Get a life!

Hacker-standard way of suggesting that the person to whom it is directed has succumbed to terminal geekdom (see {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 1987 Saturday Night Live episode in a speech that ended "Get a life!", but it can be traced back at least to `Valley Girl' slang in 1983. It was certainly in wide use among hackers for years before achieving mainstream currency via the sitcom Get A Life in 1990.

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