[jQuery] Passing this to a function

[mac.gill]

Can i pass 'this' to a custom function from an event handler
eg.

$('p').('click',function() {

  myCustomEvent(this);

});

myCustomEvent(ref) {

//ref Object or JQuery object ?

  $.get("path_to_cgi",{name = ref.text()},function(data)
{ alert("Data : " + data});

}