On 2010-12-30 17:08:19 -0600, Elko T said:   
   > Kathryn Huxtable wrote:   
   >> On 2010-12-30 16:10:10 -0600, Elko T said:   
   >>    
   >>> 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. :)   
   >>    
   >> Not according to the people using the expression, they don't.   
   >    
   > But do they use the short form? I'd think they'd use the full form "Get    
   > a job, get a clue, get a life" to address a hippie, while just "get a    
   > life" is almost the same as "get laid". Or maybe I'm wrong in my    
   > understanding here?   
   I'm a bit young to have been a hippie, but I knew some back in the day.    
   I also knew people who had a visceral distaste, or even hatred, for the    
   hippies.   
   These people would say pretty much anything that expressed their    
   disgust. The short form, the long form, an obscenity, whatever. I heard    
   it.   
   -K   
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