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What is the deal with manual pages containing only the following:

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I would like to know who was the mastermind behind this one. (And whether or not he/she still has a job!) I think that this person failed to grasp the concept of a blank page. News flash! This page you claim to have intentionally left blank: It's not blank! Doh! Sorry, try again, better luck next time. Even better, you may notice that usually these pages also have headers and footers on them too. They are a long way from being blank. Not even close. Wouldn't it have made more sense to say something accurate? (I'll have some ideas for you later). I'm pretty sure, the point of the phrase

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is to assure the reader that they are not missing any important pieces of the manual. "No, there isn't supposed to be any information here, there is just supposed to be a blank page. However, I couldn't leave the page blank. So I thought I would put this sentence here instead so you would know that you aren't missing any information. Thank you so much for reading my book!" I would like to point out to all the manual authors who are using this phrase that it is incorrect and contradictory. And I would like to urge all of you: STOP USING THIS PHRASE. Don't be a lemming. Think for yourself. Don't put pages in you book containing the text

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Think with your own brain, don't follow the crowd! Put something on that page that makes more sense! If all the other manual authors used six-point font, would you? I think not! Be an individual. Start a new trend! Put a correct and noncontradictory sentence on that page! Or better yet don't kill trees with content free pages in your books. Here's a little widget with just a few ideas of other sentences you might use to replace

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