> On Apr 11, 2020, at 4:33 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 04:05, Chris Elmquist via cctalk > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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=nkzF7wQT4i&dq=%22Hong%20Kong%20Core%20House%22&pg=PA103#v=onepage&q=%22Hong%20Kong%20Core%20House%22&f=false > > 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?
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
