[jQuery] Passing in a parameter

[Patrick]

Hi all,
I have a newbie question. You know how you can pass a variable to a
JavaScript function like this:

onload="getStuff(data)"

Which is done via the BODY tag.  Now, jQuery uses $(document).ready
(function() });

My problem is simple: I want to pass in a variable to the ready
(function().  When the page is first loaded, how can I pass in a
variable to this function, or what strategy should I imploy to do
such?

Thanks for the pointers.  Pat