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My Dad and I LOVE the movie Ten Things I Hate About You. Love it. I'm not as interested in the main storyline about the high school romance as much as I am the storyline about the father being an obstetrician and forbidding the girls to basically do anything involving boys. Walter Stratford, played by my fellow Long Islander and super-cynic Larry Miller, is a character that reflects my father in so many ways it scares me. The only difference is, obviously, that my father doesn't win the battles with his two daughters, we pretty much tell him he's crazy and walk off. But for those of you who don't know my father, he says things exactly like Walter Stratford...and it's hilarious. In honor of my dad, here are some quotes, courtesy of iMDB:

Walter Stratford: [Bianca and Chastity are sneaking past Bianca's father] Shoulda used the window.
Bianca: Hi Daddy.
Walter Stratford: Hi... where're we going?
Bianca: Well, if you must know... a small study group with friends.
Walter Stratford: Otherwise known as an orgy?
Chastity: Mr. Stratford, it's just a party.
Walter Stratford: And hell is just a sauna

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Kat Stratford: We're going now.
Walter Stratford: Alright, wait a minute. No drinking, no drugs, no kissing, no tattoos, no piercings, NO ritual animal slaughters of any kind... oh God, I'm giving them ideas.

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Bianca: Can we for two seconds forget the fact that you are severely unhinged and discuss my need for a night of teenage normalcy?
Walter Stratford: What's normal? Those damn Dawson's River kids, sleeping in each other's beds and whatnot?

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Walter Stratford: I delivered a set of twins to a fifteen-year-old girl today, and you know what she said to me?
Bianca: "I'm a crack-whore who should have made my sleazy boyfriend wear a condom"?
Walter Stratford: Close, she said "I should have listened to my father."
Bianca: She did not.
Walter Stratford: Well, that's what should would have said if she wasn't so doped up.