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Get a life!
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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imp. Hacker-standard way of suggesting that the person to whom it is
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directed has succumbed to terminal geekdom (see geek ). Often heard on
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Usenet , esp. as a way of suggesting that the target is taking some obscure
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issue of theology too seriously. This exhortation was popularized by William
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Shatner on a 1987 Saturday Night Live episode in a speech that ended Get a
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life ! , but it can be traced back at least to Valley Girl slang in 1983. It
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was certainly in wide use among hackers for years before achieving
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mainstream currency via the sitcom Get A Life in 1990.
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