Checks with designs on them, Classic or Dud?

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Are they tacky or not? Or am I a complete mentalist for asking this question?

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

For Bart's Hindenburg disaster flickbook in The Simpsons: Classic.

(I don't think they have them here)

― Graham, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Natwest cheques with twee birds and forest animals on them. Caring sharing nineties. Cheques are a lot more dull these days.

― Pete, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well my Natwest cheques still have woodland creatures on them. And they are NOT twee Pete, as any fool knows the countryside can be a vicious and bloody place.

― Emma, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Emma, if I could get a woodland scene that depicted bobcats ravening the corpse of an elk, I'd go for it in a shot. You and I both know that "woodland scene on checks" = "cute bunnies surrounded by dandelions and rainbows" = "unbearably twee nonsense".

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Cheques should be minimalist if poss. Anything else is TACKY TACKY TACKY and I'm not going to argue about it.

― suzy, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If I could get checks with skulls on them, I would. Fear my gothitude!

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, cheuqes should be modelled after the London Gin label, as Starry Sarah will surely agree.

― Graham, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't like the way that Lloyds TSB cheques are really MASSIVE. They look like they are designed for people who don't have much control over their writing hand.

― Archel, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Also, why do cheques have nothing written on them to indicate SIGN HERE, DOOFUS. I have completely forgotten twice so far.

― Graham, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Checks with designs on them belong with ringtones, desktop themes, bumperstickers and other "personalizations" I don't see why anyone would bother wasting their time/money with = dud.

― fletrejet, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Travellers Cheques are fucking pretty-with the colors and such, why no more like the travellars cheques

― anthony, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You mean I made the obvious joke instead of Dan?

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I already used up my allotment for today on the pantyhose thread.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have kittens playing with yarn on mine. Don't diss them.

― Mandee, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan: They did have checks with skull designs on them for a while in the Eighties. For all I know, they may still have them now.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Natwest cheques had badgers and weasels on them => Natwest cheques rocked.

― RickyT, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I must be in some kind of banking timewarp as my Natwest cheques STILL have badgers & weasels on them. And NO cute bunny wabbits.

― Emma, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What is Archel on about with her massive Lloyds-TSB cheques? Mine are the same as everyone else's. Maybe they thought you were a big charity donor or something.

― N., Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh no that means they must have took one look at me when I opened the account and deemed me suitable for special needs cheques. Great.

― Archel, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I want a left handed cheque book (does this count as special needs?) but don't want to lose the woodland creatures. Also I don't know if Natwest are liberated enough to provide such a thing. I am fed up of the great difficulty I encounter when filling in the stub.

It is very hard being me.

― Emma, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm sure Natwest do provide left-handed chequebooks, but if not maybe you could just turn your chequebook upside down to fill in the stub part. Since they are only for your own records it doesn't really matter which way round the writing appears, does it? (I expect I will now find out there is some arcane LAW about this.)

― Archel, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes but there are special sections for date / amount etc and I would feel such a fool turning the chequebook upside down in the shop / restaurant. Plus why should the left handed minority have to conform to the right handed majority style of cheque book. Grr.

― Emma, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Because you're a bunch of sinister freaks who can't be bothered learning to use your right hand like god intended.

― RickyT, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Or something.

― RickyT, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Wouldn't a left handed chequebook look just like an upsidedown chequebook and you would feel just as foolish, you fool.

― Graham, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

According to this, UK banks all now provide left-handed chequebooks. But just look at all the other useful things (like breadknives!) you can get from the site, Emma.

― Archel, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's the real life Leftorium.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Emma has to fill in the little slips in order (money in box, name on name line etc) = Emma is an analist.

Actually analist sounds like something quite different. Let's just say she is fastidious.

― Pete, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There's a leftorium next to Glasshouse Stores.

[Well I say next to, but who really knows?)

― Graham, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ooh Ooh! Same one!

― Graham, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My flatmate has an upside-down chequebook. I assumed the bank had just fucked him over, but thinking about it maybe he is left-handed.

― N., Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

So not one of those banks who also hilariously stick all the furniture to the ceiling to fox you, after all?

― Archel, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Right the one time in my working life I have to attend a meeting & I come back and find my name being slandered all over the place! Just cos I am left handed doesn't mean I have been on sinister RickyT (har har yes I know what you meant really). And there are only some things I find difficult about the right handed world, mostly I struggle through without complaining. I am not such a spazchariot as to need special kitchen appliances etc. Though no-one could ever teach me to knit. And in rounders a not-very-hard whack sends the ball straight to first base so left handers have to be SUPERSTRONG and hit the ball miles or just not bother.

Pete when I am checking my OPENED bank statements against my chequebook I find it easier if everything is written in the correct place. I am going to find a place where left-handed control freaks are welcome now. Hmph.

― Emma, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I only write one cheque a month so there isn't much to remember.

Actually, talking of cheques....

― Pete, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I WUV EMMA H!

(please don't cry)

― Graham, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes Pete I know I owe you money.

― Emma, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Emma is an analist

must... resist...

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've seen Shag checks. Would like this. But alas, I live off the bank/credit grid.

― S., Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh dear, the international spelling/usage thing makes it sound like someone has to go round ensuring people are having sex properly / enough.

― Emma, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Emma left-handers are premium finds in rounders as you are better batters against right-handed pitching. Just wait a bit on the ball and you can send it to the opposite field. Either that or lunge into each ball so that it hits you and you are awarded first base.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What a horrible job THAT would be.

― Archel, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Shag is an American artist and yes, we spell check differently.

― S., Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

OUT-OF-CONTEXT THEATRE:

Just [...] lunge into each ball so that it hits you and you are awarded first base.

Back in my day, first base was a kiss!

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've changed my mind; I want my next set of checks to be thong checks.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

three months pass...

I guess this will make me sound a little homophobic, but I once took a cheque from a customer whom I knew to be gay, and it was adorned with a photo of women's ballet shoes with a pink background. Needless to say, his name was 'Slippers' from then on.

― Bryan, Thursday, 5 September 2002 03:11 (twenty-three years ago)

haha if he were a one-eyed quadrisexual i'd call him "slippers" too

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 5 September 2002 03:23 (twenty-three years ago)

i got new checks a while back and they are sooper ass. they do not have designs but they do have the big dumb letter of my name in the corner (ye olde stylee writing!! boo!) and since i write maybe two checks per month, they will be around for a long time :-(

― ron (ron), Thursday, 5 September 2002 03:39 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

revive! Are these officially a thing of the past now? I've never seen one...

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 1 July 2004 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Checks are absolutely a thing of the past.

― briania (briania), Thursday, 1 July 2004 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

check yo self

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 1 July 2004 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Update: Lloyds TSB STILL send me the massive special needs chequebooks despite me asking them many times to cease and desist :(

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 1 July 2004 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a whole line of Donny Osmond checks:

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 1 July 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

hmmm. no picture..
http://www.checksyourway.com/gallery/gallery_donny_osmond.html

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 1 July 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Checks are absolutely a thing of the past.

Not quite. But I do go through the deposit slips in the back of the checkbook about 200% faster than the actual checks.

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Friday, 2 July 2004 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

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