Just looked. There is a sequential six digit cheque number. Not long enough to be unique by itself. However, it works with the sort code and account number. The combination is unique.
It's rather more sophisticated than you imagine. It won't accept the same cheque twice - I tried when the system first came out!
I’d totally forgotten about this. We called it ‘split the kipper’.
(My italics) -- brings to mind for me a very long, laboured, shaggy-dog-story joke ...Cheques are numbered, are they not? The same cheque checks* are likely made as if it had been physically deposited.
*Czech cheque cheques if it's from a payer in Prague.
I know a short one. A dwarf in Prague was being chased by the police. He dodged into a shop looking for somewhere to hide, and asked the shopkeeper "Can you cache a small Czech?"
I think the term you are looking for is committing fraud.
and Esso's "Put a tiger in your tank" by Murray Walker, and fake tiger tails to hang out of your car window.
And those anti-static strips (if that’s what they were) attached to the rear bumpe.
I remember them. Earth belts I think are their proper name.
I used to get told off for scraping patterns in it.
There was a variation of this we played called chicken. In thus one you started with feet out wide and your opponent would throw the knife between them, you moved a foot to where the knife landed, this carried on until one player moved their foot as the knife approached, ie they chickened out.
Short is good ! Mine is -- as mentioned -- lengthy and tedious; and involves a bear-hunt which goes wrong ...
The carrying of a knife in itself was a given for any schoolboy back in the 1950’s/60’s. Virtually every boy had a penknife in their pocket. I don’t remember any stabbings or cut off fingers. I’ve still got a Blackpool Tower one in a box somewhere.
Or “old man out” as I heard it…Ah, now that brings back some memories
"Old Man Overseas"
In the 70s at least, it was an option to have paid cheques automatically returned with statements, and indeed I did.
It is still relatively popular in most primary schoolsSpeaking of playground games, British Bulldog.
Often consisted of a line or area where you had to cross from one area to another but the ‘Bulldog’ had to stop you. One of the rougher games children played. On reading t’internet it appears that many schools have banned the playing of it due to injuries. Too bloody soft nowadays
When I lived in canada, it was normal to receive all cheques with the monthly statement.
We did and it bit a hole in the exhaust.
I think I would be one of the last people ever to conduct on a Leyland Tiger Cub, ad quite a few other types.
How well did the orchestra play? Do you still have your baton?
which reminds us of the lines in Some Like it Hot:
The tax vouchers sent out with company dividends had to be returned as well. There would always be somebody who didn't check the statements before sending them leading to customer complaints.
I’ve had barbers brush my hair with a bit of talc at the end of a haircut this year.
