An unhelpful reader:

“Sorry to be completely unhelpful, but after reading your line ‘My reader wants to know exactly where in the Han Shu this tag appears,’ I now intend to start using ‘Where in the Han Shu…?’ as a new euphemism for less polite speech, when pondering the whereabouts of various items.”

[Derb] Hrrmph. Though in approximately the same context, I note that since finding out where the Wazoo is, I use the expression “up the Wazoo” much, much less.

I thought it was a river in Appalachia or somewhere. You know, where people play the kazoo. While planning trips to Kalamazoo…