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"The Political Achievements of the Earl of Dalkeith was a political pamphlet that was published and circulated in Edinburgh during the 1880 United Kingdom general election. It was well presented but inside the neatly printed cover there were just thirty-two blank pages, making it an early empty book."

"The 32 blank pages of the pamphlet have been digitised by the LSE Library."

That is an excellent attack ad

Back in the day, StorageTek, a company started by ex-IBMers, used something along the lines of "This page left intentionally almost blank." Which is, of course, more accurate. :)

I always wondered why there is no "is" in this phrase. Why is it not "This page is intentionally left blank". I hoped this article would answer it, but no. It does show the is in [] to mark that's it's kinda missing. Anyone knows why there's no "is"? Does it ring wrong to you without "is"?

"page intentionally left blank" seems kosher to me

not to me.

does 'he eats faster than I [do]' seem wrong to you? it's a different problem ('than' as conjunction vs 'than' as preposition)[1] but to similar efect.

[1] https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/than-i-v...

It would be more correct to add “was” since it happened in the past (the act of leaving it blank). Not necessary at all because “left blank” is already past tense.

Omit needless words?

To me, "This page has been left blank intentionally" would sound the best, but eh.

Because "left" works fine as the verb and doesn't require "is". To me, it flows better in speech with "is", but that's a subjective opinion and probably a culturally-influenced one; British people use that construction less than Americans like me, in my experience.

This page intentionally left blank.

"is" intentionally omitted.

Shoutout to http://blank.org

Used to have this set as my homepage.

about:blank

Checking the source code and following the little trail can provide a little entertainment, too.

It's been a long time since I've seen a page like this: http://blank.org/memory/oldweb/home.html

The favicon is KILL M$

nathan says hi. his minions are everywhere.

Reminds me of isitwhite.com

Also, anyone donate to Wikipedia?

Yeah. I use it so often I'm an easy mark.

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