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1->BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN
2-->-- a telegram from the children's father, in ''Literature/SwallowsAndAmazons''
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4->''You gotta help us, Doc. We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!''
5-->--'''Ned Flanders' Mother''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "Hurricane Neddy"
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7->'''Indiana:''' It was just the two of us, dad. It was a lonely way to grow up, for you too. If you'd been an ordinary, average father like the other guys had, you'd have understood that.
8->'''Henry:''' Actually, I was a wonderful father.
9->'''Indiana:''' When?
10->'''Henry:''' Did I ever tell you to eat up, go to bed, wash your ears, do your homework? No, I respected your privacy, and I taught you self-reliance.
11->'''Indiana:''' What you taught me was that I was less important to you than people who'd been dead for five hundred years in another country. And I learned it so well, we've hardly spoken for twenty years.
12->'''Henry:''' You left just when you were becoming interesting.
13-->-- ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''
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