Well, for my
1,000th post (duh!) I might as well join the club...
I don't know when I started using nicks at all, but it didn't take long to drop all others and settle for this one...
The "T" is the first letter of my name... I knew I wanted to have something with a "T". Then I thought of "T Rex", but a) there's a band called T Rex which I didn't want to get associated with, b) "rex" is latin for "king", and I didn't want to have such a boastful word in my nick, and c)
t. rex is the abbreviation for a dinosaur, and I'm neither a dino freak nor extinct myself...
But at that time. I liked quite destructive PC games such as Carmageddon or GTA, where you
wreck a lot of things... it was phonetically identical, but not so boastful, and in addition to the above three meanings, it could also be interpreted as a verb... o_O
I wasn't even aware that there's a band called Trainwreck...
-EDIT-
Wait a minute, the >BKA<... one of my friends was bugging us with a clan tag (just for the shits & giggles, though), and on a LAN party, during a CS game we came up with the wise conclusion:
beer kills aiming. There's also a German meaning: "Besser können's andere"...
That's actually hard to translate because it has a quite self-ironical tone... the "bare" meaning is something like "others are better at it", but the tone is more like "yeah, we know we suck"...
Oh, and I was born in the year of the dragon, too.
