oh yes thousands of wheelies on the poster, possibly the word RAD too
I won a jar of Jelly Belly beans at a wedding once by guessing the number of jelly beans in it. I was two out, if I remember correctly!
There’s a photo somewhere of me clutching the jar of beans (behave) and looking very happy. Can’t find it, annoyingly.
Won a month pass for the local cinema when I was 18. Basically saw every film that was released that month.
Also once won afternoon tea for two at a posh hotel as a raffle prize. Took my mother like the good son I am.
Those frozen Hula Hoops are back btw. Big thanks if their return was anything to do with you and/or Kevin Davies
Wife won a £150 m&s voucher last week in an Annabel Karmel competition. She’s always entering comps but that’s her first win. We also got an Ella’s Kitchen fruit pouch that hadn’t been sealed properly or something recently. When my kid tried to drink it, the first mouthful was all hard sludge. Emailed them and they sent us £15 vouchers. Felt like a bit of win.
Bit disappointed me and Kevvy D weren’t asked to be the faces of them again tbh
Won some ear plugs on DiS
Won some compensation recently for a BA data leak (Tory option)
Think that’s it
Me and my brother won a fancy dress competition as St George and the dragon when I was about 6 and he was about 2. I was the dragon and I was extremely excited about it. He had no idea what was going on. The prize was a board game set that I was very pleased with.
When I was at uni we knew someone who worked on the student paper, and they said that nobody ever entered the competitions they ran, so some of us decided to enter whatever the next one was. It ended up being for a copy of some instructional dvd about how to have good sex and we all won one. I watched the copy my boyfriend won and never bothered collecting mine. I think it was as ridiculous as it sounds.
A bendy Bully and bfh.
I wish
Greebos of the board prepare for MAXIMUM JEALOUSY.
I entered all of the Roadrunner Records competitions and won the ACTUAL BEAR from the cover of Coal Chamber’s Loco single. It was enormous and the gas mask and bondage tape gave it a very threatening aura I didn’t care for. Also came with a load of Coal Chamber merch in XL and a test pressing of Chamber Music which I gave away to a charity shop and is probably still there.
If you’re wondering about the fate of the bear he sat in my parents attic until it went mouldy and was thrown away. He deserved better. Like going on eBay the first time they reformed.
Won a bunch of CDs on Steve Lamacq’s show years ago. I didn’t get to speak to him though, he palmed me off on to one of his underlings
Oh! Thanks again to DiS, I also won Antlers tickets with signed copies of Burst Apart and Underwater.
Winner!
Won a 3mth free now tv sub on MCDs monopoly a couple of years ago. That’s about it.
Back in the day when I was about 9 I won a contest to name a marmoset monkey (Mogwai). Got in the paper and a radio interview.
Won tickets to Camden Crawl through DiS. Cheers Sean!
I won a couple of DiS competitions too! Some Green Man tickets, a Mastodon t-shirt (that I think I gave to @Gnometorious) and something else quite big, tickets for another festival, but can’t remember which.
I remember the Gang Gang Dance t-shirt competition that I desperately wanted to win, but no dice
I won a Dyson Animal from ao.com a few years back, it was thanks to my dog Samson to be fair, it was a photo competition on FB and I said something about I needed one with a dog that hairy Thanks pooch!
Gf also sometimes goes through periods of time where she also intensely enters online prize draws for free. A few years back she won us 2 weeks driving the length of Route 66 in a (modern) Cadillac, including flights, accommodation and car hire which was insane.
She’s also over the years won a week on Jersey, a big old TV, a cutlery set and 5KG of horse feed (we live in a flat, no horses in here).
Brilliant!