# ID this (comic strip?) "joke," please

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 6, 2013, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-comic-strip-joke-please/665496 "2013-08-06T14:37:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-comic-strip-joke-please/665496/1 "2013-08-06T14:37:13Z")

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Somewhere in my brain is a “joke” I heard or read in childhood. It’s not very funny, really, so I hesitate to call it a joke even, but it stuck somehow and it bugs me that I can’t place it. I think it might have been in a comic strip, or maybe an old-school comedy record album. Googling hasn’t helped.

Here goes…

Guy #1: Where’s Wong?  
Guy #2: Wong went away.  
Guy #1: When will Wong weturn-- I mean return?

that’s it… not much to go on, I know. Anyone?

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**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-comic-strip-joke-please/665496/2 "2013-08-06T14:56:28Z")

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There were jokes about calling Mr. Wing and Mr. Wong in Roald Dahl’s _Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator_, maybe that was one of them. The one I remember is the president trying to call Mr. Wing in China and repeatedly getting Mr. Wong; somebody tells him the problem is that there are so many Wings and Wongs in China that “every time you Wing you get the Wong number.”

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**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-comic-strip-joke-please/665496/3 "2013-08-06T15:29:50Z")

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Can’t really help, but [here’s](http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=108) a classic web cartoon with wings and wongs in it, as it were.

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**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-comic-strip-joke-please/665496/4 "2013-08-06T19:04:55Z")

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Isn’t that nice? We’re in Wang’s wing. (Murder by Death.)