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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Get a life!</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="gensym.html" title="gensym"/><link rel="next" href="Get-a-real-computer-.html" title="Get a real computer!"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Get a life!</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gensym.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Get-a-real-computer-.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Get-a-life-"/><dt xmlns="" id="Get-a-life-"><b>Get a life!</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">imp.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Hacker-standard way of suggesting that the person to whom it is
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directed has succumbed to terminal geekdom (see
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<a href="geek.html"><i class="glossterm">geek</i></a>). Often heard on
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<a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a>, esp. as a way of suggesting that the target
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is taking some obscure issue of <a href="../T/theology.html"><i class="glossterm">theology</i></a> too
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seriously. This exhortation was popularized by William Shatner on a 1987
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<i class="citetitle">Saturday Night Live</i> episode in a speech that ended
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“<span class="quote">Get a <span class="emphasis"><em>life</em></span>!</span>”, but it can be traced back
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at least to ‘Valley Girl’ slang in 1983. It was certainly in
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wide use among hackers for years before achieving mainstream currency via
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the sitcom <i class="citetitle">Get A Life</i> in 1990.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gensym.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Get-a-real-computer-.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">gensym </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Get a real computer!</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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