The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for January 23, 2023

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    Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    As we grow older we all look backwards. There is an Italian word for this: “catoblepismo”.

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    ʲᔆ  almost 2 years ago

    autopay baby!

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    A Common 'tator  almost 2 years ago

    Cheques are obsolete over here. I’m not sure I can even remember how to write one…

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    Justanolddude Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    1997! That was like 2 wives ago. Uncle Ted, while you know it"s 2023 go ahead and write the 2023 part on a few checks so you just need the month and day.

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    nosirrom  almost 2 years ago

    When I worked in a bank, if the date on a check was more than 6 months old we would not negotiate it. Except in January with a January date.

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    GROG Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    I think it’s time to move to the 21st century.

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    dcdete.  almost 2 years ago

    You only needed to write 97 on the checks back then. As far as I remember all bank checks came with the first two numbers 19, pre printed on the checks. That was a sort of banking convenience that people could save pen ink by only having to write the last 2 numbers in the date. That was also the reason that caused the Y2K crisis! Come January 2000, the banks were worried that people would write the date down as 1900 instead of crossing out the pre printed 19 and writing 20 over it! That means that the check would be 100 years old and should the banks still honor it not knowing if the funds would still be good.

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    Skeptical Meg  almost 2 years ago

    When I get it wrong, I find I’ve written MMXXII. I just add an I.

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    Chris  almost 2 years ago

    maybe he should find a way to write it down on a piece of paper then only pull it out when you forget what year it is. :D

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    Chris  almost 2 years ago

    or wait, maybe the world celebrated the wrong year. :D

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    [Traveler] Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    When I used to write a lot of checks, at the first of the year I would pre-date the year on all the checks in my checkbook. By the time the checks were gone, my mind had gotten used to the date change.

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    CorkLock  almost 2 years ago

    Not written a check in over 20 years. Don’t know if my checkbook is still valid? Maybe outdated. Not to worry – no plans of ever writing another.

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    walstib Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    Our DMV has a service charge if you pay on-line, but no extra fee if you mail in a check. Sheesh!

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    KEA  almost 2 years ago

    certain years seem to stick in one’s mind… I had 2004 on the brain for years afterward.

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    Daltongang Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    Only Uncle Ted Thornapple would be so forgetful that he dates his checks 25 years in the past.

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    preacherman Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    2023 hasn’t been a problem like last year. I guess I’m not anxious to hang on to ’22.

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    NRHAWK Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    I did that once a couple of years ago. Fortunately, I always double check, so my 1998 check didn’t make it into the envelope. That memory ensures I’ll continue to double check.

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    1997….OOPs…….

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    bigplayray  almost 2 years ago

    You better Check yourself Uncle Ted!

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    paranormal  almost 2 years ago

    Go with a good year and maybe things will get better…

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    raybarb44  almost 2 years ago

    Never did that big of one. Done two years off a couple of times in the past. Only write a few checks a year now. However, whenever l sign a form or document, l always still have to think out the full month day and year. I’m in good company it seems…..

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    Brent Rosenthal Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    Truly funny and original take on an old premise. Few things out us boomers as much as writing checks. I write one a month, to the lady who cuts my hair so she doesn’t have to pay the credit card processing fees.

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    Bill D. Kat Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    I’m still writing ‘Year of the Tiger’ on my checks.

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    kathleenhicks62  almost 2 years ago

    I don’t write 1997, but I am where Uncle is.

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    cuzinron47  almost 2 years ago

    Well it was a very good year.

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    Moonkey Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    I do find myself on a rare occasion randomly writing a wrong date. Like really wrong. I catch it, but I wonder where my brain was when it thought writing something like 1998 was the right thing to do. I am surprised Uncle Ted does it – he seems so organized and efficient for some reason. I picture him having a desk with a calendar on it so he’s sure of the date. Most of us can check our watches and/or phones.

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    princesshickory Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    I love Uncle Ted!!

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    gopher gofer  almost 2 years ago

    i’ve mentioned before that checks have never really been a thing in japan and, checking just now, i see that the u.s. embassy has finally joined the modern age and allows online payments for passports and other transactions. previously, a money order in u.s. dollars was required (talk about rigamarole)…

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    wiatr  almost 2 years ago

    My mother could never adjust to dates later than 1999. I kept telling her that once we got past 1999 we added 1 and that made it 2000. Maybe that was a sign of the coming years’ adventures.

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    paullp Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    This reminds me of a comic strip that goes back even farther than Uncle Ted’s memory glitch. The one I recall was a Sunday strip, published at the beginning of 1978. It showed a long line of people at a bank, where the teller instructs the customer at the head of the line that he has to redo his withdrawal slip, because it’s now 1978, not 1977. In the second panel we see the entire line of customers has turned around, and they’re now lined up at the counter with the chained-up pens, as they wait their turn to redo their paperwork.

    I’m almost positive I have the right year, but I am dead certain the strip was Morrie Brickman’s The Small Society.

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    Laurie Stoker Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    In all fairness, 1997 was a much better year than any of the recent ones.

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    DenO Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    High school seniors do not know how to write a check. They will struggle to figure out how to deposit their graduation gift checks.

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    JoeMartinFan Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    I hope Uncle Ted’s just joking, because I’d hate to think it’s an early sign of dementia. I like Uncle Ted just the way he is!

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