# Intentionally Blank

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intentionally-blank/552015>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 30, 2010, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intentionally-blank/552015 "2010-08-30T16:59:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intentionally-blank/552015/1 "2010-08-30T16:59:34Z")

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How come all of the pages that say “This page left intentionally blank” have stuff written on them? Your page lies, sir!

I think we should push to have the phrase changed to:

“This page would have been left intentionally blank except for the fact that some may have construed it as being unintentionally blank, so we put this phrase here to clear that right up.”

Also, where did this concern stem from? Was there some epidemic of unintentionally blank pages popping up everywhere that I’m not aware of?

Finally, what will you do when you finally come across this:

“This page left unintentionally blank.”

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intentionally-blank/552015/2 "2010-08-30T17:23:53Z")

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This reply has this sentence in it.