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Oct. 9th, 2002 12:32 pmLarissa: I'm sorry. I can cast four third-level spells per day, but the only third-level spell I know is Fireball.
Turok: That's ok. When the only tool you have is a hammer, every bugbear looks like a nail.
The Hebrew word "z'vuv" (or maybe "zevuv"; didn't see it written) means "fly", so "z'vuvim" are "flies".
The word "ba'al" means "master".
Sometimes "b" and "v" sounds are semi-interchangable. Akiva and Akiba are the same person.
Putting all of this together, we can now see the probable origin of "Bealzabub" -- "ba'al z'vuv". Except that that's the lord of one fly, which isn't nearly so intimidating. :-) (And yeah, I know I probably misspelled the conventional name.)
I finally found out recently why someone has been having trouble sending me mail. (That is, I was finally able to look at a bounce message.) It seems that this person didn't understand that user names are case-sensitive, becuase Outlook helpfully capitalizes things in its presentation of your address book.
Perhaps Microsoft is baalzevuvim; that's often a safe bet. Maybe a fireball would help.
Turok: That's ok. When the only tool you have is a hammer, every bugbear looks like a nail.
The Hebrew word "z'vuv" (or maybe "zevuv"; didn't see it written) means "fly", so "z'vuvim" are "flies".
The word "ba'al" means "master".
Sometimes "b" and "v" sounds are semi-interchangable. Akiva and Akiba are the same person.
Putting all of this together, we can now see the probable origin of "Bealzabub" -- "ba'al z'vuv". Except that that's the lord of one fly, which isn't nearly so intimidating. :-) (And yeah, I know I probably misspelled the conventional name.)
I finally found out recently why someone has been having trouble sending me mail. (That is, I was finally able to look at a bounce message.) It seems that this person didn't understand that user names are case-sensitive, becuase Outlook helpfully capitalizes things in its presentation of your address book.
Perhaps Microsoft is baalzevuvim; that's often a safe bet. Maybe a fireball would help.
