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And that’s why we put him on the penny.

October 21st, 2008 · 3 Comments · Tourons (Tourist + Moron)

Tourist 1: Do you wanna go to Ford’s Theatre?
Tourist 2: Whats that?
Tourist 1: Its that place Lincoln shot that one guy….Booth I think?
Tourist 2: Oh.

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What a clever name for a place

September 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Tourons (Tourist + Moron)

Tourist: What’s the Holocaust Museum about?Information Desk Volunteer: …the Holocaust…?
–Hirshhorn

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Uh oh, the tourists have started to venture off the Mall!

September 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Tourons (Tourist + Moron)

Tourist boy to a pack of friends at USDA Farmer’s Market” “…and that put me off water in my juice for life.”
[Eavesdrop DC recommends you try GIN]

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We’d ask you to be our MySpace friend, but we don’t want to be creepy

July 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Tourons (Tourist + Moron)

Tourist Mom: “This will make a good MySpace photo!” (trying to get girl to smile for photograph)Tourist Girl: “MySpace is for creeps!!”

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Give me taxonomy or give me death!

July 7th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Tourons (Tourist + Moron)

July 4th at the Museum of Natural History, in the rotunda…
Tourist, girl around 20, “…oh look, its a dinosaur!”
The figure in the middle of the rotunda is an ELEPHANT!

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Sure! No problem! And then after that, let’s swing over to Hawaii for some mai-tais.

June 6th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Tourons (Tourist + Moron)

Traveler with heavy European accent: “So, can we drive to the Grand Canyon one day? We’d really like to see it while in America.”
–Dulles Airport Baggage Claim

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Maybe she’ll grow up and be a firefighter? Alright, a stripper firefighter.

April 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Metro, Tourons (Tourist + Moron)

Tourist family on the Red Line in the middle of the day. There’s hardly anyone on the train, and the cute little tourist girl (about five or six) is playing on the poles.
Tourist Dad: “That’s right honey. You get that swinging on a pole out of your system now.”

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Yes…those columns can be confusing

April 9th, 2008 · No Comments · Hill, Tourons (Tourist + Moron)

At the Capitol building Tuesday around 1:15 pm.
Tourist Woman in her 30s, pointing to the Supreme Court: “Oh, and there’s the Lincoln Memorial!”

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Morgan was the eleventeenth president, right?

March 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment · Tourons (Tourist + Moron)

P St. NW, at dinner.Girl 1: What was that place I wanted to go to? The one with two presidents’ names?Girl 2: Adams Morgan?Girl 1: Yeah!

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C’mon, you couldn’t fit a religious stereotype into that quote?

February 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Tourons (Tourist + Moron)

Tourist: Taking pictures is a woman thing. Women are always taking pictures. Unless you’re a gay… or asian.
–Jefferson Monument

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