"The nickname, he explained on The Tonight Show came from an incident in a club when a couple walked by him and the woman was so captivated by his abs that she pointed at them. Mike’s friends said to him, 'Dude, that’s a situation right there.' 'And I said, "Yeah, I guess that is a situation," and it stuck.' We both do and don’t know what he means—I take it to mean that his abs have magnetic qualities and that his mere appearance in a room can have tectonic consequences. In fact, Mike has synecdochically enlarged that concept to denote his entire being: The Situation isn’t only what he calls his abs; it’s also his nickname for himself. 'I just have unbelievable mass appeal'..."
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dear strawberry whatevs writers:
ReplyDeleteya'll should get separate handles like the pros do, though i guess it's always glaringly obvious who writes what
your devoted reader,
orh