Mister Ron's Basement II

Mister Ron's Basement II

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  • Mister Ron's Basement #1352
    Mon, Apr 20 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1352 SUNDAY SALAD features just ONE Stanley Huntley story today -- this appeared in the Brooklyn Eagle a month or so after the death of Jesse James in 1882 -- it's called 'He Was One of the Band.' Time: approx seven 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
    7 min
  • Mister Ron's Basement #1351
    Mon, Apr 20 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1351 George Horatio Derby's nutty dentist, Dr. Tushmaker, whom we first encountered in Episode #596, is back again for our Saturday Night Special story, in an excerpt from 'Phoenix at Benecia' from 1855. The story is undeniably grisly, and totally loony! Time: approx seven 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 Horatio Derby Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/derby.html
    8 min
  • Mister Ron's Basement #1350
    Mon, Apr 20 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1350 Wrapping up our week of Homer Croy stories, we look at a unique tale from the earliest days of the Movies -- an excerpt from his 1918 book 'How Motion Pictures Are Made,' taken from the chapter 'When Eight Soldiers Were an Army.' Time: approx seven and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html
    8 min
  • Mister Ron's Basement #1349
    Fri, Apr 17 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1349 Homer Croy wrote for every sort of publication that existed in the early twentieth century. Today's story appeared in 'The Boys' and Girls' Fifth Reader' back in 1919. The tale concerns a boy and his chicken. It's called 'Cleopatra and the Candidate.' 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
    10 min
  • Mister Ron's Basement #1348
    Thu, Apr 16 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1348 Even today, people enjoy bragging about a new car purchase, but back in 1912 it was almost like bragging about owning a new spaceship! Homer Croy makes some suggestions on politely bringing up the subject in the 1912 piece 'How to Lead Up to It.' 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
    4 min
  • Mister Ron's Basement #1347
    Thu, Apr 16 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1347 Homer Croy was one of the many early twentieth century writers who cranked out anything he could sell to magazines and newspapers. He developed a reputation as a humorist, wrote some novels, then had an immensely successful career as a screenwriter for both silent and sound movies. It is extremely difficult to find his short humorous pieces these days, but we will try. Today's tale, from 1922, is quite clever. It's called 'Bathing in a Borrowed Suit.' Time: approx seven and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html
    8 min
  • Mister Ron's Basement #1346
    Tue, Apr 14 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1346 For Mark Twain Monday, we present Chapter Thirty-Seven of 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' from 1889 -- where the Boss gets captured, talks his way out, and then...he's in 'An Awful Predicament.' Time: approx fifteen minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The Mark Twain Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/Twain.html The Mark Twain Connecticut Yankee Novel Index of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/Connecticut.html
    15 min
  • Mister Ron's Basement #1345
    Sun, Apr 12 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1345 SUNDAY SALAD offers TWO Stanley Huntley tales of Hard Times from back in 1882. First, a Montana man complains how civilization is killing the frontier in 'Business Was Bad' and a bum gives a druggist a bad luck story in 'The Force of Circumstances.' 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 Stanley Huntley and Spoopendyke Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/Spoopendyke_Stories.html
    11 min
  • Mister Ron's Basement #1344
    Sat, Apr 11 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1344 Our Saturday Night Special story is written by the young man pictured on the right in the photo illustrating the Bill Nye story in Episode #1343 (on the web page). From 1899, we present Leon Mead's 'The Bow-Legged Ghost.' 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
    14 min
  • Mister Ron's Basement #1343
    Sat, Apr 11 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1343 We started the week with a fun story by Henry Faxon, then followed that up with TWO stories about Faxon written by Wm. Lightfoot Visscher. Today, we follow all that up with a violently funny story about Visscher written by Bill Nye back in 1891 -- The tale is called 'A Peaceable Man.' Time: approx seven and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The Bill Nye Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/billnye.html
    8 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."