Punch Versus Staple?

The great battle has been fought and the hour of victory is at hand! The staple or the punch, which one would come out on top? Having finished my University assignment and stacked up the supporting documentation, it came out at 72 pages all told. University guidelines stipulate, "No ring-binders or polly-pockets, assignment must be stapled at top left-hand corner only!" The people who dream up this crap are living in dreamland!

So, I was at least going to give it a try, but I realised that my little hand-held stapler would never be up to the task, so I borrowed a shot of my father's staple-gun. It was a long-shot, and I wasn't convinced that the staple would penetrate that thickness of paper. I was right, it made it about halfway through. So, in the face of receiving a sharp rebuke of some sort from some unknown grey-suited boring old fart, I've punched the document and tied the holes with whatchamicallums (tier things).

So the victor is the punch, because it lets you handle bunches of paper at a time, it has a coinscience which the stapler is sadly lacking. I think staples should only be applied to documents of 10 pages or less, but that's only my "professional" opinion. Someone really should come up with an alternative solution, there's money to be made here, I'm telling you!