Watch Breyers Ice Cream "King Kong" Webisode

Breyers Ice Cream has remade another movie classic. After quite successfully tackling "Gone With the Wind," the ice cream company now recreates "King Kong" with "30 Rock" actress Jane Krakowski playing the damsel in distress. If you missed the first webisode for their new "Smooth and Dreamy" ice cream line, you owe it to yourself to watch their comedic take on "Gone With the Wind." Below is "

Easy Apple Brown Betty Recipe

This is an easy Apple Brown Betty recipe, just right for a Sunday afternoon snack or delicious Sunday dinner. Happy Sunday to all!Apple Brown Betty Recipe4 apples, peeled, cored and sliced1 cup buttered bread cubes or crumbssugar, enough to evenly sprinkle1/2 teaspoon cinnamon1/2 teaspoon nutmeg1/2 stick butterFill a well-buttered baking dish with alternated layers of thinly sliced apples and

INTERESTING HISTORY LESSON!!!

Railroad tracks. This is fascinating. Be sure to read the final paragraph; your understanding of it will depend on the earlier part of the content.
The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates built the US railroads. Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used. Why did 'they' use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they use d for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing. Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England, because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts. So who built those old rutted roads? Imperial Romebuilt the first long distance roads in Europe (andEngland ) for their legions. The roads have been used ever since. And the ruts in the roads? Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing. Therefore the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot.. Bureaucracies live forever. So the next time you are handed a specification/ procedure/process and wonder 'What horse's ass came up with it?', you may be exactly right. Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the r ear ends of two war horses. (Two horse's asses.) Now, the twist to the story: When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRB's. The SRB's are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah . The eng ineers who designed the SRB's would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRB's had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains, and the SRB's had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds. So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ass. And you thought being a horse's ass wasn't important? Ancient horse's asses control almost everything...and CURRENT Horses Asses are controlling everything else.

Vintage Recipe Thursday -- 15th Weekly Edition Maple Coffee Ice Cream Recipe

Vintage Recipe Thursday is meant to preserve out-of-print, copyright-free recipes from old cookbooks, magazines, newspapers or your own original vintage family recipes. You're invited! Get the details by clicking to the Vintage Recipe Thursday Homepage. I post recipes from the Searchlight Recipe Book, first published in 1931. My 16th printing is from 1943. What will you post?****************

Announcing 2nd Annual Ice Cream Roundup

LOOKING FOR THE ROUNDUP?Click here2nd AnnualWe All ScreamFor Ice CreamRoundup!Join me for the 2nd Annual We All Scream For Ice Cream Roundup on Friday, July 31, 2009, with all your favorite frozen recipes!Ice cream, sherbet, parfait, ice milk, Sundaes ... if it's frozen treats, let's roundup all those scrumptious recipes.Post your recipes anytime until Friday, July 31, 2009;Link to the Joy Of

Vintage Recipe Thursday -- 14th Weekly Edition Chocolate Whipped Cream Cup Cakes, Chocolate Chiffon Pie, Sliced Peach Turnovers

Vintage Recipe Thursday is meant to preserve out-of-print, copyright-free recipes from old cookbooks, magazines, newspapers or your own original vintage family recipes. You're invited! Get the details by clicking to the Vintage Recipe Thursday Homepage. I post recipes from the Searchlight Recipe Book, first published in 1931. My 16th printing is from 1943. What will you post?****************

Lifestyle: 5 Books to Get You Prepared for "Life After College"

You've graduated from college and now have a brand new diploma. You have absolutely no idea what to do with your life or do you? The transition from college life to the "real world" can be fun and exciting or worrisome and stressful.This is a huge lifestyle changes for a twenty-something? You have to figure out how to navigate through life and have to start taking total responsiblity for yourself