Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!warwick!alfie
From: alfie@warwick.UUCP (Nick Holloway)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Laser Printable Checks?
Summary: UK:%s/\([Cc]he\)ck\([s]*\)/\1que\2/g  
	 US:%s/\([Cc]he\)que\([s]*\)/\1ck\2/g
Keywords: /cow { (moo!) show } def
Message-ID: <1872@ubu.warwick.UUCP>
Date: 12 May 89 09:30:38 GMT
References: <12810@jade.BBN.COM> <555@lzaz.ATT.COM> <4354@ttidca.TTI.COM> <2893@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <4121@ficc.uu.net> <524@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
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-=[ Written by wcs@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 ho95c.att.com!wcs) in comp.lang.postscript ]=-
> 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.
> 
> [ States cheques/checks can be written on anything ]
> [   - but the bank will love you for ever!         ]
> 
> The  cow  story is unlikely - cows are valuable, and don't fit into
> automatic teller machine slots.

I have also heard the cow story. The argument about being valuable does
not apply, since then cheques were returned to you (Nowadays your
branch holds onto them). So he would have got the cow back, probably
with some official stamp on it. I believe it was done because the
farmer was disgruntled about the bill he had to pay (probably tax).

Now to get back to this newsgroup:
    Does anybody know of any PostScript laser printer that has a manual
    cow feed option?
				[In case you didn't realise :-)**n ]
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