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From: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Las Vegas
Date: 28 Aug 92 17:57:05 GMT
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Cindy Glass (cfg@cray.com) wrote:
: Oh YESSSSSSSSSSSS!!  Northern Georgia is beautiful!  Mountains, rivers/streams,
: crystal lakes, huge pine trees, Smokey Mountains - and don't forget the red
: Georgia clay or the hawks soaring on the termals!

Hmm.  The first pass through, I read "the hawks soaring on the terminals".  This
is probably indicative of something.  Anyway, I can't forget them because I've
never been there.  Maybe someday, sounds nice enough :-)  (Though it probably
gets too warm for me :-)

: >I'm from Northern Michigan, though.  I miss it.  Lots.
: 
: I'm heading there this weekend - want me to say 'Hi' for you?!?!

Sure!  The closer you get to the Houghton area, the better.  Bonus points
for McClean's Park, that'd put you within two miles.  :-)
: 
: Colorado and the Rockies next week!!!  :) 
Never made it there either.
: 
: >If I could just figure out how to do everything I do via modem... 
: >or internet... or... hmmm... got to be a way :-)
: 
: Are you *sure* you meant 'everything'?!
:  
: >: Cindy (*sigh* dreaming again!)
: 
: >Bill (missing Lake Superior)
: 
: I know - Lake Superior is beautiful...I'm from Northern Wisconsin!
hmm... Where?  I used to drive US-2 a fair amount...
: 
: Cindy (on the road again!)
Bill (I should be so lucky as to be on the road again)
-- 
"Bless me, Father; I ate a lizard."
"Was it an abstinence day, and was it artificially prepared?"
-------------------------------------------------------------
Bill de Beaubien / wjb@moscom.com
From: diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Date: 4 Sep 92 00:01:43 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

In article <29101@hydra.Helsinki.FI> taina@cs.Helsinki.FI (Juha Taina) writes:

	(various suggestions for ways to flatter a professor's ego
         and make a pass deleted here)

Yeah, I guess.  I'm not saying I couldn't do it... but say I succede.  Then
I'd wind up having that person around, on the faculty that's going to 
grant me my three little letters, FOR THE REST OF MY GRADUATE CAREER.
Nope.  I'll wait.  The same problem applies to the older grad students.

>Your posts here are so incredible charming and they must reflect
>something from the inner beauty of your soul that only true jewels of
>time, space and humanity have.  I wish that I could write even half
>as well as you.  Anyone who has the privilege to be called your friend
>is a really lucky person.
>
>How's that? :)

I am not even going to dignify that with a response. :-)  (Actually,
it was kind of cute.)

>Juha
>-- 
>Juha Taina | taina@cs.helsinki.fi | Phone: +358-0-708-4247


				--Diamond
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Finding Long Romantic Partners
Date: 28 Aug 92 17:34:40 GMT
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Emma Williams (ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie) wrote:
: 	Well, John did mention your hot tub but I would have thought
: a dungeon was a very peculiar place to have one... (*Dubious Look*)

Well, you need something to boil the oil in...
-- 
"Bless me, Father; I ate a lizard."
"Was it an abstinence day, and was it artificially prepared?"
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Bill de Beaubien / wjb@moscom.com
From: dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Mexican food in Boston?  Blecch!!!!
Date: 27 Aug 92 14:55:03 GMT
Reply-To: dhardin@spcink.bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

In article <1992Aug26.223614.25162@linus.mitre.org> wtr@mitre.org (Bill Ralston) writes:
>
>It's called Mole sauce and it is *good*.  There's a southern mexican style 
>restaurant here (Boston) that serves dishes with that and other 
>Aztec-style dishes that is really good (perhaps an excuse in itself for a 
>Boston-Boink).  In addition, the Mole sauce has seemed to have an 
>aphrodisiac effect on the ladies I've taken there. Heh heh heh...

While I'm pleased that there's *some* decent Mexican food in Boston (and 
where is this restaurant?) only an idiot would come to Boston for the
sole purpose of eating Mexican food, cause this just ain't the right place.
(I was strongly considering ending the above sentance just before the last
"for" but Karen is still miffed at me for the "Bostonians have pickles
up their rear" remark and, in the interest of not being waylaid in the 
elevator by someone with kosher dill in hand, I regretfully refrain.)

However, I have been hearing more rumors about a Boston boink, so maybe
people can come check out either the mexican food or the pickle collection.
Or Karen and I catfighting about the merits of the Northeast.  Bob, weren't 
you going to post something about a boink?  Did I miss it?

Dawn
From: strake@coos.dartmouth.edu (strake)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Can we can the suck-up bit?
Keywords: encourage friendship?
Date: 1 Sep 92 15:56:35 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:

>In article <14390@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:

>OK fine John.  Suppose you go to do something nice for a women because
>it gives you a nice warm fuzzy feeling to be a nice person, and some
>idiot accuses you publicly of "sucking up."  That OK with you, or don't
>you think it just might get a tad bit annoying?

I (as usual) have an easy solution to this.
"yep, you're right I am sucking up, If you learned to do it a bit, you'd
probably have a lot more friends - of both sexes."

but that's just me.

strake whose friends all pitched a couple a dollars and bought him a really
expensively beautiful ceramic dragon. ahh, the wonders of being nice to people
(oops I mean sucking up)


--
                    . . . . .                      strake@dartmouth.edu
         .     :    .       .    :     .
   :     :    .  :             :  .    :     :      it seemed a good
   :          :                   :          :      idea at the time
From: taina@cs.Helsinki.FI (Juha Taina)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Lurkers...
Date: 27 Aug 92 06:20:08 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki, Finland

In <1992Aug26.211408.5056@news.acns.nwu.edu> drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max) writes:

>And just why do you expect to get an answer from someone who doesn't know
>you from Adam? Just because someone posts does not mean that you have an
>open invitation to send them unsolicited email. I regularly delete email
>from people who's name I don't recognize. If someone wants my attention
>they are best off posting something interesting. 

The other day you asked a question here and now you say that you don't
want email replies from strangers.  Sounds a little strange to me.  Or
did I interpret your words wrong?

>I believe that if someone is interested in increasing their volume of email
>they usually say so in their sig or something, if they don't advertise this
>then you take your chances and are pretty silly if you take offense if
>someone doesn't answer you.

Agreed.

Juha
-- 
Juha Taina | taina@cs.helsinki.fi | Phone: +358-0-708-4247
From: bruce@supr.scm.liv.ac.uk (Bruce Stephens)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Finding Romantic Partners (long)
Date: 28 Aug 92 10:34:20 GMT
	<1992Aug23.190419.8875@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
	<ewillims.714669157@unix1.tcd.ie>
	<1992Aug26.043916.8202@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
	<ewillims.714822159@unix1.tcd.ie>
	<BRUCE.92Aug26161342@suprenum.supr.scm.liv.ac.uk>
	<th
Organization: Centre for Mathematical Software Research, Univ. Liverpool, UK

>>>>> On 27 Aug 92 20:32:32 GMT, thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) said:

> (Bruce Stephens) writes:

>>>>>>>(Emma Williams) said:

>> 	Hmmmm.....maybe I'll come after all!:>

>>I'm sure... No, I just can't bring myself to say it.

> C'mon Bruce, how are you going to learn to hunt if you can't make an
> easy kill like this one?  I mean, the punch line is begging you to
> take it and use it.

Just my natural understated style, I suppose.  In Real Life, of
course, I would say it without thinking.

> Skilled posters don't waste great straight lines :-)

Bring back SubtletyAndDecencyAndWholesomeFamilyValues, as drieux might
say.  (Like the Carry On films, for example.)

> Rob T

--
Bruce Stephens
From: drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max)
Subject: Re: Bananas
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 15:22:00 GMT

In article <kiran.714829832@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>pw@panix.com (Paul Wallich) writes:
>>Of course, on rethinking the situation, I've realized that such
>>a kind, gentle, tolerant person as Max would never be jealous.
>>Nevermind.
>
>You forgot "sweet"... and "cute" too.
>
Well yeah but what pray tell does that have to do with the capacity to feel
jealousy?  I mean really one has to covet something that someone has in
order to feel jealous no? What exactly Paul did you imagine that I might covet?


Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: buick@belay (Patrick D. Buick)
Subject: Re: Why lurkers lurk ...
Organization: Belay Enterprises Inc. Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 00:42:38 GMT

In article <1693@spam.ua.oz> dcook@spam.ua.oz (David Cook) writes:
>I thought I'd unlurk just long enough to add my $0.02 on why
>we lurkers do (lurk, that is).
>
>For a start, many people can only read news, not post, for example
>undergrads in the CS dept. here (thanks to a forging fool a few years
>ago).

Yep, our Uni has the same policy.. luckily I have my own machine..

>Many people have nothing to say. (on being single, anyway)
>(Of course, some people say nothing in large volumes)
>
>People outside the US have the disadvantage of seeing news with
>a large delay after it was posted, eg locally, the most recent 
>articles I see are already 2 days old. Whenever I'm about to
>post, I think about whether there's any point in continuing a
>thread that may have died out days before I join it. Also,
>many of the threads get hashed out very quickly by those
>geographically near to each other.

I also get them in the most strange order, not to mention, I 
don't get the whole feed.. articles being quoted are missing etc.
Hmmm... wonder if the delay on certain machines is longer than
the expiry?

>Many people worry about articles being read by those at their
>place of work/study (eg those CS undergrads I mentioned may
>be reading this article :-)
>
>btw: Someone mentioned 200 articles/day being the norm for soc.singles ..
>Are a lot of people using strange 'Distribution:' lines or something ?
>We don't get nearly that many (and reading doesn't take long, with
>liberal use of 'k' (in rn) :-).
>
I don't even use k at all, and I *certainly* don't get anywhere near
200 articles per day... something is fishy here.. (I doubt it is a
distribution, but you never know... I get articles with distribution
of ba (for bay area) and all kinds...)
Patrick
-- 
==========================================================
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Belay Enterprises Inc.     | Internet: buickp@cuug.ab.ca
Calgary, Alberta, Canada   | UUCP:...!calgary!pixel!belay!buick
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams)
Subject: Re: Finding Romantic Partners (long)
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 10:49:49 GMT

In <thurlow.714947552@convex.convex.com> thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:

>In <BRUCE.92Aug26161342@suprenum.supr.scm.liv.ac.uk> bruce@supr.scm.liv.ac.uk (Bruce Stephens) writes:

>>>>>>> On 26 Aug 92 09:42:39 GMT, ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) said:

>>> (trygve lode) writes:

>>>>Trygve   (I'll provide plenty of chocolate sauce.) 
>>> 	
>>> 	Hmmmm.....maybe I'll come after all!:>

>>I'm sure... No, I just can't bring myself to say it.

>C'mon Bruce, how are you going to learn to hunt if you can't make an
>easy kill like this one?  I mean, the punch line is begging you to
>take it and use it.

>Skilled posters don't waste great straight lines :-)

	Well, why don't you show him how it's done, Rob?  How will 
we know if you're any good at it unless you prove it!:>

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.)
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 92 12:42:01 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <_mmnz6q.aahz@netcom.com> aahz@netcom.com (Aahzmandius) writes:
>In article <1992Sep4.022040.2024@panix.com> jis@panix.com (Jack Szwergold) writes:
>>Well, that may be your problem, but I have my own (sorta).  I'm 5'8",
>>taller than most women I know, or have dated.  Yet some consider me short
>>when compared to other guys?  I hate this double standard!!! Arrrgggghhh...
>I've felt this way at various points, but trust me, it just doesn't
>matter.

It doesn't matter- but it is _much_ nicer to date a woman that you can look
straight in the eye, and not straight over her head. I'll date short women
(hell, to me, anything under 5'10" in a woman is 'short' :), but, given a
preferential choice, I'll take tall :)
r.
ps- the quote thingy was from the old Bill Murray movie 'Meatballs'.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: cfg@cray.com (Cindy Glass)
Subject: Re: Hark tis it the wind.
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Distribution: na
Date: 26 Aug 92 23:37:12 CDT

In article <1992Aug25.191949.20413@cbfsb.cb.att.com> jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:
>In article <l9khviINNjfn@news.bbn.com> dhardin@spcink.bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug25.084901.21032@walter.cray.com> cfg@cray.com (Cindy Glass) writes:
>>(Unless 'down the road' means at *LEAST* a 2 hour drive away!!)  You 
>>can keep the glitzy neon out of my dreams - thank you very much James!!
>>
>>Hey Cindy, this is james on *good* behavior.  You haven't heard yet about
>>the cat-house, the used motorcycle lot, and the target shooting field.
>>And he did tell you that you were going to be babysitting his kids when
>>he's interviewing prospective employees, right?  (And james is very
>>thorough when it comes to interviews.)  And you wouldn't mind
>>putting up a couple of his biker friends when they come to visit, right?
> 
>Biker friends would be nice. Friends wouldn't be bad either.(As james goes
>for the sympathy boink. Sly - no?).

NO - better luck next time. 
 
>>They're almost no trouble at all, when they're not drunk.  Don't worry,
>>I'm sure you and james will get along just fine.
>>
>>Dawn
> 
> No no Dawn don't try to set me up out of the gutter. 
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 Excuse me James - just what were you implying here?!

>You where the only one that really understood me. *SNIFF* *GURGLE* *BLUBBER* 

 By the sounds of it - she understood you *VERY* well!!  Congrats Dawn!! :)

>Its, its, OK, I'll be fine. No, no you've got your own life to lead. Don't
>worry your pretty little head about me. Nor your calves/calfs whatever.
>I'll (squeezes one sole tear that roles down cheek before casting
>itself to ground, obliteratingly shattering into a thousand points of
>.... I lost track for a minute) manage somehow.

You have to stop eating those raw onions James!

>Go. Go now before we both do what we know will be wrong.
>Thats it. Don't turn back. Parting is such sweet....
>Hi Cindy. What be shakin.

My hands - it's been too many days of 16+ hours of work a day - software
problems, hardware problems - and here I am - dreaming of being able
to retire in less than 6 years (AND *STILL* be under 40!!!! :)  )  Go
for my dreams of some place in the woods...YESSSSSSSSSSS!!  No more
computers/errant software for me!!!


Cindy :)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: aahz@netcom.com (Aahzmandius)
Subject: Re: Why lurkers lurk ...
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 18:39:53 GMT
Organization: Bill 'n' Opus for Prez

In article <1693@spam.ua.oz> dcook@spam.ua.oz (David Cook) writes:
>
>btw: Someone mentioned 200 articles/day being the norm for soc.singles ..
>Are a lot of people using strange 'Distribution:' lines or something ?
>We don't get nearly that many (and reading doesn't take long, with
>liberal use of 'k' (in rn) :-).

Unfortunately, yes, a lot of newsreaders automatically use 'na' (North
America) or 'usa' as the distribution.  In other newsgroups, I sometimes
make a point of reminding people about this, but soc.singles usually
does have a local equivalent.
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

So much Astroglide.  So little time.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart)
Subject: Re: The Dawn of Suckups (Was: Re: Bananas)
Organization: my opinions only
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 19:16:43 GMT

In article <la4bopINNgh3@news.bbn.com> dhardin@spcink.bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
>In article <1992Aug29.125914.18314@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:
>>
>>The best way to do a suckup big time is to ask around, find out the person's
>>real address or work address and then send them a bouquet or some other
>>suprise.
>
>Not unless the person knows you by at least e-mail first.  I'd get seriously
>weirded out to think that some unknown person had my home address.  

But your work address is easy.  I used to work there, so it's trivial,
but anybody with a telephone and your Organization: line could get it
in a few minutes.

Besides, it embarrasses people so much more to have all their
co-workers knowing :-)

Seth		sethb@fid.morgan.com
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Where the best posts come from
Date: 1 Sep 92 19:39:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: cbfsb.1992Sep1.193918.12045
Distribution: na
Organization: AT&T

In article <14405@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
>In article <gwjn7=j@lynx.unm.edu> hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG writes:
>>
>>Well, *I* think that it's pretty hard to beat that 'Purple hays' guy...
>>He's really entertaining.
>
>Anyone that has the balls/gall/chutzpah/ability to suck up to himself 
>deserves a perfect 10.0 on the suckup scale.
>
>-- 
>+============================================================================++
>| John Fereira            "Is that all you ever think about?"                |
>| johnf@auspex.com                                                           |
>+============================================================================++
 
And the judge from chicago concurs.
What precision. What flair. What ambidextrousity.

 
================================================================================
 Sesquipedalian's 'R' Us. ZX-10. DoD#564. There ain't no more.
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From: intrigue@milton.u.washington.edu (Angelwing)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Cooking for 1!
Date: 4 Sep 92 15:40:52 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

In article <ewillims.715604056@unix1.tcd.ie> ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
>
>	Actually, it's a pity you don't get the British TV channel
>called BBC1 as there is a chef there called Floyd who travels all
>over France and Spain cooking dishes in the rural areas.  He is 
>absolutely hilarious!  He is always slugging wine and talking to
>Bruce, the cameraman, and is often quite the better for the wine
>by the end of the programme! (Euphemistically speaking!:)

I saw that guy!  I had insomnia and was up watching TV at a very odd hour
and caught his program on one of the public channels.  He *is* funny! 
This one series he was travelling down the Seine and chatting with French
folk along the way - cooked up a mess of little smelts in garlic - the
people he was talking at/to didn't understand half of what he was saying. 
But I could almost smell that dish ...So, we do get it here in the states,
once in a while, but you have to be half crazed to catch it - and it's a
terrific state to be in when you watch him, too.

Angelwing - Garlic me 'til it hurts!

 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: Ross Ridge <ross@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: Why lurkers lurk ...
Organization: ZOOiD BBS
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 06:45:32 GMT

dcook@spam.ua.oz (David Cook) writes:
>For a start, many people can only read news, not post, for example
>undergrads in the CS dept. here (thanks to a forging fool a few years
>ago).

When I was a CS undergrad I wouldn't let anything like that stop me.

>People outside the US have the disadvantage of seeing news with
>a large delay after it was posted, eg locally, the most recent 
>articles I see are already 2 days old. Whenever I'm about to
>post, I think about whether there's any point in continuing a
>thread that may have died out days before I join it. Also,
>many of the threads get hashed out very quickly by those
>geographically near to each other.

Geographically near?  No, it just all depends on how far your site
is from the NNTP "backbone".  Here on ZOOiD, located in Toronto,
Canada, we're geographically close to the US and many of the
posters here, but since we're a number of UUCP hops away from the
nearest NNTP site, it typically takes 2 or more days for articles
to arrive.  News-delay-wise we're just as disadvantaged as you.  
Still I don't let that stop me from posting, it takes more than
a week for the average thread to die hear, if my posting is a
couple of days later than the rest it makes little difference.

>Many people worry about articles being read by those at their
>place of work/study (eg those CS undergrads I mentioned may
>be reading this article :-)

Luckilly for me no one else here reads soc.singles...  But then
I have a policy of not saying something that I would regret 
if everybody heard.

>btw: Someone mentioned 200 articles/day being the norm for soc.singles ..
>Are a lot of people using strange 'Distribution:' lines or something ?
>We don't get nearly that many (and reading doesn't take long, with
>liberal use of 'k' (in rn) :-).

According to Brian Reid's stats posted in news.lists, 2188 articles were 
posted to soc.singles last month, for about an average of 73 articles
a day.  

							Ross Ridge
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: morton@rtpnet06.rtp.dg.com (John R. Morton)
Subject: Re: Commitment--The C-word?
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 10:20:54 GMT
Organization: Data General Corporation, RTP, NC.

In Defense Of The East Coast !
Recently posted was some silly stuff about EC Ladies being prim and
proper... This is the beauty of their sophistication....
dear WC poster... given the choice between honesty and 
sophistication.... who the hell would choose ?????


Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: hi you all!!!
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 23:18:50 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.165448.22495@news.acns.nwu.edu> drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max) writes:
>In article <1992Aug31.164417.4271@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> smaus@nyx.cs.du.edu (Scott Maus) writes:
>
>> Would love to hear from all you
>>lonely ladies out there!! My interests include movies, reading, spending
>>time together with that special person, and meeting and making new
>>friends!!
>
>Isn't this just too special, *Yawn*
>
>Hey Trygve, isn't this guy in your neighborhood. Maybe you could take pity
>on him and give him something more interesting to talk about.

Why, sure--what sorts of new topics of conversation should I help him with?
Stereo equipment?  Weightlifting?  Interesting, recent scars?

Trygve   (Hmmm...actually, I have some really heavy speakers with sharp
          corners that need to be moved; we could do all of these in one
          swell foop.) 
Newsgroups: soc.singles