Tails Is Dead. Call Heads Instead.

Emily's most recent post discusses coin tossing, among other things. Which got me to thinking. Is anyone else like me and still calls "tails" just because of that childhood rhyme tails never fails?

I guess that question should have a qualifying question: when is the last time you had to call "heads or tails?" I think ever since I heard the tails never fails adage when I was around six, 100% of the time I have called "tails."

Probably the last time I had to make this call was five years ago when I was a captain of a parks and rec soccer team.

It turns out tails does fail some of the time. But are people with me on this? It would be interesting to see if more people call tails over heads, and the role the tails never fails adage has played in this phenomenom.

And why isn't there a saying to promote people to call heads? You know, a ying to the tails' yang. I mean, one can counter Whoever smelt it dealt it, with the (somewhat self-incriminating), Whoever supplied the rhyme committed the crime. Why isn't there a rhyming rebuttal to tails never fails?