Well I've won plenty of food from McDonald's and I won tickets to a concert from a local radio station one time back in 89' by getting on the phone and answering the question "Who shot Alexander Hamilton?" But I was grounded from the phone at the time and everything else so I could go get my tickets...
in middle school i got the chance to jump in one of those glass cages where they blow the money all around. rewards for selling magazine subscriptions or wrapping paper or some odd shit. anyways it was all 1$ bills but they threw in 2 50$s...it was real hecctic for like 30 seconds just grabbin at whatever i could but when they turned it off i looked down and saw not one but TWO bills with zero's on em!!!...bankrolled!!..walked out with like 111$, that was ill at 13.
also won 50$ on a lottery ticket and a massive jar of jolly ranchers for guessing the correct # of them in elem. school.
I high school I won a Genesis album package. Five LP's (Lamb Lies Down, Wind and Wuthering, etc.) which I sold to the used record store within a month.
I also won tickets to see Boston and Sammy Haggar. At the Omni in Atlanta on January 11, 1979 (I looked it up).
word. i used to work at this place called charlie browns as a host and i won that guess how many pieces of candy in a jar. it was like 600 somthing in there and i was off by 1. tht was dope. i won tickets to the movies. but i gave em away. peace, stein. . .
Paid my tuition 2 years in a row from Pro-line Basketball and NFL proceeds. Oh, and I won a leather Guiness coat at some bar and gave it to the first homeless guy I saw.
in the 3rd grade I won a TV from Sears. They were giving away a bunch of prizes and I wanted the 10 speed bike so I asked dude how many times I could enter my name in the drawing. He said as many times as I wanted so I filled out 37 entries before my mom told me we had to go. The next day they called to tell me I won a tv. It was awesome and bigger than my parents tv.
i won a couple of DJ battles. got a bunch of crap like needles, headphones, and a pair of k-swiss shoes that i flipped on ebay for $$$ and got 2 free flights to chicago, one of which included limousine service to and from the plush hotel they put us up in... all for 4 minutes of DJing.
when i was like 12, i won a walkman from a box of ritz crackers. it's the same walkman i use today.
* When I was about 10 or something, this department store had this contest to see which kid could transform their transformer the fastest! So, I enter. All these older kids were there too and I felt pretty intimidated - until they brought out the trasnformers wehad to use, which was one that i already had. So anyway, I kicked everyone's ass by a mile and won a brand new transformer!
* I won my university DJ competition a few years back. That was quite satisfying!
Oh, and I won $50 store credit from Dusty Groove a year or two ago for filling out one of their international shipping surveys. Bonus!
I won a website design contest for the movie From Dusk Till Dawn. This was '96 or '97 or something. I was still young. Miramax was too fucking cheap to make their own website so they made a contest as to who would make the best one. They were surprised I was 16. The prize was a private screening of the film for me and my friends. It was bullshit though because they planned it on spring break at 10AM on a Saturday. Who the fuck gets up that early to see a movie?
One bitter ass dude who lost emailed me and said I was in cahoots with Miramax and the contest was fixed.
Oh and I also won a second holiday at a holiday camp in a dance competition when I was about 7. (I broke off a mad backspin - which was actually against the rulez..... but still won! Damn I'm a rebel!!!)
i always tend to win at casinos. around 1000 was my max
Me too, most I ever won in a casino was 1200 playing the outside on roulette. Most I ever lost in a casino was a couple hundred. Also hit five final tables in local poker tournaments last year and early this year, and totalled up almost 5000 from that too.
Won a dj coffin at a party in a raffle once, then traded it for herbs.
Hit the final numbers in a Super Bowl box pool, 1000 dollars there. Also hit a halftime and a few quarters over the years, but only one final.
I just won this Just need one more to have doubles.
damn anthonypearson is the fuckin man when it comes to ebay options. if i would have sold a copy of that lp i would have been luck to get 12 dollars for it. i see a lot of his auctions going for 3x to 4x what they normally go
congrats anthony, you got some serious ebay clout. you got your wieght up for real on ebay
back when I was public school PS 100. I won a digital watch from a box of golden grahams. Goes without saying I was the king of 4th grade for many weeks. Best day evar!
Not too impressed really. The cover is different but title is the same. Am I listening to the right album? Their soundclips are too short so I imagine I might have missed something.
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also won 50$ on a lottery ticket and a massive jar of jolly ranchers for guessing the correct # of them in elem. school.
I also won tickets to see Boston and Sammy Haggar. At the Omni in Atlanta on January 11, 1979 (I looked it up).
Last year I won $53 on a powerball ticket.
K.
Not as much as you think, after taxes and when you take the lump sum, I only had like 32 million left.
when i was like 12, i won a walkman from a box of ritz crackers. it's the same walkman i use today.
I won a huge propane BBQ when I was 9 years old. I entered a contest @ burger king. I still have it. They don't make 'em like that anymore.
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* When I was about 10 or something, this department store had this contest to see which kid could transform their transformer the fastest! So, I enter. All these older kids were there too and I felt pretty intimidated - until they brought out the trasnformers wehad to use, which was one that i already had. So anyway, I kicked everyone's ass by a mile and won a brand new transformer!
* I won my university DJ competition a few years back. That was quite satisfying!
Oh, and I won $50 store credit from Dusty Groove a year or two ago for filling out one of their international shipping surveys. Bonus!
One bitter ass dude who lost emailed me and said I was in cahoots with Miramax and the contest was fixed.
Oh and I also won a second holiday at a holiday camp in a dance competition when I was about 7. (I broke off a mad backspin - which was actually against the rulez..... but still won! Damn I'm a rebel!!!)
100 bucks is 5 bucks to some people.
Me too, most I ever won in a casino was 1200 playing the outside on roulette. Most I ever lost in a casino was a couple hundred. Also hit five final tables in local poker tournaments last year and early this year, and totalled up almost 5000 from that too.
Won a dj coffin at a party in a raffle once, then traded it for herbs.
Hit the final numbers in a Super Bowl box pool, 1000 dollars there. Also hit a halftime and a few quarters over the years, but only one final.
I beat a 2001 Corvette with my '96 Impala once.
damn anthonypearson is the fuckin man when it comes to ebay options. if i would have sold a copy of that lp i would have been luck to get 12 dollars for it. i see a lot of his auctions going for 3x to 4x what they normally go
congrats anthony, you got some serious ebay clout. you got your wieght up for real on ebay
won the march madness pool at work this year after forgetting to pay the entry fee.
Damn! Hook us up with some soundclips when you get it. Looks dope.
For real? That's the 'Soul Makossa' lp--it's a ten dollar record in Montreal and easy to find.
Soundclips coming... the title track is apparently
I just listened to some of it at allmusic.com
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE4721BD84CAF7320C0983E56CAB577FB08D063FD831F29461BDFBA3C54983974C45AC09B94FDFD6AB066ADFF2EA1160BD9CFED5CFCDD765D40&sql=10:1tkvu3igan5k (hope link still works)
Not too impressed really. The cover is different but title is the same. Am I listening to the right album? Their soundclips are too short so I imagine I might have missed something.