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''The Clinic'' is a Chilean satirical/investigative newspaper founded by Patricio Fernández Chadwick in November 1998. The paper includes a wide mix of cultural criticism, jokes, in-depth interviews, and investigative work. The name was inspired by Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's October 1998 arrest in Britain at The London Clinic, which bears the name ''The Clinic'' on its façade. In its first incarnation, it was only a few pages long, distributed only within Santiago, and costing 100 pesos (US¢22 at the time). Over the years, it has changed drastically, and now costs 900 pesos〔The Clinic, (Portada 499 ) ''(Cover 499)'', June 20, 2013. Archived in (Archive.is ).〕 (US$1.75 in 2013) and averages forty pages. Today, it is published every Thursday during normal operation times (it usually takes February off) and published its 499th edition on June 20, 2013.〔 ==Humor== One of its humor features is done in a style reminiscent of Sergio Aragones' marginal cartoons in ''Mad Magazine'': at the bottom of each page (except the covers), the statement Sabía usted que...( Did you know that...?) is printed and followed by a remark which can be obscene, witty, snarky, or impenetrable, but is always very short. Another hallmark of the people is its "shocking" covers, which often contain near-nudity and photoshopped heads, along with ironic or double-entendre captions. *Examples: * *It's true: marijuana leads to coke, fries, two burgers, three ice creams... * *Ghosts don't believe in people. * *If everybody who says they were there, really was there, the GAP (Armed Personal Guard, an organization established to serve as a paramilitary presidential bodyguard for Salvador Allende)〔Hermógenes Pérez de Arce, (Corrupción en el Chile de Allende ), 5 Aug 2004.〕 had about 70,000 members. * *To be on the front page of ''Las Últimas Noticias'', all you have to do is bare your butt in a disco. * *Barney is Godzilla's gay son. * *For the cost of a missile, you can make 25,000 envelopes with anthrax. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Clinic (newspaper)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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