in the schoolyard, everything disappeared from view and I nearly shit myself :pac:

    You seriously won a fair extuinguisher lol awesome prize :p


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    #104
    robbie_998
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,222 ✭✭✭robbie_998


    jenny2hat wrote: »
    Oh sorry, my mistake. I seemed to have missed out on this in my childhood :p

    we all know what secretly happens in the play centers when the adults are away ;)


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    #105
    jenny2hat
    Registered Users Posts: 448 ✭✭jenny2hat


    robbie_998 wrote: »
    we all know what secretly happens in the play centers when the adults are away ;)

    Maybe you do? ;)


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    #106
    I_Am_The_Walrus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 126 ✭✭I_Am_The_Walrus


    Won a Nintendo DS about a year ago. Most games for it are sh*te though. :(


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    #107
    cloneslad
    Registered Users Posts: 2,583 ✭✭✭cloneslad


    Fighting Irish wrote: »
    That's what they all say ;)

    I say it cos it's true, I rang it that night at 2:50, didn't get through so rang it again at 2:55, got through and won.

    I haven't rang it since because I can't be bothered watching it and I figure I have no chance of getting through again, I have since bought a new phone so I don't even know if it will let me ring the number either.


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    #108
    paconnors
    Registered Users Posts: 1,635 ✭✭✭paconnors


    i won a years pass to the cinema and an ipod and tent from riverrock kast year


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    #109
    lisajane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 585 ✭✭✭lisajane


    The most i ever won was a 500euro bus eireann voucher and 100euro phone credit. It was great. It was back in the day when i was a poor student.


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    #110
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 75,448 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Won a fully inclusive holiday for 2 to Club Med in the Bahamas a few years ago in a newspaper competition.

    I also won a 42 inch TV for 15 quid in a reverse auction (at the time it was worth well over €2k)

    Other wins include tickets for Man U home matches and quite a few lower value prizes over the years


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    #111
    acia
    Registered Users Posts: 39 ✭acia


    I won a flight on Concorde with a weekend in Paris and a mobile phone, also won €1,000 on that competition in the Evening Herald where they put a photograph of your house in the paper.


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    #112
    ChasingDreams
    Registered Users Posts: 55 ✭✭ChasingDreams


    I've won a laptop and a printer. I actually had to enter the competition for homework. :D


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    #113
    skyhighflyer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,149 ✭✭✭skyhighflyer


    I won an ipod a few years ago in a Tayto competition (where you pick up a flyer in store and post it in a box, hoping that the shop staff won't remove all the entries except theirs)

    The best story I have on this topic comes from a couple fo years ago when I was on a J1 in Washington DC. Was in an Irish bar one night and Miller were running some kind of competition - didn't pay too much notice to it, but bought a Miller and gave my name to the promo girls thinking if I won I'd get a case of Miller or something like that.

    At the end of the night they drew names out of a hat and mine was drawn. Wandered up to the stage half-cut and found out that I was going to be one of ten people entered into a Grand Final at the end of the summer. The prize was a 'garage makeover', which included a Jeep, a Harley and a Jetski. All the contestants were to meet at the end of the Summer at Miller HQ, you could bring ten mates for the party and at the end of the night we were each to be given a key and line up - whichever player had the key that started the Jeep would win everything.

    Anyway, long story short I ended up getting screwed over a few days later with the small print saying the competition was open to US residents only. I aked the PR people who did they think they would find in an Irish bar, so they gracefully gave me a few free cases of Miller and a bunch of Miller merchandise, so at least I got something out of it! :)


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    #114
    Redisle
    Registered Users Posts: 1,849 ✭✭✭Redisle


    Got a cheque for 75 euro from prizebonds last week. That's about it really. Not even sure if that was me "winning" something.

    A fella I used to go to school with used to win things the whole time. He used to constantly ring radio stations when they were running competitions and he nearly always got through. I remember one morning telling him I was trying to ring a competition and didn't get through.. he gets through on first ring and wins the competition. Was pretty strange..


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    #115
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    I won a Stereophonics CD and a scholarship to the "Gaeltacht" at a national table quiz when I was fourteen. So, no.


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    #116
    dimejinky99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 495 ✭✭dimejinky99


    Won a trip on 2fm to see and meet The Who in Madrid. All expenses and accomodation yadda yadda. Surprised cos I was told 2fms phone people just get their mates to call in for the competitions. Nice trip. The Who were lovely.


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    #117
    Liber8or
    Closed Accounts Posts: 662 ✭✭✭Liber8or


    When I was twelve I won a 'Friends' competition on TodayFM's the Breakfast Show with Ian Dempsey for myself and five friends to go to New York. It was funny because when I was on air, Ian Dempsey couldn't believe a kid won the competition - my voice hadn't broken by that stage... After that, it clearly stated you must be 18 or over to enter any competition on TodayFM :P


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    #118
    kincsem
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,013 ✭✭✭kincsem


    A car (and 5 numbers in the Lotto on the same day).


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    #119
    louisa200
    Closed Accounts Posts: 78 ✭✭louisa200


    I won blue peter mastermind competition of the year..... won a bbc archimedes (ya for all you computer buffs)
    went down to bbc hung out wif ed the duck
    had lunch wi john leslie
    slept in john cleeses bed

    lost at the last post on the mastermind chair to some english beatch called 'astirid'

    all the time my junkie dad scammin money off them cuase hed 'lost' the free drink vochers.....

    havent won a thing since.. beat that mofos


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    #120
    pajodublin
    Registered Users Posts: 994 ✭✭✭pajodublin


    won an ipod on paddypower
    won a phone with 3 at oxegen a few years ago
    won 180 on q102 for guessing the score of an Ireland match
    i won cd's on today fm and tickets to gary numan :)


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    #121
    Alicat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,264 ✭✭✭✭Alicat


    jenny2hat wrote: »
    What's a 5 yr old gonna do with a bottle of wine? :confused:

    It was one of those Christmas School raffles, my parents obviously bought a ticket, and they were going around the classrooms announcing the winners.

    My friend got a cute poster of a kitten. I was so friggin' jealous :( All I got was some stinkin' wine :(


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