Re: ATTNN: JMS Marvel Editorial Confrence

>>On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:04:03 -0400, Tom wrote
(in article <1128089028.945045.278650@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

>
> Amy Guskin wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 09:23:15 -0400, Tom wrote
>> (in article <1128086551.392775.243870@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
>>
>>>
>>> Chris wrote:
>>>> In article <0001HW.BF602458000CFB85F0407550@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>>> Amy Guskin <aisling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 10:36:50 -0400, Tom wrote
>>>>> (in article <1127918176.430751.232980@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Chris wrote:
>>>>>>> In article <1127803106.500846.45660@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>>>>>> jmsatb5@xxxxxxx wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> and goats offered to Ba'al
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> you know, he's one of my favorite SG:1 bad guys :-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ...Chris
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I thought that was spelled Bal?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I was under the impression he was referring to Ba'al (pronounced
>>>>>> bail)..
>>>>>>
>>>>>> or perhaps I've played too much Diablo 2 for my own good.<<
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm sure he means the Semitic deity Ba'al (as opposed to the pagan deity
>>>>> Baal, who might in fact be folklorically related), rather than a
>>>>> character
>>>>> from some SF show or a video game... :-p
>>>>
>>>> hmm, i coulda sworn that i saw it listed in the credits as "ba'al"(and
>>>> pronounced that way on tv) but gateworld.net says it's baal, and lists
>>>> this deity as the basis for the Sg:1 character. (and a perusal of
>>>> pantheon.org shows no ba'al, doh)
>>>>
>>>> http://www.pantheon.org/articles/b/baal.html
>>>>
>>>> either way, he's still the best baddy Sg:1 has, something about his
>>>> portrayal seems very humanly evil, :-)
>>>>
>>>> ...Chris, who knew, they have no ba'als <ducks>
>>>
>>> I preferred Anubis myself, in cloak form, in stolen body form and in
>>> fat guy in a coffee shop form. <<
>>
>> I prefer Anubis the deity, myself. :-)
>>
>>>> (hey look theres squidward...and theres squidward in angry mob form)
>>> ...ugh..I gotta stop doing that. <<
>>
>> What's a squidward?
>
> Ugh...Well, I habe a neice and nephew that watch many hours of
> nickelodeon, therefor when I visit or babysit I wind up wtaching it.
> squidward is the pemanently frowned and frustrated neighbor of
> Spongebob Squarepants.....
>
> Sorry, I have this terrible habit of remembering everything I find even
> remotely amusing on TV and being able to bring it up at a moments
> notice...
>>
>>>> Sorry, for some reason that all got stuck in my head and I had to get
>>> it unstuck. Kinda like when my friend mentioned how she liked karaoke
>>> and for a month afterwords I could not get Pleasant Valley Sunday by
>>> the Monkees out of my head. <<
>>
>> Why does karaoke make you think of Pleasant Valley Sunday? That doesn't
>> seem
>> like a song uniquely suited to karaoke, or the kind you usually hear at
>> karaoke bars (it's usually up-to-the-second teen pop, disco, 80s 'new wave',
>> sometimes a little '*** rock').
>
> I still have no idea. While I liked the Monkees music I never actually
> sang it, or for that matter did karaoke at all. For some odd reason
> that song kept playing in my head though. I guess its the way my brain
> is wired. <<

As long as it wasn't _another_ cheerful 60s pop tune, "Make Your Own Kind of
Music" - now that "Lost" co-opted it for the theme-du-hatch, it has horribly
creepy overtones for me. :-D

>>
>>
>> Oh...are these all SG:1 references or something?
>>
>
> No, the original was just a question that popped into my head. I guess
> I was wondering aloud wheter Bol and Bale (mispelled for for clarity)
> were based on the same legends or not. <<

I don't know of either Bol or Bale, but I'd be surprised if they weren't
related. Ditto for "Bel," the Celtic deity for whom the Mayday fertility
festival "Beltaine" was named (from "Beal" + "tine" = Bel's fire, and
pronounced "BAAL-chin-yuh").

Amy


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