Any Trophies or Awards On Display In Your Home?

[arwalden]

Are they YOURS? Or do they belong to someone else in the family?

I've got an old golf trophy packed up somewhere in the garage. (The only other trophy I own isn't sports related. It's an imitation Academy Award--also in storage.)

-- Allen



(Edit: Broader category... not just sports.)

[Aristus]

1. We-ee-ee-llll,

It's not really a sports trophy. It's the Commandant's Award from the NCO Academy I attended in the Army. It's an infantryman leading a charge up a hill. It's cool.

[GOPisEvil]

2. Yes - 3 on display.

1 - 3rd place in my agency's golf tournament, 2001.
2 - 1st place in a island-wide bowling tournament when I was 11 (we lived in Hawai'i)
3 - 1st place in a softball league 1996.

They really just gather dust - I should stick 'em in a box.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

3. Dad had lots

For skeet shooting and canoeing. Took them all with him when he moved back to Spain, of course. Mom would polish them (along with other metal trinkets we had, which were many) about once every two months or so.

[blondeatlast]

4. 5; 2 for my bowling, 2 for my tennis*, 1 for my son's soccer.

*my knees forced me to give it up.

[VelmaD]

5. I have lots

I played competitive sports for most of my childhood and have lots of trophies for basketball in particular. I have trophies and medals from the Elk's Lodge and Knight's of Colombus free throw shooting contests and from winning the local YMCA girls basketball league.

I also was a serious musician. I have trophies and certificates and medals from piano competitions on display, including my bronze and silver medals from an international competition I was in.

[Superfly]

6. I have a gold medal on display

for winning in my category of home-made-wine at the 2003 International Amateur Winemaking Competition. That's it...I'm a loser at everything else.

[pippin]

7. Two of spouse's

Emmy Awards

[arwalden]

8. You TEASE!!! Tell Us More...

Local Emmy's? Newscasting? Or something that we ALL might know about.

Do tell. Go on!

-- Allen

[pippin]

10. Nope, No Teasing

Spouse worked for national tv. Technical Emmies for work on different Olympics and various sitcoms.

[arwalden]

11. That's Very Cool!!

-- Allen

[ronnykmarshall]

34. I've held

an Oscar and an Emmy.

What a thrill!

My ex's, ex had his ex's Oscar and we went over to their condo to paint and I saw IT! I didn't let go of it all day. A few days later, we went over to their house for a holiday get together and I had spent the WHOLE day as an extra on the film "Patty Hearst" and they brought Oscar out and set it at my place at the table. I was one happy camper.

The Emmy was won by won by the brother of my dear friend Micheal Richman who died in 2002. His brother was a writer for "Fraiser" and at the get together after the funeral at Jeffery's house, I asked Jeff "Can I just hold it for a minute?". Jeff said "of course, honey. Michael used to tell me what a kick he got out of you being so star struck".

Lemme tell ya, them mutha's is heaveeeeeeeeey!

[arwalden]

37. What Fun Stories... :-)

Sounds like they are some of your favorite memories.

-- Allen

[jburton]

9. Does a trophy wife count?

:crazy:

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Yes, A Few!

All are mine. My wife wouldn't have the big ego to display anything she won.

5 Golf Trophys (All won since 1996)

1 Miniature of the Midwest Independent Filmmakers Associations (The Miffies). A guy (Don Leaham) won the award with a long form concert video of my band in 1990, produced for a local TV station. We got the mini- for being the band in the film.

Illinois Jazz Piano Competition First Place 1973

Illinois Jazz Piano Competition Second Place 1972
The Professor

[devilgrrl]

13. A few hockey trophies and my bronze medal...

from USA Nationals, my silver medal is here at work with me.

Most of the others were tossed or I brought them to my old high school and shoved them in with the rest of the trophies... no one ever checks, I bet a few of them are still there.

[GOPisEvil]

14. Which sport did you compete in at Nationals?

:curious:

[devilgrrl]

17. Ice Hockey...

:-)

[GOPisEvil]

19. Cool!

Ice Hockey looks like such fun...but alas...I cannot skate, and I'm getting older. :D

[ScreamingMeemie]

15. My daughter's 1st place trophy for the Regional Spelling Bee.

And assorted sports trophies of hers. They all blend together. Nothing for me...I am average, just like Bobby Brady.

[nostamj]

16. my "male vocalist" award

from DT's FatCat's Monday Madness Awards...

(have others, for writing, but only that still on display. my bookcases are full of 'odd' items from my late g-mom's uke to a mystic 8-ball to....... well, odd items.

[sasquatch]

18. Four year varsity wrestling trophy

:)

[MissMillie]

20. Yep, I'm the 2003 Pounce Champion

lol.... Ok, go ahead and ask.....

[11 Bravo]

21. I'll bite...

Pounce on what?

[MissMillie]

25. It's a gard game

Every year my family has a Bridge Tournament complete w/ trophies and a lot of food and alcohol.

At this event we also play a version of "Solitaire" called "Pounce". It's called Pounce because you don't play alone. Instead, when you put your Aces up, they are fair game for everyone to play on (and everyone Pounces on them).

You need a deck of cards for each player. Shuffle the deck you have and then when everyone is ready, each player hands their deck off to the player on their right.

When you get the shuffled deck, you count out 13 cards and turn it over so that the cards in this pile are face up (this is called your "pounce pile).

Then lay out 4 other cards, side-by-side to the right of this "pounce pile". You use those 4 cards to play the black-on-red-on-black that you would typically play in Solitaire, using the cards in your hand 3 at a time (taking the top only--of course once you use the top card then there's another card on "top" and you can use that one as well).

Aces go up to the center of the table and are fair game.

The "pounce pile" can also be used to play on the other cards in front of you, and also can be used to build on the aces in the center of the table.

When your pounce pile is empty, you win.

[stewert]

22. 13 Pool Trophies......

1991 first place - Abraham League - Team - Pour House

1992 first place - Valley League - Team - Ajay's - Captain of team, also got MVP for the league.

1993 first place - Valley League - Team Ajay's - Captain of team, also got MVP again.

1994 first place 8-ball state tournament qualifier, ICMOA (Illinois Coin Machine Operators
Association) event. I qualified out of RJ's pool hall, then played in the Illinois state tournament in
Springfield with 225 players and I finished 15th. Won $550 for that 15th place finish.

1995 first place division Champions - Shooters Pool League - Team - Last Hurrah

1997 first place - APA 9-ball League - Team - Bill & Marys - 6 handicap

1998 first place - APA 9-ball League - Team - Bill & Marys - 6 handicap

1999 first place - Abraham League - Team - Teddys

1999 MVP - Abraham League - Team - Teddys - played 5 games a week for 14 weeks,
that's 70 games total. I won 65 games out of 70, it even says 65 wins on the MVP trophy.

2000 first place - Abraham League - team - Teddys - Played 14 weeks, 5 games a week, one
singles game each week. Went 14-0 in the singles games and got a special undefeated trophy,
to this day I am the only person to ever do it.

2002 first place - Bill & Marys in house league - Also got MVP trophy and a $25 bonus for it.

I was a 6 handicap, the highest it goes is an 8, but almost no leagues have any 8 handicaps. Most
leagues only have a few 7 handicaps.

The trophy I am most proud of is the 14-0 trophy, nobody had ever went undefeated before I did
it, and nobody has done it since either. It's almost impossible to go 14-0, but I did it. I have also
won 20 or 30 other local pool tournaments that did not give out a trophy, just money.

Today I rarely play pool because of my back problems, I am lucky to be able to play a few games
once or twice a month now. Even when I do, my back is sore for a couple days after.

[snooper2]

54. that's very cool

I envy you :)

eom

[Beaker]

23. yes. I pick them up at garage sales.

usually pretty cheap.

and I've found boxes of them in the alleys.

[Beaker]

24. yes. I pick them up at garage sales.

usually pretty cheap.

and I've found boxes of them in the alleys.

[arwalden]

38. You Can't Just Leave It At THAT... More Details Please!

I've always thought it would be fun to buy one of the ubiquitous trophies that I see at the Thrift Store... then have a new engraved plaque put on it with MY name. Then try to convince my friends that I'm a champion in all sorts of sports.

I wonder if they would believe it when they saw my name on the ladies figure skating trophy? Hmmm.

-- Allen

[jmowreader]

26. On my stuffed crow...

I have three Army Achievement Medals (one for fixing a generator in a driving rainstorm and getting communications back up, one for organizing a battalion change of command ceremony in one day after someone else screwed it up, and one I don't remember what it was for), an Army of Occupation Medal, a Good Conduct Medal and a Humanitarian Service Medal. I also earned the Army Commendation Medal but I just have the certificate and ribbon because someone forgot to order the device itself.

My honorable discharge is framed and sits above our marriage certificate.

On another wall is my Divided City Scroll and my East of the Elbe Scroll. You got those for serving honorably in the City of Berlin during the occupation.

I have a couple of plaques from units I'd departed before I went to Goodfellow; one is from the 101st Airborne, the other from the 501st MI Brigade.

In a box I have my Field Station Berlin certification coin and my silver and gold Berlin Brigade Triad coins.

[AlienGirl]

27. A patch from the Texas DPS's Special Crimes Service

It is framed on my bookcase.

Tucker

[Bertha Venation]

28. Yes, one, first place in a photo contest (the photo inside)

for this photo of Petey:


Okay, it wasn't that big a deal. It was a humane society fundraiser at their annual "dog walk" thingy. There were three or four photo categories. Petey won in "best action shot." One voted for one's favorite picture by dropping money in the slot below one's selection.

Okay, it's not on display. It's a ribbon, and I use it for a bookmark.

I just wanted to show off the picture. ;)

[Melsky]

29. Yes, for writing!

I won first place for a writing contest about energy conservation when I was in third grade. It was citywide (Torrance, CA). I won the third grade category.

Now I can tell people that I am an award winning writer.

[Bertha Venation]

30. Cool! and . . .

you went to grade school in Torrance? Where do you live? Oh yeah -- Twentynine Palms? Joshua Tree?

I am so homesick, Melsky. :cry:

yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, folks <whine> it's all about me

[Melsky]

57. I live in 29 Palms

in the remote part - Wonder Valley, the far east side of the Morongo Basin on the road to Vegas.

But I'm moving to the other CA - Canada. I'm selling the house to someone who is a friend of someone I met on DU! I plan to visit the desert next winter.

I love your cat picture!

[ronnykmarshall]

31. My Oscar,

my Tony, my Emmy, my Golden Globe and I can't seem to find that damn People's Choice Award.

[arwalden]

39. Good Help Is So Hard To Find...

HONEST help is even harder to find.

-- Allen

[Lostmessage]

32. I won a best legs contest one time & another for crossword puzzles

I got a trophy for the best legs contest years ago when Rod Stewart's Hot Legs song was out.

I use to make crossword puzzles and I have a trophy from a contest that was held one time.

[proud patriot]

33. Yes ....I don't have pictures of them

but I have trophies for billards , softball, and bowling .

Yeah yeah , I'm a jock , or I was in my youth anyway .

[greatauntoftriplets]

35. I have two Golden Trumpet Awards

from the Publicity Club of Chicago. They are on the bookcase in my front hall.

I also have three Silver Trumpet Awards from the same organization that are more recent, but they are on display where I currently work.

[camero]

36. Still have my wrestling ribbons

and a few newspaper articles where my pic was on the sports page. Most of my trophies have been long gone from moving so much in my 20s.

[arwalden]

40. No FFA or 4-H Awards? County Fair Pie-Baking Awards?

-- Allen

[Lorien]

41. An academy award.....

nomination. It's actually kind of lame (OK, really lame in concept, but pretty to look at).A movie I worked on was nominated for Best picture, and recieved best comedy from the Golden Globes. So the studio gave all of us with a fairly large hand in the thing a large gold coin set in acrylic, with the nomination on one side and the Golden Globe on the other (we lost Best Picture to "Silence of the lambs"..but by only 30 votes)!

[ronnykmarshall]

58. How cool!

What film did you work on?

I went to the Oscar display last year and saw all the Oscars they had on display. It was so cool. It was amazing to see the shape some of the awards were in. Some of the people have had them re-dipped and some of them look kind of haggard.

Hale Berry's Oscar was there too. I'm suprised she let go of it long enough to let it be on display.

[Lorien]

59. It was the first animated film

to be nominated; "Beauty and the Beast" (yeah, I know-loads of DUers HATE Disney almost as much as WalMart). It caused so much of a controversy that the Academy had to give animation it's own catagory after that.(Bette Midler in particular was bitching up a storm about it in the media-and she was under contract with the studio at the time)!

We did win a fair number of Oscars in other catagories, though. I think our Producer Don Hahn has some of them at home.

[BigMcLargehuge]

42. three for me, several zillion for Mrs. McLargehuge

Mine are for Karate tournaments, forms and sparring 1st, and 3rd, when I was a student of American Kenpo. Another is for second in sparring, more recently, as I am a Hapkido student.

Mrs. McLargehuge has a steamer trunk full of equestian ribbons.

[NoPasaran]

43. Austin Chronicle Best of Austin Award

My show "Late Night With David Koresh" was named Best Rude Show on ACTV in 1993.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

44. I have three

1. "Best of" award in the annual student show in art school
2. An "Academic Achievment" award from college
3. A "Curriculum Award" for Graphic Design from college

I worked hard for those.

[PartyPooper]

45. All of my "awards" are in the closet.

Just like I used to be.

:D

[JVS]

46. I have my Phi Beta Kappa certificate on the wall

I also have a Bronze medal for individual performance at a quizbowl tournament. I really have to find a venue in which to wear that medal

[SOteric]

47. A few, yes.

[ChoralScholar]

48. hrmm

4 spelling bee trophies, Directors Award for Band, National High School Choral Award, and 26 Solo & Ensemble Medals.

[Dookus]

49. yup...

i have about 5 or 6 poker trophies, an acting trophy from High School and a bowling trophy scattered around.

[foreigncorrespondent]

50. 2 which are mine and 2 which were my grandmothers.

Mine are two I won for league bowling, which I am very proud of. And my grandmothers are ones she had won for lawn bowls.

[snooper2]

51. My trophies - Judo

4 first place

7 second place

23 third place

Kongo Dojo Shiai - Festus Missouri 9-17 years old



29 now

[Dennis Quaranta]

52. My C.I.B.

No, I don't have my C.I.B. on display anymore, I sent it to my folks. They are not conflicted about it at all.

[bearfan454]

53. I have a trophy 8 point buck

shoulder mount above the fireplace.

[Edge]

55. I have a few...

one from a book bonanza I got second place in in like 5th grade, a few first place medals for Knowledge Bowl as a junior and senior in high school, a few first place medals from Science Olympiad as a junior and senior in high school...and I have a few second and third place medals from the same activities. I also have a cool pin-type thing for graduating high school with honors. I also have a lot of certificates from various random stuff I did well in.

No sports awards, though. :(

[ThoughtCriminal]

56. Core Wars

A programming competition. 2nd place - I won't say what year.

[BritishHuman]

60. Just the one...

3rd place in a go-karting competition a few years back.

I'm not a terribly competitive person, I guess.

[ewagner]

61. The "Shrine" is still up

Even though my son went off to college almost three years ago, his "Shrine" is still up in the living room:

12 All-Conference Awards
3 All-State Awards
6 MVP Awards (3 track - 3 Cross Country)
Pics of track races he was in
Two pics of State Track Awards Ceremonies
Team Pictures from each year of school
A Special made Board with 102 medals for track events
1 special made display for the medal he received from the School district for being a National Merit Award Finalist.

When he's out of College and settled down, we'll give all of it to him but I can't even think about taking it down now.