What on earth can this reader mean? “Derb—Bless you for working the

phrase ‘Get your Kipling out’ into the Corner. Don’t know why exactly, but

it made my… well, perhaps not my day, but at least my hour.”

[Young man, checking a book out at the library, to a young, busty, female

librarian]: “I say, young lady, do you like Kipling?”

[YBFL]: “Oooh, I don’t know, you naughty boy, I’ve never kippled.”