Mister Ron's Basement II

By Ron Evry

***"The stories are gentler than what passes for humor today, but what's surprising is how current some of them are. Human folly doesn't change much from decade to decade."

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February 09, 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #984
Sat, Feb 09 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #984 SUNDAY SALAD features TWO Stanley Huntley stories today -- in the first, an inventor attempts to get publicity for an invention that allows people to leap over tall buildings in a single bound in 'A Benefactor of his Race' from 1882, and Mr. Spoopendyke brings home a nifty contraption in 'Spoopendyke Buys A Printing Press.' Time: approx twelve and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The Stanley Huntley and Spoopendyke Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/Spoopendyke_Stories.html
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February 08, 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #983
Fri, Feb 08 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #983 Mr. Bowser spends a weekday off work, sitting in his yard and dealing with assorted nuisances who come by in 'Bowser's One Day,' written in 1903 by C. B. Lewis. Time: approx nine and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The M. Quad (C. B. Lewis) Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/quad.html The M. Quad (C. B. Lewis) Mister Bowser Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/mrbowser.html
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February 07, 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #982
Thu, Feb 07 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #982 M. Quad (C. B. Lewis) wrote a variety of humorous stories over his lengthy career. This week, we are featuring some of his short American Fables from the 1884 collection, 'Sawed-Off Sketches.' Today's fable is short but quite funny. It's called 'The Cat Died.' Time: approx three minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The M. Quad (C. B. Lewis) Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/quad.html The M. Quad (C. B. Lewis) Mister Bowser Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/mrbowser.html
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February 06, 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #981
Wed, Feb 06 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #981 M. Quad (C. B. Lewis) wrote a variety of humorous stories over his lengthy career. This week, we are featuring some of his short American Fables from the 1884 collection, 'Sawed-Off Sketches.' A dying father bequeaths his sons appropriate legacies in 'The Wise Peasant.' Time: approx three and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The M. Quad (C. B. Lewis) Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/quad.html The M. Quad (C. B. Lewis) Mister Bowser Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/mrbowser.html
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4min
February 05, 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #980
Tue, Feb 05 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #980 M. Quad (C. B. Lewis) wrote a variety of humorous stories over his lengthy career. This week, we are featuring some of his short American Fables from the 1884 collection, 'Sawed-Off Sketches.' Today we hear a new twist on an old legend in 'The Boy and the Wolf.' Time: approx two and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The M. Quad (C. B. Lewis) Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/quad.html The M. Quad (C. B. Lewis) Mister Bowser Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/mrbowser.html
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February 04, 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #979
Mon, Feb 04 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #979 M. Quad (C. B. Lewis) wrote a variety of humorous stories over his lengthy career. This week, we are featuring some of his short American Fables from the 1884 collection, 'Sawed-Off Sketches.' Today, a fellow gets stuck in the mud and asks for help from Hercules in 'Didn't Care for the Gods.' Time: approx three minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The M. Quad (C. B. Lewis) Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/quad.html The M. Quad (C. B. Lewis) Mister Bowser Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/mrbowser.html
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4min
February 03, 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #978
Sun, Feb 03 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #978 Our Monday book serialization is George Ade's 1903 collection, 'In Babel -- Stories of Chicago.' The stories in this book range from the hysterically funny to the pathetically sad. Altogether, they paint a fascinating portrait of turn-of-the-last-century Chicago. A shady hansom cab driver encounters a truly trusting babe in the woods at a train station in 'No Clarence.' Time: approx eleven and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The George Ade Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/AdeCatalog.html
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February 03, 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #977
Sun, Feb 03 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #977 SUNDAY SALAD offers something special today! For Stanley Huntley's entire run at the Brooklyn Eagle in the 1880s, he produced a column of one or two liner short jokes called 'Folly Shots.' Some of these jokes featured regular characters -- the Marrowfat family -- and here we present a collection of them from 1881 to 1884. Additionally, we offer an hilarious story about a newfangled invention from 1883 -- 'Mr. Spoopendyke's Call by Telephone Upon a Business Friend.' Time: approx sixteen and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The Stanley Huntley and Spoopendyke Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/Spoopendyke_Stories.html
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February 01, 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #976
Fri, Feb 01 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #976 Here's a slightly different story by C. B. Lewis from 1915 -- 'Mr. Bowser Laughs.' Time: approx eleven minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The M. Quad (C. B. Lewis) Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/quad.html The M. Quad (C. B. Lewis) Mister Bowser Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/mrbowser.html
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12min
January 31, 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #975
Thu, Jan 31 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #975 We are wrapping up a week of stories about animals with an 1886 Fish Story by George W. Peck called 'A Plea for the Bullhead.' Time: approx eight minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The George W. Peck Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/georgewpeck.html
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