Actually... no. The text referenced by Snoopy does not mention further statements after BEND at all, it only talks about "junk" as part of the BEND statement (like, before the next colon - what we talked about is what happens after the next colon).
There is a difference in the behaviour of BEND depending of the block it is used.
The BEND in the block after THEN searches for a following ELSE after the ":".
The (second) BEND in the ELSE block behaves like a REM. All characters behind this BEND will be ignored and the program continue with the next program line.
Edit: My first assumption was wrong. They are not being ignored at all. Only if the THEN case is true. After the ELSE case is true the commands after the BEND will be executed (see next post).
ZitatThe BEND at the end of an ELSE clause is effectively just like REM because BASIC will not search for another colon (:), but in general simply continue with the next line in the program.