Had a hot streak about 15 years ago, won expenses paid weekend in Paris that year and a week in Tunisia the following year. Bugger all since then, apart from a nice sum at the bookies when we won league 1. I won't be lumping on next year!
Around 1982, I won a Lego competition for the Leeds Permament Building Society in Sidcup. My dramatic representation of a robot (heavily influenced by many a Saturday morning watching Star Fleet on TV) stood proudly in their window on the high street for a good couple of weeks. They may have even put an extra £5 in my junior saver account. Those were the days, none of these "win a month with a porn star comps" in them days/circles....
A day trip for four to Woburn Safari Park. I won second prize, first prize was a two week safari to Africa. The day trip was surprisingly good so I'm not bitter about not winning the two week holiay.
My wife is the only person I know who's up on the lottery. She bought one £1 ticket and one a tenner.
Best Overall Business at The Sydney Business awards 2005....totally worthless apart from the publicity but still an achievement considering there were some huge companies involved.
Won a beauty contest in the cubs. Got some flowers. A load of young boys dressing up as women and being judged seems so innocent now. It was perfectly innocent until George best showed up anyway...
My mother once got second prize in a baking competition. "That's pretty good", I said. "How many entered?" asked. She replied "I was the only entrant. The judges didn't think it was good enough for first prize".
Orpington Amatuer Boxing Club personality of the year 1968 presented to me at The Daylight Inn by Terry Spinks. The award was specially created for me by our sponsor Norma Travel of Petts Wood because I had 10 straight defeats and there was no chance of me winning anything for boxing. I retired with that record intact.
Erith school circa 1979. They had the school festival during one of the last weeks of the school year in a vain attempt to make some money the school.
Various events were on, one was sponsored by Timex. The head master wound up a watch and put it in a metal box, the box was to be opened on the last day, whoever guessed the time correctly when the watch had stopped (in the secretary's office, there was a book where you filled in you name next to a time) The prize for whoever won was 2 really decent watches. This was when watches were expensive.
Anyway me and a couple of friends may or may not have broken into the school to nick dinner tickets and flog them half price to the kids, but we found the watch book and just scribbled our names randomly in loads of different time slots. Yep you guessed it, I won...........
All these years later I have no remorse for my actions and will probably burn in hell for all eternity.................*
*Junior, all the above is a pack of lies that I have just made up......ahem!
A rep I dealt with was getting grief from his boss for not having entered any names in a promotion. He sat down and completed entries from his best customers. I received second prize which was a set of golf clubs - the start of many a wasted hour on golf courses
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Mind you, I was 25 ;-)
My dramatic representation of a robot (heavily influenced by many a Saturday morning watching Star Fleet on TV) stood proudly in their window on the high street for a good couple of weeks.
They may have even put an extra £5 in my junior saver account. Those were the days, none of these "win a month with a porn star comps" in them days/circles....
My wife is the only person I know who's up on the lottery. She bought one £1 ticket and one a tenner.
Prize: A Banks Beer tea-shirt and a (one) free drink
Various events were on, one was sponsored by Timex. The head master wound up a watch and put it in a metal box, the box was to be opened on the last day, whoever guessed the time correctly when the watch had stopped (in the secretary's office, there was a book where you filled in you name next to a time) The prize for whoever won was 2 really decent watches. This was when watches were expensive.
Anyway me and a couple of friends may or may not have broken into the school to nick dinner tickets and flog them half price to the kids, but we found the watch book and just scribbled our names randomly in loads of different time slots. Yep you guessed it, I won...........
All these years later I have no remorse for my actions and will probably burn in hell for all eternity.................*
*Junior, all the above is a pack of lies that I have just made up......ahem!