Talk:Sconcing

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This article is all well and good historically, but has nothing to do with the modern practice. Today it is largely reserved for the various clubs and sports teams throughout the colleges and the university and usually takes the form of "I sconce anyone who..." followed by some act (ranging from the tame and intellectual to the lascivious and sexual.) Anyone who has ever (or is currently, depending on the form) performed the act must rise and finish their glass. The old form of sconcing is, in my experience, dead and is probably banned in most colleges, while what I just described is alive and well at such lovely Oxford institutions as Jamal's and At-Thai.

I would (and probably will) edit the article soon, but I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on whether this constitutes original research? It's pretty much general knowledge among the Oxford student body.

--CptBuck (talk) 00:47, 2 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

The so-called "modern practice" described above appears to be a mere or close-to-mere "porting" of the terminology associated with sconcing onto the drinking game "Never Have I Ever", with a small amount of fusion of the two (e.g., that one must finish one's drink rather than merely taking a sip as per the generally prevailing rules of "Never Have I Ever"). Even if the old custom of sconcing has died out and/but the practice described above (complete with terminology) now exists, one shouldn't assume that the former evolved into the latter. (Don't multiply entities beyond necessity, etc.)

165.176.7.3 (talk) 18:20, 27 June 2011 (UTC)Reply

I disagree. Modern sconcing involves standing up at dinner and (often) targeting a particular individual, in common with traditional sconcing and in contrast to "never have I ever", which is more of a typical drinking game, often involving going round a circle and generally targeting more than one individual. 129.67.119.101 (talk) 13:55, 12 December 2013 (UTC)Reply

Does ‘sconcing’ refer to an obligation (which I encountered in a university rowing club, although not Oxford, and I think in a different game although my memory is uncertain for indeed it was long ago) to place the emptied glass upside down upon one’s sconce (head), to provide proof positive of its emptiness? Wikiain (talk) 08:01, 29 June 2019 (UTC)Reply