On a similar note, I vaguely recall hearing about a physician named Dr. Hu somewhere (And a Google search reveals there are several doctors out there with that name).
I always wanted that Steely Dan song to be some kind of oblique Ringworld reference, but the lyrics didn’t really match up with the Ringworld universe, alas.
My dad had one oncologist named Dr. Hu, and a surgeon named Dr. Black. He never failed to add that Dr. Black was indeed Black, but he’d always say “Dr. Black, who is Black,” and I’d say, “Wait, Dr. Hu is Black?” It was a running gag in his dying months. (My dad’s, not Dr. Black’s or Dr. Hu’s.)
I had a woman ask me about a plant growing along the trail last spring. She couldn’t find it in her plant book and asked me if it was some sort of weed.
I told her it was knotweed. She asked if I knew what it was. I said knotweed and again she asked what it was. So I spelled it for her and then we were good.
One of my kids had an unmarried female elementary teacher with the Korean family name 유, who was addressed by her students as “Miss You”. Yes, the jokes wrote themselves, given the sense of humor of kids.
After hearing all last year about Taylor Swift on tv and the radio touring the country (she even did a couple shows in our city) I eventually saw a listing for movies at one of our local theaters and saw her concert film listed. My first thought was “That’s strange. I wonder why they changed the name of the tour in the movie from her actual summer tour I’ve been hearing about nonstop. I actually liked the name ‘heiress tour’……”