A while back we asked listeners what they call tourists in their neck of the woods, and we’ve heard back about tourons, which combines tourist and morons, and in the Florida panhandle, folks from out of town are known as sand dollars for bringing along their pocketbooks. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Even More Tourist Nicknames”
Grant, we keep getting emails from listeners who are telling us terms for tourists in their towns.
Yes.
You know, like tour-ons being sort of a negative term for tourists who come to your town and spend their money and then leave.
Tour-on being a combination of tourist and moron.
Yes.
We got one that I hadn’t seen before.
This one’s from David Flannery, and he lives in the Florida Panhandle, and he says there tourists are called, wait for it, it’s great, sand dollars.
Sand dollars.
Sand dollars.
Isn’t that great?
Why?
Because they come and enjoy the sand on the beach and they spend lots of dollars.
Okay.
Straightforward.
And they pick up sand dollars.
Sure.
Okay.
I love that.
I like that.
Yeah.
And it’s not pejorative like the others are.
I mean, it does kind of see them as money bags, but not that insulting.
Income.
Income coming in.
We like that.
