Mister Ron's Basement

Here is the final chapter of 'Major Dunwoody's Leg' (Part Four of Four) from 1882 by Max Adeler, wrapping up a MONTH of Adeler stories! For a while, we will be putting new Episodes of the Basement on hiatus, while we move the entire archive of 1402 Episodes to a NEW Server Host! No one in the history of Podcasting has ever attempted such a huge project, but we are confident that it will be done before the end of July. At that point we will post the new Web Address of the Basement, and hopefully will have the new server on iTunes as well. Meanwhile, please check out our catalogs and enjoy our current archive of back episodes. Your comments are welcome! Send emails to revry@panix.com. Time: approx nineteen and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... A Vital Message from Mister Ron! Mister Ron needs a single dollar from YOU! http://ronevry.com/Mister_Ron_Donate.html PL EASE NOTE! You may notice that only the last one hundred episodes of Mister Ron's Basement are currently listed on the web page, and in the main iTunes menu. NOW!!!! ALL of the Episodes on Mister Ron's Basement are CATALOGUED! You'll find them at - http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html We are in the process of creating indexes to all of our individual authors featured in the Basement. Here are links to the ones available now: O Henry      Max Adeler      Max Adeler's Fortunate Island Novelette      Edgar Wilson "Bill" Nye      Ellis Parker Butler W. L. Alden      Robert J. Burdette      Palmer Cox      Seba Smith      Stephen Leacock      George Ade Fanny Fern      Mark Twain      Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court      "Sunday Salad" - - The Stanley Huntley and Spoopendyke Stories Lucretia Peabody Hale      George W. Peck      Brick Pomeroy      James M. Bailey      Charles Battell Loomis      Philander Doesticks (Mortimer Thomson) M. Quad      M. Quad's Mr. Bowser Stories        Ambrose Bierce        George Horatio Derby       Josephine Dodge Daskam Have you visited our blog? You can get to it at misterronsbasement.blogspot.com. Interested in seeing Mister Ron's download statistics? They are all here! If you've already got the latest iTunes on your machine, then you can click here and iTunes will open up to Mister Ron's Basement! When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. It's Free! Thank you.

NOTICE: 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 four days. It features quirky mechanical limbs, political corruption, horrendous artwork, byzantine bureaucracy, complicated romance, scalping, thievery, and more twists and turns than a pretzel! If you haven't heard parts One and Two yet, go listen to them, then come back for this. It will be here. Here is 'Major Dunwoody's Leg' (Part Three of Four). Time: approx twelve and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... A Vital Message from Mister Ron! Mister Ron needs a single dollar from YOU! http://ronevry.com/Mister_Ron_Donate.html When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. It's Free! Thank you.

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! Thanks! Here today, then, is the second part of four from Max Adeler's satirical masterpiece of 1882. It features quirky mechanical limbs, political corruption, horrendous artwork, byzantine bureaucracy, complicated romance, scalping, thievery, and more twists and turns than a pretzel! Here then is 'Major Dunwoody's Leg' (Part Two of Four). Time: approx twenty and a half minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... A Vital Message from Mister Ron! Mister Ron needs a single dollar from YOU! http://ronevry.com/Mister_Ron_Donate.html PL EASE NOTE! You may notice that only the last one hundred episodes of Mister Ron's Basement are currently listed on the web page, and in the main iTunes menu. NOW!!!! ALL of the Episodes on Mister Ron's Basement are CATALOGUED! You'll find them at - http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html We are in the process of creating indexes to all of our individual authors featured in the Basement. Here are links to the ones available now: O Henry      Max Adeler      Max Adeler's Fortunate Island Novelette      Edgar Wilson "Bill" Nye      Ellis Parker Butler W. L. Alden      Robert J. Burdette      Palmer Cox      Seba Smith      Stephen Leacock      George Ade Fanny Fern      Mark Twain      Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court      "Sunday Salad" - - The Stanley Huntley and Spoopendyke Stories Lucretia Peabody Hale      George W. Peck      Brick Pomeroy      James M. Bailey      Charles Battell Loomis      Philander Doesticks (Mortimer Thomson) M. Quad      M. Quad's Mr. Bowser Stories        Ambrose Bierce        George Horatio Derby       Josephine Dodge Daskam Have you visited our blog? You can get to it at misterronsbasement.blogspot.com. Interested in seeing Mister Ron's download statistics? They are all here! If you've already got the latest iTunes on your machine, then you can click here and iTunes will open up to Mister Ron's Basement! When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. It's Free! Thank you.

NOTICE: 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 romance, scalping, thievery, and more twists and turns than a pretzel! Here then is 'Major Dunwoody's Leg' (Part One of Four). Time: approx twenty-four minutes Please scroll down to the 'Listen' button to hear this story... A Vital Message from Mister Ron! Mister Ron needs a single dollar from YOU! http://ronevry.com/Mister_Ron_Donate.html When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. It's Free! Thank you.

From 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 Please 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/2009/04/vi tal-message-from-ron-evry.html PLEASE NOTE! You may notice that only the last one hundred episodes of Mister Ron's Basement are currently listed on the web page, and in the main iTunes menu. NOW!!!! ALL of the Episodes on Mister Ron's Basement are CATALOGUED! You'll find them at - http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html We are in the process of creating indexes to all of our individual authors featured in the Basement. Here are links to the ones available now: O Henry      Max Adeler      Max Adeler's Fortunate Island Novelette      Edgar Wilson "Bill" Nye      Ellis Parker Butler W. L. Alden      Robert J. Burdette      Palmer Cox      Seba Smith      Stephen Leacock      George Ade Fanny Fern      Mark Twain      Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court      "Sunday Salad" - - The Stanley Huntley and Spoopendyke Stories Lucretia Peabody Hale      George W. Peck      Brick Pomeroy      James M. Bailey      Charles Battell Loomis      Philander Doesticks (Mortimer Thomson) M. Quad      M. Quad's Mr. Bowser Stories        Ambrose Bierce        George Horatio Derby       Josephine Dodge Daskam Have you visited our blog? You can get to it at misterronsbasement.blogspot.com. Interested in seeing Mister Ron's download statistics? They are all here! If you've already got the latest iTunes on your machine, then you can click here and iTunes will open up to Mister Ron's Basement! Do NOT miss our companion Podcast, Mister Ron's Once A Week, an audio magazine featuring fiction, fact, sensation, wit, humor, news, and whatever strikes our fancy. You can get it at http://slapcast.com/users/ron. Also, if you've been thinking of starting your own podcast, do check out http://slapcast.com -- they make podcasting a breeze! Tell 'em Mister Ron sent you. When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. It's Free! Thank you.

Max Adeler relates the tale of an intrepid neighbor ascending into the unknown reaches of the atmosphere via balloon, in the 1874 story, 'The Ozone Belt.' Time: approx four and a half minutes Please 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/2009/04/vi tal-message-from-ron-evry.html When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. It's Free! Thank you.

Today'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 Please 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/2009/04/vi tal-message-from-ron-evry.html When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. It's Free! Thank you.

We 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 Please 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/2009/04/vi tal-message-from-ron-evry.html PLEASE NOTE! You may notice that only the last one hundred episodes of Mister Ron's Basement are currently listed on the web page, and in the main iTunes menu. NOW!!!! ALL of the Episodes on Mister Ron's Basement are CATALOGUED! You'll find them at - http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html We are in the process of creating indexes to all of our individual authors featured in the Basement. Here are links to the ones available now: O Henry      Max Adeler      Max Adeler's Fortunate Island Novelette      Edgar Wilson "Bill" Nye      Ellis Parker Butler W. L. Alden      Robert J. Burdette      Palmer Cox      Seba Smith      Stephen Leacock      George Ade Fanny Fern      Mark Twain      Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court      "Sunday Salad" - - The Stanley Huntley and Spoopendyke Stories Lucretia Peabody Hale      George W. Peck      Brick Pomeroy      James M. Bailey      Charles Battell Loomis      Philander Doesticks (Mortimer Thomson) M. Quad      M. Quad's Mr. Bowser Stories        Ambrose Bierce        George Horatio Derby       Josephine Dodge Daskam Have you visited our blog? You can get to it at misterronsbasement.blogspot.com. Interested in seeing Mister Ron's download statistics? They are all here! If you've already got the latest iTunes on your machine, then you can click here and iTunes will open up to Mister Ron's Basement! Do NOT miss our companion Podcast, Mister Ron's Once A Week, an audio magazine featuring fiction, fact, sensation, wit, humor, news, and whatever strikes our fancy. You can get it at http://slapcast.com/users/ron. Also, if you've been thinking of starting your own podcast, do check out http://slapcast.com -- they make podcasting a breeze! Tell 'em Mister Ron sent you. When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. It's Free! Thank you.

For 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, there will be no Saturday, Sunday, or Monday episodes, just the regular Tuesday through Friday stories. We have 1400 episodes and descriptions to move over, so this will take up time. Time: approx thirty-five minutes Please 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/2009/04/vi tal-message-from-ron-evry.html PLEASE NOTE! You may notice that only the last one hundred episodes of Mister Ron's Basement are currently listed on the web page, and in the main iTunes menu. NOW!!!! ALL of the Episodes on Mister Ron's Basement are CATALOGUED! You'll find them at - http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html We are in the process of creating indexes to all of our individual authors featured in the Basement. Here are links to the ones available now: O Henry      Max Adeler      Max Adeler's Fortunate Island Novelette      Edgar Wilson "Bill" Nye      Ellis Parker Butler W. L. Alden      Robert J. Burdette      Palmer Cox      Seba Smith      Stephen Leacock      George Ade Fanny Fern      Mark Twain      Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court      "Sunday Salad" - - The Stanley Huntley and Spoopendyke Stories Lucretia Peabody Hale      George W. Peck      Brick Pomeroy      James M. Bailey      Charles Battell Loomis      Philander Doesticks (Mortimer Thomson) M. Quad      M. Quad's Mr. Bowser Stories        Ambrose Bierce        George Horatio Derby       Josephine Dodge Daskam Have you visited our blog? You can get to it at misterronsbasement.blogspot.com. Interested in seeing Mister Ron's download statistics? They are all here! If you've already got the latest iTunes on your machine, then you can click here and iTunes will open up to Mister Ron's Basement! Do NOT miss our companion Podcast, Mister Ron's Once A Week, an audio magazine featuring fiction, fact, sensation, wit, humor, news, and whatever strikes our fancy. You can get it at http://slapcast.com/users/ron. Also, if you've been thinking of starting your own podcast, do check out http://slapcast.com -- they make podcasting a breeze! Tell 'em Mister Ron sent you. When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. It's Free! Thank you.

SUNDAY 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 Please 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/2009/04/vi tal-message-from-ron-evry.html When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. It's Free! Thank you.

When 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 Fogy,' the tale of an old man (written in 1882) who wished to return to simpler times of sixty years previously. The old man gets his wish. If you could imagine a 'Twilight Zone episode written in 1882, you might have this brilliant tale. Time: approx forty-one minutes Please 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/2009/04/vi tal-message-from-ron-evry.html When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. It's Free! Thank you.

Max 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 Please 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/2009/04/vi tal-message-from-ron-evry.html PLEASE NOTE! You may notice that only the last one hundred episodes of Mister Ron's Basement are currently listed on the web page, and in the main iTunes menu. NOW!!!! ALL of the Episodes on Mister Ron's Basement are CATALOGUED! You'll find them at - http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html We are in the process of creating indexes to all of our individual authors featured in the Basement. Here are links to the ones available now: O Henry      Max Adeler      Max Adeler's Fortunate Island Novelette      Edgar Wilson "Bill" Nye      Ellis Parker Butler W. L. Alden      Robert J. Burdette      Palmer Cox      Seba Smith      Stephen Leacock      George Ade Fanny Fern      Mark Twain      Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court      "Sunday Salad" - - The Stanley Huntley and Spoopendyke Stories Lucretia Peabody Hale      George W. Peck      Brick Pomeroy      James M. Bailey      Charles Battell Loomis      Philander Doesticks (Mortimer Thomson) M. Quad      M. Quad's Mr. Bowser Stories        Ambrose Bierce        George Horatio Derby       Josephine Dodge Daskam Have you visited our blog? You can get to it at misterronsbasement.blogspot.com. Interested in seeing Mister Ron's download statistics? They are all here! If you've already got the latest iTunes on your machine, then you can click here and iTunes will open up to Mister Ron's Basement! Do NOT miss our companion Podcast, Mister Ron's Once A Week, an audio magazine featuring fiction, fact, sensation, wit, humor, news, and whatever strikes our fancy. You can get it at http://slapcast.com/users/ron. Also, if you've been thinking of starting your own podcast, do check out http://slapcast.com -- they make podcasting a breeze! Tell 'em Mister Ron sent you. When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. It's Free! Thank you.

It's that time of year again when we go out in the great outdoors and go on picnics! Max Adeler waxes rhapsodically about one of these events in his 1873 tale, 'The Pleasures of the Picnic.' Don't miss this one! Time: approx five and a half minutes Please 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/2009/04/vi tal-message-from-ron-evry.html When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. It's Free! Thank you.

Ever hear about people playing gags using ventriloquism? Here's an 1873 Max Adeler tale about a young fellow who tried to do just that, and the consequences. It's called 'Brown's Boy.' Time: approx three minutes Please 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/2009/04/vi tal-message-from-ron-evry.html PLEASE NOTE! You may notice that only the last one hundred episodes of Mister Ron's Basement are currently listed on the web page, and in the main iTunes menu. NOW!!!! ALL of the Episodes on Mister Ron's Basement are CATALOGUED! You'll find them at - http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html We are in the process of creating indexes to all of our individual authors featured in the Basement. Here are links to the ones available now: O Henry      Max Adeler      Max Adeler's Fortunate Island Novelette      Edgar Wilson "Bill" Nye      Ellis Parker Butler W. L. Alden      Robert J. Burdette      Palmer Cox      Seba Smith      Stephen Leacock      George Ade Fanny Fern      Mark Twain      Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court      "Sunday Salad" - - The Stanley Huntley and Spoopendyke Stories Lucretia Peabody Hale      George W. Peck      Brick Pomeroy      James M. Bailey      Charles Battell Loomis      Philander Doesticks (Mortimer Thomson) M. Quad      M. Quad's Mr. Bowser Stories        Ambrose Bierce        George Horatio Derby       Josephine Dodge Daskam Have you visited our blog? You can get to it at misterronsbasement.blogspot.com. Interested in seeing Mister Ron's download statistics? They are all here! If you've already got the latest iTunes on your machine, then you can click here and iTunes will open up to Mister Ron's Basement! Do NOT miss our companion Podcast, Mister Ron's Once A Week, an audio magazine featuring fiction, fact, sensation, wit, humor, news, and whatever strikes our fancy. You can get it at http://slapcast.com/users/ron. Also, if you've been thinking of starting your own podcast, do check out http://slapcast.com -- they make podcasting a breeze! Tell 'em Mister Ron sent you. When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. It's Free! Thank you.

From 1873, we present a tale of swashbuckling derring-do and skilled marksmanship in 'Max Adeler's Duel.' Time: approx four and a half minutes Please 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/2009/04/vi tal-message-from-ron-evry.html PLEASE NOTE! You may notice that only the last one hundred episodes of Mister Ron's Basement are currently listed on the web page, and in the main iTunes menu. NOW!!!! ALL of the Episodes on Mister Ron's Basement are CATALOGUED! You'll find them at - http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html We are in the process of creating indexes to all of our individual authors featured in the Basement. Here are links to the ones available now: O Henry      Max Adeler      Max Adeler's Fortunate Island Novelette      Edgar Wilson "Bill" Nye      Ellis Parker Butler W. L. Alden      Robert J. Burdette      Palmer Cox      Seba Smith      Stephen Leacock      George Ade Fanny Fern      Mark Twain      Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court      "Sunday Salad" - - The Stanley Huntley and Spoopendyke Stories Lucretia Peabody Hale      George W. Peck      Brick Pomeroy      James M. Bailey      Charles Battell Loomis      Philander Doesticks (Mortimer Thomson) M. Quad      M. Quad's Mr. Bowser Stories        Ambrose Bierce        George Horatio Derby       Josephine Dodge Daskam Have you visited our blog? You can get to it at misterronsbasement.blogspot.com. Interested in seeing Mister Ron's download statistics? They are all here! If you've already got the latest iTunes on your machine, then you can click here and iTunes will open up to Mister Ron's Basement! Do NOT miss our companion Podcast, Mister Ron's Once A Week, an audio magazine featuring fiction, fact, sensation, wit, humor, news, and whatever strikes our fancy. You can get it at http://slapcast.com/users/ron. Also, if you've been thinking of starting your own podcast, do check out http://slapcast.com -- they make podcasting a breeze! Tell 'em Mister Ron sent you. When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. It's Free! Thank you.