I tried "stap me" in Google (with quotes), and was amused for a few
minutes.
Google certainly is a wonderful resource, stap me vitals!

Regards

Neil


-----Original Message-----
From: Wirt Atmar [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: 23 September 2002 05:13 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Two questions - Software Suttee


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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