I just won a keg in Uni and it got me thinking, what have all of ye won before? anyone ever won a car/the lotto?
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I just won a keg in Uni and it got me thinking, what have all of ye won before? anyone ever won a car/the lotto?
Gonzaga chess tournament 2006 (Major section, 1200-1600 rating). E125. :) Also won £40 at bingo about 15 years ago. And thats about it...:o
A cousin of my mum's won the £250,000 on the wheel on Winning Streak. It was during the summer though, so it wasn't televised. He apparently stuck it all in the bank and kept at the farming.
My grandmother won a car in some local GAA lottery once as well. Don't think she ever learnt to drive though, so just took the cash equivalent and all us grandkids got £100 each or something.:)
I had 3 winning tickets in a raffle at a gardening exhibition once. All three prizes were the same Gerry Daly gardening book.
Nice, well you can never have enough Gerry Daly gardening books Peadar!Quote:
Originally Posted by Peadar
Won a few prizes in raffles etc, nothing major.
The mam was a part of a syndicate that won the lotto, there was 2 winning tickets and about 20 of them in the syndicate !
I won a Celtic quizbook and a Man U -v- Everton DVD on A2ZSoccer.com
last year.
Apart from that I've won bugger all.
Won Ireland friendly stand match tickets on Newstalk. Also won 20" pizza which was horrible :( :eek:
£40 in the lotto, a special Uncle Larry club pen in the kids section of the Longford News and thats it....
I won an extra value meal at McDonalds once on one of their scratch card thingy's and that's about it.
Some of you might have seen Maggie Reilly singing "Moonlight Shadow" on the Phil Coulter show last season. She had a big hit with it back in the 19802 with Mike Oldfield.
Maggie sang for a short period with Dublin band Stagalee and they played a live gig here in Beeslow in the early 80s. She sounds really girly on Moonlight Shadow but at that gig she was fffing and blinding all night - real hard-ass harridan.
Anyway, I had bought a ticket for a prize of a bottle of whiskey before the gig. During a song break I made my way to the mens' jacks which was located to the left of the stage.
As I exited the jacks, I heard this deafening roar over the PA, "Hey you, ya fcuker, come up here and pull out a ticket for the raffle".
Quickly, I realised that Ms. Reilly was roaring at me.
Anyhoo, I pulled out a ticket and handed it to her.
As I took my place with my mates at a table in front of the stage, she was yelling why nobody would come forward to collect their prize so she called up someone else to pull another ticket.
All during this I was fiddling in my pocket trying to find my ticket and just as someone collected the bottle of whiskey, I pulled out my ticket.
Yep, you guessed it, I had pulled out my own "winning" ticket and just didn't find it in time.:o
To add insult to inuury, I hadn't even the satisfaction of getting laid with the bird I was doing some heavy duty chatting up at that table.:(
Two "prizes" pullled and both lost on the same night.:D
The lads gave me a ferocious slagging, I'll tell ya, that night.
I can laugh about it now.
I won a free season ticket to watch UCD last season. I already had one but it meant I could bring a mate in for free.
I won tickets to see bosco when I was younger and my mam forgot to bring me!! Never got over it
Won 2 bottles of win in a "raffle" at a longford town quiz-Alan Matthews picking my tickets-funny night
Won €25 in Town lotto
Won about €200 in prize bonds there a while ago
Think thats about it
I won a boxing trophy last year
There's a good few things, but nothing noteworthy except winning a 32inch widescreen tv and stand etc. in 5th Year and tickets to Anfield way back in 1997....
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I won tickets to see bosco when I was younger and my mam forgot to bring me!!
Won a competition in the Mirror to be their football family of the month(My sister entered). We got a trophy, picture in the mirror, free Macdonalds vouchers, were entered into a draw for world cup tickets oh and we got free tickets to see Arsenal:(
Strange prize to have in a raffle....Quote:
Originally Posted by ali2005
I remeber winning the film, a few good men in Dunnes Stores when I was around 8. It was a 7up competition and you had to write why you liked the 7up man so much so I wrote, he's cool, he's radical and I like him! oh yeah! worst thing was that I was too young to collect the video, still haven't watched it!
I won a green card..:D
Almost forgot, I won the half time raffle in Belfield once, Aberdonian Stu won it the following week. That caused some controversy as the two of us were in charge of selling the tickets at the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bald Student
I won that the only time the prize was something decent (ten prizes of a camera against Rovers the game after Doc O'Neill died).
Most recent thing I won was an IPod in a bar up here. They were doing a Budweiser promo and when you got a pint you got a ticket to enter a music quiz.
Don't even drink the p1sh, but my mate had a spare one and I went up and won :D
A compensation claim :) :cool:
And while ago there was a Brigóid Dearg Table quiz and raffle! With the raffle I was sure it was a fix as their mates were winning everything, then there's me shouting fix and low and behold my ticket is drawn! I won a D.V.D
Jack Charlton - The Irish Years :o
So thats why you had two fans last year:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Bald Student
I've won a few Auctions on ebay thats about it
We cleared up in that raffle :) :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Raheny Red
That DVD is right in front of me now and I can hear Jack begging me to look at the poxy DVD! :D :rolleyes:
Ardaghey Field Day Queen 1990
A bicycle
an argument or 2 with my ex-hubby
Just a minute quiz....got Friends Video and a Nivea hamper
Some other comp on 2FM...won €50 & some CDs
Tickets to see Blur in the RDS
Various bottles of wine and some whiskey in raffles
Even better than the Real Thing CD
A trip on the Coors Light Silver Bullet bus for a day out waterskiing, banana boating etc and loads of free beer
Dinner for 2 in a nice restaurant
A cuddly toy
The heart of Johnny Lester....(oh no that was just a dream)
:D :D :D ....!!! Were you the only one in it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Magicme
No but I did wear wellies which I think went down well with the farmers who were judging! ;)
A camera
Roy Keane's signed captains armband
2 tickets to Ire vs Finland
2 FAI Cup final tickets Shamrock Rovers vs Derry (I think)
Wine
Tickets to various concerts
Tickets to I Keano
A Guinness rugby jersey
Thats about it really...
Pish posh....u r not a real winner til you've won a beauty comp! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Drumcondra Red
For the record the draw wasn't rigged on either occasion. Oh and the camera I won didn't even work right.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bald Student
Btw I know I'm not supposed to quote entire posts but the entire post is relevant and quite short.
The bottle of whisky I won the same night is in front of me now too!Quote:
Originally Posted by Raheny Red
Not much left in it though.....:o
I forgot I actually won some sexy red underwear at a Christmas party one year.....I swapped it with a guy for a bottle of whiskey coz he had forgotten to buy his gf a pressie and I wanted whiskey! He got the better end of the bargain tho coz we cracked open the bottle and drank most of it there and then.
Is this one of those games where we each add a sentance? I'll go next:Quote:
Originally Posted by Magicme
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The guy then noticed that the underwear weren't his gf's size and said to me "I've known you a long time Magicme and and there's something I've always wanted to ask you,". ....
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Originally Posted by Magicme
"What's that?", asked Magicme, with a sence of curious trepidation in her voice.Quote:
The guy then noticed that the underwear weren't his gf's size and said to me "I've known you a long time Magicme and and there's something I've always wanted to ask you,". ....
"does my bum look big in this" he asked shly
actually he did prance around the pub wearing the thong....over his trousers of course.
"I meant those underwear for your gf.", answered a shocked Magicme.Quote:
Originally Posted by Magicme
ooooo - we'd all like to see you in that red underwear and those wellies.;) :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Magicme
heh heh
A keg of Beamish in an anti-extradition pub quiz years ago. Flogged it to the Norseman for cash.
A mini-keg of Amstel at a Pats pub quiz a few years ago. Kept that one.
€500 in the Pats members' bond draw two years ago. Gave it back, they needed it more than me.
€20k-worth of free online advertising at a work conference a fortnight ago. Not much good to me, so work get to keep it.
A few "Post of the week" awards on Hot Press MB. Prizes turned out to be really cráp rap CDs. Didn't keep them.
My mum won a car in the Late Late Show postal quiz a few years back. She didn't like the red Almera saloon she'd won, on account of (a) "I'm not blonde and you'd have to be blonde to drive a red car" and (b) it was too long to fit in the garage. So she didn't keep it, she traded it in for a green Almera hatchback, sold her old car and bought my da a suit out of Louis Copelands seeing as he had filled in her entry form. He called it his mafioso suit on account of only crooks could afford suits that dear.