31.   More often than not, neither do the men who sign their checks.

32.   Mostly you have to put postage stamps on invitations, get them to the post office and sign a few checks.

33.   My surgeon assures me that normal recovery will allow me to sign a check not long after he sews me up and submits his bill.

34.   Ms. McDougal, you signed this check.

35.   No longer do diners have to choose from a dozen pens when signing the check.

36.   One day last week Bruce Smith sat in his new office in Norfolk, Va., signing payroll checks.

37.   Payroll checks were signed by hand, and flight and pilot scheduling done on big boards rather than by computer.

38.   Siegler said on Friday that Zen-Ruffinen, not Blatter, had actually signed the checks to Koloskov.

39.   Since when does the guy signing the checks get outvoted?

40.   So what did the man who signs the checks tell his players?