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!"