Lost like an Egyptian

Let's see... Whip, buttplug, bird, crutch. Well I think the meaning is so obvious I won't insult everyone by saying what it is. For anyone who didn't notice, the guy in the back of the jeep with Sayid, who was looking at the picture? That was Kate's dad, looking a picture of a young Kate. This show is crazy.

Anyone still wondering if the tortured guy is an Other? If so, think about this--the guy's name was Henry Gale, and he arrived in a balloon. Too bad he never mentioned his wife's name. I'm guessing it's Emily.

As soon as those hieroglyphics appeared my husband jumped off the couch and grabbed one of my Egyptology books so we could look them up. He's going to have to become the expert of things ancient Egypt, since I'm already busy explaining to him all the Buddhist stuff going on in Lost (this week's lesson was the concept of emptiness).

the boards I've been looking at continue to suggest that it's nothing we couldn't have guessed "to die, to cause to die" etc.

Henry Gale did mention his wife's name -- Jennifer. And of course he'd be interrogated by the one character on the island who could perhaps be almost guaranteed NOT to recognizer a *Wizard of Oz* allusion. Except it got by me, too, as did Kate's dad. Though I knew that guy looked really familiar somehow...