I was checking out some screencaps and it looks like when he meets young Ben Linus in the jungle he had a holster and gun around his waist.. I have included a link to the screencap..

I thought it might bring up some intresting questions..

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Let me know what you all think..

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Please don't give up, Des. Because all we really need to survive is one person who truly loves us. And you have her. I will wait for
you. Always. I love you, Pen

DESMOND: I love you, Penny. I've always loved you. I'm so sorry. I love you!
PENNY: I love you too.
DESMOND: I don't know where I am, but--
PENNY: I'll find you, Des--
DESMOND: --I promise--
PENNY: --no matter what--
DESMOND: --I'll come back to you--
PENNY: --I won't give up--
BOTH: I promise. I love you.

Hey! What is the deal there!? What a catch, Wednighter. So the Richard group apparently wasn't quite living off the land like we assumed. I guess I assumed that the lack of a hair cut and raggedy clothes meant that they were "simple folk."

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`Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle!'

-- Alice, from “Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland”

Yes he made him self look simple even back then.. The others are still doing this when they captured Jack, Sawyer, Kate & Hurley.. I thought that was intresting..

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Please don't give up, Des. Because all we really need to survive is one person who truly loves us. And you have her. I will wait for
you. Always. I love you, Pen

DESMOND: I love you, Penny. I've always loved you. I'm so sorry. I love you!
PENNY: I love you too.
DESMOND: I don't know where I am, but--
PENNY: I'll find you, Des--
DESMOND: --I promise--
PENNY: --no matter what--
DESMOND: --I'll come back to you--
PENNY: --I won't give up--
BOTH: I promise. I love you.

yea thats a good point. Maybe the others did this to look weak and then in the purge they will show there real strength

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Hurley: What about the B-O-D-Y-S?
Michael: What are spelling, man? Bodies?
Walt: B-O-D-I-E-S.

Hurley: Dude, you've got some Artz on you.

Bernard: I'm a dentist, not Rambo.
Rose: And don't forget that!

Exactly Wednighter- at the decoy village by the Pala Ferry. Living in huts, no shoes, raggedy clothes - but why would Tom, Bea, and even Ben when he arrives on the dock still be wearing that style of clothing if Richard and Ben were working together? Remember when Ben killed his dad, and Richard's gang gassed the Dharma-tes Richard was wearing normal L.L. Bean clothes, not the raggedy ones. So... I don't get what's with the clothing swap?

Look weak for whom, Fate? (oh, you me pre-purge Richard-group) But why KEEP dressing like that in a decoy village? Did they set that whole thing up just to get Walt. Why do you even need a decoy village? Unless they went to the local Dharma-mart why would they just happen to have false beards?

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`Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle!'

-- Alice, from “Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland”

I think that when 815 crashed there was a possibility in their minds of their being Dharma spies on board, checking to see if the Hostiles had indeed taken over the Island. This might even be the case, do we know for sure the entire backstory of all the survivors? NOPE.

So...if they acted the hillbilly role before the Purge, they might just do it again, to ensure the Losties wouldn't become aware of their level of sophistication. Whatever they are hiding must be huge for them to go such lengths. I bet the answer is at .

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"The Naked Gun!"

Frank Drebin remembers a lost love.

Frank: It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day.

Jane: Goodyear?

Frank: No, the worst.