# Funny Checks **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 31, 2006, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-checks/370986 "2006-08-31T21:20:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-checks/370986/1 "2006-08-31T21:20:44Z")
I haven’t ordered new checks in a while, but it’s time. My last checks were pretty funny, they looked like they had been torn up and stapled back together. Well, now I’m looking for checks and all I can find is sad fricken puppies and bald eagles flying past american flags. Does anyone know where I can get some humerous checks? ---
**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:** [August 31, 2006, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-checks/370986/2 "2006-08-31T21:39:16Z")
Sorry to hijack, but I have to share this – I used to have the same checks you’re describing. They looked like they had been crinkled up, torn apart, stapled and taped back together. I realized they were a bad idea after the third time I had a moron clerk reject a check “in that condition”. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![davmilasav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@davmilasav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davmilasav)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-checks/370986/3 "2006-08-31T21:56:28Z")
These aren’t funny but they are cool. I used to have the Skulls design. And since you could personalize the check with a note above the signature line I added this: Why do you look so surprised? I told you it was in the mail! ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-checks/370986/4 "2006-08-31T22:05:08Z")
I have [Poker Dogs](http://secure.checksinthemail.com/product.aspx?productid=886&lid=29). That company has more designs that you can shake a stick at. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-checks/370986/5 "2006-09-01T01:34:34Z")
> [@davmilasav](#): > > These aren’t funny but they are cool. I used to have the Skulls design. And since you could personalize the check with a note above the signature line I added this: Why do you look so surprised? I told you it was in the mail! Holy hell. Anotomical!? I have my new checks! ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-checks/370986/6 "2006-09-01T06:17:01Z")
Interesting. The cheques in my cheque book, which I very rarely use, are plain with just the bank’s logo. I’ve never seen any other alternatives on offer. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-checks/370986/7 "2006-09-01T09:15:57Z")
**Cunctator** , two things I’d never even seen before I went to the US are cheques with pics and preprinted stickers with the sender’s address. Since a lot of payments that would be handled electronically in Spain had to be done via cheque in the States, that meant I could use my preprinted stickers to avoid writing my long-ass foreign name on the upper left corner of the envelopes containing my payments. Some of the sample stickers I got as part of my snailmail spam were quite pretty. If I ever have a long enough trip to the States, I’m ordering some with my Spanish address to use as a “hi this is from me” on gift wrapping. ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-checks/370986/8 "2006-09-01T09:46:42Z")
What **Nava** said. I’ve never seen them here, either, **Cunctator**. But I had some great ones in the US…Looney Tunes. 🙂 Cheers, G ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-checks/370986/9 "2006-09-01T17:06:39Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > Interesting. The cheques in my cheque book, which I very rarely use, are plain with just the bank’s logo. I’ve never seen any other alternatives on offer. Yeah, I thought you guys don’t use checks much. Or cheques. Do your EFT/debit/etc. cards come with fun custom designs? ---
**Author:** ![Kitchen\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kitchen\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitchen_Wench)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-checks/370986/10 "2006-09-01T22:06:13Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > Holy hell. Anotomical!? I have my new checks! Yeah, I like that design too. I wish this thread had started earlier this week because I had to order checks. I ended up with [pin-up girls](http://www.styleschecks.com/styles_assets/checks/SearchSC.asp?stringtofind=pinup&imageField.x=0&imageField.y=0). ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-checks/370986/11 "2006-09-01T22:20:49Z")
I love looking at the checks my patients give me and trying to reconcile them with their personalities. Meanwhile, my MC still has beanie babies on it. ---
**Author:** ![WishIHadACoolName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a587f6/32.png) [@WishIHadACoolName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WishIHadACoolName)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-checks/370986/12 "2006-09-02T01:37:27Z")
I have Wizard of Oz checks. In a black leather Harley-Davidson checkbook. Hmmm… I think I got them from Current. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-checks/370986/13 "2006-09-02T04:25:02Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Yeah, I thought you guys don’t use checks much. Or cheques. Do your EFT/debit/etc. cards come with fun custom designs? My card is just a plain one with the bank’s logo. I believe fancier looking ones are available but I’ve never bothered to find out any details. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-checks/370986/14 "2006-09-04T04:32:24Z")
[QUOTE=Hal Briston] Sorry to hijack, but I have to share this – I used to have the same checks you’re describing. They looked like they had been crinkled up, torn apart, stapled and taped back together. I realized they were a bad idea after the third time I had a moron clerk reject a check “in that condition”. :smack: [/QUOTE] Link, please? I’d love to get these… ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-checks/370986/15 "2006-09-04T08:55:53Z")
I haven’t written a check in years. I do all my financial transactions with a debit/credit card. But I used to use the _Munch_ \*\*“Scream” \*\* checks and always got comments on them. I’ll never forget one grocery clerk who said, “Wow. Cool check. That’s from **Home Alone** , right?” :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-checks/370986/16 "2006-09-04T09:26:23Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] Yeah, I thought you guys don’t use checks much. Or cheques. Do your EFT/debit/etc. cards come with fun custom designs? [/QUOTE] Not so much fun designs, but funky colours (and it’s more credit cards that do, not debit cards)… I have a [Silver Virgin Credit Card](http://www.virgincreditcard.com.au) and a [Sparkly Purple St George Visa Card](http://www.stgeorge.com.au/credit_card/low_interest_rate.asp?orc=personal). ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-checks/370986/17 "2006-09-04T21:16:09Z")
[QUOTE=LunaV] Link, please? I’d love to get these… [/QUOTE] They are discontinued. That’s I’m looking for an alternative. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2006, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-checks/370986/18 "2006-09-05T21:51:41Z")
Ah, gotcha. Too bad.