This is why my father should have gone with his original plan to name me Telzey, gender issues be damned. A name like that never gets on any do-not-fly lists.
kheegster wrote:I'm curious if your kids have a Chinese middle name. It can be very useful in differentiating them from the hordes of other Wongs with the same first name.
True. There are at least 100 people named David Wong in the US according to peoplesearch.com
What probably happened is they read Mike's description of David as a baby.
Mike's Family Photo Album wrote:Check out the maniacal look in his eye. We knew from the start that David would be a troublemaker, and you can see it in this picture.
He gets into trouble. He destroys things (big things; he took out a 27" TV set at the age of 2½!). He drives his brother crazy. He's demanding, headstrong, and stubborn ... (sniff, sniff) he's a chip off the old block!
"everytime a person is born the Earth weighs just a little more."--DMJ on StarTrek.com
"You see now you are using your thinking and that is not a good thing!" DMJay on StarTrek.com
"Watching Sarli argue with Vympel, Stas, Schatten and the others is as bizarre as the idea of the 40-year-old Virgin telling Hugh Hefner that Hef knows nothing about pussy, and that he is the expert."--Elfdart
Darth Servo wrote:
True. There are at least 100 people named David Wong in the US according to peoplesearch.com
There's probably thousands of David Wongs. I think I had one in High School as well (and I didn't go to a school with a lot of Asians). If they're barring specifically all David Wongs from Canada, that's still probably a lot of people going to get held up.
My father travels infrequently by air for business, perhaps 3-4 times a year. Several years ago he was taken aside by security and questioned at the airport. He was then questioned every time he flew for the next year or so, delayed for as much as an hour, or more. His bags loaded into the luggage compartment have been opened (and decorated with an official "your bag has been opened and searched" label). The last time my parents flew together, my mother was searched, but my father was ignored. All of this was for domestic flights in the United States. Neither of them has as much as a speeding ticket, but perhaps our surname ("Guerra") is a bit frightening to DHS.
Within the context of trying to avoid it there really seems like there is little you can do. There was a story I heard recently of someone being stopped because she followed all the rules the agencies recommend to avoid being stopped. In other words, she was flagged because she did everything "too well". There is no winning with these people. And it forever startles me how easy it is for people to willingly give up their freedoms for the perception of what is really a very false safety.
Are you sure he doesn't have an altar ego named Stewie Griffen....
You have to realize that most Christian "moral values" behaviour is not really about "protecting" anyone; it's about their desire to send a continual stream of messages of condemnation towards people whose existence offends them. - Darth Wong alias Mike Wong
"There is nothing wrong with being ignorant. However, there is something very wrong with not choosing to exchange ignorance for knowledge when the opportunity presents itself."
