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Effects Of Senselessness On The Simpsons

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For those of you who didn 't grow up on The Simpsons, I genuinely sympathize with you and the uncultured core of family members in which you were raised by. Just kidding, sort of, it 's never that serious; until you realize all of the collectibles sitting on my shelf are mocking your ignorance the moment you leave my room. Yes, I just figuratively turned each and every one of my inanimate Simpsons figurines into a group of rambling, dim-witted humans and a handful of anthropomorphic pets. Now, who is there to credit for the amount of senselessness that just went into that first paragraph up there? How senseless does it actually sound that a bunch of Simpsons just so happened to make their grandiose appearance in our concrete-jungle of a

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