Mister Ron's Basement II

Mister Ron's Basement II

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Mister Ron's Basement II episodes

  • Mister Ron's Basement #884
    Sun, Oct 21 2007 Mister Ron's Basement #884 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. Four tough guys in a Chicago bar encounter two friendly circus clowns in 'An Incident in the Pansy.' Time: approx ten 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
    11 min
  • Mister Ron's Basement #883
    Sat, Oct 20 2007 Mister Ron's Basement #883 SUNDAY SALAD offers THREE hysterical stories from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle -- the first, 'A Judicial Circus' from 1881, is actually an unsigned news article from the Eagle which seems, from every inclination, to be by Stanley Huntley himself. The second story, 'The Value of Truth, from the same edition of the Eagle, comes from Huntley's 'Salad' column, and also deals with crazy doings in a Brooklyn court. Finally, we offer a tale of the Spoopendyke family discovering Huntley's best-selling 1881 book about them in the 1882 tale 'Opposed to Publicity.' This is one of the best episodes we have ever done! Time: approx twenty-one 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
    22 min
  • Mister Ron's Basement #882
    Fri, Oct 19 2007 Mister Ron's Basement #882 Our Mr. Bowser story for today features the Head of the Household 'Skeptical About the Toothache,' written by C. B. Lewis ('M. Quad') in 1892. Time: approx eight 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
    9 min
  • Mister Ron's Basement #881
    Thu, Oct 18 2007 Mister Ron's Basement #881 We are reading stories found in Dan De Quille's 1876 book about miners and prospectors, 'The Big Bonanza.' Rich or poor, people have to eat, and in a boom mining town, there's all kinds of stories about the war between restaurant keepers and their customers. Some of them can be heard in today's tale, 'Saloon Birds.' 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
    12 min
  • Mister Ron's Basement #880
    Wed, Oct 17 2007 Mister Ron's Basement #880 We are reading stories found in Dan De Quille's 1876 book about miners and prospectors, 'The Big Bonanza.' Skunk Supper? Hear about it in 'Old Virginia's Fisher Story.' Time: approx ten and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html
    11 min
  • Mister Ron's Basement #879
    Wed, Oct 17 2007 Mister Ron's Basement #879 We are reading stories found in Dan De Quille's 1876 book about miners and prospectors, 'The Big Bonanza.' Today we hear about a miner who made what he considered an outstanding discovery in 'The Stuff.' Time: approx seven minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html
    7 min
  • Mister Ron's Basement #878
    Tue, Oct 16 2007 Mister Ron's Basement #878 Author William Wright was much better known during his productive career as Dan De Quille. From the 1860s onward, he covered the fascinating stories of miners and prospectors in Virginia City, Nevada during the height of the silver mining boom, for the Territorial Enterprise newspaper. His stories were both factual and humorous. In 1862, he was joined by another writer for the paper, a young Samuel Clemens, who would not adopt the name of Mark Twain until a year later. The two stayed friends for years, and in 1876, Twain helped De Quille publish (and wrote the introduction to) 'The Big Bonanza,' a book that details the history and exploits of the miners who discovered and ran the famous Comstock Lode, and other mining operations. This week, we will read some of the humorous stories from this book. Today we learn what happens to a donkey that gets a bit too greedy in 'The Washoe Canary.' Time: approx ten minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html
    10 min
  • Mister Ron's Basement #877
    Mon, Oct 15 2007 Mister Ron's Basement #877 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 family gives up city life for the natural beauties of suburban life, and pay particular attention to a pair of fruit trees in 'The Buell Cherry.' Time: approx ten 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
    11 min
  • Mister Ron's Basement #876
    Sun, Oct 14 2007 Mister Ron's Basement #876 SUNDAY SALAD offers TWO jaw-dropping Stanley Huntley stories dealing with unbelievable modern technology -- 'With A Rising Thermometer' from 1880 features a truly tall tale from an old codger about building a telegraph wire in impossible heat about twenty years before the telegraph was invented, and Mrs. Spoopendyke confounds her husband discussing the newly-invented portable battery in 'Energy on Tap' from 1881. Time: approx thirteen 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
    14 min
  • Mister Ron's Basement #875
    Fri, Oct 12 2007 Mister Ron's Basement #875 Mr. and Mrs. Bowser decide to rent a seaside cottage for the summer and are unpleasantly surprised in C. B. Lewis's 1897 story, 'The Bowsers Reach Shark Point.' 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
    10 min

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***"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."