Talk:Pennying
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[edit] Earliest instance
I've been told that this is actually quite a recent phenomenon - how far back can we actually trace this practice? I propose 1993 as a rather feeble opening bid. --NeilRickards 16:53, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
A friend was at Cambridge circa 1953 and the practice was not common in those days. There might be some link to the Kings shilling which dates back to the 18th century --NeilRickards 13:06, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
Sometime between 2001 and the late 70's, based on http://groups.google.com/group/rec.food.drink.beer/browse_thread/thread/1014a6d88c37ef6d/e9b6b9717c66dbfe?lnk=st&q=pennying+even+more&rnum=11#e9b6b9717c66dbfe from a Usenet posting. Theusername 10:46, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Source on Hawking?
Call for Source on the Hawking bit...? --Penta 00:52, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Personally witnessed; will that do?
[edit] Wider Use
This game (either 'coining' or 'save the Queen') is done in at least three Scottish universities I know of - Dundee, St Andrews and Edinburgh, although mostly at less formal events such as residential hall events etc, most commonly with a five pence piece.
Quite surprising that it still goes on in these days of drink-spiking and safety concerns (luckily the coin tends to stick to a flat bottomed glass for a few seconds after the drink has been consumed, so reducing the chances of swallowing it with the liquid).
Oh, and the author of this page seems to slip between singular and plural willy-nilly and invent words at will ("themself" being the most annoying example) - rewrite anyone? --Breadandcheese 15:09, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Is "York" supposed to refer to York University in Canada, or the University of York in England? It strikes me that next to Durham and Oxbridge it should refer to the university in England, yet the article goes to the Canadian one... Is this a mistake? --Finlay 12:37, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Variation in Rules
I think it would be worth noting that the 'accepted rules' still vary a lot - at Emmanuel College Cambridge, differences seem to be:
-If one double-pennies a drink then one must consume one's own drink - if one's glass is empty then one must fill it beforehand. -An 'empty glass is as good as a full' for the purposes of pennying - if one's empty glass is pennied then one must fill it to a reasonable level and then down. -One need not have drunk from a drink in order for it to be pennied. -Compared to the rules stated for Oxford, the glass very much does not need to be held to be pennied: pennying a glass that someone is holding means the pennier has to down his/her drink; only a glass resting on the table may be pennied. etc...
