What is it Gomer Pyle used to say?
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...not really.
>>What is it Gomer Pyle used to say?
Back in the 80’s when I went through basic training the drill sgts commonly, and rightly, made derogatory reference to Gomer - and the actor who played him, and Rock Hudson’s lover.
At the time Rock Hudson’s AIDs infection was in the public eye, and that eye also naturally perceived Hudson’s infliction as the due penalty for his perversion.
Those Drill Sgt’s common sense recognition of that self-evident due penalty seemed to be the source of their attitudes towards Gomer, and those like it.
Things have changed since then.
I would never enlist or encourage my children to do so today — but of course that was the subversive intent all along.