Not quite up there with Spike’s;
Dúirt mé leat go (raibh) mé breoite
(He never got over having to come to Dublin for a passport).
In the beginning the answers equalled the clues (or maybe I’m looking back through shite-tinted spectacles).
Among my most treasured possessions are my 3 winners mugs (when they gave out a proper prize). After my first win, I tried in vain for the next while, then hit upon a wheeze (as I reckoned they were never going to have me win again) - get friends to submit in their name, and it worked!
It helped that I chose lady friends, as the mag likes to show that even the fair sex can have a crude sense of humour. But eventually that little wheeze failed as the locale was a bit of a giveaway.
In the beginning there were only a handful of entrants (praise is like abuse - self-praise is the only praise!). A testament, perhaps, to the volume of entries now is the fact they are only accepting by email - got fed up discarding envelopes. I imagine there has been a marked increase since the internet….