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"Blue Eyes. Baby's got blue eyes. On a blue, blue day. Seeing no one near."
- Elton John

"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
- Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride

this.

Or this.

Examples

• This TV Tropes article seems to be doing it.
  • This article is not successful due to the fact it is linking to itself in several places. It is therefore not entirely composed of links to other wiki entries.
    • Was not successful. Great guy that I am, I re-routed all of the instances of self-reference. And made sure all of the periods (or full stops, for all of you British tropers) were inside the Pot Holes, too.
    • Well, that's great. Ah, my ridiculously circuitous plan is one-quarter complete! I think.
• However, this one is.
  • That's because All Blue Entries do it until blue in the face.
• This article also is.
• This Troper disagrees about Evil Overlord and Torture Technician being close. You can't just accidentally make one of these; you really have to think hard about what you're doing. Those two entries may happen to have Pot Hole-heavy intros, but a look at the formatting reveals that they probably just didn't care. Also, the examples don't even come close.
• This one.
  • This one, too.
  • And this one.
    • So's this one. It's not a pothole, either.
    • Huh?
    • It doesn't pothole the blueness, it has a straight link to This Is Unforgivable
    • uhh... the period is not pot holed, eh.
• And then someone puts in spoilers.
  • Spoilers are easy to read, you don't have to highlight the TEXT, per say, or you could use control+alt.
• Mission! Complete!
  • They even made a brand new template to facilitate its All-Blueness. That is totally awesome.
• Or is it?
• did it again
  • And had to split half of the examples onto a new page with the same definition in order to do it.
• This to. It sure has a lot of links for a laconic wiki page...
• Looks like we got another!

• Does this count:musical example?

• Blue, blue. . .
• Astral Finish!

• Getting there.

• "Oh, Ed. Anything but blue."