# Commercial credit humour?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-credit-humour/976535>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 14, 2022, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-credit-humour/976535 "2022-12-14T21:56:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-credit-humour/976535/1 "2022-12-14T21:56:18Z")

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My boss asked me for some ‘credit trivia’ for our upcoming newsletter. [NB: We do commercial credit.] I sent three suggestions (Fair Isaacs was founded in 1956, and FICO scores were introduced in 1989; How reporting on your customers can help in debt collection, and how it can help good-paying customers; and reporting creditors’ identities are kept secret). He asked if I could come up with any humorous trivia. I can’t think of anything.

Does anyone have any funny trivia relating to commercial credit?

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**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-credit-humour/976535/2 "2022-12-18T03:46:16Z")

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Well, you’ve done. The unanswerable question. Let’s face it, there is no humor in credit!

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-credit-humour/976535/3 "2022-12-18T04:31:00Z")

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IKR? The one funny thing I can think of was when a member’s system wouldn’t sent their a/r file because there was a customer on Dyke Road, and their program thought it was offensive. That one would not be appropriate for a Christmas newsletter. Or any newsletter.

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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-credit-humour/976535/4 "2022-12-18T04:38:18Z")

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It might be appropriate in a newsletter about the [Scunthorpe problem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem).