Talk:Gomer Pyle

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BetacommandBot (talk) 23:19, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Inaccuracies and irrelevancies
I've deleted a paragraph which read, "The term GOMER is originally an acronym, meaning "Get Out of My Emergency Room". It originally referred to malingerers who were always on sick call, trying to get out of their duties. After the show Gomer Pyle USMC began to air, it became a term for a hard-to-train recruit or a slow-witted soldier or Marine who required supervision. In the civilian medical professions it refers to a patient that is so sickly or critical that they may die in the Emergency Room without constant care and observation." First of all, the name "Gomer" was originally derived from the Bible; second, the use of the word in the medical profession has nothing to do with the TV series or the character. Cactus Wren (talk) 21:56, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

FMJ
Gomer pyle is the character who goes mental and shoots the drill sergent in Full Metal Jacket. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.36.93.46 (talk) 21:38, 22 May 2009 (UTC)


 * that character (leonard laurence) is nicknamed after this gomer pyle, but i am wondering how many of the references are based solely on the fmj character, with or without knowledge of this one ?  &#x262D;  тдлжЅТЦФФ 00:18, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Gomer Lives on!
On July 13, 2017, MSNBC's Morning Joe made an attempt to identify President Trump's "imaginary" friend named Jim who loves Paris. Jim Nabors and Gomer Pyle were suggested as Trump's imaginary friend. In this context, I think adding this to the "Cultrural Reference" section would be a fine thing. Waiting for input. --Wikipietime (talk) 12:50, 13 July 2017 (UTC)