An American editor had a notice stuck up above his desk that read:
"Accuracy! Accuracy! Accuracy!" and this notice he always pointed out to
the new reporters.
One day the youngest member of the staff came in with his report of a
public meeting. The editor read it through, and came to the sentence:
"Three thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine eyes were fixed upon the
speaker."
"What do you mean by making a silly blunder like that?" he demanded,
wrathfully.
"But it's not a blunder," protested the youngster. "There was a one-eyed
man in the audience!"