But They’re Forgetting These Joneses!

Um, can someone please explain why weren’t we invited to this:

Keeping up with Joneses now has a whole new meaning. More than 1,200 people with the surname Jones broke the world record Friday for the biggest get-together of people with the same last name, Guinness World Record officials said.

The gathering more than doubled the size of the previous record-holder — a meeting of 583 people named Norberg in Sweden in 2004.

“I didn’t realize how many cool Joneses there were out there,” said Aled Jones, 30, a British Broadcasting Corp. radio DJ who hosted the event at the Millennium Centre conference and concert venue in Cardiff, the Welsh capital.

Ah, shit. We could’ve recorded a LIVE podcast there and everything…

Gathering Of Joneses Sets World Record [Yahoo! News] (thx MattO)

(Note: Fred Jones, Bobby Jones, Dahntay Jones, Dwayne Jones, Eddie Jones, James Jones, Jumaine Jones, and Solomon Jones were also not in attendance.)

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By J.E. Skeets at 11:57 am on 11.06.2006 — Tags: Random

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3 Responses to “But They’re Forgetting These Joneses!”

  1. J.E. Skeets at 12:02 pm on 11.06.2006

    Question: You think the Norbergs are fuckin’ like wild rabbits, just so they can get this record back? I hope so.

  2. I Love Everything at 12:02 pm on 11.06.2006

    pumpkin everything: november ‘06 fucking ten…

    ITEM: Samuel Adams Winter Lager (cinnamon, orange zest, fresh ginger)
    ITEM: The Basketball Jones daily podcast
    ITEM: The beginning of Dan Simmons’ huge-ass sci-fi novel Ilium
    ITEM: “The End” of the Lemony Snicket series, and discussing it with my da…

  3. stopmikelupica at 1:11 pm on 11.06.2006

    The Norbergs worked so f*cking hard to finally be known as something other than the character famously potrayed by OJ Simpson, all for not…

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