Richard Herring is a writer and comedian. Check him out at www.richardherring.com.
I’ve admired his stuff for ages, and he writes a marvellous weblog on his site. The section is called Warming Up.

Reading it on Tuesday, I noted that, in a piece about someone marrying and thus saving a prostitute in Finland, he committee a typo and ran the words 'who rescued' together, making whorescured. Such was my delight at this accidental new and incredibly apt word, I emailed him, telling him, amongst other fawning platitudes, that the word whorescued perfectly describes the entire plot of the film Pretty Woman.

Richard, bless him, mailed back and bless him further, even mentioned the word and the Pretty Woman thing on his blog for today, Tuesday 17th September 2003

This made me happier than I could ever have expected. It’s one thing to see or even meet famous people, but to get a laugh out of a comedian I hold in great esteem gave me great pleasure.

Oh God, I hope he laughed. He shoe-horned it into the blog, where it didn’t quite fit, so he must have liked it.

PS I once went to see Newman and Baddiel, and they invited comment from the audience. A woman shouted, cleverly, “I love you David!” I instantly responded in a deep voice, “So do I”. He laughed. But I’m prouder of the Pretty Woman thing.