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Since I’m going to all this effort of getting a new hip, I figure I might as well make it worth my while and have the doctor include a few extra features. So I asked my Twitter friends for some ideas today. Here’s what they came up with:

  • a pop-out holster of sorts, to hold a whiskey tumbler (Nathan)
  • a Wolverine-style weapon (Randall)
  • turbo boost and an airbag (Jo)
  • auto-swing for occasions requiring social dancing (Anna) and auto-shimmy for use during belly-dancing class (Jo)
  • a 5-terabyte bluetooth drive (Destry)
  • a joke tattooed onto the joint, to amuse and/or confound future archaeologists (Sipho)

I’m quite keen on a few of these (the bluetooth drive, most notably), but Discovery says they don’t cover this sort of “experimental medicine”. Luddites.

Now you too can do hip replacement surgery! This fun, interactive game lets you measure, cut, saw, hammer, stitch and staple a hip JUST LIKE MINE. Yay! (This has rather cemented my decision to be sedated during my operation.)