Reminds me of a no-doubt apocryphal story of an exalted foreign correspondent who submitted a claim for the purchase of a camel after a trek through Egypt or some such. The beancounters immediately queried the claim, pointing out that the camel now belonged to the paper. A week later a fresh expenses claim arrived on their desk – “camel, burial – $200”.

Can anyone point me in the direction of the full story? Can’t really remember much about it, and have doubtless got most of it wrong