POLL: Have you ever won anything?

[Hammer]

yup, but nothing big and not in a long time.

 

[ElFenix]

won a carving knife once

 

[LeStEr]

I won an X2 Lite xbox mod from xbox-scene.com a while ago.

 

[Rob9874]

Originally posted by: calvinbiss
Won a raffle my senior year of high school for a brand new ford truck (98), coolest thing that ever happened to me.

Same here, but not as cool. Every year at Grad Night, they give away a car. You always knew who won, because they would put it in our small town newspaper. Well, I won the car my year. It was a mint condition '78 T-bird. Only 40K miles. Ended up not being so great, and that summer I sold it. Only got $1500 for it, which I used to buy a great guitar amp which I still use today, 10 years later.

 

[amdskip]

I won a $50 GC from my credit union not too long ago.

 

[Electric Amish]

I won 2 free movie tickets from a radio station when I was 14 (?).

The question:

What was the name of the French arheaologist in Raiders of the Lost Ark?

amish

 

[RyanM]

Couple art contests, a Kool Aid sweepstakes, a raffle at my dentist's office, and that's it. Nothing since age 13. I've been a loser ever since!

 

[rky60]

Only thing i've ever won was a Richard Petty ride along gift certificate, few odds and ends, but that's the most mentionable

 

[ScottyB]

I hit 4 numbers on the Loto - ~$45
A $30 scratch ticket on my 18th birthday
A bunch of $1 - $20 scratch tickets
$60 at a casino
A $50 GC from my Graduation shut-in thingy
someother things I am probaby forgetting

 

[slikmunks]

athlon xp giveaway about a year ago

 

[Wooster]

Won Cambridge speaker system from HiFi.com.
Won IBM O/S2 software from Best Buy drawing.
Won Windows XP from Microsoft.

Best of all... won my current girlfriend.

 

[brtspears2]

I won $2,000 playing craps, got comp greedy and kept playing.

At least it was a free vegas vacation, meals, drinks, room.

 

[Savarak]

I won an MSI USB Wireless card as a door prize a few months ago at the Tech Expo that Anand spoke at... thats about all that I've ever won. Too bad I spent like 24 bucks on an Usb wireless card at Radio Shack a week earlier!

 

[jlee]

Originally posted by: Murpheeee
Have you ever won anything?

Sweeps? Lottery? Prize Giveaways?

I once won a stereo cassette deck from a HiFi magazine about 10 years ago.......
My wife won a Compaq computer system costing $1800 at a CompUSA sweeps 2 years ago

So far no luck on lottery

Yep..nothing on lottery/etc, but I did win four $60 concert tickets...numerous CDs..

 

[jw791]

I hit 5/6 on the state lotto once...Good for $1500. I more number woulda got $2 Mil

 

[Marauder-]

Umm - sure off the radio..

 

[dafatha00]

I won a couple of dimes

 

[Jhill]

I was the 100,000 visitor to a website today and I won some great prizes. Come to think about it, it happens almost every day.
I must be lucky.

 

[Looney]

I won the main door prize at a Chinese New Year party a few years back... it was a microwave.

 

[Dudd]

Funny story. Back in 6th grade, one of my friends had a pudding cup every day for lunch, and Jello was running an under the cap contest. This went on for a few months, and every day he'd check the cap, and announce that he still hadn't won. One day, I brought in one of those chocolate pies, and traded it to him for his pudding. Pull off the cap, and I won a hundred bucks. So I told him, and he was like bullshit. Very funny. Then, he was pissed. I bought him 10 more of those little pies to make up for it, and to this day he claims that he is the proper owner of the hundred bucks because he had traded me the actual pudding, not the packaging itself.

 

[jurzdevil]

Originally posted by: Dudd
Funny story. Back in 6th grade, one of my friends had a pudding cup every day for lunch, and Jello was running an under the cap contest. This went on for a few months, and every day he'd check the cap, and announce that he still hadn't won. One day, I brought in one of those chocolate pies, and traded it to him for his pudding. Pull off the cap, and I won a hundred bucks. So I told him, and he was like bullshit. Very funny. Then, he was pissed. I bought him 10 more of those little pies to make up for it, and to this day he claims that he is the proper owner of the hundred bucks because he had traded me the actual pudding, not the packaging itself.

hahahahahahaahah

thats hilarious

 

[J Heartless Slick]

A Superbowl half-time pool. ~$300
$2 bet on last year's Kentucky Derby
~$600 playing casino slots

 

[crypticlogin]

That Logitech keyboard/mouse giveaway and a cheapie MP3 player.

And I won $105 involving a scratch off lottery ticket. My housemates went food shopping and while there, the math major wagered $100 that out of the seven of us, nobody would win anything if each of us bought one scratch off game. Well I won $5 from the lottery ticket....

 

[FoBoT]

are we supposed to vote "Yes" if we won $2 on a lottery scratch off ticket?

i used to go to the dog track, i once hit a trifecta for ~$80

 

[cyclistca]

1) Couple month ago I won a 400 dollar ski jacket from Nissan Canada

also won

2) Tickets to the Canadian Grand Prix
3) Trip to Florida
4) 100+ at the Montreal Casino

Item 4 is actually funny. Went to a night at the Casino sponcered by the company I was working for. They paid for diner and a show and gave us a bunch of chips. I'm not a big gambler so my plan was to loss everything at the slots then take off. Only one problem was I kept winning. Boy were my coworkers pissed.