Easiest way to get "wild" boars is to leave domesticated pigs alone in the jungle for a few generations. Feral pigs are hard to tell from the original wild stock.

That brings up something... it just occurred to me to wonder what that herd of swine that Jesus drove the demon into was doing hanging around considering the Jewish strictures against pork. Belonged to occupying Roman forces, I guess?

Hmm, so from a certain point of view he could have been seen as a radical zooterrorist...

I did a quick Google, and it seems that both the wild and the domestic pig are Sus scrofa. So, you're right, they're not actually different species, as I had thought.

From what I understand, Roman era Judaea was considerably more polycultural than the scriptures give it credit for. The Israelite did an ass job of exterminating the pre-Israelite Canaanites and whatnot, and did an even worse job of keeping other tribes out of the area. They just didn't give them any press time in the Big Book O' Ancient Testifyin'. So, there woulda been any number of cultures without the porcine prohibition. There woulda also been quite a few not-particularly-devout Jews, what with the rampant Roman secularism and all that.

I'm voting Hurley is the one who wasn't on the plane. For no good reason but that I think that would be wicked cool. Plus, isn't he the one who's not getting a background episode, per the spoilers?

While ground-dwelling bees could be indiginous to a tropical island,

Speaking of insects, should we get up a pool to bet on who the first survivor to get malaria will be?

DX, I'm wondering if they will get scurvy actually. :-) Where's the fruit?

Franken, there is actually a definitive answer to which castaway... wasn't on the plane. Ethan (Mapother) who will be in eps starting with Sayid's ep I think makes everyone freak out after Hurley notices he wasn't on the plane.

Now...We only have ep information through 14 and it is true Hurley doesn't have an ep yet, but there are stil 8 more eps that we don't have information for.

I have seen a spoiler that we will find out his first name is Hugo and his nickname is Hurley and we will find out the reason for that nickname.

More info (a more specific description) about Ep 9:

"The survivors are not alone. Sayid is taken captive by a long-time strandee: an armed and cryptic French woman (Mira Furlan), who's alternately violent and sympathetic. The ordeal triggers painful memories for Sayid, who recalls his past as a captive interrogator". Source: TitanTV

Per the results of the vote,

DXMachina "Sunnydale Press" Nov 7, 2004 10:38:54 am PST

it's now all hardcore spoilage, all the time. No white font.