In reference to numbers I believe the lady that Hurley went to see in Australia mentioned that her husband and Lenny heard the transmission 16 years ago.

Also, when Hurley tells Lenny in the psych ward that he used the numbers for the lotto Lenny says, "You opened the box!" Box = hatch?

I know I'm probably going to run around in circles over this, but is there any significance to the numbers, besides being on the hatch? The number 16 keeps getting mentioned, which is divisible by 4 & 8, but what about 15, 23 & 42?

Hurley man has the chops. I loved everything about this ep. except Charlie. This ep. deserves an award.

Yup, she said it was sixteen years.

The box factory thing - there was a ref in the Charlie backstory thing, but was there another mention earlier on? I think there was but I can't remember.

What I noticed right away was 48 = original number of survivors (right?), 815 = flight #, and, of course, 42 = the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

Damn! I was just coming in to post about 42 and it being the powerball multiplier.

there was a ref in the Charlie backstory thing, but was there another mention earlier on? I think there was but I can't remember.

Do you mean besides the fact that Locke worked at the box company Hurley owns?

Also, when Hurley tells Lenny in the psych ward that he used the numbers for the lotto Lenny says, "You opened the box!" Box = hatch?

I thought it was Pandora's Box.

The number 16 keeps getting mentioned, which is divisible by 4 & 8, but what about 15, 23 & 42?

Things keep happening "four years ago," which we were picking up on early in the season. They threw another one at us tonight: Sam died four years ago.

23 is a prime number and screws everything up.

there was a ref in the Charlie backstory thing, but was there another mention earlier on? I think there was but I can't remember.

Do you mean besides the fact that Locke worked at the box company Hurley owns?

Okay, this I missed. How do we know Locke worked there? And what about the explosion? Or is that how he was paralyzed?

How do we know Locke worked there?

He mentioned it to Boone when they were hunting boar. They were sharing "who we were before the island" stories. (Although they never said specifically in this ep where the box company was located - which is the only identifier for the company. We're only assuming that the box company mentioned is the one that Locke worked at.)

The shoe factory in Canada is the one that burned down, not the box company. As for how we know Locke used to work there, he told Boone. (As the actual job wasn't identified in Locke's flashbacks beyond being a cubicle monkey.)

Edit: X-posty, naturally.

As the actual job wasn't identified in Locke's flashbacks beyond being a cubicle monkey.)

I think they mentioned that it was located in Tustin in one ep.