Have you ever won a competition?

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  1. Googs

    Googs Well-Known Member

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    and I don't mean owt like a swimming contest, or a pool tournament. I mean stuff like crosswords in the paper, a quiz question online to win a years supply of cat food etc</p>
     
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    Blue Peter badge nt
     
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    Won a competition a few years back on VH1 to win a Cheap Trick 4 cd box set.

    And one on Radio Hallam in 1980 (I think) to win debut (only?) album by a band called Limelight (sort of Rush style)
     
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    Won a Ford Escort

    In my company (Jaguar Cars) lottery in 1995.
     
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    A Christams Card verse comp in the Yorkshire Post ,

    Xmas 84.</p>

    </p>
     
    La Dent de Crolles, Sep 25, 2007
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    2nd prize in a beauty contest - won $10

    proper bob on....
     
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    Fortnight in Canada with AOL....

    £500 with one of the dodgy womens magazines (Take a break or something)
     
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    a week in disneyworld florida, all expenses paid for four people, free food, tickets into the parks and spending money courtesy of daily mail 1992!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
     
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    I won a 'phone-in competition on a local Radio station

    It was 1986.</p>

    They sent me &quot;It's 'orrible being in love when you're 8 and a half&quot; by Claire and Friends, plus 3 singles I had never heard of by people I'd never heard of.</p>

    I had the 'phone taken out.</p>
     
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    Yep, I won the Footy Manager 2007 Comp on BFC website last season... unfortunately

    I had already bought the game, and there it was, plonked through my letter box....


    Nay mind

    Ebay came in handy
     
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    Won a season ticket at Barnsley nt
     
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    A poetry competition aged 9, with a poem about a goalkeeper called "Top Stopper". Beat that. nt
     
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    It's technically impossible to beat that.

    I'd love to hear your poem.
    Did you rhyme "stopper" with "clopper", as in "big hairy clopper"?

    I once won a game of soggy biscuit by finishing last.
    I've never been able to stomach salty crackers ever since.
     
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    RE: It's technically impossible to beat that.

    I don't remember it from start to finish, although I do remember the main part - a bit like a chorus which was in between every verse sort of thing -

    "Top Stopper comes, Top Stopper goes, jumping, diving, saving goals........."

    It was inspired by Clive Baker, but i my mind's eye, Top Stopper was much taller........
     
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    A Platignum pen

    1975, Pick-a-Platignum National Schoools Writing Competition. My story was called &quot;Sounds in the morning&quot;. I was 10,
     
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    "sounds in the morning"

    I hope it wasn't about the kind of "sounds in the morning" I often inadvertantly awaken my wife with.......
     
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    RE: "sounds in the morning"

    I know, if I were to write that now it may be somehwat different. All I remember from it was:</p>

    &quot;I could hear Tony Blackburn on the radio, and the swirling of water boiling in the kettle&quot;.</p>

    I think it's perfectly obvious why I won the pen.</p>

    </p>
     
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  18. The Full Ponty

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    Mental picture:

    Mr & Mrs Stopper, at the hospital - with babe in arms.
    "What shall we call our Son, with the big tash?" says Mrs Stopper
    "Let's call him 'Top', as in Top Gun" replies Mr Stopper

    Top Stopper comes,
    Top Stopper goes,
    Jumping, diving - nailing ho's.

    It's obviously brilliant.
     
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    I think it's perfectly obvious why I won the pen.

    Yes.
    Was Tony Blackburn the judge.

    It's just a good job "Top Stopper" wasn't entered in the same competition.
    Otherwise - you'd be the proud owner of a pencil.
     
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    I also got a housepoint for this poem

    We have a dog called Brandy,
    he doesn't drink milk he drinks Shandy
    and when he gets frisky, he sometimes drinks whisky
    and instead of dog food he eats candy</p>

    I actually had a dog called Brandy at the time an' all.</p>

    </p>
     
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