The Clinic - Humor

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 (Group of Personal Friends, an organization established to serve as a paramilitary presidential bodyguard for Allende) 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.

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Famous quotes containing the word humor:

    Affection, indulgence, and humor alike are powerless against the instinct of children to rebel. It is essential to their minds and their wills as exercise is to their bodies. If they have no reasons, they will invent them, like nations bound on war. It is hard to imagine families limp enough always to be at peace. Wherever there is character there will be conflict. The best that children and parents can hope for is that the wounds of their conflict may not be too deep or too lasting.
    —New York State Division of Youth Newsletter (20th century)

    Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)