h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I used to write manuals for our company and we adopted this as well because, as you say, users would phone up saying "there is a page it hasn't printed in my manual"!

*chuckles quietly from the background of some blank page somewhere*

Good page. Submit it if you haven't.

This is me probably letting you all know how stupid I am, But why would anyone leave a page blank intentionally anyway. When I have seen this on pages it has always puzzled me cause the page obviously isn't blank, the message has been left there deleberatly. What is the reason for this???

In our case it was so we could format instructional text and example pages to be opposite each other!

Or perhaps for the user to doodle on while phoning the company to ask why the page is blank? Just a thought...

Or so all the chapters begin on the left-hand page.

That is another one of the things that I think is strange, Why do chapters begin on the left page. (scratches head for a moment and thinks) Hang on a minute!!! I have seen many chapters begin on the right hand page.
I have just opened the Bible and the first chapter Genesis is on the right hand page. (has a quick flick through)And Exodus chapter 18 is on the right hand page. When Jethro the preist of Midian, Moses father in law, herd of all that God had bla de bla (scratches head again and thinks "What the smeg is that all about")

It's quite obvious! The bible wasn't designed by IBM!

Clearly, or it would only be available in blue covers.

LOL!

Submitted. This page seems to have struck a chord

Wonderful!

Now... was that a blank chord?

Intentionally so But not a lost one....

Hmmm.. intentionally blank chord... Must be tuned to key.

Given that this page is for the HAL 9000 and has a printed statement saying there's nothing on it, I assume you've provided the hidden reason for his slaughtering of the crew?

Fruitbat

PS: I've never actually seen one of these IBM manuals, but every text I've seen relating to a Microsoft product is designed to make the user feel like an idiot for not being able to follow their "simple" instructions.

Now I feel completly relieved cause I thought I was thick but I realise now it is not only me.

*BLANK STARE*

"Dear IBM,
Please help! The documentation for my latest set of eyeballs is all blank pages, and the equipment doesn't seem to be working properly, either."

I've been meaning to see a doctor, since I could really use an upper widget snarkle adjustment

Good stuff, this is! Good luck with the submission.......