The name “Tanya” sounds like “tan ya/you.” A riddle has been cited in print since at least 2002:
Q: What do you call the woman who operates your sun-bed?
A: Tanya.
“What do you call a girl who works in a solarium? Tanya” was posted on Twitter on May 18, 2011. “What do you call a women that runs a sunbed shop? TANYA!” was posted on Twitter on October 21, 2011.
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Sad Name Jokes
Created Aug 9, 1999 | Updated Oct 30, 2002
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what do you call the womn who operates your sun-bed?------TANYA
Yahoo! Answers (January 17, 2009)
what do you call the womn who operates your sun-bed?------TANYA
Twitter
Anthony Hamilton 🏴
@1974Hamilton
What do you call a girl who works in a solarium?
Tanya.
8:23 AM - 18 May 2011
Twitter
Sophie Farrow
@sophiefarrow_BM
Replying to @thismorning
@itvthismorning Could a man tell a joke like this? What do you call a women that runs a sunbed shop? TANYA! Classic....I am soo much funnier
5:04 AM - 21 Oct 2011
Google Books
The Mammoth Book of One-Liners
Edited by Geoff Tibballs
London, UK: Constable & Robinson Ltd
2012
Pg. ?:
What do you call a woman with a sunbed on her head?
Tanya.
19 February 2012, The People (London, UK), “Joke Of The Week,” pg. 28:
Q: WHAT do you call a girl who works in a solarium?
A: Tanya.
Twitter
mat baker
@matbakercannock
What do you call a girl that works in a sunbed salon?
Tanya
10:58 AM - 19 Feb 2012 from Walsall, England
Twitter
Jokes UK 🔞
@jokesuk
What do you call a girl with a sunlamp on her head?
Tanya!
4:26 PM - 23 Dec 2015
Reddit—Jokes
What do you call a woman who works in a sunbed shop?
submitted August 7, 2017 by tsoir
Tanya
Reddit—Oneliners
What do you call a girl that works in a sunbed shop. Tanya.
submitted February 6, 2018 by The-Memberberry
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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