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You Were Warned

By Courtney Enlow | Posted Under Celebrities Are Better than You | Comments (21)



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They don’t listen. They never goddamn listen.

The Snooki one already has a book on the way and now so does the other annoying one. (narrowing down) The ugly one. (narrowing down) The one with the abs. (narrowing down) The one who looks like a potato. Ding. There you go! The Situation one.

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Let’s analyze.

Up top, we have what to expect with this tome. “A Guide to Creeping on Chicks, Avoiding Grenades, and Getting in Your GTL on the Jersey Shore.’” I don’t know what any of this means. But it all sounds very unsavory. What’s a GTL? Is it a car?

Okay, a quick trip to Urban Dictionary tells me it means “gym, tan, laundry” and I celebrate these people for understanding the importance of Gain freshness.

Then we have the cover photo itself. For most, spending a great deal of time with one’s shirt held up above one’s right nipple would be a somewhat unnatural way of going through life. Not for our Situation, who might be the most self-aware person in the world for knowing that if we aren’t looking at his abs, we might be forced to look at his face.

By the way, I feel no guilt or wrongness in pointing out this particular person’s ugliness. He has attempted to create an entire career based on how hot he finds himself. For that reason, I feel there should be a government organization that alerts people whose perceived level of attractiveness is greatly skewed and I would like to be that government agent.

Finally, there’s the title, which I assume implies “here’s the situation” is a common phrase we all use. There’s font, which I believe is called “Summer’s Eve Rodeo.” There’s the tinily named ghostwriter who actually wrote the book.

Jezebel has some excerpts which I urge you to read, assuming you hate yourself. Chris Millis very obviously loathes his subject, and seems to have created a book making fun of this person. But, as South Park pointed out, Mr. Uation will not understand that he is being made fun of. He will call you “haters” for thinking such vile things. He will continue believing that he is awesome until the show finally ends, at which point he will disappear because he already spent his Dancing With The Stars nickel.

I will greet that day with a gentle kiss and a fist pump. Or bump. Whatever the fuck it is, I don’t care.









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Comments

Now here's a man in need of Gangstalicious' new line of undershirts...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Gangstalicious_2

Posted by: longcoat000 at October 21, 2010 2:04 PM

Maybe the Mayans were correct after all...

Posted by: Scully at October 21, 2010 2:06 PM

Courtney, I really wish that they would listen to you.

Posted by: tamatha at October 21, 2010 2:06 PM

Maybe the Mayans were correct after all...

We could only be so lucky...

Posted by: Rykker at October 21, 2010 2:10 PM

I read some of those excerpts and I have to say that if "The situation" isn't a functioning shaved gorilla, then he's a fucking comedic genius. No one can be that stupid right? I mean besides Paul Walker and Sarah Palin.

Posted by: Paultera at October 21, 2010 2:16 PM

Reading the excerpts was making me cry tears of deep, soul-crushing sorrow, until I started to view it as an inside joke between the ghost writer and smart people. Then it became friggin hilarious.

Posted by: suga booga at October 21, 2010 2:28 PM

Shouldn't one have read a book, or two, before writing a book?

Posted by: Sean at October 21, 2010 2:33 PM

I mean, the book actually uses words like "corpuscle". Either the writer grossly overestimated the intelligence of the subject's fanbase, or he's talking over their heads to the ones who would truly appreciate the subtle mockery woven into the text.

Posted by: suga booga at October 21, 2010 2:34 PM

The book actually looks hilarious, which is exactly what it is supposed to be. I don't think anyone is giving them (well, mostly Mills I'm sure, but the Situation had to be on board) nearly enough credit. Those of you who write (or blog) should know how difficult it is to write comedy in character like that (The Office, Flight of the Conchords). Based only on the Jezebel excerpts I sincerely believe it is one of the better pop-culture exploitation books to come out recently.

And I still maintain that if you don't buy/borrow and read books written this century you shouldn't have shit to say about this. How many idiots are going to register their contempt on various blogs and social networking sites that haven't read a fucking book themselves outside of school since Facebook was invented. No, the stats on reading are just too poor for me to abide so much mouthing off about the unworthiness of any book, regardless of author or subject (not you, Pajiba, I'm talking about the rest of the internet here).

Posted by: Yossarian at October 21, 2010 2:47 PM

This can't be real.

Posted by: Kristen at October 21, 2010 3:07 PM

They should do a pop-up book: when you open the book, the Situation's six pack pops up!

Posted by: True_Blue at October 21, 2010 4:09 PM

Oh man I just know it's the sort of thing I'll see in the bookstore and I'll pick it up and start reading it and laugh and laugh and laugh and make a scene in the store until I'm kicked out for being scandalous.

And, meh, I'm way more offended that every PICTORIAL blog in creation gets a fucking book deal. For uploading other people's photos. Seriously.

Posted by: figgy at October 21, 2010 4:27 PM

figgy,
Amen on the pictorial blogs.

Yeah, some of the pictures are entertaining but quit acting like you created something when you just basically steal from more creative people than yourself. And then think you're hot shit because you get a "book" deal.

Posted by: Paultera at October 21, 2010 5:23 PM

This is considered non-fiction, but when I try to write a story with a character from New Jersey in it based on the real NJ experience, I'm told by publishers it's unbelievable.

I can't fucking win.

Posted by: Robert at October 21, 2010 6:22 PM

"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it."

Posted by: Ellie at October 21, 2010 7:44 PM

Yep, Ellie, that suits the mood. Except for the whole reading part. I think I'll cheerfully avoid opening that book.
Groucho always had the best lines...

Posted by: Four Eyes at October 21, 2010 9:54 PM

There’s font, which I believe is called “Summer’s Eve Rodeo.”

Thanks for bringing a chuckle into my gloomy day.

Posted by: Drake at October 22, 2010 11:41 AM

I have never seen a single episode of Jersey Shore, but I get an impression that Jersey might be the American equivalent of Essex. Fake tans. Real lives.

Posted by: SB at October 22, 2010 8:22 PM

so as far as all of us have realized what stardom does to a person... makes the star think there someone. now in most cases actors are acknowledged for a very moving screen play job. this show jersey shore is based on how everyday people act under a cameras microscope, (7 days a week) like the situation, picked out of thousands of applicants that will make a show sell, from a mans point, is a insecure man. wouldn't keep a girl if she decided to gain more than 5 lbs. and if that girlfriend dares talk back to him he'll smack them in the face. but if his girlfriend stands up for herself hell feel like moping in a corner like shown on the episode were he smacks snooki. now Ive herd the situation is hard at work trying to make money like this book since the show but i wouldn't treat woman like he does. he's just putting out another book like the one called "the game" with mystery and the mystery method. its ok situation to copy others and feed on the insecure guys out there hoping they will learn from your gorilla ways. you can pick up woman, the ones who are ditzy blonds that want there time on tv, as my girlfriend says. i just think the girls he supposedly picks up if you watch the show are partyers that dont really know whats going on and are afraid to fight back his pushyness in the club. i bet you ive "got it in" i one year more than he could in two. i guess hes still young and thinking with his other head. maybe you should go read the book "the game" learn some game and be a man and treat woman like there not a hole... lol, you really think your doin somthin situation.

Posted by: Jeff at October 22, 2010 9:11 PM

Has anyone seen the YouTube video "My New Haircut"? Because that is ALL I can think about while reading those excerpts. "Yeah this collar's popped, cuz I'm the fuckin man and everyone should know it."

Posted by: Even Stevens at October 23, 2010 5:05 PM

The entire viewing population of MTV makes me sad.They have become some of the stupidest elements of our society by popularizing mutants like these. How can we make these idiots go away?

Posted by: Johnny57 at October 24, 2010 11:15 AM