In Search of a Three-sided Coin

Lately I've been thinking that we need to come up with a three-sided coin on which to display the three aspiring presidential nominees. A normal two-sided coin would be satisfactory if all we had to consider was Obama and McCain or Hillary and McCain; you know, heads we lose, tails we lose. But we have three contenders on which to put a new improved coin of the future. As long as we have a never ending battle between the two dems we must come up with a three-sided coin that would include all of them.

The concept of a three-sided coin is somewhat of a mind bender. The first thing that came to my mind was sort of in the shape of a pyramid...but that creates practical problems in the form of pocket change as far as wear and tear and would solicit comments along the lines of, "is that a pyramid in your pocket or..," well, you know...and besides, a pyramid would have at least 4 sides, so that wouldn't make the cut.

It took a few minutes of contemplation and I finally determined that a three-sided coin would have to be cylindrical in nature, like a "thick" coin that would or could stand on its side. That would make the edge itself a side and the coin could and would be able to stand on its thicker edge without tipping over. Here's a pic that exemplifies what I'm talking about:


Yeah, that's the idea. Heads for Obama, tails for Hillary and edges for McCain. Toss the coin and see how it lands.

Heads, we lose; tails we lose, and edges we lose. A difinitive toss-up!




Thanks to the folks at Welcome at Philos for the photo.