The previous picture was also a male midsection -- a torso clutching a dangling hammer, as a matter of fact. Is this the paper's way of getting us to read the classifieds? Sorry, Ex, but we skim through enough ads already on our journey to Dilbert, your one good comic. Nothing could induce us to plunge into the classifieds. Well, nothing -- switch "Public Notices" to "Pubic" and we'll have a deal.

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