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Come Inside... => The Snug => Topic started by: GROWLER on November 16, 2011, 10:29:36 PM
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Any of you lot everv won owt of any reasonable value, excluding bottles of booze choccies goldfish and coconuts? rubschin:
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By 'won' I take it you mean raffles or the like, not Nobel prizes, Oscars or Knighthoods etc?
In which case, no.
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By 'won' I take it you mean raffles or the like, not Nobel prizes, Oscars or Knighthoods etc?
In which case, no.
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happy100
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I won a rally driving experience a few years ago, sitting alongside one of my rally heroes Pentti Arikala. cloud9:
He sadly died 2 years ago. cry:
Came within a whisker of winning Jeremy Clarksons Escort Cosworth by having to guess the mileage he did on a trip across Europe.
I was a mere 8/10ths of a mile out, eeek: but someone did betterer. Banghead
Got a piggin' lousy book as a runner up prize. ::)
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I won a safari to Kenya for 3 people .........some years ago.....and a signed Tracey Ullman album ......different competition
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I won 100 chart LP's off Piccadilly Radio one Christmas around 1979 - 81
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Feck All!! noooo: Shrugs: :crying3: Violins:
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Feck all for me too...
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I never even used to get anything in pass the parcel at kids parties when I was a girl sad24:
These days you have to have something in every layer ripped off cussing:
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I never even just to get anything in pass the parcel at kids parties when I was a girl sad24:
Me too... happy100
My party bag had a hole in it as well... sad24:
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I won a prize for being "Top of the class" when I was ten.......... It was a book I already owned. Banghead
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I won a prize for being "Top of the class" when I was ten.......... It was a book I already owned. Banghead
I used to hate prize giving day.... noooo:
I sat there, cross-legged in me little shorts on the hall floor hoping beyond hope that they were going to surprise me with a book... surrender:
Of course, all the real prize winners chose theirs the week before.... sad24:
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I won a Roxy Music record in a disco dancing competition in 1973 redface:
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I won a prize for being "Top of the class" when I was ten.......... It was a book I already owned. Banghead
I used to hate prize giving day.... noooo:
I sat there, cross-legged in me little shorts on the hall floor hoping beyond hope that they were going to surprise me with a book... surrender:
Of course, all the real prize winners chose theirs the week before.... sad24:
We weren't given a choice .... Books to be awarded were chosen by the English Master and they were always books that were deemed "worthy" (No shaggin' or stuff of interest to boys of that age). As I recall mine was an adventure in darkest Africa tale of the type frequently filmed starring square jawed heroes like Stewart Granger
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shakariconnection.com%2Fimage-files%2Fgranger.jpg&hash=6568d90ea7b27f46cc3dba9549b9491b73c81634)
.... you know the sort of thing, wherein all the blacks were referred to as "Natives" and called the only white man "Bwana" and the bad guy was always a German.
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I won a Roxy Music record in a disco dancing competition in 1973 redface:
Now THAT I'd have luved to have witnessed. happy001
The YOU dancing bit, not the record
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I won 100 chart LP's off Piccadilly Radio one Christmas around 1979 - 81
WOW!! eeek:
Top bloody prize that man! :thumbsup:
You still got 'em?
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Further to the German in the "Africa/India" fillums .... usually played by Herbert Lom ..... who was actually Czechoslovakian ::)
Saw him recently in one of those day time movies on TV .... played opposite Kenneth Moore (who was the square jawed hero). They had "blacked" Lom up a bit to make him into a Muslim spy. Summat about Kenneth Moore rescuing some Hindu Prince (a young boy actor) from the Muslim Hoards by driving a steam train across the sub-continent.
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I know it was a raffle, but this time last year when I went up to the rally, I won whopper of a home made Crumblee CAKE at the annual hunt charity evening in the ale 'ouse in Satterthwaite. cloud9:
That nasty CAKE nicking Nick thing didn't even gera sniff of it. Finger: sparkle:
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I won a prize for being "Top of the class" when I was ten.......... It was a book I already owned. Banghead
I used to hate prize giving day.... noooo:
I sat there, cross-legged in me little shorts on the hall floor hoping beyond hope that they were going to surprise me with a book... surrender:
Of course, all the real prize winners chose theirs the week before.... sad24:
Was that the meeting you went to this week........ whistle:
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I won a prize for being "Top of the class" when I was ten.......... It was a book I already owned. Banghead
I used to hate prize giving day.... noooo:
I sat there, cross-legged in me little shorts on the hall floor hoping beyond hope that they were going to surprise me with a book... surrender:
Of course, all the real prize winners chose theirs the week before.... sad24:
Was that the meeting you went to this week........ whistle:
It was a 'vote for me as muhktar' bash... lol:
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In 1999 I won a full racing Mini 7 (about 15k's worth) together with entry to the final round of the Mini 7 championship in October of that year. Oh - they also paid for me to get a racing licence so I could enter and all my kit. Apart from the crash helmet - I already had one.
I qualified 34th out of 34. Come the race, I finished 18th.
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I won a prize for being "Top of the class" when I was ten.......... It was a book I already owned. Banghead
I used to hate prize giving day.... noooo:
I sat there, cross-legged in me little shorts on the hall floor hoping beyond hope that they were going to surprise me with a book... surrender:
Of course, all the real prize winners chose theirs the week before.... sad24:
Indeed we did. angel1
My ex won a family holiday to Disneyland, Florida. This was before the sprogs. I had to renegotiate the prize so the inlaws could come. eeek:
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I won a prize for being "Top of the class" when I was ten.......... It was a book I already owned. Banghead
I used to hate prize giving day.... noooo:
I sat there, cross-legged in me little shorts on the hall floor hoping beyond hope that they were going to surprise me with a book... surrender:
Of course, all the real prize winners chose theirs the week before.... sad24:
Indeed we did. angel1
My ex won a family holiday to Disneyland, Florida. This was before the sprogs. I had to renegotiate the prize so the inlaws could come. eeek:
Teacher's pet! evil:
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Teacher's pet! evil:
Of course angel1
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In 1999 I won a full racing Mini 7 (about 15k's worth) together with entry to the final round of the Mini 7 championship in October of that year. Oh - they also paid for me to get a racing licence so I could enter and all my kit. Apart from the crash helmet - I already had one.
I qualified 34th out of 34. Come the race, I finished 18th.
Awesome, and bestest one so far I'd say! :thumbsup:
You still got the car then? Be werth an absolute fortune now. Even bogo ones are fetching silly money, which is why BM is such a wise old owl, even though you lot (apart from me of course sparkle: ) take the piss out of him relentlessly. evil:
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Alas no, Bear. My car was number "40" and was built at Silverstone during the celebrations for the Mini's 40th birthday. My raffle ticket was picked by Vicki Butler-Henderson, but I was sunning my arse in Kos at the time. I only found out about it when my brother phoned me on an ex-exes mobile phone when he was given the news by my ex. Confused? You should be. I couldn't afford to race it (£1000 per meeting) so I sold it for a paltry £7500 and the bloke who bought it wrote if off in his first race.
I still have the Mini magazine that has a 4 page spread about it all - I'll scan it all and send it.
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Alas no, Bear. My car was number "40" and was built at Silverstone during the celebrations for the Mini's 40th birthday. My raffle ticket was picked by Vicki Butler-Henderson, but I was sunning my arse in Kos at the time. I only found out about it when my brother phoned me on an ex-exes mobile phone when he was given the news by my ex. Confused? You should be. I couldn't afford to race it (£1000 per meeting) so I sold it for a paltry £7500 and the bloke who bought it wrote if off in his first race.
I still have the Mini magazine that has a 4 page spread about it all - I'll scan it all and send it.
You were soooo close to that Silver Coconut.... noooo:
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Alas no, Bear. My car was number "40" and was built at Silverstone during the celebrations for the Mini's 40th birthday. My raffle ticket was picked by Vicki Butler-Henderson, but I was sunning my arse in Kos at the time. I only found out about it when my brother phoned me on an ex-exes mobile phone when he was given the news by my ex. Confused? You should be. I couldn't afford to race it (£1000 per meeting) so I sold it for a paltry £7500 and the bloke who bought it wrote if off in his first race.
I still have the Mini magazine that has a 4 page spread about it all - I'll scan it all and send it.
That would be great. :thumbsup:
BM. He IS a strong contender for the SILVER COCONUT, 'cus you see, he's a petrol 'ed too, he's not rude and orrid to me, in fact he's ALWAYS been polite on the rare occasions he converses with me.
He's also a raging nutter, and I lurve raging nutters. cloud9:
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What YOU lookin' so friggin' smug about Wankah: ?
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I won a bottle of wine in a twist competition when I was 8 1/2 months pregnant with my daughter.
Does that count ?
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Wha'? Shrugs:
Wora knob. ::)
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In 1973 I won a book for my writing exploits. It was the complete works of Shakespeare, abridged. angel1 I hated Shakespeare then and I hate Shakespeare now. angry041:
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Abridged eeek:
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Yes abridged, that was the only good thing about it.
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In 1973 I won a book for my writing exploits. It was the complete works of Shakespeare, abridged. angel1 I hated Shakespeare then and I hate Shakespeare now. angry041:
You wrote ....the complete work of Shakespeare........... rubschin:.......
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happy001
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In 1973 I won a book for my writing exploits. It was the complete works of Shakespeare, abridged. angel1 I hated Shakespeare then and I hate Shakespeare now. angry041:
You wrote ....the complete work of Shakespeare........... rubschin:.......
Oh yes and Hitler's Diaries I didn't write Edwina Curry's diaries though. I thought about it but eggs and John Major flummoxed me. noooo:
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Did you live / hide out in an attic for many years ? rubschin:
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Did you live / hide out in an attic for many years ? rubschin:
Good book ........lazy cow no sequel........ noooo:
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Did you live / hide out in an attic for many years ? rubschin:
Good book ........lazy cow no sequel........ noooo:
lol: lol: lol:
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I came top of the National Sunday School examinations two years running.... was I the only one taking them I wonder? Don't remember any prizes for doing so though. shrugs:
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What went wrong subsequently?
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What went wrong subsequently?
I have always ALWAYS challenged, tested and rebelled against everything. lol:
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Did you live / hide out in an attic for many years ? rubschin:
Oh yes, it varied sometimes it was 'the dungeon' sometimes it was an attic I have pictures.
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Did you live / hide out in an attic for many years ? rubschin:
Oh yes, it varied sometimes it was 'the dungeon' sometimes it was an attic I have pictures.
happy100...were you abused...
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Oh yes, where do I sign?
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Here, use this red hot poker