richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) (05/10/89)
In article <4121@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <2893@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>, jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes: >> I don't know about US law, but in Britain you can write a cheque on anything, >> so you couldn't prohibit this. There has even been a case of a cheque being >> written on the side of a cow and honoured by the bank. > >Sounds like an urban legend to me, simply because I've heard the same story >set in the U.S. Wait a minute. I heard it too. In Canada. It was a cheque written on a cow in England, but drafted against an American bank. Q.D.E. nono D.E.Q no damn E.D... nuts Q.E.D Ah! -- ``But if she wants it (particularly if she wants it bad), I am going to have a hard time saying "no".'' - Ted Kaldis richard@gryphon.COM decwrl!gryphon!richard gryphon!richard@elroy.jpl.NASA.GOV