Crappy PrizesCompetitions, raffles, give-aways... sure the prizes look great, but don't they always turn out a bit crap should you happen to win them?
The last raffle I bought tickets for, they'd just given away the all-expenses paid weekend in New York when my number came up. Rushing up to find out what I'd won, I was a little disappointed to be handed a box of "Biscuits for Cheese". Especially as they were busy serving the cheese course (complete with biscuits) as they drew the raffle.
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chthonic, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 11:16)
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College RaffleBack in the drunken mists of time, we ended up organising and handling the prizes for a charity raffle at college. The proceeds were to go to a local ITU, who had helped a girl from the college.
As luck would have it most of the prizes were bottles of booze, generously donated by kindhearted folk. Obviously we felt that alcohol would be wasted on the charitable people buying raffle tickets and consumed the lot between four of us.
20 minutes before the raffle, and struck by a brilliant idea, we strolled nonchalantly into the college library, stole a handful of books, removed the security stickers and substituted them into the raffle in place of the booze.
Cue much bemusement as ticket holders received dog-eared copies of "Mathematical Methods in Economics" textbooks and the like, clearly thieved from the college library. Drunkenly we denied all knowledge of any other prizes to the guy whose idea it had been to set up the raffle.
Wracked with guilt the following morning we stuck a fiver each into the pot before handing the money to the local ITU (despite Paul's protestations that we could have hijacked the cash and gone to the pub).
(, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 12:47, Reply)
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