Keith Hughes wrote:

J. Clarke wrote:
Matt Heffron wrote:


"Leo Lichtman" wrote in message
...

"Arch" wrote: No accident. I wrote exactly what I think we should
speak of re politics. (clip)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Thanks for helping me out here. I thought I might have missed something
profound, and it turns out that I did.

I have seen publications from IBM with a page having only the following
words: "This page intentionally left blank."


Which, of course, should read: "This page intentionally left otherwise
blank." (or "This page intentionally left almost blank.")


Either way, the same appears in many government publications. Presumably
there is a standard somewhere over which some committee agonized for
weeks before deciding to require that specific wording.


Matt Heffron
Inland Woodturners



The government (or at least Federal Aviation Administration) rules for
orders requires the statement on blank pages so that you can tell that
the page is supposed to be empty, and not just a printer error. It
sounds silly until you find a page that's really not supposed to be
blank...

I think we all understand the purpose. The humor comes from the page not
being blank and the thought of a group of bureaucrats agonizing into the
wee hours over whether it should be "this page intentionally left blank" or
"this page is supposed to be blank" or "this page is supposed to be mostly
blank" or "blank page" or . . .

Keith Hughes

--
--John
to email, dial "usenet" and validate
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)