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**defender** · 06-10-2011, 23:37

Hi guy I am after ideas for our Mess christmas draw for prizes.

What are the prizes you would like to win?

What are the prizes that every one hates?

Also what are the differant ways you have seen the draw happen?

Thank you for any help.

**The_Snail** · 07-10-2011, 01:47

Originally Posted by defender

Hi guy I am after ideas for our Mess christmas draw for prizes.

What are the prizes you would like to win?

What are the prizes that every one hates?

Also what are the differant ways you have seen the draw happen?

Thank you for any help.

In my personal experience, I'd offer up a pony, AND SOME FUCKING SPELLING LESSONS.

Did I just say that out loud?

**The_Snail** · 07-10-2011, 02:06

Originally Posted by defender

Hi guy I am after ideas for our Mess christmas draw for prizes.

What are the prizes you would like to win?

What are the prizes that every one hates?

Also what are the differant ways you have seen the draw happen?

Thank you for any help.

My apologies. Is this the first time you've been dicked?

I feel for you.

I'll PM you with ideas if you want, but you might want to check the Search Function before you hear my warped ideas.

**smudge67er** · 07-10-2011, 02:14

Originally Posted by The_Snail

My apologies. Is this the first time you've been dicked?
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It's not the 1st time Dale's been dicked.

**goatrutar** · 07-10-2011, 02:34

A rubber fist smeared with vegemite.

**Arte_et_Marte** · 07-10-2011, 02:41

Originally Posted by defender

Hi guy I am after ideas for our Mess christmas draw for prizes.

What are the prizes you would like to win?

Hotel breaks. Restaurant meals. Golf clubs. Tickets for Donnington Park. Balloon Flight. One hour flying lesson. Use your imagination. Think big when you are blagging prizes, it often pays off, and it costs nothing to ask, and very handy harry if you offer complimentary mess tickets to the donors. Everybody likes a black tie party, especially the privilege of attending a Military affair.

What are the prizes that every one hates?

Bottles of shite wine. Boxes of shite chocolate.

Also what are the differant ways you have seen the draw happen?

If there are a shed load of prizes, and these 'dos usually have, I find it makes for an excellent evening when the band hide for 2 hours, whilst an amateur compere chanters on and on and 'feckin on, calling out the lucky numbers. "681 on a green ticket...No wait, ...oops it's upside down...it's 189, my mistake. Oh and it's blue, not green." Oh how we used to laugh.

Thank you for any help.

My last comment may come across as a pisstake, but I've been to plenty of 'dos in and out of the Mess, where that actually happens.

For the love of all that is sacred, get a decent speaker on the mic, draw say, three prizes, crack on with the 'thank-yous' whilst getting the overworked PEC committee scribbling a list of winners behind the scenes.

Bods can check the winners list at their own convenience.

You don't say what type of mess it is but here's a top tip anyway. Keep the participants in the 'Dance of the flaming arseholes' confined to the corridor, and away from the dance floor. It's not a dance.

**eodmatt** · 07-10-2011, 02:56

Great holiday prize idea: A months holiday for two, one weekend on the Isle of Sheppey.

**cloudbuster** · 07-10-2011, 03:09

Originally Posted by eodmatt

Great holiday prize idea: A months holiday for two, one weekend on the Isle of Sheppey.

Throw in a spot of scuba diving among well-known wreck sites.

**Badger_Heed** · 07-10-2011, 10:40

Originally Posted by defender

Hi guy I am after ideas for our Mess christmas draw for prizes.

What are the prizes you would like to win?

What are the prizes that every one hates?

Also what are the differant ways you have seen the draw happen?

Thank you for any help.

Top of the range electrical items especially those purchased from a company with a cash returns policy in place or credit note in exchange for goods.

Try and purchase items from one particular store therefore increasing the chance of a discount for spending a lot of dosh.

Obviously, if you are in a predominately AGC unit then go for a gross of vaseline smeared rubber fists.

**The13thDukeOfWybourne** · 07-10-2011, 11:05

How about hiring a professional knife thrower. All the prizes are attached to the rotating board and the winner is invited to strap themselves on it. Knife thrower does his business and whatever the knife lands on, that's what you win. Mind you, I've never won much in the mess, so the knife thrower doesn't have to be that professional.