Have you ever won anything?
 

Like a raffle, lottery or a radio contest. I haven't.

$1,000 in radio contest.

I won $1000 shopping spree to Battlefield Mall a couple of years ago for test driving a Jeep.

Also when I was 10 I won 2 Amy Grant tickets through a raffle. But those were worthless.

I've won skill-based prizes like writing contests and scholarships.

As far as luck-based prizes...hmm. I won a stuffed killer whale many years back, and I don't know why. It just came in the mail. And when I was about ten, I won an alarm clock at a county fair bingo game.

OH! OH! At Elitch Gardens (Six Flags in Denver), I threw a dime on a plate and won one of those enormous stuff animals once.

That's about it.

Me too.

Clarification: it wasn't a real killer whale that was stuffed. It was a small synthetic one.

It'd be really cool to win a real stuffed killer whale. I think I'd hang it from the ceiling in my dining room.

You didn't buy the Jeep did you?

I won a pizza, and a copy of Springsteen's Born in the USA on cassette, both from radio call-ins.

That's about all I've got.

I'm not a girl.

I won a pair of Chiefs tickets to the 1992 season opener against Seattle. I put my name into the box at the Liberty price chopper about 3,000 times.

A former coworker of mine said that once he was representing his company at a trade show, and they had a "box full o' cash" that was a prize. Supposedly, if you visited their booth, you'd get a key, and if the key opened the box, you got the cash. They had a "big box o' keys" to choose from.

I was incensed, because he said that they wouldn't let you pick the key from the big box o' keys. They would hand you a key, and none of the keys fit the box. They had the real key hidden under their table, and saved it for one of their big clients.

He was just an intern at the time, and he said it was embarrassing, because some of the keys were ludicrous. The big box o' cash had your basic padlock on it, and he said that sometimes he had to hand the person a big skeleton key or a little suitcase key, and they'd get disgusted.

Imagine how disgusted they would be if they knew the real story. And this was a very large, world-known company, too.

Nice! Did you have to write it 3000 times or did you copy?

Yep...

1. Won a shot at regional finals in the "Showtime's Funniest Person in America" back in '85. I did pretty well with the local clubs, came in second a few times to this little gal from Medicine Lodge, Kansas... Martina Shiff(?)... she went to Nashville and married some guy named McBride.

2. As part of a Microsoft promotion for technical trainers, I won about 10k worth of Dell Computer equipment in February of 2000, all with new MS OS installed, a PDA, signed licensed copies of Win2K Server, Advanced Server, and Workstation.

But the biggest lottery I ever won was meeting and marrying my wife.

Damn cheatin' MUrons. Almost as bad as the donkeys.

This reminds me of a time when a friend of mine worked at Royals/Chiefs stadiums as a vendor. Somehow he got ahold of several boxes of all star ballots for baseball-- we guessed there were probably 5,000-10,000 ballots per box.

He took them home and used a drill to punch his votes and then proceeded over the next few weeks to fill the ballot boxes with his votes.

I guess he might have had some impact on the voting, but probably not the deciding factor. I would guess he did about 50-60k votes.

I wasn't cheating. I asked the lady at the counter if you could enter multiple times and she said yes.

Shes standing behind you isn't she.

are you kidding? as a Chiefs fan im born to lose.

I win shit all the time. It's come to the point where my buddies just expect it when we're in drawings a stuff.

I've won several shotguns in Pheasants forever raffles. I've won a ton of expensive tools at construction open houses and seminars. I win shit at bars all the time.

I've probably won over 10k in money and prizes playing Golden Tee Golf too, but that's mostly skill based.

I win tickets to stuff all the time. I'm just lucky that way. I don't even try that much. OUt of the blue I'll hear some radio say caller "x" will win, blah blah blah... and I alsways seem to be the guy. The last thing I won was tickets to a Chiefs game this past season (I have season tix, so it didn't matter).
I wish I would not win the small crap and win something big and cool... like a boat.

I just won $26 in Kansas Lottery scratch-off tickets on the radio last week. Ended up netting $15...woohoo!!

I've won a lot of stuff on the radio over the years...concert tickets, cash, misc. crap.

My wife won round trip airfare for two back in 2001 that she used for airfare to Vegas for my 40th b-day and she won a 3 day trip to Vegas (airfare, hotel Mandalay Bay, concert tickets to Heart) in August 2004.

I won a free bowling coupon last week. That's about it.

My brother just won $8,500 in a Texas Hold 'em Tournament.

I won Kansas Beef Council's Tailgate at Home while the Chiefs are away...

I won an Football Grill, $25 to Mcgonigals Meat Market and 2 Tix to the Philly Game :cuss:

Spring Break, largest schlong contest

I won a toaster during the SB at a bar. They had a raffle draw, and I happened to be one of the lucky numbers called. It is Brand new. Nice. It's still in my closet. Makes for some great grilled cheese sandwiches.

I have won the Crossroads Collection from Eric Clapton(on cd even before I had a CD player from KY102 in KCMO), 2 round trip tickets to NYC and 2 nights stay at the Intercontenental Hotel and the 50/50 pot at a high school football game ($190+)

Not too bad....

a 270 w/scope last year

You know how I know you're gay?

I once won 15 bucks by jumping over 15 dollar bills layed out end to end. I would have won more if there were more layed out though...

I never win stuff. I work for a small company (like 30 people) and they had about 15 prizes to give away at the Christmas party. 50% chance, right...nadda.

I did win a cake in a cake walk in 6th grade. And I won a free trip to Florida to visit a time share...

You probably won the "Biggest Liar" contest as well.

$5,000 on Powerball

who me?! :redface:

I won a goldfish in one of those in 4th grade. Well I didn't actually win I just went up there and lied about my number, grabbed a goldfish and got outta there. I had the damn thing for 5 years though.

Oh. That reminds me. I won about $40 in undergraduate school on some cheesy campus game show. They randomly picked me and a half-dozen other people out of the crowd, and we had a series of contests where the last-place person got eliminated each round. I don't remember most of the contests, but one of them was draining a baby bottle of fruit punch. It was that sort of thing.

I lost when my pile of blocks collapsed right at the end of the "build the highest pile of blocks" competition. It stank. If I could've beaten a couple more people, I would've gone into one of those booths with the big fan and the dollar bills all blowing around it.

Even so, $40 was a huge win for me at the time, because I was malnourished and was pretty much picking through the Dumpsters® for leftover cafeteria food.

How many did you match, and how close were you to reeling in the big fish?

This is one of those times where winning $5,000 could make you suicidal.

I won a kitten in an auction for $2.

I was 12. My parents were pissed.

Rainman Got 4 out of 5 + the powerball. Called QuickTrip to see how much I won, told him I got 5 out of 6 and he said $100,000! Screamed, jumped around and read him the numbers, he said sorry you only won $5,000. Fugger. If I would have had 5 and no powerball it would have been 100k.

One more and it would have been 33 million!

Oh, I forgot. I won two tickets to see Fiddler on the Roof (with Dr. Octopus as Tevye) on Broadway two Novembers ago, through my work. It just so happened that it fell on our anniversary, too, so I got that going for me, which is nice.

I win stuff, but its a relative question.

I've won tournaments in wrestling and related awards along the way....I've won raffles at conventions.....I won 2500 and 600 the last 2 times I've been to a casino. My real claim to fame is probably that I've won a karoke competition and 2 "best butt" contests.

I'm holding out for the day I win the Leg Lamp though.

I've said it before, but I know several lottery winners....powerball, "missed it by that much" 100k, and knew a guy whose parents won 2 state lottery jackpots.

Wow. You were this close to having me as a best friend.

When I was around 11 or 12, one of the local grocery stores was giving away a gas-powered go-kart with a fiberglass Chevy van body on it. I spent the whole time my mother was shopping filling the entry box and sure enough we won it. It was the greatest day of my childhood.

Oh, and I won a big thick book about Bruce Springsteen from a radio station once. I didn't read it.

I won tickets to a preseason minor league hockey game when I was in 6th grade.

I don't feel sorry for you. You're just too damn lazy to "detassel" or "walk beans".

cause his d!ck tastes like shit?

And so you took that 5000 and bought more powerball tickets didnt you.:shake:

I was in wheat country, and I couldn't pass the aptitude test to get a wheat job.

The aptitude test was:

1. Lift a bale over your head in 95 degree heat and 90 percent humidity in the blazing sun.

2. Do it 500 more times.

Part 2 was the one that tripped me up.

I never win anything but my wife won a new John Deere riding mower and trailer last year.

Globe trotter tickets for Freethrow contest.

Concert tickets on Radio contest. Pull my name from hat.

Movie / dinner tickets on radio contest call in, answer correct R & R trivia.

Monticristo Cigars at car show. Pull my name from hat.

Nothing big.

When I was like 6 or 7, my mother put my name in a raffle at the Jones Store to be the Chiefs "mascot", and I won. So Lloyd Burrus walked me out to midfield for the coin toss, I was scared shitless, those guys were huge, and even at that age I knew that the Raiders were the bad guys. It was Bo Jackson's first game back in KC. Got some good pictures, since a family friend worked for the Chiefs official team photographer.

I also won tickets on the radio to go see Paul Mooney (ask a black guy from Chapelle's Show).

thats all, I need to win some money bad though.

I won my sixth grade spelling bee. I had the entire class behind me. They all hated my opponent, the ogrish Nicole.

The winning word was "rotisserie." Watching those KFC commercials finally paid off.

DMAC
No, I was much smarter than that, I bought a computer and quite my job to freelance!

First pitch
 

Played American Legion Ball when I was a kid, and won an opportunity to throw out the first pitch at a KC Royals game. When I got to the game, I found out that I wasn't the only winner....there were like 10 other Legion ballplayers from around Kansas. We drew numbers to see who got to actually throw the ball, and I lost. I got to walk out to the pitcher's mound...big woop. Did meet Bret Saberhagen that day though.

Troy

Coolest thing ever...

I used to work for a large insurance company here in Omaha...you can guess if you want...anyway, my wife had entered me to win Chiefs tickets. I used to work with the Kansas City group office, so getting a call from KC was not unexpected. It turned out to be some chick from KCFX, telling me that I had won not only Tickets to the Christmas Eve matchup with the Seahawks, but an overnight stay at the Double Tree, a VIP tent party, a Bushnell Sportspack with binoculars, and the best part, I had to participate in a photo thing with one of their on-air personalities. Turned out to be Lenny the Cool.

That was the best weekend evaaar! Cold as hell but worth it.

Luck of the draw stuff, very little. Umbrella at a golf outing, stuff like that.

Ummm....Mutual of Omaha?

What do I win?

Was that the game that was to lock up home field advantage, and Vanover returned the opening kick to the house?

That was a great game. After the kickoff, nobody sat down or stopped yelling for 15 min straight.

I won a contest on 101.1 FOX to win ring side tickets to WWF ppv Over the Edge at Kemper Arena for doing the best "Rock" impersonation. The contest was to see who could do the best pro-wrestler impersonation and I won it. Then Owen Hart fell from the rafters and died only about 20-30 ft away from me. I remember you couldve heard a pin drop in that arena when that happened.

Its Schiff I think. I'm in Medicine Lodge right now. She's actually from Sharon, KS which is 10 miles east from here. Her parents still live here and her dad is a local singer.

My buddy won a shot at kicking a 35 yard FG in a high school football game. We were 14 and he was our extra pointer kicker in junior high. We bought several tickets and got our # called and he lined up and hit it between the uprights. He won a big savings bond.

I won numerous dance contests back in my teens and 20's,one of them netted me a pair of tickets to see Berlin and The Thompson Twins concert.

I was doing last minute Christmas shopping one year at Venture and they were having a promotion where every 100th customer got their cart of stuff free.I had a little over $300 worth of stuff that I won.

I won a 19" color tv(just what I needed) at my 20th high school reunion on a raffle.

I've won 8 of those giant stuffed animals at Worlds Of Fun(I consider it winning because I've never had to pay near what one would normally cost)on the softball in the milkcan game.

Baled wheat? You are a city boy aren't you?

$7,142 playing bingo when I was on a cruise. I was 16 or 17.

I have won:

Concert tickets from the radio, on two occasions. The first was to see Ronnie Milsap, Tammy Wynette and the Statler Brothers at the Jeff City High School Field House when I was a kid. The second was to see Damn Yankees, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Poison at Alpine Valley in Wisconsin when I was somewhat older.

Sort of looks odd listing these performers together in the same paragraph, doesn't it? :hmmm:

But the best was winning $250 cash in a raffle on my ship the night before we pulled into Rio de Janeiro when I was 19. And I spent every last cent of it on booze and hookers. :thumb:

Well, to be honest, they wouldn't let me near the wheat. I only took the aptitude test for the hay part.

I picked all the correct numbers to a lottery when is 16.. Would have won 25k, parents about killed me... Closest I have come in the MO. lotto is three numbers...

No fair, you live here so you cheated.


heheheh...

Dig your Av btw! Awesome!

Man, this sounds lame but I honestly don't remember. It was in like '95 I think. Too much beer I guess... :doh!:

That's a long time to go without winning anything Skip. I don't know if this counts, but I won 15 dollars playing powerball Wednesday.

My wife does the lottery pool at work. About 2 years ago, they got 4 numbers and the powerball. Worth 5000.00. Of course after taxes and splitting it like 20 ways, she got 300.oo or so. The worst part is, they were ONE DIGIT OFF from having the whole enchilada. I felt sick the whole day. The payout would have been like 3.5 million and my ass would be retired right now. One digit off...

...of course, I still buy lottery tickets, even though lightning will never strike twice. I think that's as close as we'll ever get to the jackpot.

Ouch, what a let down. It'd be cool to go to the mound and all, but when you thought you were going to throw the first pitch...

About 3 years ago I won a Nintendo advance from McDonald’s Monopoly game. A few weeks later I got it in the mail. A few day later they sent me a 2nd one. That was nice of them.

Back in '85 I won a blue Toyota SR5 4 X 4 pickup when my key, which I had won from a local radio station, started the truck. All I had to play were the taxes.

I picked the right girl at the end of a long friday night and won myself some crabs

You're telling me.

In the quest to help Skip get more 100 post threads... I bumpeth thee.

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only 21 more posts to go!!

in '04, I won tickets to the Twins-Yankees series in MN, 4 free oil changes, $100 in gas cards, and my hotel was paid for. BTW I also went to training camp in River Falls on this trip.