gensym
= G =
Get a real computer!
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 some respondents
believe it to have been in use before then. It was certainly in
wide use among hackers for years before achieving mainstream
currency via the sitcom "Get A Life" in 1990.
--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.