On 1/16/07, John Rodgers <inua@charter.net> wrote:
> neil wrote:
> >
> > I also look forward to some kind of amazing new titanium (or other)
> > knees, hips
> They got it.
>
> New prosthetics use titanium stumps and mounts. .....

> Because of it , they are doing some amazing things for those wonderful
> guys and gals coming back from Iraq with missing limbs.

Great to hear of the progress with prosthetics. In joking around about
my potential needs down the road, I picked a material that sounded
good on paper. Didn't know they were using it.

>
> > and a new brain, though brain should not make me smell
> > toast all the time.....right now I hear voices AND smell toast, but
> > could live with just the voices.....  ---- ;^)
> >
> No toast for me, but if at night I turn my head at just the right angle
> on my pillow, I can go to sleep listening to the radio --- through my
> teeth! <g>  I still have them, but they have been drilled, filled,
> capped and crowned with enough metal to build  a mini-cooper.

And radio through teeth at night??

Gilligan's Island was factually correct? --- ;^)