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BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN
— a telegram from the children's father, in Swallows and Amazons

You gotta help us, Doc. We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!
Ned Flanders' Mother, The Simpsons, "Hurricane Neddy"

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.
Henry: Actually, I was a wonderful father.
Indiana: When?
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.
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.
Henry: You left just when you were becoming interesting.


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