[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Not to get sidetracked, but...

If you're Italian, can you translate this?:

"Donna che piange, uomo che giura, cavallo che suda, tutta impostura."

A woman who cries, a man who swears, a horse that sweats, all impostura.

What does 'impostura' mean? I can't find it in any online English-Italian translator.

[Little Bill]

Italian, good Christ no, Swamp Yankee, my Stepfather is though, a very fine man, one of the best.

We were kind of imposed on him, in my thirties when my Mother remarried after my fathers death 15 years earlier.

The La Donna myth doesn't exist in Swamp Yankee land, but I remember hours doing Resistance calculations on a project he was involved in at ECA.

WW2 28th Division Vet, Infantry, Electrical Engineer, Friend and Mentor, I love the Man.