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Q.What does it mean to buy something on tic?

A."To buy on tick" comes from an era when shopkeepers offering credit kept records on a chalkboard. When a payment was made, they recorded it with a tick.

Q.when t.v transmission ends you get the girl with the chalk board does she have a bird with her or is it a doll?

A.The famous BBC Test Card F featured a small girl (Carole Hersee) with chalk, a chalkboard (with naughts and crosses), and a very scary clown doll.

Q.Wot gets whiter the muckier it gets

A.A chalkboard or blackboard gets whiter the dirtier it gets. They were originally made from thin sheets of black or dark grey slate stone.

Q.In the film the day the earth stood still what are they drawing on the chalkboard?

A.Klaatu (Keanu Reeves) & Professor Karl Barnhardt (John Cleese) write general relativity sums on the chalkboard in The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008).

Q.What is the sensation in your teeth and why do some people get it when fingernails are scraped down a chalk board?

A.The feeling in your teeth you get when a chalkboard is scraped by a fingernail happens because the frequency of the sound stimulates sensory nerves.