General Chat

I received several pages from the Insurance company the other day and just the one page says that it is blank intentionally. It makes sense to me. If they have seven pages of information and nothing else to say on the eighth page what else can they put.....?- Perhaps the staff got fed up of people ringing up to say that something was missing off the last page.

Shelly If the Intentionally Blank sheet is in an exam or academic paper and the
student uses it to write in, that part of their answer won't necessarily be marked.

well i thought the blank page was for you to put in extra info that you dont have room for on there silly one word lines

Sue are you talking about books, it sounds more like leaflets to me.

Aren't most forms on loose pages? :-S

They print forms on large pieces of paper folded in half and stapled in the middle like a magazine. If the form has got 6 sides 2 of them will be blank. If they were completely blank people might think something had been missed off.

It may be so that a new section or chapter starts on the right hand page of a booklet so that it is more visible when leafing through.

The British have blank pages because we have gaps left over Sylvia. :-)

I seems crazy to say that a page is blank. Cos it isn't aftre you have told people it is. But it does give me an idea for a thread :-D :-D ;-)

To save on bloddy printer ink!?

I was looking at a prospectus yesterday and quite a number of pages said Pages left intentionally blank, I could see no reason why.

that "..... left intentionally blank" must be something that is peculiarly British :-)


I have honestly never seen that on any kind of form on this side of the Atlantic.

someone may wish o prove me wrong ............ but I've never come across it.

I have seen a box or page with a statement "for official use only"

Exam papers often have that, or a cross through the page. They are usually found towards the end of the booklet and is intended to indicate that there hasn't been a printing problem.

If a question (and the space to answer) is indicated in the same way in the body of the booklet, should the candidate use it to write in, that part of their answer won't necessarily be marked

It's for words that haven't been invented yet. :-D

I always thought that, in the case of workshop type manuals, that an empty page here and there allowed an amendment to be slipped in, without having to re print the entire book............
similarly, in questionaires???
Bob

Be positive. Buy timber shares.

Had a thought today. I am asked for my birthdate (30 Jan 1921) so often - yet I never ask any of them to prove who they are by giving me their birthdate. Hmmmmm :-S

Seems like an awful waste of paper to me.

Why do they ask for your address ? They've usually sent it to you.

Like when a form is available in large print or Braille, how would the form filler know if there wasn't someone else there who can see it.

this has cracked me up... next time I see one of those forms I will have to write on it now....... :-) :-)