Get a life!
<abuse> Standard way of suggesting that someone has succumbed to terminal
geekdom. Often heard on Usenet, especially as a way of suggesting that the
target is taking some obscure issue of theology too seriously. This exhortation
was popularised 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.
[Jargon File]
(1995-01-18)
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