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Mister Ron's Basement #1400 This is the 1400th Episode of Mister Ron's Basement!
This has been an amazing journey of exploration of the world of (mostly) forgotten American humor from long ago! Above all, the letters of encouragement I have received from listeners have made this labor of love (there sure isn't any money in it) worthwhile!
After this week, the Basement goes on hiatus while we prepare for the monster move to a new server host. Details are forthcoming!
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Here today, then, is the second pa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1399NOTICE: This week's Four-Part story will be our last one until we have finished moving our entire archive of stories to our new server host! We will post our new address here when it is available, and visitors to this web site will be re-directed for a while to come.
Meanwhile, we are presenting a masterpiece of satire by Max Adeler, from 1882, over the next four days. It features quirky mechanical limbs, political corruption, horrendous artwork, byzantine bureaucracy, complicated romanc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1398From 1873, we present a Max Adeler story concerning a man's hat with holes in it and what was done to it by 'One of Those Stupid Servant Girls.'
Time: approx four minutes
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Time: approx four and a half minutes
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When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1396Today's Max Adeler story from 1872 is a true flight of fancy, yet makes perfect sense -- sort of. It's called 'Adam and That Umbrella.'
Time: approx four minutes
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When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. It's Free! Thank you ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1395We begin a THIRD week in a row of Max Adeler stories with an investigation of an educator's strange teaching methods in the 1876 story, 'A Teacher's Trials.'
Time: approx eight minutes
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PLEASE NOTE! You may notice that only the last one hu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1394For Mark Twain Monday, we present Chapters 43 - 'The Battle of the Sand-Belt', 44 - 'A Postscript by Clarence', and 'A Final P.S. by M.T.'
This concludes our presentation of 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court,' which has taken us almost fourteen months to read! The complete index of the book's chapters can be found at http://ronevry.com/Connecticut.html.
For the time being, while we are preparing The Basement for the Big Move to a NEW Server in August. Between now and then, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1393SUNDAY SALAD features ONE Stanley Huntley story today -- it's a short one from 1882 about a little man on the Fulton Ferry Boat, called 'Didn't Care to Make Trouble.'
Time: approx three minutes
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When in iTunes, please click on 'Subs ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1392When Mark Twain was accused of plagiarizing Max Adeler's 'The Fortunate Island' for his novel 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' he responded by saying that he read Adeler's story, liked it, and thought there was no resemblance. However, the Adeler story he compared to his own that appeared in the 1882 "Fortunate Island' book was a different one -- 'An Old Fogy' -- one of the first Time Travel stories ever written.
For tonight's Saturday Night Special story we present 'An Old ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1391Max Adeler loved to write stories about impossibly persistent salesmen. Today's 1873 story is one of his first, and one of his funniest. It's called 'The Persecution of Jones.'
Time: approx four and a half minutes
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Don't miss this one!
Time: approx five and a half minutes
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Time: approx three minutes
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Time: approx four and a half minutes
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We would like to dedicate this Episode to a true Mark Twain fan, whom we met recently -- Phil Yeh, who has been raising literacy awareness for almost twenty-five years with his remarkable 'Cartoonists Across America and the World' project.
Time: approx seventeen minutes
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Time: approx three minutes
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When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. It's Free! Thank you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1385Today's short but fun Max Adeler story is from 1873. It concerns a Mr. Henry Bull, and his strange medical condition, and is entitled 'Mercury in the System.'
Time: approx three minutes
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Time: approx three minutes
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Time: approx four and a half minutes
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Time: approx nine and a half minutes
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... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1381SUNDAY SALAD offers just ONE short but funny Stanley Huntley story from 1882 -- it's called 'The Folding Liar.'
Time: approx three and a half minutes
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When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. It's Free! Thank you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1380Mister Ron is back after struggling with a sore throat this week!
Our Saturday Night Special is a short, but remarkably prescient poem from 1885 by Robert J. Burdette. It is called 'The True Patriot's Regret,' and you will never regret hearing it!
Time: approx three minutes
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http://misterronsbasement.blogspot.com/2009/0 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1379Our Saturday Night Special story was originally presented in Basement Episode #933 a couple of years ago (you can find it here). In it Mortimer Thomson made fun of Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, one of the most influential men in America in the years leading up to the Civil War.
Apparently, the version we presented then was heavily edited by the Utah newspaper we originally found it in. Today we are re-reading the story in its complete form, as was printed in a Georgia Newspaper in 1856. I ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1378This week, we have dug up some extremely hard-to-find pieces by Mortimer Thomson, better known as 'Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P. B.'
In today's very short tale from 1864, Doesticks tells of a truly unforgettable rain deluge -- 'In A Storm'
Time: approx two and a half minutes
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http://misterronsbasement.blogspot.com/200 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1377This week, we have dug up some relatively obscure, yet hilarious pieces by Mortimer Thomson, better known as'Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P. B.'From November of 1856, we learn how crazy people get when wagering on elections -- in'Doesticks Bets on Pennsylvania.'Time: approx eleven and a half minutesPlease scroll down to the'Listen'button to hear this story...A Vital Message from Mister Ron!Please read this - - Mister Ron needs a single dollar from YOU!http://misterronsbasement.blogspot.com/20 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1376This week, we have dug up some odd and funny pieces by Mortimer Thomson, better known as'Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P. B.'Today's 1857 piece could easily be written today (except maybe the descriptions of horse-drawn drays). It is called'Doesticks on Boston.'Time: approx seven and a half minutesPlease scroll down to the'Listen'button to hear this story...A Vital Message from Mister Ron!Please read this - - Mister Ron needs a single dollar from YOU!http://misterronsbasement.blogspot.com/2009 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1375This week, we have dug up some pretty funny pieces by Mortimer Thomson, better known as Philander Doesticks.
Today we have a rare example of Thomson's Police Beat reporting from 1855 --it's called 'Doesticks Reporting for the Tribune.'
Time: approx nine and a half minutes
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http://misterronsbasement.blogspot.com/2009/04/ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1374For Mark Twain Monday, we present Chapter Forty-One of 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' from 1889 -- where The Boss returns to England and finds the place almost empty in -- 'The Interdict.'
Time: approx ten minutes
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Wh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1373SUNDAY SALAD offers yet another spoof of a Jules Verne story by Stanley Huntley! Published in 1882, 'The Field of Ice by J. Verne' makes fun of the 1875 Verne tale with the same name.
Time: approx seven and a half minutes
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Time: approx seven minutes
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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1371While traveling by plane can be a real pain these days, going by train wasn't much better (at least in the U. S.) in 1907, when Charles Battell Loomis wrote about it in 'Our Way and the British.'
Time: approx eleven minutes
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When in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1370From Charles Battell Loomis's 1907 book 'A Bath in an English Tub,' we explore the English tradition of 'Tea Time.'
Time: approx eight minutes
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Time: approx six minutes
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Time: approx seven and a half minutes
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Time: approx seventeen minutes
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Time: approx nine and a half minutes
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Time: approx four minutes
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Time: approx five minutes
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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1363Max Adeler leans over his garden fence and hears about the musical tastes of bags of fertilizer in 'Judge Pitman's Musical Feat' from 1874
Time: approx six minutes
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Time: approx six minutes
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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1361Max Adeler's 1874 book 'Out of the Hurly Burly' was one of the first to focus on the lighter side of suburban living in America. Today's story concerns a rare plant that grows a half inch every twenty years and blooms once a century -- 'Our Century Plant.'
Time: approx seven minutes
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Time: approx twenty-four minutes
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Time: approx seven and a half minutes
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http:/ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1358Our Saturday Night Special story is told through two separate tales by Leon Mead. They both deal with the photograph we featured in Episode #1343 and is reproduced on this web page again, below. The first tale is taken from Mead's 1899 book, 'The Bow Legged Ghost and Other Stories' and it tells how the photograph came about. It also includes one of the very few truly sad stories Bill Nye ever wrote. It is called 'Eugene Field and Bill Nye.' The second piece concerns the finding of the lost ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1357Chauncey Tubbs really ought to consult with his wife a bit more, as we find out in Leon Mead's 1899 story, 'Mrs. Tubbs Maoeuvres.'
Time: approx fifteen and a half minutes
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Time: approx nine minutes
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Time: approx twelve minutes
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Wh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1354Leon Mead was a good friend of humorist Bill Nye, and apparently some of Nye's style rubbed off on him. Today's 1899 story deals with a man who can't help winking at women on the street whose hobby gets him in a jam. It's called 'An Assumed Weakness.'
Time: approx twelve minutes
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http://misterronsbasement.blogspot.com/2009 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1353For Mark Twain Monday, we present Chapter Thirty-Eight of 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' from 1889 -- which we have been waiting for -- 'Sir Launcelot and Knights to the Rescue.'
Time: approx seven and a half minutes
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... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mister Ron's Basement #1352SUNDAY 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
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