Now it requires merely the writing of large cheques.
My son has started school and suddenly I am all out of cheques – my bank seems to have stopped posting replacements out automatically when you reach the last few leaves.
As for the row over gay marriage, soon to trouble the House of Lords, they can hardly see the problem.The young want Leviathan to butt out of their pay cheques as well as their bedrooms.
Those involved the ice bucket challenge can either choose to have a bucket of ice and water dumped over their heads within 24 hours of them being nominated, as well as donating $10, or write out a cheque of $100 to an ALS charity of choice.
After planning to phase out the use of cheques by 2018, the banks had to promise to keep accepting them, more or less in perpetuity.
Masters was laying it on thick, and to some effect judging by the steam that used to issue from Tommy Raudonikis's ears, but the pejorative was only enhanced by Manly's history of pulling out the cheque book to poach the game's best talent.
You pop out of the house, cash a cheque at Midland Bank, hire a television at Radio Rentals, buy a jumper in C&A, pick up some screws at Texas Homecare, do the weekly shop at Gateway, before repairing to Lyons Corner House for a cup of tea and an individual fruit pie.
"For instance, there were two donations from two lovely ladies who are pensioners, one of whom wrote out a cheque for £100 and the other a cheque for £200.
Once they had negotiated a tricky path through the Libertadores qualifying round - needing a nervy penalty shoot out to get past LDU of Ecuador - they got out their cheque book once more.
But actually the government does hand out quite a lot of cheques to meet promises made during election campaigns or to meet some – but not all – promises made by the previous government.
The stars wrote out a cheque to buy the pub.
