get a life!

2 definitions found

get a life! - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Get a life!
  
     <abuse> Standard way of suggesting that someone has succumbed
     to terminal geekdom.  Often heard on Usenet, especially as
     a way of suggesting that the target is taking some obscure
     issue of theology too seriously.  This exhortation was
     popularised by William Shatner on a "Saturday Night Live"
     episode in a speech that ended "Get a *life*!", but some
     respondents believe it to have been in use before then.  It
     was certainly in wide use among hackers for at least five
     years before achieving mainstream currency in early 1992.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1995-01-18)
  

get a life! - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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.