People today somewhat vaguely remember that, in between oil lamps and electric lights, we used to light our homes and business with gas lamps. The gas was refined coal gas and, like all such volatile products, had to be stored carefully for distribution. The Gasholder House is a large gas tank, with a brick exterior wall and trussed dome, and supplied gas to Troy. This was, for its era of construction, fancy stuff...and today requires a paragraph of explanation.
One minor linguistic hangover: we call natural gas "natural gas" to distinguish it from the previously used "artificial gas."
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Ah, but it's not animated.
Our house still has the gas lighting distribution piping in the walls, and several of the stub outs are still there.
Wow, that was pretty hostile.
Sorry. I was going for an Amityville Horror vibe but may have miss-fired.
hey, no prob. I was just being snarky. Put the comment back, or mine just seems weird.
who knew engineers were so sensitive? Besides Mrs. __B, that is?
Apparently, undeleting is unpossible.
You'll have to delete the entire thread and reconstruct it from the incriminating screen-grabs
CSI:Blogger.
Where's the techno background music?
actually, it's better this way. It seems like I am remarking on the hostility with which the comment was removed.
Deleted with extreme prejudice, it seems.
wv is numshat. Look, if you lose feeling when you poop, you probably need more roughage.
Are your droppings hard and well-formed?
That's a pretty personal question.
if you lose feeling when you poop
Lamb jelfrazi for dinner again last night. RING OF FIRE.
See, all you havta do is loosen the bolts around the base of the Gas place. Get some biiiig helicopters and fly it down to the gulf to cap that oil well.
I got that vision thing going on.
A linguistic hangover is what you wake up with after you were up until 2 a.m. doing straight gerunds.
W.v. = "azzliker", which is pretty hostile.
Was this photo used for the "Scenic Troy" postcard series?
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