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I win stuff every year from United way raffles at work usually hockey tickets and autographed sports poo poo, perhaps a fine hammock this year
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I won a 48" flat screen tv from a work raffle. It's a poo poo brand with garbage speakers but free is free.
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Nov 6, 2015 16:40
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Not a Children posted:I won a really lovely USB microscope from cartoonnetwork.com in like 1999 Oh yeah I won a webcam in like 2000 because I'd signed up to some drat internet thing because I had to to do something and it put me in a drawing. They sent like five progressively more pleading emails assuring me that I had actually won something and that this wasn't a scam before I gave them my address with a fake name so they could send me the webcam which I never used.
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Nov 6, 2015 16:47
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Yeah the DARE program in my middle school had a raffle and I won a black DARE basketball and I shot some hoops lemme tell ya
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Nov 6, 2015 16:58
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I got 2nd place in a Nintendo Power contest and got Automobili Lambourgini for the N64, and a leather jacket. It's a pretty nice jacket.
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Nov 6, 2015 17:21
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I won a Gameboy Advance at a work raffle, I had to put in a ton of tickets but it was free I won Motorhead tickets from the radio once, I was super into them at the time and we waited outside for hours and they ended up not playing for some bullshit reason
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Nov 6, 2015 17:38
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Got a thousand-dollar gift card from the children's hospital lottery, which was nice cause they got $250 from me to spend on being awesome. Win-win.
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Nov 6, 2015 17:44
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I always win those stupid "guess how marbles are in the jar" contests because I understand basic grade school mathematics
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Nov 6, 2015 17:58
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Gambling is strictly haram in my sect, but I have stolen these: For the glory of the prophet, of course
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Nov 6, 2015 18:22
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I won a pair of socks with an angry ostrich in a birthday hat from a Facebook giveaway. They were pretty cute.
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Nov 6, 2015 18:56
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By the time I was 10 years old I had won a 10-speed in a raffle, I picked 4 out of 6 numbers in Ohio's first ever lottery for a few hundred dollar win, and I won the Pepsi Challenge bottlecap game when I found the elusive "A" for $5k. Then my dad was dumb enough to tell me that I couldn't possibly keep up that insane luck, he jinxed me, and I haven't won anything since. Though, I was born a white male in the USA so really that's winning life's lottery.
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Nov 6, 2015 19:03
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One time I won a lovely blueray dvd player from a frys when they were brand new. I saw the screen say "YOU WON!" and I said to the cashier, "Neat, someone won a thing." and then he told me I did and I was like "oh." I never used it lol
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Nov 6, 2015 19:08
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What's that you say? I've won a thing that plays media I don't yet own, but that you just happen to sell? Well golly gee, imagine my good fortune.
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Nov 6, 2015 19:18
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I once won a big set of pogs that featured all the NFL teams on them. Also won a set of saints row 3 posters from a Facebook drawing thing on the official page. Won a lot of call in radio station concert and movie tickets back when radio was still a thing.
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Nov 6, 2015 22:58
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I won a bag of stuff from Environment Canada for attending a conference. There were some slate coasters in it that I still use, and I have the bag kicking around for putting dog stuff in for over night trips. Everything else = garbage
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Nov 6, 2015 23:41
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I won a ceramic chicken in a basket with wooden eggs from a raffle in a country store I stopped to piss in one time.
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Nov 7, 2015 00:23
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I won 200 dollars from a radio contest on my birthday. It was pretty sweet.
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Nov 7, 2015 00:28
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Hell yes I have! A few weeks ago I got a new taylormade sldr driver after I WHIPPED SOME rear end AT GOLF. I loving scored good as hell and took the second place bitch over my head and broke his spine on my knee. That's not how I won the driver though, that came from buying 50 dollars worth of tickets. I sold the driver to my friend because there is no driver other than the Ping K15.
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Nov 7, 2015 00:34
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I've won a phone before. My phone company had a contest. If you signed up for a newsletter thing that gave you news on when the Samsung Galaxy S3 was coming out and information on all of the features, etc. you had a chance to win. I'm pretty sure the newsletter ended up going to my spam, because I don't think I ever got it. I won the phone. I'm on prepaid, so it was a pretty sweet win. Phone died 2 years later. R.I.P.
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Nov 7, 2015 00:36
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I won the WoW beta signup lottery which actually made me 300€ when I sold it because desperate nerds wanted in so badly It was about a week before it ended so some dumb guy bought a beta account that he could play a week for hundreds of euros  The finished game cost like 15€ a month he could have played for 1 1/2 years for that money hahaha
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Nov 7, 2015 00:37
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I won a free dinner to a restaurant once but the food sucks so I didnt bother using it.
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Nov 7, 2015 00:40
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I won quite possibly the greatest prize in the history of radio contests when I was a kid: a six-pack of Canfield's Diet Chocolate Soda.
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Nov 7, 2015 00:43
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flakeloaf posted:What's that you say? I've won a thing that plays media I don't yet own, but that you just happen to sell? Well golly gee, imagine my good fortune. those mother fuckers
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Nov 7, 2015 00:45
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I loving hate every single person who buys lottery tickets with a burning passion, an no, you are not going to win. Every time someone says "you can't win if you don't play" to me, I reply with "I win every day I don't play the lottery". gently caress all of you. That being said one time I won a turkey beanie baby from my synagogue when I was in 3rd grade.
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Nov 7, 2015 01:21
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Won a extra chromosome from God raffle
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Nov 7, 2015 01:33
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I won a Doors box set off the radio for answering that Harvey Keitel was initially picked to play Martin Sheen's role in Apocalypse Now. Gave the box set to my dad.
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Nov 7, 2015 01:41
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Son of Rodney posted:I won the WoW beta signup lottery which actually made me 300€ when I sold it because desperate nerds wanted in so badly WoW beta was loving sweet though. My brother almost got divorced over it.
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Nov 7, 2015 01:49
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Hey nerds! Inspired by this thread I bought twenty bucks in scratchers and a ten dollar mega millions after going to see spectre tonight.  Got this. Ha! E. It's the 500 not the 10 thousand. But drat. I'll take it.
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Nov 7, 2015 03:29
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Say Nothing posted:Won $50 on a scratch ticket, decided to buy another - got two $25 prizes, brought one more and got another $50 prize. Also won two different cell phones and a new chainsaw in the same day (from online contests I had entered). Weird how probability skews like that sometimes.
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Nov 7, 2015 03:35
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I won a pair of binoculars from a raffle. A 3DS from a raffle. and some other poo poo too im sure.
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Nov 7, 2015 03:37
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I won like $500 from some weird Deal or No Deal thing at my college but they picked me out of the crowd randomly. I thought I was some kind of cool game theory wizard but I was spending tens of thousands of dollars on a liberal arts degree
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Nov 7, 2015 03:39
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King of Bees posted:Hey nerds! Inspired by this thread I bought twenty bucks in scratchers and a ten dollar mega millions after going to see spectre tonight. Congrats duder. I must be the good fortune fairy or something. Rub my belly for good luck.
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Nov 7, 2015 04:29
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I made a thread about it here already when it happened, but I literally won World of Warcraft. For their 10 year anniversary they sent out statues to people who had played since the beginning and never cancelled their account. I bought the box on day one, which came with a 3 month subscription, but at the end of the 3 months i never signed up with a credit card, and so I guess that means I technically never cancelled. However it went down, I qualified for the statue, except it cost me $50 ten years ago, not the constant subscription which I think would have been about $2000. It would have cost them more in postage to send it to Australia than they ever got from me.
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Nov 7, 2015 04:40
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monkey posted:I made a thread about it here already when it happened, but I literally won World of Warcraft. I googled the statue and it does look pretty sick. Here's a picture:  I can't, however, imagine what it must feel like to finally see this statue and think "I've officially wasted ten years of my life and $2k on an MMO." Blizzard should've included a Glock and a single bullet.
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Nov 7, 2015 05:14
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:I googled the statue and it does look pretty sick. lol if you have anything remotely like this on display in your home
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Nov 7, 2015 05:21
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When I was younger my town had a lottery. It was mid summer and I remember gathering rocks with the other kids in anticipation. It was a pretty big deal every year and I remember old man Warner always used to say, "Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon." Luckily for me, my father did not get a marked slip. Bill's wife Tessie was not so lucky. Poor Tessie.
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Nov 7, 2015 05:27
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There was some lovely bingo fundraiser thing at my impoverished elementary school and the one card my mom gave me money to play, I won a bag of ugly dinosaur treasure trolls straight out of the 90s.   gently caress me, they're even uglier than I remember
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When I was 7, my best friends were a brother and sister. They were a little on the poor side and their mother was always out gambling, so for two years they regularly stayed with my family and took their meals at our home. One day we were all out playing the the woods near my house and my older sister came to get us, only saying something "big" had happened. When we got back to my place, we discovered their family had won a million dollars in Publisher's Clearing House. We all drove down to their place and there was a big hullabaloo with TV cameras n' poo poo. Their older sister was featured on the commercials for a while for being a pretty teenager who answered the door in her towel. In the months that followed, they started acting different. They got rid of their dogs, replacing them with a horse and a shih tzu named "Penny" and "Dollar," respectively. They got a new house and refused to come play at mine anymore because theirs was so much nicer. The brother ripped dollar bills in half and would laugh about his ability to do so for reasons that were beyond me. The last time I saw them, the brother told me I had to pay him back for eating candy at their house and whopped me in the head with a stick. My family ended up moving away when I was 9 and I never saw them again. A couple of years ago, the sister I'd played with contacted me on Facebook. Turns out their mom had continued gambling, they lost everything, their parents got a divorce and her brother's on heavy drugs. The mother's since died. Welp.
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Nov 7, 2015 06:30
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I won a 15" 16-speed Novarra Ponderosa mountain bike in a raffle, but it was too tall for me! 
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A local radio station held a call-in contest, with no limit to the number of times you could win. The prizes were various records. My brother managed to win 8 times and was instructed to come down to the radio station and collect his winnings. Since he was too young to drive, I took him over. What the station neglected to tell anybody was the fact that they only had two albums to choose from. Since my brother won 8 times, he was allowed to select whichever ones he wanted. He got 4 Sheena Easton and 4 Barry Manilow records. Not different records. 4 of the same. He started listening to another radio station after that.
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