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That’s right - I’m making a joke about ‘memories’ because forgetting things is funny when it’s on the topic ‘what is your first memory’, Get it? Get it? Oh man - that’s funny. My dad taught me that one.

So what’s your first memory? Would it be as early as this?

• relieving myself
  in my mothers womb
  rolling in poo
  in my first bedroom.

Let’s hope not! Because that is disgusting. I hope your mother’s womb wasn’t big enough to fit a bed in - because that would be a big bedroom!

Speaking of mothers - whoever had these kids should have had several heart attacks by the time they were teens I’m sure of it!

• I can remember, at three, my brother
  Without the knowledge of my mother
  Raising me up to unlatch the lock
  Then running down the block.
  
  (to editor: We lived in a city and we were trying to get to my aunt’s house, who always had candy for us. My brother picked me up, I unlocked the gate, and we ran out of the backyard and down the sidewalk. We got scared by a passerby and ran back home. When we told my mother this story as adults, she got so mad at us! I said to her, “it’s okay, we lived!”)

Here’s a new memory for you both - you didn’t win today’s competition. Sorry.

But instead of being rude to you all - I’m going to list below my favourite 11 entries out of 13 that weren’t the two above.

• On my first day at school, all was strange and all was new.
  Now I’ve finished studying and still don’t know what to do.
• i am always busy at brandise university working at the dish washing room in waltham ma
  sincerely, Ed: name removed
• I’m at a room
  Sorting out clothes
  My mom is in garment industry, you see
  I still kinda remember the smell..
• obscure tales about princesses in a tower,
  awaiting her prince in shining amour [sic]…
  omg give it up!
  men are mentally blinded to such subtle calls of desire…
• Crying as an exotic bird was put on my head so that me and my brothers could have a ‘Hawaii-style’ photo.
• What was the question again?
• my first memory
  was of a treasury
  with a scenery
  this is not plagiary [sic]
  it’s just planetary
• Having my nappy changed by my brother
• I was flying 10 inches from the ground,
  But leapt buildings and houses around;
  I awoke feeling so real,
  Though 4, I quite remember still.
• aged 2, maybe 3. Falling down our crazy-steep driveway. Moved soon after.
  Probably scarred for life, I suspect.

Notice how many awesome entries there were for the weekend? Just one - just one and that person was the winner. The winner’s name? Dee. Dee you are a genius (for today only as my whim will of course change - being whim and all).

I bought my first memory from PC World where I could get a refund if it failed.

The entry is almost too good to be deliberate. Dee please let us know if you did it deliberately or not! Either way you win, you win a great little dollar and an email too! I know, a real email.

Can you tell why Dee won? I’d love to hear your theories.