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.