What's the best/worst thing you've won?

peckerhead · 13-08-2004 05:39PM

Best: A 40-volume set of Encyclopaedia Brittanica, in an Irish Times quiz two years ago. I almost never look at the f***ing thing, but it makes the bookshelves in the front room look well interleckshurl...

Worst: A €25 voucher for one of the poxyest "pub grub" restaurants in Limerick*, in a charity raffle, last Christmas. I still haven't used it, but haven't thrown it in the bin yet, either :eek:. It's been gathering fluff in the nether recesses of my wallet ever since, but is valid until . Anyone wants to offer me €5 or €10 for it, pm me!

* Don't want to name-and-shame, but — think of a horse with a horn in the middle of its forehead...?

Explosive_Cornflake · 14-08-2004 01:46AM

tman wrote:

so you stole it?

Ah yes, i didn't make it clear, someone else put my name in.
Lasted a long time that bike. The fun we had together. "More tea Mr Bike?"

Victor · 14-08-2004 04:53AM

I won a "Best Baby" competition circa 1973. The prize was a silver cup and about 40 balls(?) of green wool. As if thats much use to a one and a half year old. :rolleyes:

And I won some books in a library colouring competition when I was about 14. The prize included girls books

mike65 · 14-08-2004 11:39AM

Best things I've won in fact ther ONLY things I've won are
albums by Kraftwerk, Rock-Aid Armenia, Pink Floyd at various points...oh and a few tenners on the scratch cards plus 24 olde pounds on the lotto.

Mike.

AdMMM · 14-08-2004 11:53AM

Last Summer Tipperary Water were doing a promotion where you could win €5 o2 credit.

I won EVERYTIME I bought the water (13times) so i was a happy man last Summer!

I was on QuizStream on TheDen a good 5-6 years a go. Won myself a mountain bike.

The worst thing I won was a limited edition of CoolBoarders4 on CyberStream (also on TheDen), had no instructions, but it did have a snowboarding hat

Marq · 14-08-2004 12:36PM

Best thing I've ever won:
An eleven day trip to Singapore, flights and four star accommodation with meals included, over new year's just gone.
Closely followed by a frisbee when I was 5 (school raffle) and the only ever time I bought a lotto ticket, and won 32 bills, just enough for two tickets to Mogwai.

CuLT · 14-08-2004 03:35PM

Best things: Two cars, (A BMW 3 series and a Kia Rio), plus €75,000 and a holiday to Rio. All in one 2 week period in 2002.
For anyone who remembers the competition it was "The cash, the car, and the copacabana".

Loads of things off the radio, LiteFM and TodayFM won't let us (family) enter in competitions any more >:| .

TBH I've forgotten the worst things (if there were any).

Sleepy · 16-08-2004 11:47AM

Bloody hell, how often do you call Radio stations CuLT?

liamo · 19-08-2004 06:45PM

The worst thing (and also the funniest) I've ever won was a skirt! And a very naff one, at that. (In case you didn't already guess from my nick, I'm a bloke)

I won a spot prize in a pub quiz where there only two prizes remaining - an ashtray and a skirt. Well, I don't smoke so .....

I gave it to one of the oul' ones in the pub who bought me a couple of pints so it wasn't a complete loss.

ionapaul · 19-08-2004 11:36PM

Eircell Digiphone (whatever that company was called!) used to sponser the Jordan F1 team, and ran an online fantasy league with weekly and season-end prizes. Won the weekly prize twice, 1st time got a camera worth £100 (old money that is!) and the 2nd time got a Ferrari jacket worth £100. Jacket was way too big for me...still around something though!
Probably doesn't count, but I've won over $500 a number of times during gambling sessions. An old roommate in the States won $25,000 two years ago after putting a $50 bet at 500-1 that the Patriots would win the Super Bowl - that is a once in a lifetime, 500-1 I still can't believe it...and he was such an wanker too...:)

What's the best/worst thing you've won?

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