Comments on: The Gadget Show

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:40:19 +0000

I’m beginning to think of Matt as the one who doesn’t speak of the blog - like the guy on Scott Mills.

I like it.

By: flipperr

flipperr — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:52:12 +0000

We’ve won some good stuff between us:
- I had a spate of wins as a child - including a pair of Startrite shoes (impressive at the time!) - and I’ve always been one to be lucky at raffles and suchlike. Someone not long ago tried to convince me that I’d won a free holiday, but it was a scammy time-share company so I declined.
- Z-Z (that’s his new name - he can kind of say it, which is sweet!) recently won a bunch of washable nappies for being cute (this is a very exciting and valued prize!).
- Betty Boo didn’t win exactly, but ended up modelling for a well known baby mail-order company when she was little, also because she’s cute.
I have two cute children - apart from when they’re screaming - and saying no - and stropping on the floor….I’m sure they’ll be on their best behaviour on Sunday!
PS Matt doesn’t do competitions (apart from on the cricket pitch!)

By: Ros

Ros — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:36:05 +0000

Oh yeah, I’d forgotten about that! That was the biggest jar of beetroot I have ever seen.

By: Dad

Dad — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:41:14 +0000

Oh - and I’ve just remembered - Ros won a GIANT bottle of pickled beetroot at her school fayre once. It was so big she couldn’t carry it and had to phone home for a lift! Don’t remember eating any come to think of it…

By: Dad

Dad — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:38:51 +0000

According to the emails I get at work I have won MILLIONS - pounds, dollars, you name it - from lottery competitions I haven’t entered and random selection of email addresses by people I don’t know. I must be loaded! Trouble is, they always want me to send my bank details first - which makes me a little sceptical. Am I wise to be so - or shall I chance it next time?!

By: Susie

Susie — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:21:07 +0000

I choked on my apple when I read carolyn’s most recent comment!

Andy do you remember when you kept winning free cans of Coke in NZ? Pete’s crisps reminded me of that.

Mat - Crows are back in Decemeber! With Ben Folds!

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:58:25 +0000

I watch the Gadget show from time to time. I always get tempted to enter the competition, but never do. The Canon Camera is a good one. It is fairly new out. It is basically the upgrade from the upgrade of my first SLR, which is now my back up camera, but is still very good, the the upgrade of the upgrade of it should be even better. Its got a few really good little features, but I wont bore you with them here.

I remember that I won a free packet of crisps once with walkers crisp-can you remember the little blue thing thy put in packets telling you what you had won. Apart from that ive not won much. In Year 8 at school I won a ‘most improved in English’ award, which basically meant it was given to the person who was really really really bad at it, and is now just really bad. I got book vouchers, so I bought a book about airplanes. I don’t know why, as I am not really all that interested in planes. I never read it.

But generally I never win anything. There are between 2 and 3 medic balls each year, they always do a raffle. Ive done 3 years, so I have bought raffle tickets at at least 6 balls. They have loads of prizes, probably between 20 to 30. So out of a possible 180 prizes I have never even won 1. Which when you consider that only around 120 people attend each ball, its a fairly bad record. I should give up, but I always think-next time…next time…

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:17:52 +0000

Didn’t you once win a dancing competion Jonny?

By: Jonny Evans

Jonny Evans — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:32:31 +0000

When I was 7, I entered a Roy of the Rovers competition to win a George Best video tape. I was 100% certain I’d win because I knew the answer (it was number 11). However, my Dad wisely told me that it isn’t guaranteed I’d win. He said that many people will know the answer and any one of thousands of people could win. He told me this so that I wouldn’t be heartbroken.

3 weeks later my George Best video came in the post. It confirmed to me that my Dad mustn’t know anything and that if I want something badly enough - it’s guaranteed I’d get it.

I can attribute a life of broken dreams and disappointments all the way back to that one Roy of the Rovers comic.

(I’m glad Roy lost his leg!)

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:05:16 +0000

I once was runner up in a national animal photography competion run by DK books and olympus.

I won an olympus camera worth £150 (which was loads in 1995 when I was 10). I also got an all expenses paid trip to London to meet Chris Packham (the really wildshow) to collect my prize. That was a fun day. I got the day off school and everything. Also I’d never been to London before so it was brill.