From ec63ec4c214e51a1d021e6a7e4c6e51798696f28 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bob Mottram Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 17:35:41 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Shatner is hardly a hacker icon --- entries/Get a life!.txt | 11 ----------- 1 file changed, 11 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 entries/Get a life!.txt diff --git a/entries/Get a life!.txt b/entries/Get a life!.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5d243c8..0000000 --- a/entries/Get a life!.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,11 +0,0 @@ -Get a life! - -imp. 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. -