Gomer

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Gomer can refer to several things:

  • Gomer, eldest son of Japheth, mentioned in the Old Testament Books of Genesis and Ezekiel; often equated with the Cimmerians (Gimirru), and identified by Flavius Josephus with the Galatians (see also Gomerian).
  • Gomer also appears as the name of the adulterous wife of Hosea, a prophet within the Hebrew Bible's Book of Hosea.
  • Gomer, a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in France
  • Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. was a spinoff TV show of the late 1960s. Its title character, Gomer Pyle, was based on the character from The Andy Griffith Show.
  • GOMER is an acronym for Get Out Of My Emergency Room, applied by American physicians to anyone coming in for a fraudulent or trivial reason. This phrase is believed to have been coined by Samuel Shem in his 1978 classic "The House of God". The term GOMER is frequently shortened to GOME in this context.
  • Gomer is a Real Radio character, a TV and Movie actor, heard every Saturday night from 7PM-10PM on SBK Live, WTKS-FM 104.1 sbk.wtks.com. Originally getting his start from The Shannon Burke Show, he has gone on to Co-Star in a movie Some Diamonds a Dog and some Dudes.
  • Gomer Press is the name of Wales' largest independent publisher.
  • Gomer is also a name adopted by fans of the music group Third Day.
  • Gomer can also be used as an insult, meaning a dumb person.
    • As an example, the insult is used by a taxi driver in the feature film Splash, starring Tom Hanks and Darryl Hannah. "Up yours, Gomer, I'm waiting on a fare."
  • Gomer is another name for Gummarus, Gommaar, Gomaer, Gomarus or Gommaire
  • Gomer is a small town within Gosport
  • The Gomers are a musical group from Madison, WI
  • A gomer bull is a bull with a vasectomy.
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