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#68791 05/05/02 04:54 PM
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What's the difference between an atavism and an avatar?


#68792 05/05/02 06:32 PM
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Atavisim - tendency to look more like great great great great grandparents than like Mom and Dad! Reversion to an ancestral type!

Avatar - a god come to earth in incarnate form - a manifistation as an object of worship -




#68793 05/06/02 01:30 AM
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Ok, Dr. Bill, I'll bite [one foot in the snare e]. This is Wordplay & Fun, so there must be a joke in here. But I'm darned if I can figure it out; here are M-W's def.'s of avatar: 1 : the incarnation of a Hindu deity (as Vishnu)
2 a : an incarnation in human form b : an embodiment (as of a concept or philosophy) often in a person
3 : a variant phase or version of a continuing basic entity


Let's see [second foot in the snare e]: an avatar is a reincarnation, and an atavism, if you don't like it, is a reintarnation?


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'Course, at your age, Bill, you're both at the same time ...



The idiot also known as Capfka ...

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