So, I needed to photocopy multiple copies of a manuscript that included blank pages. The helpful photocopier saw that I was trying to copy blank pages and concluded I obviously didn't really want to do that, so left the blank pages out. Result: pagination all mixed up in the multiple copies.
I had to copy another manuscript. This time I was cleverer. I wrote BLANK in large, friendly letters on the blank page. The copier still couldn't quite believe I wanted to waste valuable time, paper and toner on a page with BLANK scrawled on it and so again left the blanks out.
Please will machines stop trying to be helpful. It really doesn't help.
I have a soft spot for 'this page intentionally left blank'. Maybe it should be resurrected?
ReplyDeleteI wrote BLANK in large letters from one corner to the diagonal opposite, and it still wouldn't believe me ... But yes, it might understand me if I actually put "intentional", possibly followed by "so include this page or end up with an axe in your motherboard".
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