Lateral Thinking Puzzles - third time is best!

Interesting. My tomatoes seem to accomplish it; but they probably get shaken enough by the wind and by various insects coming through. I have heard of the particular problem, though; and the extent of it may be affected by variety – some of my peppers will set viable seed under row covers, but one of them won’t, and that’s probably why; though I just plant those uncovered in a different field from the others instead of artificially vibrating them.

I’ll try to think of a puzzle; but anybody who’s got one ready before I manage it, please feel free to go ahead.

This might go very quickly, I’m not sure.

I was mildly surprised to hear someone say the name “David,” but when I thought about where I was, I realized why.

Where in the world was I?

Was David being used as a name?

Is it your name?

Does David have an alternate meaning in a foreign language?

Amusing, but a bit odd, example: In the region of China where I lived, the word “that” would be pronounced in Chinese as “nuh-guh”…which makes it sound somewhat like the n-word when people speak quickly and smoothly. I’ve seen Americans and Canadians eyebrows raise for a moment when they are new to the region(it gets explained to them eventually). “Nay-guh” is the proper pronunciation with the Beijing accent, but where I live Nay became Nuh.

Was the speaker a tour guide?

Were you in Italy?

Were you in a place where English is not the native language?

Were you in a place whose culture did not descend from Europe/the Mediterranean?

No-ish? (As in, it was not being used to name, address, or denote anybody in particular, although most of the people listening would have recognized it as a name.)

No.

No.

No (at least not in the usual sense of the term).

No.

No to both (as in, English was the native language, and most aspects of this place’s culture are descended from Europe).

Was the way it was pronounced the issue?

Were you in David City, population 2,995, out in Nebraska?

No, it was pronounced normally.

No.

Were you in the United States?

Would you have been mildly surprised by any name?

Was the speaker human? Parrot or similar bird?

Yes.

There are several other names that I would have been mildly surprised by, and a much larger number of names that I would have been very surprised by.

I believe so.

No.

Is David a friend of yours who know by a different name (nickname) ?

Did you hear the name spoken in person?
Was the name spoken during a live broadcast of any type?
Or as part of a broadcast of any type of recorded material?
Was the name spoken in answer to a question?

Was the speaker an adult?

Was it directed to a child?

Is the gender of the speaker relevant?

No.

No. (I mean, I was there in person, but the speaker was not.)

“Broadcast of recorded material” is closest, although it wasn’t a radio or TV broadcast.

No.

Yes.

No. (Children would have been among the people hearing it, but they were not the primary audience.)

No.

Where you in an airport, subway station, bus stop, etc. where the recorded message was an announcement?

Music?

Did this take place at a museum, zoo, or some other place where visitors might use their phones to play recordings that explain whatever items are on exhibit as they walk through the place?

Ooh, if the answer to this is yes, then I think I know it.