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."

--John Kelly, Washington Po... more

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Mister Ron's Basement II episodes:

August 15, 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1122
Fri, Aug 15 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1122 Mrs. Bowser has to visit her husband -- in jail(!) -- in the 1923 M. Quad story, 'Mr. Bowser's Adventure.' Time: approx nine 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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August 14, 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1121
Thu, Aug 14 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1121 We are wrapping up a week of short whacky stories with a piece by Bill Nye from 1886 -- 'Nye Answers a Correspondent - How Celluloid is Made' and if anything is whacky, this is it! Time: approx five 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
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August 13, 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1120
Wed, Aug 13 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1120 Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P. B. (actually Mortimer Thomson) covered the Civil War in his strangely oblique manner, which is represented here by the 1861 story of being a Zouave, 'Doesticks on 'Shoddy.'' 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 Philander Doesticks (Mortimer Thomson) Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/doesticks.html
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August 12, 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1119
Tue, Aug 12 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1119 This week, we are presenting assorted whacky stories from different writers -- today we hear about the man with the numbers at his fingertips in Charles Battell Loomis's 1899 tale, 'A Calculating Bore.' 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 Charles Battell Loomis Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/charlesbattellloomis.html
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August 11, 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1118
Mon, Aug 11 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1118 We are back! After a month-long hiatus, Mister Ron has returned with NEW classic humor from long ago! (Yes, technically speaking, 100-150 year old stories can never be called NEW, but if you haven't heard them...). This week, we will be presenting assorted whacky stories from different writers -- Today we present 'Max Adeler's Deafness' by Max Adeler (Charles Heber Clark) from 1874. 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 Max Adeler Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/maxadeler.html
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July 11, 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1117
Fri, Jul 11 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1117 Today's story meanders around from one thing to another, and gets funnier and funnier. George W. Peck's teen-age 'Peck's Bad Boy' is in great nasty form in 'His Pa an Orangeman' from 1883. 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 W. Peck Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/georgewpeck.html
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July 09, 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1116
Wed, Jul 09 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1116 George W. Peck's 1883 sequel to 'Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa' was called 'The Grocery Man and Peck's Bad Boy.' In this book, the Bad Boy is a bit older -- probably a teenager, but still full of nasty (but hilarious) tricks. Today, we feature one of the Bad Boy's most notorious tricks -- 'The Variegated Dogs.' Time: approx eight 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 W. Peck Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/georgewpeck.html
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July 09, 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1115
Tue, Jul 08 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1115 For Mark Twain Monday, we present Chapter Eleven of 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' from 1889 -- this chapter is called 'The Yankee in Search of Adventures,' where the boss gets an earful from a talkative maiden and sets off on a journey. Time: approx eighteen 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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18min
July 09, 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1114
Tue, Jul 08 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1114 SUNDAY SALAD still has a Spoopendyke story or two left to tell, before we run out completely! Today's is called 'Crabbing as a Fine Art' from 1882. Also a truly funny newspaper office story by Stanley Huntley from 1883, entitled 'Helping a Friend' is on tap. 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
July 09, 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1113
Tue, Jul 08 2008 Mister Ron's Basement #1113 Ever have a really terrible toothache? Mr. Bowser demonstrates how to ignore the jumping pain in 'Bowser's Will-Force' by C. B. Lewis, from 1920. Time: approx nine 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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