11 Apr
2020
11 Apr
'20
4:55 a.m.
On Apr 11, 2020, at 4:33 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
?On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 04:05, Chris Elmquist via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
This might be one of those jokes that if you have to explain it, it looses the punch ...
but I?ll try,
There used to also be something called a Hong Kong Whore House, similarly staffed with
young Asian women, but they didn?t make core planes there.
?
Chris Elmquist
CDC had a memory manufacturing facility in SE Asia, staffed with mostly young Asian
women.
An older colleague at ETA helped set it up (he just passed away; RIP Carl).
He called it the Hong Kong Core House.
There's a few mentioned of this here and there around the web, e.g.
http://bjruss.com/SAGE.html
& in
https://books.google.cz/books?id=Q7ffAwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA102&ots=nkzF7wQ…
What I don't get is why pleasingly-assonant phrase causes the great
amusement it seems to. I think it's a reference to something else I
don't know. Can anyone give me a pointer?