A quintessential foreign correspondent of The (New York) Herald Tribune:
Unable to find time to keep fastidious track of his expenses, O’Reilly made his account balance by listing “One camel-$350.”
Perplexed Tribune auditors decided the dromedary was a capital expense and wired O’Reilly:
“WHERE IS CAMEL?”
He wired back:
“ATE IT.”
(From Richard Kluger, The Paper)
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