NEW BLOG IDEA: Big Cheques, for Low Amounts
What we really need is another blog. We’ve already suggested ‘Big Cheques’ but to give it an extra twist, how about ‘Big Cheques for Low Amounts’?
As in, we start off with this, then try to find a Big Cheque for a Lower Amount every day (preferably week). Eventually, we’d discover the point at which it becomes simply too inefficient to pay to have a big cheque printed out.
filed in OFF THE INTERNET on May.24, 2010
May 24th, 2010 on 11:55 am
My friends once won a battle of the bands competition and got a Big Cheque for £100. They put it on the mantle piece. I’ll have a look for a photo.
In the meantime, here’s one off the net for £525:
http://www.magiscroft.com/results/access2006/bc.htm
£500:
http://www.abingdonblog.co.uk/images/08071401.jpg
£500:
http://www.just4kickssoccer.com/leagues/8457/graphics/JFK20080926Banqo6.jpg
And £350:
http://www.xerox-charities-scotland.org/images/tomorrows_people.JPG
May 24th, 2010 on 12:52 pm
I love the Neds in the Xerox one – you can almost see them trying to work out how much smack that 350 sovs would buy
May 24th, 2010 on 1:21 pm
The Linty Lemons one is a bit floppy. But then its only £350 I suppose. Whats that ? A PSP-Go and 3 games ?
Do the cheques get shabbier in quality the lower the amount ?
May 24th, 2010 on 5:24 pm
I think you just broke Idiot’s planned updates for this week, Tom.
Autism Speaks. And all it talks about is movies, TV shows and videogames in excruciating detail for hours on end.
May 24th, 2010 on 7:56 pm
Or you could forget about the constricting ‘cheque’ requirement and just do decreasing numbers every day!
349!
20!
1!
Hmm. Not the lifespan I expected. Good run though.
May 24th, 2010 on 9:47 pm
I’m already doing that, courtesy of my web stats :(
May 25th, 2010 on 2:23 pm
Have a look through the Idiot Toys archive and try to get back to what the site was like when it was at its most popular.
May 25th, 2010 on 3:54 pm
It was all so effortless.
http://www.extralast.com/it/2005/08/world-launches-new-type-of-cloud.html
May 25th, 2010 on 4:12 pm
Wow, even the anonymous spam comments are entertaining if you scroll up and down fast enough.
May 25th, 2010 on 4:53 pm
There’s your answer. More cloud updates.
May 25th, 2010 on 10:43 pm
That’s a lenticular cloud, I believe. Not often seen around these parts. But after seeing the underside of that one I don’t want to be beneath it when it “evacuates” itself!
May 26th, 2010 on 3:30 am
Minimum cheque value (in American monies):
http://www.megaprint.com/large-checks.php
But wait… “We can also laminate with a gloss finish plastic, which allows you to write on them with a dry erase marker and use them over again.”
You mean people don’t awkwardly carry their big cheques to a bank to pay them in? Now my big cheque fantasies are ruined.