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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August 26, 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1132
Tue, Aug 26 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1132 Fanny Fern wrote her weekly column right up until the day she died in 1872. Just months before that day, she published a collection of her writing called Caper Sauce. This week, we feature stories from that book. Today's is an exercise in frustration called 'How I Read the Morning Papers.' Time: approx seven minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The Fanny Fern Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/Fanny_Fern_Stories.html
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7min
August 25, 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1131
Mon, Aug 25 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1131 For Mark Twain Monday, we present Part One of Two of Chapter Thirteen of 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' from 1889 --'Freemen' -- where The Boss learns to share his armor with all sorts of bugs! Time: approx seven 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
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7min
August 24, 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1130
Sun, Aug 24 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1130 SUNDAY SALAD features TWO fun Stanley Huntley stories -- first, a ghoulish customer tries to get a free notice at the Brooklyn Eagle office in the 1882 story, 'He Wished to Do the Square Thing' and Mr. and Mrs. Spoopendyke have a nice picnic while traveling in 'A Railroad Lunch,' originally run in Drake's Traveller's Magazine in 1883. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Office of the 1800s Yes, we will soon run out of Spoopendyke stories! Listeners who have a clue to the whereabouts of any we have missed, please let us know! Time: approx thirteen 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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13min
August 23, 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1129
Sat, Aug 23 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1129 Our favorite old crank shows how to deal with the butcher properly in C. B. Lewis's 1891 story, 'Mr. Bowser Tries to do the Family Marketing.' 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
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8min
August 21, 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1128
Thu, Aug 21 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1128 We are wrapping up a week of James M. Bailey stories from 1873 with a true slapstick tale involving a ladder and a can of paint, called 'Street Life in Danbury.' 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 James M. Bailey Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/jamesmbailey.html
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4min
August 20, 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1127
Wed, Aug 20 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1127 Here's a short but intriguing look at a quandary for a new homeowner by James M. Bailey from 1873. It's called 'First Sunday in a New House.' Time: approx four and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The James M. Bailey Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/jamesmbailey.html
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5min
August 19, 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1126
Tue, Aug 19 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1126 James Montgomery Bailey left a wonderful legacy of unique humor concerning life in the booming Connecticut suburbs of the post-Civil War era. His 'Danbury News' had a huge mail subscriber base from across the US, from people hungry for his funny stories. Tastes changed though, and by the late 1870s his popularity fizzled out. This week, we will be presenting very short stories from his 1873 collection, 'Life in Danbury.' Today we hear about an inherited gun -- loaded, of course! -- in the story 'A Dangerous Safeguard.' 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 James M. Bailey Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/jamesmbailey.html
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4min
August 18, 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1125
Mon, Aug 18 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1125 James Montgomery Bailey left a wonderful legacy of unique humor concerning life in the booming Connecticut suburbs of the post-Civil War era. His 'Danbury News' had a huge mail subscriber base from across the US, from people hungry for his funny stories. Tastes changed though, and by the late 1870s his popularity fizzled out. This week, we will be presenting very short stories from his 1873 collection, 'Life in Danbury.' Today we hear about a unique cure for a cold in the tale, 'A Remarkable Remedy.' 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 James M. Bailey Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/jamesmbailey.html
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4min
August 17, 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1124
Sun, Aug 17 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1124 For Mark Twain Monday, we present Chapter Twelve of 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' from 1889 --'Slow Torture' -- wherein the Boss gets an itch that he can't scratch! 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 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
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12min
August 16, 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1123
Sat, Aug 16 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1123 SUNDAY SALAD offers a fascinating look at how the global popularity of the Spoopendykes led to newspapers in other countries 'localizing' their stories for their readers. We start by replaying 'Misled By A Pattern,' which appeared in the Brooklyn Eagle in 1881, then reading the same story as it appeared in a New Zealand newspaper three years later, with major changes for the kiwi folk. The newer version is called 'Mrs. Spoopendyke Misunderstands.' Time: approx eleven 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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12min

FAQs about Mister Ron's Basement II:

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The podcast currently has 2,022 episodes available.