Joseph DeMartino wrote:   
   > On Dec 29, 11:46 pm, Luigi Rosa  wrote:   
   >    
   >>  imp. Hacker-standard way of suggesting that the person to   
   >>    whom you are speaking has succumbed to terminal geekdom. Often heard on   
   >>    . This exhortation was originally uttered by William Shatner on   
   >>    a Saturday Night Live episode in a speech which ended "Get a *life*!".   
   >>      --Jargon File   
   >    
   > Er - wrong.    "Get a job, get a clue, get a life", later shortened   
   > to just "get a life", was already a cliche when it was being directed   
   > and hippies and slackers in the early 70s, before SNL even went on the   
   > air.  Anyone who thinks it started with Shatner's "Trek" con sketch is   
   > suffering from a severe temporal dislocation.   
      
      Maybe you're right about the origin of the "get a life" word sequence, but   
   I    
   think you're wrong about the meaning attached to its contemporary use. Who in    
   their right mind would address a *hippie* with the current "get a life"? They    
   already *have* all the life they need, thankyouverymuch. :)   
      
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