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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