Tue, 31 January 2006
Tue, Jan 31 2006
Mister Ron's Basement #267 Funny women writers of the 19th Century are in the Basement this week! Being the Life of the Party is not all it's cracked up to be in 'A Fatal Reputation' by Isabel Frances Bellows, written around 1880. Time: approx twelve minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html |
Mon, 30 January 2006
Mon, Jan 30 2006
Mister Ron's Basement #266 Funny women writers of the 19th Century are in the Basement this week! Once a treasured part of American culture, Francis M. Whicher's 'Widow Bedott' is totally forgotten today. From 1856 comes her story, 'The Widow Trades With A Peddler.' Time: approx eighteen minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html |
Sun, 29 January 2006
Sun, Jan 29 2006
Mister Ron's Basement #265 Funny women writers of the 19th Century are in the Basement this week! Metta Victoria Victor was a prolific author who cranked out many Dime Novels, often under a variety of pen names. Her hilarious 1859 story 'Miss Slimmens Surprised' deals with a primal fear -- having to run out of the house in your underwear during a fire! Time: approx eight minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html |
Sat, 28 January 2006
Sat, Jan 28 2006
Mister Ron's Basement #264 George Ade details the squabblings of the Very Rich in 'The Fearsome Feud Between the First Families' from 1904. Time: approx eight minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The George Ade Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/AdeCatalog.html |
Fri, 27 January 2006
Fri, Jan 27 2006
Mister Ron's Basement #263 George Ade explains the secrets of successful trip planning in the 1903 fable 'What They Had Laid Out for Their Vacation.' Time: approx three minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The George Ade Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/AdeCatalog.html |
Thu, 26 January 2006
Thu, Jan 26 2006
Mister Ron's Basement #262 Max Adeler's dizzy stories are back this week! Mix together some kids, a church pew and some sticky varnish, and what do you get? Find out in 'Cooley's Boy' from 1874. Time: approx six 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 |
Wed, 25 January 2006
Wed, Jan 25 2006
Mister Ron's Basement #261 Max Adeler's whacky stories are back this week! 'How the Plumber Fixed My Boiler' gives us the lowdown on dealing with skilled repairmen. From 1874. 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 Max Adeler Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/maxadeler.html |
Tue, 24 January 2006
Tue, Jan 24 2006
Mister Ron's Basement #260 Max Adeler's insane stories are back this week! 'The Morning Argus Creates a Sensation' from 1874 shows how some crazy words can cause pandemonium! Time: approx twenty-one 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 |
Mon, 23 January 2006
Mon, Jan 23 2006
Mister Ron's Basement #259 Max Adeler's looney stories are back this week! From 1874, we explore the latest newfangled gizmo, and what it takes to get some decent help in 'A Very Dangerous Invention' and 'Advertising for a Girl.' 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 The Max Adeler Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/maxadeler.html |
Sun, 22 January 2006
Sun, Jan 22 2006
Mister Ron's Basement #258 Max Adeler's crazy stories are back this week! From 1874, we hear the true meaning of the word 'persistence' in 'A Life Insurance Agent.' Time: approx seven 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 |
Sat, 21 January 2006
Sat, Jan 21 2006
Mister Ron's Basement #257  George Ade takes good look at tenacity in the 1904 story 'The Fable of How the Canny Commercial Salesman Guessed the Combination.' 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 George Ade Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/AdeCatalog.html |
Fri, 20 January 2006
Fri, Jan 20 2006Mister Ron's Basement #256 George Ade relates the apparently familiar tale of an old geezer that could've gotten in on the ground floor of just about everything in 'The Fable of the Unfortunate Has-Been and the Sympathetic Conductor' from 1904. Time: approx four minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The George Ade Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/AdeCatalog.html |
Thu, 19 January 2006
Thu, Jan 19 2006
Mister Ron's Basement #255 Wrapping up Benjamin Franklin week with one of his most notorious essays. In this reading, please Pardon My French -- I don't mean that I'm using any inappropriate words -- I mean rather that my reading of Franklin's French phrases are indeed awful. Time: approx eight minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html |
Wed, 18 January 2006
Wed, Jan 18 2006
Mister Ron's Basement #254 Happy 300th Birthday this week to Benjamin Franklin, America's first great humorist! Ben reveals a unique method for marking the time in the 1757 piece 'How to Make A Striking Sundial' from Poor Richard's Almanac. 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 |
Tue, 17 January 2006
Tue, Jan 17 2006
Mister Ron's Basement #253 Happy 300th Birthday this week to Benjamin Franklin, America's first great humorist! In 1775, a British Nobleman asked Ben Franklin 'What Would Satisfy the Americans?' This was his clever answer. Time: approx two and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html |
Mon, 16 January 2006
Mon, Jan 16 2006
Mister Ron's Basement #252 Happy 300th Birthday today to Benjamin Franklin, America's first great humorist! Back in 1745 or so, Ben expressed his feelings about drinking in the poem 'The Antediluvians Were All Very Sober.' 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 |
Sun, 15 January 2006
Sun, Jan 15 2006
Mister Ron's Basement #251 Happy 300th Birthday this week to Benjamin Franklin, America's first great humorist! We're starting off with an extremely funny piece from 1750, 'Rules for Making Oneself a Disagreeable Companion.' Time: approx four minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html |
Sat, 14 January 2006
Sat, Jan 14 2006
Mister Ron's Basement #250 The 250th Episode of Mister Ron's Basement features a particularly funny story by George Ade (even if you don't know who Ally Sloper is) -- 'The Fable of the Man Who Didn't Care for Story Books' from 1899. La La La! 250!Time: approx five minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The George Ade Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/AdeCatalog.html |
Fri, 13 January 2006
Fri, Jan 13 2006
Mister Ron's Basement #249 George Ade clues us in on True Railroading Fever in the 1904 story 'The Fable of The Boy With the Steadfast Ambition'. Time: approx three minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The George Ade Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/AdeCatalog.html |
Thu, 12 January 2006
Thu, Jan 12 2006
Mister Ron's Basement #248 C. B. Lewis week comes to an end with a tale of tourists who have some complaints, in the 1884 story. 'Not Rich, but Indignant.' 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 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 |
Wed, 11 January 2006
Wed, Jan 11 2006
Mister Ron's Basement #247 There's crooked folks, and there's crooked folks, and things weren't much different in 1884, when C. B. Lewis wrote 'Buying A Load of Wood.' Time: approx four 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 |
Tue, 10 January 2006
Tue, Jan 10 2006
Mister Ron's Basement #246 C.B. Lewis relates the story of the nicest (and yet, the most horrifying) train ride anybody ever took, in the 1884 tale 'Being Kind to a Stranger.' Time: approx four 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 |
Mon, 9 January 2006
Mon, Jan 09 2006
Mister Ron's Basement #245 Mister Ron thinks these are among the funniest things he's ever read -- get out your pencils and try to figure out the selections from C. B. Lewis's 'The Newer Arithmetic' from 1884. 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 |
Sun, 8 January 2006
Sun, Jan 08 2006
Mister Ron's Basement #244 Detroit journalist C. B. Lewis's writing, popular in the late nineteenth century, doesn't often translate well to today's readers. Nevertheless, there are at least a handful of pieces in his 1884 book 'Sawed-Off Sketches' that are pretty funny. Today's tale involves a woman checking up on her husband's account of a trip to the big city, in 'The Game that 'Jeems' Played.' Time: approx six 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 |
Sat, 7 January 2006
Sat, Jan 07 2006
Mister Ron's Basement #243 George Ade gives us the lowdown on setting goals in the 1904 story 'The Galley Slave Who Was Just About To but Never Did.' Time: approx six and half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The George Ade Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/AdeCatalog.html |
Fri, 6 January 2006
Fri, Jan 06 2006
Mister Ron's Basement #242 George Ade brings us a tale of someone who got exactly what she was looking for in 'The Fable of the Poor Woman Who Had to Live in a House that was Over-Run by Anecdotes' from 1904. Time: approx three and half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The George Ade Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/AdeCatalog.html |
Fri, 6 January 2006
Fri, Jan 06 2006
Mister Ron's Basement #241 Ellis Parker Butler, one of Mister Ron's favorite authors, is Spotlighted in the Basement this week. We're ending the week with another account of the world's greatest salesman, Eliph Hewlitt, in the 1905 story, 'A Guide to Book-Agenting.' Time: approx sixteen and half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The Ellis Parker Butler Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/EllisParkerButler.html |
Wed, 4 January 2006
Wed, Jan 04 2006
Mister Ron's Basement #240 Ellis Parker Butler, one of Mister Ron's favorite authors, is Spotlighted in the Basement this week. Finally, a Brand New Writing Technique! ---from 1922--- 'The Dit School of Fiction' Time: approx eleven minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The Ellis Parker Butler Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/EllisParkerButler.html |
Tue, 3 January 2006
Tue, Jan 03 2006
Mister Ron's Basement #239 Ellis Parker Butler, one of Mister Ron's favorite authors, is Spotlighted in the Basement this week. Christopher Columbus, you've met your match as an Explorer -- Mrs. Fliggis! Get the story straight in 'Great Discoveries' from 1921. Time: approx seven minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The Ellis Parker Butler Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/EllisParkerButler.html |
Mon, 2 January 2006
Mon, Jan 02 2006
Mister Ron's Basement #238 Ellis Parker Butler, one of Mister Ron's favorite authors, is Spotlighted in the Basement this week. Meet the World's Greatest Salesman and hear his tall tale, 'Eliph' Hewlitt, Castaway' from 1902. Time: approx twenty-two minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The Ellis Parker Butler Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/EllisParkerButler.html |
Mon, 2 January 2006
Mon, Jan 02 2006
Mister Ron's Basement #237 Ellis Parker Butler, one of Mister Ron's favorite authors, is Spotlighted in the Basement this week. 'Let's All Go Crazy.' from 1922, is a lesson for us all in logic, along with a burning musical question. Time: approx seven minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The Ellis Parker Butler Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/EllisParkerButler.html |
Mon, 2 January 2006
Mon, Jan 02 2006
Mister Ron's Basement #236 George Ade brings in the New Year of 2006 with a 1901 Nag Story, 'The Fable of the Horse Maniac & What Caused the Filing of the Suit.' We have been a bit delayed, but Mister Ron's recording equipment and software is back up to speed. Enjoy. Time: approx five 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 Ade Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/AdeCatalog.html |
Sun, 1 January 2006
Sun, Jan 01 2006
Mister Ron's Basement #235 George Ade brings out 2005 with 'The Unruffled Wife and the Gallus Husband,' a tale of death defying thrills and chills from 1912. We have been a bit delayed, but Mister Ron's recording equipment and software is back up to speed. Enjoy. Time: approx four minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The George Ade Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/AdeCatalog.html |
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