Roy writes, in a different form of English than I'm used to:

> >Not having a clue what "stap me, Wirt" means
>
>  'stap me' is an expression of surprise, commonly based upon a more
>  explicit expletive in less exalted company. '

I'm still not sure if I understand the term, "stap", but I'll let that go.
The other word that greatly confuses me is "suttee", as it appears in the
subject of this email. Looking it up in my Webster's, the only definition
presented is this one:

": the act or custom of a Hindu widow willingly being cremated on the funeral
pyre of her husband as an indication of her devotion to him; also : a woman
cremated in this way"

I am completely befuddled by the correlation of this definition to the
subject at hand.

Wirt Atmar

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