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Visiting_Babylon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennying :eek:

I'm sorry! But if someone pennied me, there's absolutely no chance I'd drink it. I'd have to be inebriated to the point of black-out before agreeing to it!

You don't necessarily have to drink wine- I've taken Buck's Fizz, Schloer, and other non-alcoholic beverages to formal before, which are penniable.

Plus it's good fun, especially if you penny someone's newly poured full glass of wine. Then do it again.

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Isn't Bucks Fizz by its very nature alcoholic?

Reply 42

Posh Portia Kabine

Oooooh don't get me wrong: I LOVE my booze, I'd be up there with the rest of the them when it comes to the inebriating stakes. I just read the part about "penny" and I thought I might choke on it (I'm a right whimp, I can hardly swallow those round tablets) - but then I read the bit about pennies being substituted for smarties/love hearts etc. Yeah, I'd do that! Bring it on. :biggrin:

Reply 43

Helenia

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Visiting_Babylon

Oooooh don't get me wrong: I LOVE my booze, I'd be up there with the rest of the them when it comes to the inebriating stakes. I just read the part about "penny" and I thought I might choke on it (I'm a right whimp, I can hardly swallow those round tablets) - but then I read the bit about pennies being substituted for smarties/love hearts etc. Yeah, I'd do that! Bring it on. :biggrin:

You don't actually drink the penny! :eek:

We'd all be rattling if we did that! It's ridiculously hard to do, actually; normally they stay in the glass, following the laws of physics like good little pennies. You just take it out once you've downed it (or before, if you're worried!) and then keep it to use on someone else... I've never swallowed one.

Reply 44

Posh Portia Kabine

I jumped to the wrong conclusions (obviously)! My neurotic tablet phobia rearing its ugly head. In other news, I can't wait to be pennied, sounds like fun :biggrin:

Reply 45

FadeToBlackout

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Isn't Bucks Fizz by its very nature alcoholic?

It is, but less so than wine. It's practically non-alcholic...

Reminds me of a friend who tried to get drunk on shandy for a dare!

Reply 46

mikeyT

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FadeToBlackout

Plus it's good fun, especially if you penny someone's newly poured full glass of wine. Then do it again.

Isn't that against the rules of pennying? There has to be some boundaries to it.

FadeToBlackout

You don't necessarily have to drink wine- I've taken Buck's Fizz, Schloer, and other non-alcoholic beverages to formal before, which are penniable.

You can penny whatever is around you as well. eg if someone is pouring some gravy onto their plate then you can penny that and they have to down it. The worse pennying I've seen is a plate of vindaloo.

Reply 47

Chewwy

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i bought a dinner jacket the other day. i am actually in love with it. i actually have no need for a girlfriend anymore, this dinner jacket consumes all my love. it cost £600, from William Hunt. It feels like was MADE for my body, it's just so so so so perfect. did i mention i love it? It has pink silk with flowers on inside. i love it.

that is all.

Reply 48

Posh Portia Kabine

Are there any nuances of difference between Cambridge and Oxford pennying? (LOL I am getting into this now.)

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Spunky

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Visiting_Babylon

Are there any nuances of difference between Cambridge and Oxford pennying? (LOL I am getting into this now.)

This is taken from the wikipedia article mentioned earlier :smile:

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The Oxford and the Cambridge rules vary. In Oxford, one must have the glass in one's hand for it to be eligible for pennying, the only exception being at dinners in the Great Hall of Christ Church, Oxford where such a condition is not required for a pennying to be valid. If a glass on the table is pennied, the pennier must forthwith down the beverage, and buy the intended pennyee a replacement. In Cambridge there is no such rule and pennying may occur at any time, or sometimes the exact opposite rule is played.

Reply 50

Posh Portia Kabine

So, from that rule, we can deduce that the Cambridge students are significantly more prone to drunkenness :biggrin:

Reply 51

Helenia

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Visiting_Babylon

Are there any nuances of difference between Cambridge and Oxford pennying? (LOL I am getting into this now.)

People claim there are, but frankly it doesn't really matter. The chief rule is that if you can be convincing enough about your "rule" to make someone else down their drink, then it's ok :wink:

Reply 52

Posh Portia Kabine

Ha! No one need convince me to down a drink, it need only be there. :biggrin:

Reply 53

Huw Davies

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I imbibed a penny once (pint race - trying too hard to win!).

Usually at Oxford you can only penny a glass while someone is holding it - in Cambridge you can only penny when they're not.

There are variations to this and often pennying is completely no holds barred.

Reply 54

FadeToBlackout

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...which is where a small sheet of clingfilm to cover the top of the glass comes in handy... stretch it out enough and it's invisible!

Reply 55

Spunky

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FadeToBlackout

...which is where a small sheet of clingfilm to cover the top of the glass comes in handy... stretch it out enough and it's invisible!

You Tab people obviously don't get drunk enough if you have time to come up with (and use!) ideas like that :p:

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Reply 56

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Or they got so drunk, put the clingfilm over someone's toilet, saw the (comical and horrendously messy) effect and then thought it may come in handy with a wine glass. :smile:

Reply 57

thomasjtl

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i got told the other day that i gave a foul penny, having been pennied myself, downed my drink and promptly returned the favour, on the basis that i didn't have a drink in my hand. Seemed very dubious to me.

Reply 58

Quistis

I've never been pennied before, and I'm at the end of my second year at Oxford! How does one go about getting pennied? I've suggested it a couple of times (my friends not being the type to react well to a random coin ending up in their drink) and they've been very unenthusiastic. Perils of an all-women environment, perhaps. :frown:

Reply 59

Spunky

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I think I was pennied on the first day! Maybe its more of a guy thing?

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