This Page Is Intentionally Blank

I know I haven't posted in a while. I know. I have no excuse other than you people never read my blog anyway, which doesn't make sense as obviously you are reading this now. People would read it if I actually posted on it; if I actually posted on it, people would read it.
Anyway.
Tuesday concluded the PSSAs (standardized tests, torture, call them what you like). On several pages, there was a self-contradictory statement:
This page is intentionally blank.
Well, evidently it's not blank, at least not anymore. (Nobody would care even if it were.) In the very act of calling attention to the pages' blankness, they've obliterated it thoroughly and completely. There's irony, or oxymoronness, or something there. And, if, in a fit of philosophical perfectionism, some test-maker were to shout, "Wait! We can't do that! It's not blank anymore!" and then remove the statement...it would make the page blank. Then, for some odd reason conceivable only to those people who format standardized tests, they would feel obliged to make a notice that informed the concerned test-taker that yes, it's okay, the page is supposed to be like this. And we start over again from the beginning. Therefore the test-formatting test formatters skip this messy argument and opt for simplicity rather than accuracy. It's just as well--a page reading "If this page were blank, it would be intentionally so" doesn't have quite the same ring to it.