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[scarfman]

To qualify to tell me that I need to get a life, you must first spend the first ten years of your marriage outnumbered 3 to 1 in your own home by undiagnosed manic-depressives.

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[scarfman]

I was once compelled to cite this qualification, to someone who'd emailed me in response to the T*R*E*K material on my website. He wrote back appropriately apologetic.

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

People who say 'get a life' are generally the ones who don't actually do anything with their own lives. They just socialize and party and gobble up entertainment, and call it a life.

[dave-iii.livejournal.com]

I look at that statement ("Get a life") as unrequested advice, and as such counts as something that I can ignore. Although, I usually only hear it in reference to people who take their fandoms to Obsessive-Compulsive levels, at which point it's more a "come back to the real world" plea.

Everything I know of you (which comes exclusively through your LJ and your comic), no one has the right to say that to you (outside of good-natured ribbing). You're as balanced and reasonable as anybody-- moreso, since you have an outlet for your passions.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmm. At least one of the ones in my household have been diagnosed; does that count?

[trinalin.livejournal.com]

So I guess I have to get a husband before I can get a life? ;-)

[purpleranger.livejournal.com]

After that, of course, you were outnumbered 3 to 1 in your own home by diagnosed manic-depressives . . .