Lost is back!

[RStar]

I'm glad I'm not on the island as I'd be Milquetoast.

Ok, about Jin. He was just married 2 months, yet he worked for a Auto company (delivering the panda to a potential client). But at that point he worked for Suns father, right? Before that he worked as a door man at the hotel where the first met. So what's up? An alternat reality/timeline???

[JWBear]

I just watched last night's episode.

If Jin is really dead, then damn you, Lost producers.... DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!!

[cirquelover]

Originally Posted by RStar

I'm glad I'm not on the island as I'd be Milquetoast.

I was Milquetoast as well. I'm not sure what that means though.

[RStar]

Originally Posted by cirquelover

I was Milquetoast as well. I'm not sure what that means though.

milque·toast- a very timid, unassertive, spineless person, esp. one who is easily dominated or intimidated: as in a milquetoast who's afraid to ask for a raise.

Also Caspar Milquetoast.

An indication of the effect on the English language of popular culture is the adoption of names from the comic strips as English words. Casper Milquetoast, created by Harold Webster in 1924, was a timid and retiring man named for a timid food. The first instance of milquetoast as a common noun is found in the mid-1930s. Milquetoast thus joins the ranks of other such words, including sad sack, from a blundering army private invented by George Baker in 1942, and Wimpy, from J. Wellington Wimpy in the Popeye comic strip, which became a trade name for a hamburger. If we look to a related form of popular culture, the animated cartoon, we must of course acknowledge Mickey Mouse, which has become a slang term for something that is easy, insignificant, small-time, worthless, or petty.

Sawyer's nicknames aren't very nice......

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by RStar

I'm glad I'm not on the island as I'd be Milquetoast.

Ok, about Jin. He was just married 2 months, yet he worked for a Auto company (delivering the panda to a potential client). But at that point he worked for Suns father, right? Before that he worked as a door man at the hotel where the first met. So what's up? An alternat reality/timeline???

Seemed to me that he was delivering the panda for Sun's dad in some fashion, hence the urgency and the deep bowing.

[Gn2Dlnd]

Originally Posted by RStar

milque·toast- a very timid, unassertive, spineless person, esp. one who is easily dominated or intimidated: as in a milquetoast who's afraid to ask for a raise.

Also Caspar Milquetoast.

An indication of the effect on the English language of popular culture is the adoption of names from the comic strips as English words. Casper Milquetoast, created by Harold Webster in 1924, was a timid and retiring man named for a timid food. The first instance of milquetoast as a common noun is found in the mid-1930s. Milquetoast thus joins the ranks of other such words, including sad sack, from a blundering army private invented by George Baker in 1942, and Wimpy, from J. Wellington Wimpy in the Popeye comic strip, which became a trade name for a hamburger. If we look to a related form of popular culture, the animated cartoon, we must of course acknowledge Mickey Mouse, which has become a slang term for something that is easy, insignificant, small-time, worthless, or petty.

Sawyer's nicknames aren't very nice......

Yeah, he called me peachfuzz. (!?)

Re: names becoming common words, I've always wondered if Jiminy Crickets! was an exclamation, or an appellation, first. Also, malapropism. Named for Mrs. Malaprop, from the play, The Rivals, or was she named from the word?

[JWBear]

From Wikipedia:

The word malapropos, an adjective or adverb meaning "inappropriate" or "inappropriately", derived from the French phrase mal à propos (literally "wrong on purpose"), is believed to have entered English usage around 1660. The term "malapropism" however, is generally attributed to the public reaction to Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 1775 play The Rivals, and in particular the character Mrs. Malaprop. Sheridan presumably named his character Mrs. Malaprop, who frequently misspoke (to great comic effect), in joking reference to the word "malapropos." The new term "malapropism" was coined to designate the specific kind of mistake, or inappropriate usage, Mrs. Malaprop frequently made.

[CoasterMatt]

My "Sawyer" nickname is Quickie...

[libraryvixen]

Much like LSPE, I was thinking that Jin stayed on the island too. The thing he said to Sun about protecting his wife and baby... maybe it's what he had to do to ensure that they both got off the island.

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Or they could have buried the impostor body from the staged wreckage (staged by Ben, as implied by the ship's captain).

We were told not to trust the Captain....so I am not buying the whole staged wreckage theory yet.

As for what is happening to the people on that freighter.....I dont buy "cabin fever" like the captain said. This is something much more sinister. That woman just wrapped herself in chains and walked into the Ocean for Pete's sake By the look of that room Sayid and Desmond were sent to with the blood stains on the wall it looks like she wasn't the first to take her own life either.

I can't decide if what is happening on that ship is more like the famous play Waiting for Godot or if it is more similar to the Stephan King short story The Jaunt

Speaking of literature, the book that the suicidal woman was reading before she took the plunge was Survivors of the Chancellor by Jules Verne. Jules Verne also wrote another interesting book called The Mysterious Island