World's Wongs hold massive Toronto reunion

[pampango]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2011/08/13/tor-wong-convention.html?ref=rss

Toronto is hosting a family reunion for the record books — the Wongs' National Convention, with more than 1,200 people named Wong arriving by the busload from across Canada and the United States, even as far away as Hong Kong.

Canadian Wongs come together every few years in meetings that date back to the 1950s, but the Toronto convention, which lasts through Sunday, is expected to be their largest gathering yet.

"I think everybody shares, that if you're Wong, you're family," says Greg Wong, a Wongs' National Convention organizer. "I think it's special because a lot of the people came a long way, to see family, old friends."

The Wongs aren't a family in the traditional sense and many aren't related by either blood or marriage. There are more than 60 million Wongs around the world, with the first arriving in Canada in 1858. Back then, most worked as servants or building the railway.

Toronto is a great place.

[rfranklin]

1. Two Wongs don't make a white...

How's that for tasteless?

[struggle4progress]

8. I was hoping the Wights would hold their family reunion there too

[pennylane100]

2. Wow, there's some thing really wong with that group.

[Swede]

3. My cousin married a Wong from Edmonton.

There were 2 pages of Wongs with the initial of his first name in the phone book. Never did get to visit them.

[itsrobert]

5. You just were not in the Wong place at the right time

?

[Swede]

6. I couldn't ring the Wong number.

[izquierdista]

4. Can we stop with the puns??

It's just wong, I tell you.

[pipi_k]

7. And I'll bet every one of them

was in the movie "The Wanderers"...

:7

[xchrom]

9. Nothing Wong with that. Nt

[HysteryDiagnosis]

10. What's wong with this picture?? n't

[hootinholler]

11. "arriving by the busload" implies there were many Wong busses

They got there on the Wong bus. I can see the confusion buying tickets. Sir, did you just say you want tickets for the wrong bus?

-Hoot

[MineralMan]

12. Writing the world's Wongs.

Now, I've embarrassed myself with a very poor pun.

[LiberalEsto]

13. Sowwy. Wong number. nt

[roamer65]

14. Is the Elmer Fudd forum?

You wascally wabbits.

[FLAprogressive]

15. You certainly can't write all the world's Wongs.