# Obsure printing term in Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 7, 2020, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obsure-printing-term-in-rocky-and-bullwinkle-cartoon/924989 "2020-11-07T17:07:04Z")\
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Yes, those are literal meanings of “pica,” but there was also an idiomatic expression: “black pica,” meaning “typed” or “printed” (please see Dr. Strangelove’s posts dated Nov. 10, above).

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**Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obsure-printing-term-in-rocky-and-bullwinkle-cartoon/924989/83 "2020-11-26T05:50:07Z")

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If you watch the clip (link in original post), you’ll see that the British characters I was referring to are not Rocky and Bullwinkle, but little British (human) chaps.

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