Actually if i remember correctly, you can keep a properly made torch damped with a cover. It has a limited life, but I recall it from Boy scouts.

Basically all it does through the cover is smoke and smolder. When the cover is removed, the large amount of combustable gasses built up under the cover suddenly getting oxygen would make it flare to life.

the trick, I imagine, would be to keep enough air going in that it keeps going, without drying out the cover.

I may have to do some research. Hmmm.

ETA: I vaguely recall that you could keep the torch end "hot" under a tin can, and then lift off the can and blow or squirt a bit of fuel on it, but I doubt they have that many squirt bottles of lighter fluid, either.

Of course, they could have some high-proof alcohol they've distilled and take a swig, the spit it on a hot torch, too. (heh) Extra flamey for the slow spitter.

The Others could have access to a third Dharma station with a shitload of supplies.

I'm still trying to assimilate the jungle whispers. They're messing with me in ways the smokemonster didn't (even once the inner images were made clear to me).

Also, Jon, where did you get your tag?

That's an awesome tag, Jon B.

The torch thing made no sense, but still it made more sense than the Ecstacy-smuggled-in-body-paint plot of CSI: NY a few minutes later.

I hope Jack goes further down the path of unstable, because he needs something more to do than be kind of a dick.

Kate really needs to kiss Sawyer soon.

That is all.

My tag from Jon Stewart on the Daily Show.

Not Jon, but Jon's tag is Jon Stewart detailing his agenda concerning Xmas. If I remember correctly, it was his present to Bill O'Reilly this year.

I had a funny feeling.

Ok, listening to those mp3 files, I don't hear how they got those transcripts out of them. Did you see anything on methodology, ita?

I continue to be very cynical about the supposed jungle transcripts. The first set at least came from a poster at the ABC boards who also implied that she was a friend or a relative of one of the cast members, and gave spoilers for Jack's last flashback episodes that were complete bullshit, and then claimed it was rewritten at the last moment. The 'transcripts' were supposedly from 'her and her students' using audio equipment.

Since these more recent ones have also come from the ABC boards, I also suspect the same poster, and thus am still calling bullshit.

in order to get an idea to compare Michael's current path with what the tailies had done.

This was one of the few times *I* yelled at the TV--they mentioned that Michael wasn't going back the way he came. Well, no, he didn't find Walt that way; why go back? One would actually wonder how Michael *has* a direction to go--I wonder if the computer might have told him where to go. I think there was a part cut off, just before Jack came into the hatch, where the computer was saying typing, "You have to come--"

And I'm in total agreement about Jack being a jackass (also incredibly stupid). Geez, he needs a hobby.