In the spirit of today's Squishy entry, what is your all time favorite Squishy?

What made you laugh? What made you cry? What made you a forever fan of Pamie?

Tell us your best Squishy moments.

We'll just consider this an early Christmas present to Pamie's ego.

-- Anonymous, December 15, 1999

Answers

the entry that made a faithful squishy reader was the one about the superbowl... i couldnt stop laughing. (http://www.pamie.com/January99/29January99.html)

i cant remember which ones... but most of the taebo entries had me cracking up at work too.

-- Anonymous, December 15, 1999

The Tae Bo entries still crack me up. I love when Taylor is a guest columnist. My all time favorite is the one with her dad explaining the birds and the bees to her. And of course, the saddest one is And I Love Her, about Lillith. Sigh. Pamie, you're great!

-- Anonymous, December 15, 1999

Oh, without a doubt my fav is the Open Love Letter to Ricky Martin. i still crack up till i am in tears. WHen she does the comparison between Eric and Ricky.. OH LORDY! and the part about the special Ricky Martin kind of love not to be confused with the Johnny Depp kind of love.. bwah ha ha. its the best!

-- Anonymous, December 15, 1999

I love the entry, paranoid(01/01/99), where pamie talks about the "feminine mystique glare". I laughed so hard when I read that. And for added bonus that is the "tiny wooden hand" entry as well! I also loved the entry about Eric calling himself "Daddy"(7/20/99), and any entry where pamie just out of the blue says she wants a baby(impulses 2/9/99).

I also love love love the entry for 09/16/99 where pamie talks about The Menstral Chronicles. So true.

I love the stories about pamies family are always good for a laugh, like her Grandma dry humping the band at her parents wedding (6/25/99).

I think I love any entries that talk about relationships, families, or girl troubles, because I can always somehow relate.

-- Anonymous, December 16, 1999

The first Pamie I ever read was Ovarian Sistahs and that sealed it right there. The other great ones have been the tiny wooden hand (I still crack up), the Valentine-y poems, Super Bowl faking, the Taylor mon dieu! entries, and anything where Pamie makes fun of Lenny Kravitz.

Some of the Tae-Bo ones are classics too....

omar

-- Anonymous, December 16, 1999

I was so glad to see your awards from diarist.net. You certainly have the best-written journal anywhere, and i read a LOT of them. I wanted to tell you that just seeing the title "And I Love Her" for the best dramatic entry brought back such a flood of emotions for me, remembering what you went through with your dear, sweet Lillith. Tears actually welled up in my eyes just from seeing the title. Since you wrote that piece, my fiancee and I have rescued two kitties, a brother (Stash, cause he looks like he has a milk moustache, and his sister (Hoochie) from the animal shelter. We have seriously bonded with these two cuties, and now I know and can understand the pain that was involved in your loss. Just know that you and your writing about Lillith inspired me to rescue these little ones. You are a welcome and enjoyable part of my day, and you feel like an old friend, even though we have never met. You deserve all the best in life.

-- Anonymous, December 16, 1999

That thing about my grandmother sounds really strange taken out of context.

I'm just trying to backpedal. I had kind of forgotten I had written about that. I don't even remember my mother telling me that anymore.

Good thing I have this journal, huh?

-- Anonymous, December 16, 1999

More entries about eric!

-- Anonymous, December 16, 1999

I forgot, I forgot. Last night while in a ladies room stall I remembered the one about being on the same schedule as the girl that was in the stall next to you, and how she must have thought you were a total weirdo. I laughed out loud in the bathroom. That led me to remember the great one about the girl at the bar that was enamored with you while you were doing your karoake thing. I should have mentioned them. There are just too many to mention that are beyond funny. Deja- who? Deja Kajagoogoo- that one was hilarious.

Nancey

-- Anonymous, December 16, 1999

Omar, that's weird, Ovarian Sistahs was my first Pamie too! And that's when I realized she was destined for greatness!

-- Anonymous, December 16, 1999

must...keep...head...from...swelling!

-- Anonymous, December 16, 1999

The sex talk from your Dad and the award-winning Lilith entry are my favourites, hands down. And the Bill Pullman one, because I was telling my boyfriend about it and he goes, 'Who the hell is Bill Pullman? Is that the guy that's played the same character in about 10 shitty movies?' Hah.

And I'm sorry about the humping-your-leg with praise, wacky email. I was on my 7th vanilla hazelnut cappuccino of the day. I'm cringing over it, still.

-- Anonymous, December 16, 1999

The Lilith entry, no contest. It brought tears to my eyes, simply brilliant.

-- Anonymous, December 17, 1999

Obviously the Lilith entries - I thought the following ones were heartwrenching as well. The conversation with Eric entries especially when you get to the * entries with authors interpretation. They crack me up. The cooking one - I can't remember the date - the bean casserole? Excellent.

-- Anonymous, December 17, 1999

The open letter to Ricky Martin. I have that one bookmarked!!!!! Just thinking about it makes me crack up. Oh..and my SIL said that the has that 'eric peterson kinda love' for well...Eric.....and that my brother can get lost. I hope Eric doesn't mind.

lol

and I loved any and all award show squishies.... love 'em.

not that you asked, but my favorite forum was the 'dear so and so' one....umm OBVIOUSLY since I posted like 20 times.

-- Anonymous, December 17, 1999

Someone please write and tell me where is the tiny wooden hands entry? I looked for it yesterday but I only found the one about the woolen mittens and I didn't have time to look through everything.

My favorite entries are the letter from coffee, and the letters from Taylor. And I Love Her was beautiful but it makes me cry. I love all of them. I love Pamie!! I was on vacation for 3 days and when I got back the first thing I did was catch up on Pamie.

What else? Any entry where Pamie's brain gets part of the dialogue. Pamie is definitely the most creative and funny person I have ever read.

-- Anonymous, December 17, 1999

Okay I just read the tiny wooden hand story and I was cracking up out loud at work. That is hysterical. I love the part about the pizza guy. I just visualize that. *still giggling*

-- Anonymous, December 17, 1999

Todays entry (17th) was pretty damn hilarious. Are those tears running down my face?..uh-huh. Ow..my face hurts from laughing...and the moisture..the moisture is not helping. (deep breath, lee..deep breath)whhhoooo.

-- Anonymous, December 17, 1999

Or was that yesterdays?..time keeps on slipping. slipping, slipping...

-- Anonymous, December 17, 1999

I read the the tiny wooden hands story (and cried in laughter, seriously) and the sexual education one right around the same time and became a fan.

I still burst into tears whenever I think of that tiny wooden hands entry. God. That. Was. Funny.

-- Anonymous, December 17, 1999

I don't know that I could pick a favorite Pamie entry. That would almost be like asking a mother to pick her favorite child -- Sophie's Choice! AAAAGGHHHH!!

OK, sorry, I'm better now. "And I Love Her" was heartbreaking. I have never cried so hard over something that happened to a "total stranger" in my life, partly because it was so like what happened to me. I'm welling up just thinking about that entry again.

But, for sheer hilarity, the ones with the dialog between Pamie & Billy Blanks -- especially if the cats were involved -- made me wet my pants. Too damn funny. I keep thinking I need to do my own journal on the web, but I just don't think I could compete.

-- Anonymous, December 20, 1999

The one about Eric and the nose hair trimmers is a perennial favorite in my house, as are the menstrual chronicles. Oh, and the one about the sex tips. I like today's an awful lot, too.

-- Anonymous, December 20, 1999

Without a doubt: #1 Menstral Girl! I think that one was from 98.

The new cigarettes one is in my top 5! That was great! I can see part Tony Soprano, part the hitman in True Romance circling Arquette. I just quit after 15 years on Aug 31 of this year, and went through this. Of course coffee was also great! They go together well.

The Ovarian Sistahs is number 2!

The first Billy Blanks number 3.

Then Bill Pullman and Cigarettes. I loved the letter from Stee as Bill Pullman! That was the entry that got me hooked on plaintive wail.

Have a Merry Christmas Pamie! Thanks for your gift to us, by letting us share your thoughts and life on a semi-daily basis!:)

Todd

-- Anonymous, December 21, 1999

The first one I ever read was in October 1999--the one about coffee ("I am the .7 in your 3.7 GPA!" "I just ran out of the room and came back and you didn't even notice. I'm that fast. I'm coffee."). It's still my favorite and the first journal entry I've ever printed from the web to save permanently. I'm only now starting on the archives, inspired by the Nancey letter posted as an entry last week, but my early favorites are the ones mentioned most here--wooden hands, bourbon & bees, And I Love Her (I don't even HAVE a pet and I started sobbing!).

Oh--and how could I forget September 1998, Ferris Bueller vs. Lloyd! Lloyd! Lloyd! Lloyd!

-- Anonymous, December 21, 1999

I liked "My name is skinhead girl". It wasn't particularly funny, but what I like best about journals is getting a feeling of what it's really like to be somebody else, and that entry did that better for me than anything I've read since Jamaica Kincaid's book _Lucy_ and she was published in the New Yorker for heaven's sake.

-- Anonymous, December 23, 1999

Pamie,

Today's entry about your Sexy Eye Growth is my new favorite. I was laughing so hard I nearly lost my breath. For an instant, I actually lamented the fact that I didn't have a yellow gooey sex catcher of my own, and wondered if maybe that was why I didn't get more dates in high school, but I remembered in the forum that I have my own ways of being a hot bitch, so I'm not jealous of you any more. Have fun squirting eye fat at people, you'll be the envy of every girl you know!

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2000