There isn't a group of people anywhere whose desperately seeking seekers don't say the same things.

When I walk through the local mall at lunchtime, I see multitudes of men of every description walking to the mall from the office buildings across the street.

Yet, I defy any woman to walk into any of those offices immediately after lunch and find anyone even closely resembling a man.  I mean, there aren't even any mannish looking women.  There are no men at all of any shape, variety or color.

They magically disappear like so many wraiths.  For all anyone knows they're a secret cadre of recruiting robots deployed every lunch hour to lure unsuspecting women to apply for jobs in all the those multi-floored edifices, only to find out later it was just a trick perpetrated by slick employers.

Of course, it also makes one wonder...if there are so many women who outnumber the opposite sex who are seeking men, why are there any men having such a tough time finding the ideal mate?

"Ideal."  Could'st that be wherein lies the problem?  Well that's for them to figure out.

Organizers of the singles picket thought writers should take advantage of their newfound free time while demanding a better contract from producers.

Unlike other picket lines, the strikers at Fox chatted instead of chanting and ambled outside the studio gate instead of marching in a circle.

"It's kind of like a grade-school dance," said Stacey Traub, 35, a mother of two and a producer-writer of the show "Notes from the Underbelly."

"You walk by, sort of eyeing each other. But I don't know how you make a move besides hitting them with your sign," she said.

Traub suggested drinks and dim lighting to improve the atmosphere on the sidewalk. Other women pondered how to look cute while wearing the same Writers Guild of America T-shirt every day.

Writer Kristin Newman said her personal ad might go something like this: "Single picketer with splinters from holding a sign all day seeks soft hands to hold."

Neat.  Men usually like women who have a sense of humor

Some writers said the strike could last a long time and allow relationships to develop.

In that length of them they can also develop scripts while walking the line.

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