See Ned Flanders on Wiktionary
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"text": "Even Highway to Heaven, an '80s show that was a little less overtly Christian but definitely was heavy on the religious overtones, ran for 111 episodes. The Ned Flanderses of the world need entertainment, and they don't care how tedious, poorly written, and inane it is. If it's sweet and reinforces Christian ideology, they're all in, baby!",
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"text": "This is not limited to gas stations. Pretzels should not be purchased or consumed anywhere. They are the Ned Flanders of snack foods. If you're dying of starvation on a desert island, and there are only pretzels around, eat a handful, then pray to the struggle snack god for the clouds to burst open and rain Doritos.",
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"ref": "2013, Doug Fine, Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution, Penguin Publishing Group, page 75:",
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"text": "Most games, Kittle starts by even telling the colossus across the line who'd like to tear his head off, \"Good luck\" with an ultrakind, \"Let's stay healthy.\" Defensive linemen have told him, in so many words, to shut the hell up and that they will eat him for lunch. He can play that game, too. He has no problem playing that game. But Kittle knows there's a benefit to acting like Ned Flanders in the middle of such a violent sport.",
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"text": "If U-turners do indeed have more unacknowledged darkness in their souls, it would explain why their stories tend to be messy, with plenty of collateral damage: people hurt and people left behind. The Ned Flanderses of the world do not pull U-turns. But Pascal would say, the Ned Flanderses—all virtue—never produce the Big Virtues. They are steady. And steady never created a masterpiece.",
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"ref": "2006 August, “That's What I Call Wussy”, in Blender, page 57:",
"text": "Even famous semi-wuss George Harrison called the neat-combed Nash's music \"soulless.\" As leader of the Hollies, a squeaky rendition of the Beatles, he incited the hatred of his peers: Screaming Lord Sutch crowned them \"diabolical.\" He then joined David Crosby and Stephen Stills in a grandiose supergroup and turned hippie ideals into the Mommy & Me melody of \"Our House\" and the chicken-soup platitudes of \"Teach Your Children.\" Smug and sanctimoni-ous, Nash is the Ned Flanders of rock & roll, mustache",
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