Re: Creativity or Humor

["Wayne J. Douglass" <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM>]

At 07:56 AM 3/27/97 +0530, Guru wrote:

>Once in a print job, I goofed up and left a page blank.  This would have
>meant reprinting the entire set.  I thought of saving the situation by
>marking the page "THIS PAGE UNINTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK!"  The Chief
>Executive, an ex-IBMer, did not appreciate this and I re-did it. I learnt
>a valuable lesson -- one of the several I learnt from this wonderful CE.
>
When I was an editor, a writer in my group wanted to know if I read
*everything* by marking a page "THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLAND."

One of the writers in my current department has these slogans on his white
board:

THIS BOARD INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK
THIS WRITER INTENTIONALLY LEFT BANK

--Wayne Douglass

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