... Beautie' Mate!" Beautie Mate. It's just so funny. I thought the only time you met people so earnestly and wonderfully Australian was in American-made movies and at roadhouses north of the border. My dilemma is that I just don't know what to say in return. How do you top a 'beautie mate' ? Do I say cheerio cobber? thanks sheila? 'ave a bloody good one? ...

... t no, ain't no, ain't no sunshine when she's gone ..." All this while getting his competitors in the audience to clap in unison for him to help him sing the song. All those years in the roadhouses learning how to entertain surely came in handy at that point. Bucky Covington, a finalist that year, was right when he said "Then I heard him sing and I said shit! He's going ...

... roads as we passed old stone farmhouses, bright red barns. A man outside his door stretched his arms out as if he were welcoming the warm evening. And then we were back to Ugly again--bars and roadhouses forced us to stop at Wendy's, where we grudgingly ate our junky food under blue and red balloons given to our children by a clown dressed up with fake eyebrows and perky braids as Wendy. I ...

... , celebrating 100 years in 2004. Greg Griffin, the president of the Sunset Beach Commnity Association asks that you help Sunset Beach live its dream, keep its name, maintain the fun-loving atmosphere with famous roadhouses such as Harbor House Cafe, Woody’s Diner, Turc’s, Mother’s Bar (that appeared in the show Peter Gunn,) Irish Mist, J. King Neptune’s, Captain Jack’ ...

... MJ: How did you get into the country, string music? DR: I answered an ad in the back of the paper to join a sort of working country band that played at honky-tonks and roadhouses up there on weekends. I did that partially because I was learning about country music and I loved lots of different kinds of music, but also because, you know, it paid. And it let me quit my part-time job. MJ: ...

... he whooped with laughter, told interminable stories, strode about insouciantly, and passed everything off as great fun and good times. But in all this whirl of long blazing white highways with their roadhouses and diners, the men and women eating and drinking, the laughter, the love-making, the raucous jokes, the beer, the jukebox music, the miles of smooth macadam through pine woods and the ...

In Brazil, the sandwich called Bauru hold the place of honor that is saved for the BLT in North American cuisine. It's almost universally available in cafes, roadhouses, and lunchspots. It has numerous variations, and has been reinvented numerous times. And it has a similarly long history to the BLT. Last week the prominent São Paulo newspaper Folha de S.Paulo featured the Bauru in an ...