# Fun With Check Comment Lines **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 10, 2005, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-check-comment-lines/321019 "2005-09-10T20:53:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-check-comment-lines/321019/1 "2005-09-10T20:53:44Z")
I just received a check from a Doper (who shall go unnamed) for payment for a football pool I run. The comment line? “Foot_baaaaa_ll pool”. Ok, cute (and I would _never_ stoop so low as to “accidentally” lose his picks one week). But, I can’t say anything about it…hell, I sent out a check this week for another football pool I’m in. The comment line? “Beer and hookers”. Anyone else ever play around with the comment line like this? ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-check-comment-lines/321019/2 "2005-09-10T21:19:35Z")
A friend used to write checks to his drug dealers. (I’ll pause while that sinks in.) The memo line was always “Good lovin’.” ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-check-comment-lines/321019/3 "2005-09-10T21:59:11Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > I just received a check from a Doper (who shall go unnamed) for payment for a football pool I run. The comment line? “Foot_baaaaa_ll pool”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-check-comment-lines/321019/4 "2005-09-10T22:01:25Z")
I love David Sedaris’ bit about how when his cat died, his mom sent him a check so he could have the feline cremated. On the check memo area she wrote “cat burning”. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-check-comment-lines/321019/5 "2005-09-10T23:13:23Z")
A friend of mine wrote out a check for his portion of the fee for our softball team. Comment line: Anal Pleasure. Our softball team name? The Donkey Punchers. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-check-comment-lines/321019/6 "2005-09-10T23:20:39Z")
I used to live in a duplex where the utilities were all on my neighbor’s meter, so every month I’d write him a check for half the bill. I’d always put something odd in there: “Sex,” or “weed,” or “hush money,” or something along those lines. I liked to imagine him getting funny looks from bank tellers. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-check-comment-lines/321019/7 "2005-09-10T23:25:46Z")
I used to write in checks to my fiance: “For sensuous massage.” He would write checks back: “For numerous sexual favours rendered.” And I would return: “Pimp dues.” ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-check-comment-lines/321019/8 "2005-09-10T23:26:22Z")
“For last night” ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-check-comment-lines/321019/9 "2005-09-10T23:38:17Z")
Here’s a guy who pissed off his local bank: [Fun with address fields](http://unklerob.tripod.com/banks.html) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-check-comment-lines/321019/10 "2005-09-10T23:40:56Z")
When I paid off the money I owed my roommate last year, I nearly wrote “Sexual Favors” in the space. We decided that might cause a problem, so on the spot I wrote down “For Being Batman.” ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-check-comment-lines/321019/11 "2005-09-11T00:02:54Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > I love David Sedaris’ bit about how when his cat died, his mom sent him a check so he could have the feline cremated. On the check memo area she wrote “cat burning”. This was the first thing I thought of, too. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-check-comment-lines/321019/12 "2005-09-11T01:08:57Z")
When I had to pay rent for my fraternity for the first time, I wrote “for butt sex.” Heh…butt sex, always funny. ---
**Author:** ![sleeepy2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@sleeepy2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeepy2)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-check-comment-lines/321019/13 "2005-09-11T01:22:59Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > When I had to pay rent for my fraternity for the first time, I wrote “for butt sex.” > > Heh…butt sex, always funny. Leave it to the frat boys to head straight to the gay jokes. Keep reaching for that rainbow, guys! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-check-comment-lines/321019/14 "2005-09-11T05:14:19Z")
I once wrote a check to my mom and it was for her “allowance”. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-check-comment-lines/321019/15 "2005-09-11T05:42:12Z")
I believe George Clooney has said he borrowed cash from Matt Damon, then later paid him back with a check. But he wrote “for lap dances” in the memo line, and so far Matt has not been willing to take that into a bank to get it cashed. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-check-comment-lines/321019/16 "2005-09-11T05:42:20Z")
> [@TheLoadedDog](#): > > Here’s a guy who pissed off his local bank: > [Fun with address fields](http://unklerob.tripod.com/banks.html) “The green room of felt?” Is he trapped in that puzzle game or something? ---
**Author:** ![MrJackboots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MrJackboots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrJackboots)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-check-comment-lines/321019/17 "2005-09-11T07:02:01Z")
“One eternal soul” “Unconditional surrender” “War reparations” “Services as research subject” ---
**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-check-comment-lines/321019/18 "2005-09-11T08:33:30Z")
After several years of horrible service from AT&T, I began to write in the “TO” field: AT&T SUCKS DONKEY LIPS or other similar but appropriate insults for all my montly payments. It was very satisfying. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-check-comment-lines/321019/19 "2005-09-11T09:13:51Z")
Back when I still used to mail cheques to pay bills, I’d sometimes write weird little cliches in the comment field. I think my favourite is still “No wife, no horse, no mustache.” Maybe “FRENCH CANADIAN BEAN SOUP,” though. What makes it funny is that my printing generally gives the impression that someone spent a lot of time making it _just so_ – but _why?_ ---
**Author:** ![Q.N.Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3da27b/32.png) [@Q.N.Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.N.Jones)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-check-comment-lines/321019/20 "2005-09-11T10:07:23Z")
I do “for sexual favors,” and, for my little sister, “lesbian incest.”