Mr Roberts now took the floor to bewail the day he had first arrived at University to have his ignorance dispelled, and expressed disbelief in the, University motto that wisdom was to be desired more than gold. In a burst of self pity Roberts let drop the secrets that women were like chimpanzees, lawyers satchels contained only weekend grog, and "Salient" was the most, expensive toilet paper in the country. I "Only suckers learn for any other i reason than making money," he cried.

Mr McConnie claimed, as a higher animal, that he got bliss from listening to a Concerto and not from ignorance, I while friend Mr Flude stressed the pure bliss arising from knowing that your horse had won the race.

Mr Tamasese charged the staff with manufacturing new frontiers of ignorance in order to provide themselves with jobs, and noted that Dr Truscoe's arguments were like England—all wet.

Mr Mitchell extolled the joys of sex and Alcohol, while Mr Butler let flow that if one did not know what one did not know, one did not know what one missed.

Mr Hamlin thundered that none of the arguments put forward were valid since they dealt only with single facets of the topic.

"Ignorance is the only excuse for the idiot in the back row," opined Hamlin when heckled.

Mr Preston put forward that since i bliss was a personal feeling no single I reason could be advanced for it, while Mr Middleton suggested that ecstasy required almost complete ignorance. The final floor speaker, Mr Hart, claimed that the purpose of living was to improve oneself and the common good, and that this was bliss through knowledge, not ignorance.

Summing up for the Negative, Dr j Sloane parodied the main arguments of his opponents. Notably Economics lecturer Sloane rejected Prassad's "rguments" on the grounds that they were Economic and hence nonsense. "I got my Doctorate through transferring corpses from one cemetery of leaning to another," admitted the Doctor.