Another good one is "For sexual services."

Something else to keep in mind is that the person cashing the check is technically required to endorse the check using the exact same name as is written on the "To:" line. For example, a friend of mine, Adam, lost a wager made with another friend of mine, Scott. To retaliate, Adam wrote the check out to Scott "Poopy Pants" Perkins. And legend has it that the bank actually made Scott endorse the check accordingly. Is that great or what!?

...and while we're on the topic of my friend, Adam, and check-writing anecdotes... While attending Southern Illinois University he had a run-in with that university's militant bicycle police (I think he was riding his bike after dark without a bright enough headlight or something ridiculous like that). Anyway, he was fined $20. Before mailing in his check, he decided to urinate all over it (reminds you of home, doesn't it?). He felt pretty pleased with himself about that, having stuck it to the man so effectively. So a few weeks go by and he gets his monthly bank statement. He opens it up to see how many checks he's bounced that month and scans through his cancelled checks to see where all his money has gone. He comes across the check he wrote to the university and feels angry about his unjust fine. He then feels happy and clever as he recalls how he urinated on the check before he mailed it. He then feels not-so-clever as he realizes he's holding in his hands the very check he had drenched in urine only weeks before. I think there's a valuable life lesson in there somewhere...

Stuart - While your friend may have felt a little odd about being an unintended victim of his own prank, I just wanted to point out that holding something covered in *your own* urine isn't even remotely as gross as holding something covered in someone else's. I mean, you can drink your own urine without even getting sick. At least that's what they told us in 8th grade biology. I don't know *why* they told us that. Anyway...

Wow, I didn't know that, but then again you *are* the urine expert!

You should dont joke about things like that. I happen to specialise be the cop who fined him... just joking