Day three of class and the teacher has already made a nickname for me. Like I said before, I hate being singled out so I never speak in class unless I'm frustrated. So there I am minding my own business while the teacher calls on random people to answer questions. After three or four attempts, no one can answer correctly. I try avoiding eye contact but that's kind of hard when you're sitting front and center. He calls on me and I answer. "Wow I think we have a superstar genius over here." Oh my goodness. Are you serious? I glare at him. My attempt to maintain a low profile has failed because now whenever there's silence or whenever people can't answer the question he turns to me, "Hey superstar genius what's the answer?" I'm so irritated. Not only is this embarrassing, it's really just not necessary. He's so ridiculous. I'm pretty sure more people would volunteer to answer questions if he didn't scream "No, no! You're wrong! Are you kidding me? My God!" after every time someone answers a question incorrectly. Bah. I'm angry.
Anyway, we were going over coin flipping in class and that got me wondering (because there's no use paying attention in class). Why do we call it 'heads or tails'? I mean the "heads" part is pretty obvious because well, it's a head. But why on Earth do you call the other side a tail? So I did some investigating and it turns out you call it tails because it signifies an obverse and reverse relationship. For example black and white. The head is the opposite of the tail, which is why you call it heads and tails (which sounds so much better and is much easier to say than heads or strange eagle thing grabbing some branch). As for why the back of the quarter doesn't just have a picture of a tail is another mystery within itself; however, I think it's because that would look pretty awkward -- that's just me though.
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