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Sat, May 31 2008

Mister Ron's Basement #1078

Mr. Bowser demonstrates his unique Fatherly Skills in 'Bowser Brings Up Baby' from 1887.

Time: approx seven and a half minutes

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The M. Quad (C. B. Lewis) Catalog of Stories is at:

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The M. Quad (C. B. Lewis) Mister Bowser Catalog of Stories is at:

http://ronevry.com/mrbowser.html

Direct download: revry-2008-05-31.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:26am EDT

Fri, May 30 2008

Mister Ron's Basement #1077



Bill Nye's 1884 collection 'Forty Liars and Other Lies' is full of wild and wooly western humor -- Today's may be the wildest and wooliest story ever written -- it's called 'They Let Him Stay.'

Time: approx seven minutes

The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at:
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The Bill Nye Catalog of Stories is at:

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Direct download: revry-2008-05-30.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:22am EDT

Thu, May 29 2008

Mister Ron's Basement #1076

Bill Nye's 1884 collection 'Forty Liars and Other Lies' is full of wild and wooly western humor -- today we hear about a boy that grew up putting his best foot forward in 'Strive to Excel.'

Time: approx five and a half minutes

The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at:
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The Bill Nye Catalog of Stories is at:

http://ronevry.com/billnye.html

Direct download: revry-2008-05-29.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:20am EDT

Wed, May 28 2008

Mister Ron's Basement #1075

Bill Nye's 1884 collection 'Forty Liars and Other Lies' is full of wild and wooly western humor -- today's short tale concerns a young lad who decides to get a drink of water in a rude way in 'The Eccentric Squirt.'

Time: approx three and a half minutes

The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at:
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The Bill Nye Catalog of Stories is at:

http://ronevry.com/billnye.html

Direct download: revry-2008-05-28b.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:19pm EDT

Wed, May 28 2008

Mister Ron's Basement #1074

Bill Nye's 1884 collection 'Forty Liars and Other Lies' is full of wild and wooly western humor -- today we get the point of view of the very first pick of the season in 'Soliloquy of the Watermelon.'

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 Bill Nye Catalog of Stories is at:

http://ronevry.com/billnye.html

Direct download: revry-2008-05-28a.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:17am EDT

Wed, May 28 2008

Mister Ron's Basement #1073

For Mark Twain Monday, we present Chapter Five of 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' from 1889 -- this chapter is called 'An Inspiration' -- in which our hero gets the goods on Merlin.

Time: approx twelve minutes

The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at:
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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

Direct download: revry-2008-05-28.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:15am EDT

Mon, May 26 2008

Mister Ron's Basement #1072

SUNDAY SALAD offers a couple of very short Stanley Huntley pieces from Drake's Traveller's Magazine, and Mr. Spoopendyke plans to go after some ducks in 'A Hunting Excursion' from 1883.

Time: approx nine minutes

The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at:
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The Stanley Huntley and Spoopendyke Catalog of Stories is at:

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Direct download: revry-2008-05-26b.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:13pm EDT

Mon, May 26 2008

Mister Ron's Basement #1071

Here's another Mr. Bowser story from the first few months of the character's existence. By this time, author C. B. Lewis had pretty much gotten old Bowser down pat, and his characteristics would amuse readers for almost forty years afterward. From 1887 comes 'A Picnic.'

Time: approx seven and a half minutes

The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at:
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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

Direct download: revry-2008-05-26a.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:10am EDT

Mon, May 26 2008

Mister Ron's Basement #1070

'Sketches from Texas Siftings' from 1882, by Alexander E. Sweet and John Armoy, is wrapping up for its second week with a tale of how the bigger out-of-town newspapers get the scoop on local ones in 'A News Factory.'

Time: approx five and a half minutes

The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at:
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Direct download: revry-2008-05-26.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:08am EDT

Wed, May 21 2008

Mister Ron's Basement #1069

'Sketches from Texas Siftings' from 1882, by Alexander E. Sweet and John Armoy, is back again this week. Today we get the straight scoop on the unique weather in the Lone Star State in 'The Texas Climate.'

Time: approx six minutes

The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at:
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Direct download: revry-2008-05-21.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:07am EDT

Tue, May 20 2008

Mister Ron's Basement #1068

'Sketches from Texas Siftings' from 1882, by Alexander E. Sweet and John Armoy, is back again this week. Today we learn the secret of acquiring a train ticket for almost nothing in 'A Foiled Book Agent.'

Time: approx five minutes

The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at:
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Direct download: revry-2008-05-20a.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:05pm EDT

Tue, May 20 2008

Mister Ron's Basement #1067

'Sketches from Texas Siftings' from 1882, by Alexander E. Sweet and John Armoy, is back again this week. Today's piece describes 'That Typical Texan' and why you won't actually find him anywhere in Texas...

Time: approx five and a half minutes



The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at:
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Direct download: revry-2008-05-20.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:03am EDT

Mon, May 19 2008

Mister Ron's Basement #1066

For Mark Twain Monday, we present Chapter Four of 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' from 1889 -- this chapter is called 'Sir Dinadan the Humorist' -- where our hero is subjected to some truly dated, perhaps petrified humor, along with a death sentence!

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 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

Direct download: revry-2008-05-19a.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:40pm EDT

Mon, May 19 2008

Mister Ron's Basement #1065

SUNDAY SALAD features TWO Stanley Huntley stories this week -- the generation gap in politics is hammered out in the 1882 piece, 'Convincing the Governor' and a complicated issue is made even more puzzling in 'Mrs. Spoopendyke on the Tariff' from 1884.

We are definitely running out of Spoopendyke stories, but there's lots more Stanley Huntley humor available. Are you interested in continuing Sunday Salad without the Spoopendykes, or should we move on to something else? Please drop us a line and let us know!

Time: approx eleven and a half minutes

The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at:
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The Stanley Huntley and Spoopendyke Catalog of Stories is at:

http://ronevry.com/Spoopendyke_Stories.html

Direct download: revry-2008-05-19.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:25am EDT

Sat, May 17 2008

Mister Ron's Basement #1064

From 1887, we feature a Letter to the Editor of the Detroit Free Press complaining about Mrs. Bowser, and a fun tale we call 'Mr. Bowser Fixes Up the House.'

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 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

Direct download: revry-2008-05-17.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:22am EDT

Thu, May 15 2008

Mister Ron's Basement #1063

Ever wonder how newspapers made money back in the old west? Get a taste in the 1882 tale, 'He Wanted A Notice' from 'Sketches from Texas Siftings' by Alexander E. Sweet and John Armoy Knox.

Time: approx five and a half minutes

The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at:
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Direct download: revry-2008-05-15.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:20am EDT

Wed, May 14 2008

Mister Ron's Basement # #1062

Another short but funny piece from 'Sketches from Texas Siftings' by Alexander E. Sweet and John Armoy Knox, published in 1882, reveals what brings folks to the Lone Star State in 'Why He Came to Texas.'

Time: approx three and a half minutes

The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at:
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Direct download: revry-2008-05-14.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:19am EDT

Tue, May 13 2008

Mister Ron's Basement #1061

Here's a great story from 'Sketches from Texas Siftings' by Alexander E. Sweet and John Armoy Knox, published in 1882 -- It's called 'The Texas Desperado.'

Time: approx six and a half minutes



The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at:
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Direct download: revry-2008-05-13.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:16am EDT

Mon, May 12 2008

Mister Ron's Basement #1060

TEXAS SIFTINGS was an enormously popular weekly newspaper created by Alexander E. Sweet and John Armoy Knox in 1881. In 1882, they published a book collecting some their best material, which we will be reading from starting this week.

Today we feature the book's Preface and a look at the man who runs the trains -- 'The Conductor.'



Time: approx eight minutes

The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at:
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Direct download: revry-2008-05-12.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:13am EDT

Sun, May 11 2008

Mister Ron's Basement #1059

For Mark Twain Monday, we present Chapter Three of 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' from 1889 -- this chapter is called 'Knights of the Table Round' where our hero gets to hear the knights and Merlin the Magician spreading tall tales from 'the exaggeration mill.'

Mister Ron's voice seems to have returned to him, at least enough to start reading stories again!

Time: approx fifteen 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

Direct download: revry-2008-05-11.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:10am EDT

Mon, May 05 2008

Mister Ron's Basement #1058

SUNDAY SALAD features another rare Spoopendyke story by Stanley Huntley that originally appeared in Drake's Traveller's Magazine in 1883. It's called 'Hunt for a Nocturnal Garment in a Sleeper' and is pretty funny.

However, be warned -- Mister Ron has almost completely lost his voice from a nasty virus, and this is pretty difficult to listen to. Sorry. We will probably have to take a few days off until the frog leaves Mister Ron's throat...

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 Stanley Huntley and Spoopendyke Catalog of Stories is at:

http://ronevry.com/Spoopendyke_Stories.html

Direct download: revry-2008-05-05.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:08am EDT

Sat, May 03 2008

Mister Ron's Basement #1057

From 1886, we hear, perhaps for the first time, a theme that C. B. Lewis used quite often in Mr. Bowser stories over the next 38 years. Lacking a title for this story, we'll call it 'Colonel Bowser.'

Time: approx seven 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

Direct download: revry-2008-05-03.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:05am EDT

Thu, May 01 2008

Mister Ron's Basement #1056

We're wrapping up a second week in a row of double-barreled Bill Nye stories!

Nye explores the science of telling one's fortune via the bumps in the head in 'Bill Nye on Phrenology' from 1884. 'Table Etiquette' from 1881 explains the proper manners one should have at a dinner in the inimitable Bill Nye manner.

Time: approx seven 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

Direct download: revry-2008-05-01.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:02am EDT