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| lotteries or raffles; ever win anything? | |
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| bachophile | Aug 2 2006, 09:38 PM Post #1 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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the 6 flags thread made me ask this. the only thing ive ever won was a 6 foot long salami from a new york deli raffle. (oh yeah, and the $150,000,000 powerball...) |
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| dolmansaxlil | Aug 3 2006, 03:30 AM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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When I was about 12, I won a raffle for a gingerbread house at our local bank. Nothing since. I'm just not a person who wins things. |
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| Dewey | Aug 3 2006, 03:30 AM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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About seventeen years ago, Mrs. Dewey & I won a week's stay in a condo in West Palm Beach owned by my employer. It wasn't anything fancy by a long shot, it was a very modest place for business use, but it was still a nice, cost-free base of operations for a weeklong vacation. Other than that, I won twenty-five bucks in a baseball league raffle when I was a kid. |
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| Optimistic | Aug 3 2006, 04:33 AM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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When I was 13 or so, I won a big cake in a raffle at a church BBQ. |
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| George K | Aug 3 2006, 04:35 AM Post #5 |
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1984 - Superbowl 20 (?). Played the football pool and won $400. |
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| John D'Oh | Aug 3 2006, 04:42 AM Post #6 |
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When I was six I won an enormous teddy bear, which we kept for about 10 years. When I was 36 I won a small statue of the Virgin Mary, which I kept for about 10 seconds. I actually pretended to forget it, and left it at the party. Hopefully it granted someone else salvation. The Blessed Mother has since had her revenge. On clearing out our new house we found one of those blue shell-shaped alcoves, sans Virgin or blue paint, which is too heavy to get rid of, and too, well, different, to display. God works in mysterious ways His wonders to perform, but He does appear to have a sense of humour at least. |
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| justme | Aug 3 2006, 05:28 AM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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other than the quilt I told you about in the other thread, and various doorprizes, I also won a SuperFly album by answering a trivia question over the radio. That was so long ago the station was AM. |
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| LWpianistin | Aug 3 2006, 05:37 AM Post #8 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Do raffles at pub quizzes count?? If so, I've won boxes of chocolates, body soap, bottles of wine...that kind of stuff. Um....I think that's it. The (most real) thing I'd like to win now would be the top prize at our music department annual banquet - a composition of ANY kind that our composition prof will compose for you. I think I'd like a duo - piano version of "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better". My piano prof and I could play it at my senior recital as an extra...a duel between the M&H and the Steinway :lol: |
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| apple | Aug 3 2006, 05:49 AM Post #9 |
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one of the angels
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won 25 dollars in a college dancing contest i won a case of Yukon Jack in an arm wrestling contest. i won 100 dollars for jumping into a fountain in winter from a radio station. i ran from my apartment to be the first person there. i won 50 dollars from a radio station.. i had called to request a song, but they picked me up on the sports question contest line. i had no idea what the answer was, but was apparently so funny with my ignorance, they awarded me 50 dollars. i won 100 at a grocery store drawing.. for groceries i won a gas grill at our church extravaganza |
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| Dewey | Aug 3 2006, 08:23 AM Post #10 |
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Oh yeah, there was one other thing. When I was a teenager, I was working in the family coal company's maintenance garage, just doing some general cleanup. My grandfather was there at the time, and the radio was on some local AM station that played a mixture of music, none of which was really my thing, but I wasn't in charge of the radio. They had a call-in contest. You had to be the first person to call in with the correct answer to the question they asked. This particular day, they asked, "What temperature, expressed in Fahrenheit, is the same temperature in Celsius, by simply reversing the digits?" My grandfather said, "I just don't understand how that works, the difference between the two, and what they mean with that question." I explained the relationship of the two scales to him, and I stated to give him an example of what they meant by reversing the digits, etc. I said, "Say for example it's "61" Fahrenheit, and if that would be equal to "16" Celsius - that's what they mean by the question." As I said that, I kept thinking about watching the temperature flash on the sign outside the bank uptown in both Fahrenheit and Celsius, and mentally noting the numerical relationships to temperatures I remembered, I realized that with the example I gave, I'd actually hit on the right answer to the question. I was the first person to call in with the answer (for all I know I was the only caller). For that, I won four lame 45's of country western musicians I'd never heard of. But I'll always remember that 61 Fahrenheit is the same as 16 Celsius. So I've got that going for me... which is nice...
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