Get a life!
imp. Hacker-standard way of suggesting that the person
to whom you are speaking 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 around early 1992.
