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'Left blank' #1 (permalink) Tue May 27, 2008 14:46 pm   'Left blank'
 

I was looking at a business report today, and the very last page had only this sentence:

Quote:
This page intentionally left blank.


The problem was that they didn't leave the page blank. They printed that sentence on it!
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'Left blank' #2 (permalink) Tue May 27, 2008 14:58 pm   'Left blank'
 

Maybe they didn't have enough ink left to add something such as the word 'mostly'. Laughing
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'Left blank' #3 (permalink) Tue May 27, 2008 15:20 pm   'Left blank'
 

Quote:
This page intentionally left blank.


I wonder what their intention could be Laughing
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'Left blank' #4 (permalink) Tue May 27, 2008 18:36 pm   'Left blank'
 

Hi

Maybe they were trying to imply they had nothing else left to either say, do or the future is a mostly blank page for them.

Or better still they just wanted to be quirky enough to get people like you, and me debating about the exact purpose of that "blank page".

The purpose could purely be to pique curiosity.

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'Left blank' #5 (permalink) Tue May 27, 2008 19:03 pm   'Left blank'
 

daemon99 wrote:
Quote:
This page intentionally left blank.


I wonder what their intention could be Laughing
Maybe the intention was to provide adequate space for doodling. Wink
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'Left blank' #6 (permalink) Tue May 27, 2008 20:19 pm   'Left blank'
 

I suggest suing them for misleading, for stating a false clause in the contract.
Next time they will know better than to write clearly contradicting clauses.
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'Left blank' #7 (permalink) Wed May 28, 2008 3:51 am   'Left blank'
 

daemon99 wrote:
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This page intentionally left blank.


I wonder what their intention could be Laughing

The folio had 24 pages, but they had only 23 pages of information to report. Some readers would probably have thought that the empty page had been left blank by mistake, so they put that statement on the page. I'll bet the company's operators had received thousands of calls in previous years from people who thought they'd received an incomplete report. Therefore they have to put that oxymoronic statement on the page.
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