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Mister Ron's Basement #1226 SUNDAY SALAD offers THREE Stanley Huntley pieces today (sorry, no Spoopendyke stories available this week) -- First, a minister gets an earful of newspaper slang in 'Only Technical Terms' from 1881, then a stranger to Brooklyn gets some directions in the street in 'After Information' from 1882. Finally, a cowboy enthusiastically describes a grand performance in 'A Plea for the Opera' from 1881. Time: approx eleven minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story.. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MIster Ron's Basement #1225 Our favorite old crank has another get-rich-quick scheme up his sleeve involving raising trees for paper-mills, in C. B. Lewis's 1918 tale, 'Bowser's Little Plan.' Time: approx eight and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. Thank you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1224 The terrible news about the Stock Market in free fall is nothing new -- this week we have been reading from Gideon Wurdz 1905 book 'Foolish Finance.' Our last piece is full of practical advice -- it's called 'Tips.' Time: approx five and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. Thank you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1223 The terrible news about the Stock Market in free fall is nothing new -- this week we are reading from Gideon Wurdz 1905 book 'Foolish Finance.' Today we get the inside scoop on exactly how the Financial System works in 'The System as Promoter And Pickpocket.' Time: approx seven minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. Thank you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1222 The terrible news about the Stock Market in free fall is nothing new -- this week we will read from Gideon Wurdz 1905 book 'Foolish Finance.' Today we learn about who is available to part you with your money -- 'The Broker.' Time: approx four minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. Thank you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1221 The terrible news about the Stock Market in free fall is nothing new -- this week we will read from Gideon Wurdz 1905 book 'Foolish Finance.' Today we discover some great tips on 'Speculation.' Time: approx four and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. Thank you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MIster Ron's Basement #1220 For Mark Twain Monday, we present Chapter Twenty-Two (Part Two of Two) of 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' from 1889 -- 'The Holy Fountain' -- where the Boss examines a dry well, and puzzles Sandy with modern slang. Time: approx fifteen minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. Thank you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1219 SUNDAY SALAD has THREE truly funny Stanley Huntley tales, all from 1881, including a newly discovered (at least by Mister Ron) Spoopendyke story! In the first piece, a woman argues with a street car passenger in a piece worthy of Abbott & Costello in 'A Trying Situation.' Then a rough and tumble visitor from Deadwood gets into a strange discussion with a precious young Brooklyn girl in 'Too Awfully Utter.' Finally Mr. Spoopendyke expresses his disgust with his Doctor's advice in 'He Was ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1218 Mr. Bowser gets a made-to-order package from his tailor that seems to be all wrong, in C. B. Lewis's 1893 tale, 'Bowser's Trousers.' Time: approx seven and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. Thank you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1217 Bill Nye (Edgar Wilson Nye) is one of our favorite humorists. This week, we are featuring stories from his 1881 collection, 'Bill Nye and Boomerang.' Today, Nye reports on a desperado's wedding ceremony in 'The Nupitals of Dangerous Davis.' Time: approx four minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. Thank you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1216 Bill Nye (Edgar Wilson Nye) is one of our favorite humorists. This week, we are featuring stories from his 1881 collection, 'Bill Nye and Boomerang.' Today's story is a bit hard to follow, but is extremely funny nevertheless. Nye discusses 'The Buckness Wherewith the Buck Beer Bucketh.' Time: approx three and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. Thank you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1215 Bill Nye (Edgar Wilson Nye) is one of our favorite humorists. This week, we are featuring stories from his 1881 collection, 'Bill Nye and Boomerang.' Today we learn a truly unique use for a washtub in Nye's tale of 'Dirty Murphy.' Time: approx four minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... This time of year, many visitors to this Podcast come to find our version of Washington Irving's 'Legend of Sleepy Hollow.' It is available by clicking here. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1214 Bill Nye (Edgar Wilson Nye) is one of our favorite humorists. This week, we are featuring stories from his 1881 collection, 'Bill Nye and Boomerang.' Today's piece concerns the many reported deaths of Frank and Jesse James and their gang -- it is called 'Killing Off the James Boys.' Time: approx four minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. Thank you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1213 For Mark Twain Monday, we present Chapter Twenty-Two (Part One of Two) of 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' from 1889 -- 'The Holy Fountain' -- where we learn about professional courtesy among magicians. Time: approx eleven minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. Thank you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1212 SUNDAY SALAD offers Stanley Huntley's clever 1880 spoof of Jules Verne's 'Around the World in Eighty Days.' It's called 'A Journey to the Sun by Jules Verne, Jr.' Sorry -- there are no unread Spoopendyke stories available this week. We will keep searching. Time: approx eleven minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. Thank you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1211 Mr. Bowser has 'the event of his life' in C. B. Lewis's 1899 tale 'Fishing for Tautog.' Time: approx ten minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. Thank you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1210 We continue to read assorted stories from 'Mrs. Partington's Carpet-Bag of Fun,' compiled by Samuel Putnam Avery back in 1854. In the early 19th Century, communities would board school teachers at the homes of parents -- here's the sad tale of 'A Schoolmaster 'Boarding Hound.'' Time: approx five and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. Thank you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1209 We continue to read assorted stories from 'Mrs. Partington's Carpet-Bag of Fun,' compiled by Samuel Putnam Avery back in 1854. Yep, today's piece is more an old, old joke than a story, but it is pretty funny nevertheless. It's a story about a traveller 'Getting Up an Examination' Time: approx three and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. Thank you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1208 We continue to read assorted stories from 'Mrs. Partington's Carpet-Bag of Fun,' compiled by Samuel Putnam Avery back in 1854. When Amelia Bloomer invented her namesake pantsuit for women back in the early 1850s, many writers made fun of them, as in this short piece, 'A Rhyme for the Bloomers.' Time: approx three and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... This time of year, many visitors to this Podcast come to find our version of Washi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1207 We continue to read assorted stories from 'Mrs. Partington's Carpet-Bag of Fun,' compiled by Samuel Putnam Avery back in 1854. Today we visit a lonely man trying to catch a snooze in the cold in 'A Bachelor's Woes.' Time: approx three minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... This time of year, many visitors to this Podcast come to find our version of Washington Irving's 'Legend of Sleepy Hollow.' It is available by clicking here. We are working ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1206 For Mark Twain Monday, we present Chapter Twenty-One (Part Two of Two) of 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' from 1889 -- 'The Pilgrims' -- where Sandy and The Boss join a group of Pilgrims heading for Holy Waters, when they meet a top-hatted knight coming the other way. Time: approx nineteen and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. Thank you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1205 Spoopendyke is BACK! For this episode of SUNDAY SALAD we have dug up a so far undiscovered story of Mr. and Mrs. Spoopendyke from 1880 -- it's called 'A Little Large in the Neck.' Also from 1880, we are including a tale of a man purchasing an obituary notice in 'A Perplexing Situation' and another story of woman with a flair for Shakespearean dialogue finding her Romeo at a Coney Island hotel in 'A Peculiar Boarder.' Time: approx fifteen minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1204 Our favorite old crank sets out to win a contest and prove himself the most well-liked man in town in C. B. Lewis's 1899 story 'Mr. Bowser's Popularity.' Time: approx eight and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. Thank you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1203 Famed illustrator and art collector Samuel Putnam Avery edited a collection of humor in 1854 called 'Mrs. Partington's Carpet-Bag of Fun.' We are wrapping up a week of very short, fun stories about kissing from that book, with FIVE pieces - - 'A Kiss in the Dark' 'Barking Up the Wrong Tree' 'An Ecstatic Lover' 'A Smacking Article' and 'Improved Cookery.' Time: approx six and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... When in iTunes, please ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1202 Famed illustrator and art collector Samuel Putnam Avery edited a collection of humor in 1854 called 'Mrs. Partington's Carpet-Bag of Fun.' This week, we will be reading very short, fun stories about kissing from that book. Today's piece is more interesting than funny, but is worth a listen. It's called 'Kissing Philosophy.' Time: approx three and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' butto ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1201 Famed illustrator and art collector Samuel Putnam Avery edited a collection of humor in 1854 called 'Mrs. Partington's Carpet-Bag of Fun.' This week, we will be reading very short, fun stories about kissing from that book. Today we explore the mechanics of a proper smooch in 'How to Enjoy A Kiss.' Time: approx three and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. Thank you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1200 This is Mister Ron's Basement Episode #1200!! Famed illustrator and art collector Samuel Putnam Avery edited a collection of humor in 1854 called 'Mrs. Partington's Carpet-Bag of Fun.' This week, we will be reading very short, fun stories about kissing from that book. Today's is called 'A Chapter on Kissing.' Time: approx four minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. Thank you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1199 For Mark Twain Monday, we present Chapter Twenty-One (Part One of Two) of 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' from 1889 -- 'The Pilgrims' -- where Sandy and The Boss have Breakfast with the Pigs... Time: approx nine and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1198 SUNDAY SALAD features TWO Stanley Huntley stories concerning sadness and grief. Of course, they are both hysterically funny! The two tales appeared in 1883 -- 'Profound Grief' and 'A Delicate Mission.' Sadly, we have yet to dig up any undiscovered Spoopendyke stories yet, and may never do so. But we will keep searching! Time: approx nine minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... This time of year, many visitors to this Podcast come to find our vers ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1197 Mr. Bowser encounters an incredible turning point in his relationship with Mrs. Bowser in C. B. Lewis's 1892 tale, 'There Are Occasions When the Worm Will Turn.' Time: approx eight and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1196 Perhaps not among his funniest stories, we present Charles Battell Loomis's charming 1909 tale, 'Politeness As An Asset.' Time: approx six minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1195 We are featuring another truly odd story from Charles Battell Loomis written in 1906 -- it's not exactly Science Fiction -- but in it we get a report from someplace not of this Earth -- about 'The Poets' Strike.' Time: approx nine and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1194 Here's another quirky (but very short) 1902 story from Charles Battell Loomis -- it's called 'Five Hundred Dollars.' You can draw your own conclusions to this enjoyable tale. Time: approx four minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1193 Charles Battell Loomis wrote an astonishing array of short stories. This week we will explore some of them. Today we have a 1900 tale of a boy with a unique talent entitled 'The Boy Who Turned Books Into Food.' Time: approx nine minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1192 For Mark Twain Monday, we present Chapter Twenty of 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' from 1889 -- 'The Ogre's Castle' -- where Sandy and The Boss reach the goal of their quest -- sort of... Time: approx sixteen minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1191 SUNDAY SALAD offers TWO Stanley Huntley stories from 1882 -- neither of which features the Spoopendykes! Yes, it has finally happened! Unless something so far undiscovered turns up, we have, sadly, run out of Spoopendyke stories. Nevertheless, we will keep looking, and in the meantime we have two tales -- in the first, a reporter tries to write up a Church Picnic in Medieval style in 'Early English' and a family adopts a unique pet in 'Taming an Alligator.' Time: approx ten and a half m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1190 Our favorite old crank comes up with a few ideas to eliminate poisonous gasses and bacteria in his home in C. B. Lewis's 1889 tale, 'Mr. Bowser Has Theories.' Time: approx eight minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1189 Fans of the movie 'Ghostbusters' may find some intriguing resemblances to that film in Gellet Burgess's 1905 story, 'The Ghost-Extinguisher.' Your comments on this amazing (and fun) find are more than welcome! Send them to revry@panix.com. Time: approx twenty-five minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1188 Today we offer the sad tale of a ghost of a man who is still alive! It also features romance, and some serious miscommunication, in Frank R. Stockton's 1884 story, 'The Transferred Ghost.' Time: approx twenty-five and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1187 With Halloween approaching, we are reading some spooky (and fun) ghost stories this week! Today's 1903 tale by Rose O'Neill concerns a strange spirit and a forgetful lady. It's called 'The Lady and the Ghost.' Time: approx eleven and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... This time of year, many visitors to this Podcast come to find our version of Washington Irving's 'Legend of Sleepy Hollow.' It is available by clicking here. We are work ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1186 For Mark Twain Monday, we present Chapter Nineteen of 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' from 1889 -- 'Knight-Errantry as a Trade' -- where Sandy gives The Boss an Earful. Time: approx eight and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1185 SUNDAY SALAD reveals the depth and range of Stanley Huntley's humorous writing with THREE pieces! First, a tough cowboy faces town a truly mean gambler in Bismarck, Dakota in the 1882 story 'A Piece of Carelessness.' Then an all-too-familiar poem is rewritten as it would be by four classic writers in 'Mary's Little Lamb - Verses Culled from the Different Authors,' also from 1882, and finally, what may be our last Spoopendyke story, our favorite couple visit 'The Legislature' from 1883. T ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1184 'Mr. Bowser Tries to Show His Wife How to Clean A House,' written by C. B. Lewis, from 1889. What else needs to be said? Time: approx eight minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... This time of year, many visitors to this Podcast come to find our version of Washington Irving's 'Legend of Sleepy Hollow.' It is available by clicking here. We are working diligently to create a complete index of every episode of the Basement! Meanwhile, here are some l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1183 George Ade takes a look at a young married couple who separate for the first time in the 1902 tale 'The Fable of the Reckless Wife who had no One to Watch Her.' Time: approx four minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1182 When you get right down to it, some people don't appreciate a good joke, as happens in George Ade's 1900 tale, 'The Fable of the Inveterate Joker Who Remained in Montana.' Time: approx five and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1181 A century or so ago, Phrenologists, who would read fortunes and character from the bumps in peoples' heads, were quite popular. Today's George Ade story, from 1899, deals with just that. It's called 'The Fable of the Visitor Who Got A Lot for Three Dollars.' Time: approx five minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1180 It's been awhile since we offered any of George Ade's Fables, so let's do some this week! We'll start with an 1899 tale of a conundrum with a terrific moral -- 'The Fable of the Caddy Who Hurt His Head While Thinking.' Time: approx four minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1179 For Mark Twain Monday, we present Chapter Eighteen of 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' from 1889 -- 'In the Queen's Dungeons' -- where The Boss sets a lot of prisoners Free. Time: approx twenty-three minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1178 SUNDAY SALAD offers TWO of the BEST Stanley Huntley stories we've ever presented! First, from 1880, comes a classic tale of old Bismarck, Dakota -- 'The Gentleman from the Bad Lands.' Then Mr. and Mrs. Spoopendyke examine a rarely worn coat in 'Preparing for the New Years' from 1882. Not to be missed! Time: approx twenty minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1177 From 1889, C. B Lewis, writing as M. Quad, brings us a lesson in commerce in 'Bowser Speaks Slightingly of His Wife's Business Methods, But --' Time: approx seven minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1176 In today's 1875 story, Eli Perkins considers the effect of a glut of jewels on the market in 'Solitaire Diamonds.' Time: approx five minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1175 The wild west was full of rough, lawless characters, but no matter how wild they were, they had to pay their fares on the railroad, as we see in Eli Perkins' 1875 story, 'A Frontiersman.' Time: approx five and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1174 Today we join Eli Perkins and a law student vying for the attention of a lady at a dance in the 1875 story 'The Legal-Minded Man.' Time: approx four and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1173 We'll be hearing some more fun stories from Eli Perkins' 1875 book 'Eli Perkins (At Large) this week. Today we find out the results of naming someone as the 'most beautiful girl' in print in 'Eli Perkins in Hot Water.' Time: approx seven minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1172 For Mark Twain Monday, we present Chapter Seventeen (Part Two) of 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' from 1889 -- 'A Royal Banquet' -- where The Boss gets an uncomfortable taste of medieval justice. Time: approx fourteen and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1171 SUNDAY SALAD offers up TWO Stanley Huntley pieces this week -- first we get an inside scoop on the pharmacy business in 'A Dismal Druggist' from 1882, and Mr. Spoopendyke gets out in the garden in 'The Mild Mannered Man Tries His Hand at Transplanting' from 1883. Time: approx eleven minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1170 Mr. Bowser gives his house a once over in C. B. Lewis's 1889 story, 'How the Man of the House Had It Painted and What It Cost.' Time: approx nine minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1169 There are mean men, and meaner men, but Eli Perkins' wrote a story in 1875 about 'The Meanest Man Yet'. Time: approx three minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1168 Eli Perkins relates an 1875 story about a sad old miner, observing the young miners come into the bank, cashing in their gold dust. It's called 'A Lonesome Man.' Time: approx four and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1167 With all the tragic news coming out of Wall Street these days, we may want to take a look at Eli Perkins' 1875 tale of a disconsolate broker. It's called 'A Sad Man.' Time: approx five minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1166 Melville D. Landon wrote under the pen name of Eli Perkins, and was probably more well known as a compiler of American Humor collections. Nevertheless, he was capable of writing extremely funny stories of his own. Today, we'll hear an 1875 Eli Perkins tale about Jesse and Frank James, a daring robbery, an admiring newspaper editor, and an act of gratitude in 'A Grateful Man.' Time: approx five and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1165 For Mark Twain Monday, we present Chapter Seventeen (Part One) of 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' from 1889 -- 'A Royal Banquet' -- featuring food, music, bawdy jokes, prayers, and a hanging. Time: approx eight minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1164 SUNDAY SALAD offers TWO Stanley Huntley stories today -- From 1883, a Temperance crusader attempts to bring the Brooklyn Eagle's editors into the Prohibition campaign in 'Wanted the Paper's Influence' and Mr. Spoopendyke is hailed by one and all as the next Mayor of the city in 'The Reconciliation Candidate' from 1881. Time: approx eighteen minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1163 Mr. Bowser displays his carpentry prowess in C. B. Lewis's 1890 tale, 'The Head of the Family Tries to Put Up Some Screen Doors.' Time: approx eight minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1162 Here's a nifty 1876 Max Adeler story about a judicial blunder and a bald man's hat called 'Justice, and a Little Injustice.' Time: approx four and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1161 Max Adeler often wrote pretty funny poetry. Today we feature a humorous verse from Adeler's 1874 collection, 'Out of the Hurly Burly,' It's called 'Tim Keyser's Nose.' Time: approx four and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... A. B. Frost Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1160 Our Max Adeler Marathon continues with an extremely short story concerning a horse, a saddle, and a friendly bit of advice in 'The Saddle Was On Wrong' from 1873. Time: approx two and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1159 In what is turning into a Max Adeler Marathon, we present a third week in a row of Adeler short stories. Today we hear about a coroner, an Egyptian Mummy, and Noah's Ark in the 1875 tale, 'Sorry He Wasn't There.' Time: approx three and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1158 For Mark Twain Monday, we present Chapter Sixteen of 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' from 1889 -- 'Morgan Le Fay' -- where we hear of Knights selling soap and a truly nasty Queen. Time: approx fifteen minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1157 SUNDAY SALAD offers FOUR pieces today -- two very funny stories are definitely by Stanley Huntley -- 'The Editor and the Tracts' from 1881 and 'Sanctum Fables,' also from 1881. Another 1882 piece from an Oregon newspaper called 'Spoopendyke at the Telephone' was obviously not authentic, even to readers of the day, and 'Spoopendyke Starts a Fire,' also from 1882, from a North Carolina newspaper, and claiming to be from the Brooklyn Eagle, may be a counterfeit -- it seems a little odd - ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1156 Mr. Bowser is up to his usual antics in C. B. Lewis's 1890 story, 'The Head of the Family Tries Sleeping in a Hammock.' Time: approx seven minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1155 Despite his happy name, a hunter achieves incredible levels of anger and frustration in Max Adeler's 1875 tale, 'Mr. Smiley's Gun.' Time: approx four minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1154 Short but funny! Max Adeler's 'A Story of a Hot Brick' from 1875. Don't miss it! Time: approx three and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1153 Max Adeler had a keen eye for clever inventions. Today's incredibly funny story from 1873 concerns a new-fangled sewing machine. It's called 'Kipp's Inventive Experiment.' Time: approx four minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1152 MORE Max Adeler stories this week! Ever been "stuck" on someone romantically? Here's a tale of a young man who definitely was stuck, in 'Glue and the Emotions' from 1879. Time: approx four minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1151 For Mark Twain Monday, we present Chapter Fifteen of 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' from 1889 --'Sandy's Tale' -- where The Boss gets a real earful! Time: approx eighteen and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1150 SUNDAY SALAD offers TWO Stanley Huntley stories today. First, a man hires a couple of (not so) sharp lawyers to rid himself of a pest in 'A Curious Client' from 1881, and Mrs. Spoopendyke asks her husband to help her find some medicine in 'Mr. Spoopendyke's Search' from 1882. Time: approx ten and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1149 From 1891, Mr. Bowser hides things and seeks things in 'It's Always Mrs. Bowser's Fault' by C. B. Lewis. Time: approx five and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1148 Max Adeler takes an oblique look at the greatest figures of history in the 1875 tale 'The Unwritten Side of Great Men.' Time: approx four minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1147 Max Adeler tells of a persistent Insurance Salesman who meets with failure in the 1874 story, 'A Disheartened Agent.' Time: approx four minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1146 Max Adeler relates a fascinating short piece about an interesting bequest with unexpected consequences. It's called 'One Inconsiderate Action' from 1872. Time: approx three and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1145 Let's read some Max Adeler stories this week! We'll start with a short piece about a cat, a balloon, a thermometer and a cyclone, from his 1876 book "Elbow Room - A Novel Without A Plot' -- we call it 'Mr. Fogg's Exaggerations.' Time: approx six and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1144 For Mark Twain Monday, we present Chapter Fourteen of 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' from 1889 --'Defend Thee, Lord' -- where The Boss has a bit of Breakfast and a Smoke, and petrifies everybody! Time: approx nine and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1143 SUNDAY SALAD offers TWO Stanley Huntley stories -- first, a tough character insists on buying drinks for everyone in 'He Was From the West' from 1883, and the Spoopendykes dig a coat out a moth-infested closet in 'Preparing for New Years' from 1882. Time: approx twelve minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1142 Our favorite old crank has problems with his shirt and socks in 'Some Domestic Incidents that Make the Bowser Family Wheel Go Round' from 1891. Time: approx seven and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1141 Ellis Parker Butler talks to the spirits of the departed in the new, modern way, in the 1919 piece, 'A Message from Mr. Barr Leecorn.' Time: approx eight and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1140 Ever get confused about dates? Try to imagine the real confusion these two historical characters dealt with in Ellis Parker Butler's 1912 tale, 'Washington and Egypt's First King.' Time: approx six and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1139 Ellis Parker Butler gives the scoop on the motion picture situation in the 1920 tale, 'Movies is Movies.' Time: approx fifteen minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1138 Ellis Parker Butler is one of Mister Ron's favorite humorists, so let's read some of his stuff this week! We'll start with a 1911 piece about how calm modern children are when reacting to disappointment over Christmas presents, in 'Something for the Kid.' Time: approx eight and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1137 For Mark Twain Monday, we present Part Two of Two of Chapter Thirteen of 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' from 1889 --'Freemen' -- where the Boss joins some free men for breakfast and makes a recruit for his factory. Time: approx fourteen minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1136 SUNDAY SALAD offers a triple collection of Stanley Huntley pieces -- first, we have an 1880 poem about how the Bismarck, Dakota, Board of Education makes decisions in 'A Grave Question.' Then we offer what appears to be Huntley's first use of the name Mrs. Spoopendyke in a short tale from 1879 called 'His New Year's Views.' This character doesn't seem to be related to the Spoopendykes we all know and love. Finally we offer a lengthy account of Mr. and and Mrs. Spoopendyke buying a farm in ' ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1135 Mr. Bowser achieves supreme military rank a couple of years before the US entered World War One, in C. B. Lewis's 1915 tale, 'It Was General Bowser.' Time: approx eight and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1134 FANNY FERN discusses a little known aspect of the nation's First First Lady in the 1872 story 'Mrs. Washington's Eternal Knitting.' Time: approx five minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1133 Here's another bittersweet piece from Fanny Fern's 1872 collection, Caper Sauce. It's called 'Rainy-Day Pleasures.' Time: approx four and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Remark ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Please sc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basem