Get a life!: imp. Hacker-standard way of suggesting that the
person to whom it is directed has succumbed to terminal geekdom (see
computer geek). Often heard on Usenet, esp. as a way of
suggesting that the target is taking some obscure issue of
theology too seriously. This exhortation was popularized by
William Shatner on a "Saturday Night Live" episode in a speech that
ended "Get a _life_!", but some respondents believe it to have been
in use before then. It was certainly in wide use among hackers for
at least five years before achieving mainstream currency in early
1992.
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