Is this correct for anyone?

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:06 PM -0500 1/22/10, Mark Mandel wrote:
>Well, anyone can edit WP...

and often does

LH
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>On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Jonathan Lighter
><wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>  If any white people or plaid people say "town gas," they've never told me
>>  about it.
>>
>>  I also know "gashouse" almost solely from the "Gashouse Gang."  I've
>>  encountered it in the literal "gas works" sense, but it's not a topic I've
>>  had much need to think about. Offhand I don't know what the customary NYC
>>  term might have been.
>>
>>  JL
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>>  On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>  > From the Wikipedia article on "_Gas works_ referred from _gashouse_":
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>>  > "_Coal gas (known in the USA as Town gas) ..._"
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > Say what? I've always known coal gas only as "coal gas" since I took a
>>  > class known as "georgaphy" [,dZi 'arg at fI] in the 4th grade, 1946-47.
>>  > Until I read W-pedia's article, I'd never before come across the
>>  > phrase, "town gas," ever, in any context. But, keeping in mind that
>>  > white people, growing up in a different environment, know stuff that
>>  > even supposedly-educated black people have no concept of, I've decided
>>  > to ask. Is it just me? *Is* coal gas normally referred to as "town
>>  > gas" in The World?
>>  >
>>  > And BTW, WTF *is* a "gashouse," anyway? Needless to say, having grown
>>  > up in Saint Louis, I'm familiar with the phrase, Gashouse Gang. But no
>>  > one ever pointed anything out to me and said, "That's a / the
>>  > gashouse" or "That's where the famous gashouse used to be." Given the
>>  > presence of capitalization, I assume that Gashouse is or was the name
>>  > of a 'hood in The City wherein stands or once stood a gashouse.
>>  > W-pedia says _gas house_[sic] is another way of saying "gas works."
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > -Wilson
>>  > =96=96=96
>>  > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"=96=96a strange complaint
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>>  o
>>  > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>>  > =96Mark Twain
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