<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>My wife works in a small-city midwestern hospital.
<BR>The term "gomer" in her work-culture is applied to
<BR>"trailer trash"....lower-class white yokels with no
<BR>jobs and/or medical insurance, who use the local
<BR>emergency-room as their primary health-care service
<BR>(even for minor wounds, most inflicted by other family-
<BR>members, or through alcohol-abuse, or both). "Gomer"
<BR>in that usage is popularly said to be an acronym for
<BR>"</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B>G</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></B>et </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B>O</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></B>ut of </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B>M</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></B>y </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B>E</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></B>mergency </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B>R</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></B>oom."
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<BR> Steve Hicks
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